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From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Weekly Collage Standings, (ECAC, Hockey East, and Poll)
Message-ID: <1332@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 09:03:22 EST
Article-I.D.: dciem.1332
Posted: Tue Jan 22 09:03:22 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 09:46:44 EST
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Reply-To: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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Summary: 

> Come on all yoouse canuks from the great white north get interested in collage
> hockey.  At least a kid can get an education and a little more promise of a
> job, while he is getting his preperation for his *dream* of playing in the NHL.

I agree that NCAA hockey has become an excellent training ground for NHL talent,
especially for defensemen because they aren't really ready for NHL action when
they are drafted by the NHL, but for many of them another year in junior hockey
would be useless and being sent to the minors would be demoralising.
However, the NCAA gets pretty well no coverage at all here.  None of the
Toronto papers ever says anything about it, and you never see anything on TV,
not even on the sports pay-TV station, which should be desperate for hockey
since they don't have any NHL games.  The only thing we have is The Hockey
News, which is always a few weeks behind by the time you get it and it never
has the type of coverage that you need to really get into it.  That makes it
pretty difficult for us Canucks to get interested in college hockey.

This brings up another point though:  As the above quote states, NCAA hockey
is preparation for playing in the NHL, and many of the players have gone on
to NHL careers.  So why can't you yanks get interested in NHL hockey?  Don't
you want to see how your NCAA heroes do when they make the big time?  Some of
them are doing very well; just look at the Montreal Canadiens, or the Montreal
Americains as they have been called by some.
-- 
Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto  (416) 635-2073
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