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From: citrin@ucbvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: re: new collegiate hockey league
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Date: Wed, 28-Sep-83 15:38:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 28 15:38:18 1983
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Apparently, people didn't understand what I meant by my remark that the
new college league would lead to less competitive Ivy-league hockey.
What I meant was that the new league seems to be made up of the better
ECAC teams, who may be fed up with the policies of the Ivy league teams
(the latest is that Ivy teams will have to play each other three times a
year instead of the previous two).  By removing themselves from competition
with the Ivy league schools, it will make it that much harder for the Ivy
schools to recruit superior talent, since the opposing talent will presumably
be inferior.  I don't buy the argument that travel expenses were the
reason for the split as in the CCHA/WCHA, since the distances involved are
much smaller, and the ECAC divisional realignment of the past few years made
those distances smaller still.  I don't know why RPI, Colgate, Vermont, and 
Army weren't involved in the move.  As for possible post-season competition,
I remain unconvinced.  I have a feeling that the automatic East bid(s) for the
NCAA's may go to teams in this new league, and the teams in the old ECAC may 
have to rely on at-large bids, unless they expend the NCAA playoff format yet 
again.

Wayne Citrin
(ucbvax!citrin)