Just caught this on the CSTV website...interesting quotes
Posted by Dave Weldon at 3/16/2008 01:22:00 AM"Now that we're heading into the next round of the playoffs, take a minute with me to salute a great group of coaches that we at CSTV get a chance to spend one weekend a year with, and that is the bench bosses of College Hockey
The AHA and the CHA do not get the ink that the big four do, but as Robert Morris head coach Derek Schooley said Wednesday, "25 percent of college hockey is in Atlantic Hockey or the CHA. To ignore them isn't good for the industry as a whole."
He's absolutely right.
Check out more of the article, it is a good one.
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- Anonymous said...
March 17, 2008 at 12:18 PMI get his point, but the real big picture indicates that to grow the sport of Division 1 hockey we need to keep AHA/CHA level hockey at a level of reasonable importance, and preserve those 2 autobids. If a possible newcomer to D-1 College hockey sees that they might not ever get a reasonable chance to go to the big dance, it might deter them from entering. We need more programs in college hockey overall, and they need to see the benefits of being able to be competitive very quickly. I can't say that the idea of a play-in game between the AHA/CHA champions is a good idea/
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