------------------------------ THIS FILE CONTAINS MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ABOUT WOMEN'S HOCKEY THAT WERE MAILED TO THE HOCKEYL COLLEGE HOCKEY MAILING LIST. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 07:01:51 CST From: Boyd Edmiston Subject: NCAA Division II Hockey Champions Just a note to introduce myself and sign-on to the list. Yes, we play and love hockey down here in the South. The University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH) won their first NCAA Division II Hockey Championship this year and all of our buttons are about to burst off of our shirts. I am not officially connected to the team other than being an Off-Ice Official, but if you have any questions about our team, or amateur hockey programs which are trying to output college- level skaters, I will be happy to update you on who, what and where we are going down here below the Mason-Dixon line. I also am interested in the Women's side of college hockey since I have a rather serious daughter skater who wants to measure her skating against other Senior HS female skaters and I have no idea as to which summer program might be the best avenue for her to evaluate the potential of moving up into the college arena. We also have the Huntsville Channel Cats, Southern Hockey League Inaugural year Champions, a new minor hockey league that my wife works for as office manager. They are looking for young skaters interested in playing down here in the sunny south and eager for a championship ring. Great owner and super coach. So as you can see, we have a varied hockey program going on down here. Hope to learn a lot from this listing on college hockey. Thanks Boyd Edmiston ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 16:14:28 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: ECAC Women: Ben Smith TUSAW coach Ben Smith, until today head coach of the Northeastern Men's ice hockey team, has resigned his position at NU and accepted a three year post with USA Hockey as Team USA Women's head coach. I just talked with Smith who seems ready to build a strong program. Smith was the head coach last summer when TUSAW had an impressive series of victories against Team Finland Women, in Finland. He will be assuming control of the program now and will be the head coach at the Women's World Championship in Kitchener in 1997. I think this could be a very smart move. If Smith gets the kind of support he should have from USA Hockey, perhaps TUSAW is at a turning point. Many thanks to the USA Today web site for breaking this story! _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 16:33:46 EST From: Greg Berge Subject: ECAC Women: Ben Smith TUSAW coach I'm not usually very sympathetic to such attitudes, but in this case IMHO it would have been much more appropriate to name a woman head coach. Like I said, 99 times out of 100 I don't think it should matter. That is, after all, *the whole damn point* of gender equity. But in a sport fighting to be taken seriously and so in the shadow of men's hockey... I dunno Rich, you're closer to the women's game than I. What do you think? And perhaps list members with the requisite plumbing might wish to chime in? Greg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 12:56:43 -0800 From: "Mark J. Sonnier" Subject: Re: ECAC Women: Ben Smith TUSAW coach At 04:33 PM 6/3/96 -0500, Greg Berge wrote: >I'm not usually very sympathetic to such attitudes, but in this case >IMHO it would have been much more appropriate to name a woman head >coach. > >Like I said, 99 times out of 100 I don't think it should matter. >That is, after all, *the whole damn point* of gender equity. But >in a sport fighting to be taken seriously and so in the shadow of >men's hockey... > >I dunno Rich, you're closer to the women's game than I. What do you think? >And perhaps list members with the requisite plumbing might wish to chime in? Probably not the best choice of words for a discussion about gender equity... Mark Sonnier ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:10:15 EST From: Greg Berge Subject: Re: ECAC Women: Ben Smith TUSAW coach > >And perhaps list members with the requisite plumbing might wish to chime in? > ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ > Probably not the best choice of words for a discussion about gender equity... > > Mark Sonnier It captures the only relevant difference. (If you disagree, I think we should probably take this off-line...) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 18:14:09 -0400 From: Nathan Boyle Subject: Re: ECAC Women: Ben Smith TUSAW coach On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Greg Berge wrote: > I'm not usually very sympathetic to such attitudes, but in this case > IMHO it would have been much more appropriate to name a woman head > coach. I was talking with Coch Jackie Clark of our women's basketball team this past season. She said something that I found interesting and that seems to apply here. In some form anyway. She noted how much the game had changed even in the time she had been involved with it. She noted that the women she was coaching now were really the first generation of women basketball players to have been born, and to have grown up in a society where the sport was availible from the beginning. When she had started the game had only been availible for a little more than a year where she went to school. And as for Coach Clark's first coach (who was a woman) she had only played it as a club game in college. This in turn caused me to think matters out even more. The generation of women coaches coming into the game over the last 5 or ten years, are only the first generation to have benifited from playing the game as girls through college. They were coached by women who were new to the game in some respects. The young women they are coaching now are only members of the first generation of (pardon the phrase) "Pure breed" women's basketball players. They have been purely emmersed in the game all their lives, without a stigma attached. On the back of all this we have seen the women's game improve immensely over recent years. The difference has been simply the fact that the sport has been developing the basic foundation to do it. With no less than two legitimate women's pro leagues starting next year (one backed by the NBA no less) it is certain the game won't resemble its current form in twenty years. That brings us to women's hockey. If you look to other women's sports, there are a great many men who are among the top coaches. So I don't think it matters if a man or woman is hired so long as it is done with the interest of the team is the reason. Frankly the best coaches at the point my be men, not because men do thing inheritly better, but simply because the foundation is still being built that will allow women to step to the forefront of their own sport. I like the move because this man has made a three year comitment to the team. It isn't as though he has signed on as a superstar coach for a couple of months to bring some pubplicity to the team only to step down when his other job comes around again. That is a sincere commitment that shows women's hockey to be an emerging sport to be taken seriously. He is an outstanding coach that will greatly benifit the team because of his skill, not gender. Drawing back to women's basketball, who is to say in twenty years, on the back of the pro leagues starting now, that a woman won't be leading a mens team to the NBA finals? Just some thoughts. Nathan W.L. Boyle ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:18:48 -0401 From: Mike Machnik Subject: Re: NU's Smith Resigns to Coach US Women At 4:19 PM -0400 6/3/96, Deron Treadwell wrote [on INFO-HOCKEY-L]: >Northeastern University Coach Ben Smith resigned from his position >today to accept a three-year appointment with USA Hockey according >to USA Today. > >Smith will be the first coach of the United States Olympic Women's >Hockey team. This is very interesting. I'm not sure whether anything should be read into this regarding the situation Ben had at Northeastern, or whether he simply wanted an opportunity to coach the national women's team and in the Olympics in 1998. It is interesting that he would leave a DivI men's program to coach the women. Next question is, who takes over at NU? Assistants last year were David Quinn, Tommy Mutch, and Jim Craig. Quinn may be a candidate...I don't know who else is at this time. --- --- Mike Machnik machnik@tiac.net *HMM* 11/13/93 ***** Unofficial Merrimack Hockey home page located at: ***** ***** http://www.tiac.net/users/machnik/MChockey/MChockey.html ***** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 20:22:53 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: ECAC Women: re: Ben Smith as coach I think Greg has a good point that it would have been nice to have a woman as coach of the Team USA Women's national team. In many ways I think an ECAC League women's coach would have been the best solution because they know the game and the players. The down side of that concept is that it hurts the league. If one coach is the national coach they tend to have too much pull. Afterall if you don't please them, you won't get picked for the national side. Having said that, I still think Laura Halldorson (Colby) or Heather Linstad (Northeastern), or Julie Andeberhan (Cornell) would have been excellent choices. They have the experience and are extremely intelligent coaches who know their game. I do not believe they are deficient in any way. I believe the other people under consideration were Karen Kay (UNH), Lisa Brown-Miller (Princeton) and Val Belmonte (USA Hockey). I have heard from a few sources that the players who were on TUSAW for the Finland tour last summer, when Ben Smith was the head coach, liked him a lot. The results he got with the team were impressive. I also think it is a good sign that USA Hockey signed him on for three years. It says to me they may be finally taking this seriously. I hope Smith can tryout and choose players as he sees fit. I think we will see what kind of effort USA Hockey is putting out this fall. I hear there will be some international event coming up as a warm up for WWC '97. We should be seeing TUSAW playing ECAC League sides and probably some form of Team Canada Women if they are to be ready for Kitchener next April. _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 21:10:30 -0400 From: "J. Michael Jackson" Subject: Women coaches/Women's teams The argument that it makes no difference whether a man or a woman is hired to coach a women's team is, at this point, entirely misguided. As has been pointed out, there has been an entire generation of women that has grown up since playing basketball became an accepted part of their lives. How many of these women have been hired to coach men's basketball? I don't just mean head coaches; can anyone name me a woman assisstant in a big time basketball program? Woman have also been shut out of top athletic administration positions. I can't think of a female AD at a major school since Merrily Dean Baker got run out of East Lansing. Until what goes around comes around, women have a perfectly good reason to get defensive about men getting plum positions coaching women's teams. J. Michael Jackson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 08:51:18 -0400 From: "Howard M. Quimby" Subject: Re: College Hockey Photographs on the Web > http://www.agate.net/~mrand/Photos.html > Monty takes excellent hockey photographs and I strongly urge you to > visit his site. Go now, you won't be disappointed! Thank you for this posting -- Monty's work sure helps relieve those summer hockey blues. Howard Quimby - howard@natural.com |\ ( ) Natural Intelligence, Inc. _________|_\_________________________ Tel 617.876.7680 x1208 ----- -_-_ Fax 617.492.7425 -- - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:04:50 +0200 From: Nick Heim Subject: Playing Icehockey in Switzerland Hi female hockey player, Are you interested in playing icehockey in Switzerland next winter? We could provide you with a host family (like aupair). I'm coaching the team of SC REINACH, we just promoted to the top league in Switzerland and would like to do some reinforcement to the team. Are you interested? Please, let me know. kind regards, Nick -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick Heim E-mail: heim@ifu.bepr.ethz.ch Institut fuer Umformtechnik CServe-ID: 100021,2172 ETH-Technopark PFA F26 Phone: ++41 1 445 13 19 Pfingstweidstr. 30 Fax: ++41 1 445 13 25 8005 Zuerich WWW: http://www.ifu.ethz.ch/~heim/heim.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:47:22 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: ECAC Women: WWC 97 TUSAW dream team With Ben Smith taking over as coach of the USA Women's national team, I started thinking of who might be on the team for Kitchener 97. I came up with the following team which brings in some new talent, would have a tough defense and a killer attack that could fly. With a variety of offensive tactics from Smith, I think TUSAW could give TCW something to think about. Player WWC Hometown School/Team Grad Currently GOALIES: Sarah Tueting Winnetka, IL Dartmouth 98 Erin Whitten y Glens Falls, NY UNH 93 Flint (IHL) DEFENDERS: Chris Bailey z Marcellus, NY Providence 94 Asst PC Michelle Johansson Walnut Creek, CA Providence 93 Concordia Bree Cheatham Dearborn, MI Northeastern 97 Tara Mounsey Concord, NH Brown 00 Vicki Movsessian z Lexington, MA Providence 94 Susan Reece Durham, NH Princeton 95 Suisse FORWARDS: Shelley Looney y Trenton, MI Northeastern 94 Asst NU Beth Beagan x Falmouth, MA Providence 92 Concordia Cammi Granato x Downers Grove, IL Providence 93 Concordia Gretchen Ulion z Marlborough, CT Dartmouth 94 USA Selects Nan Gorton Wellesley, MA Brown 96 Jeanine Sobek x Coon Rapids, MN Northeastern 94 Toronto RW Laurie Baker Concord, MA Providence 99 Meaghan Sittler Buffalo, NY Colby 98 Barbara Gordon Glendale, CA Colby 97 Alana Blahoski St. Paul, MN Providence 96 Karyn Bye y River Falls, WI UNH 93 Lake Placid Katie King Salem, NH Brown 97 PP1: low: Looney, Beagan, Granato pts: Bye, Bailey PP2: low: Baker, Sittler, King pts: Gordon, Johansson SH1: Bye, Blahoski, Cheatham, Mounsey SH2: Gorton, Sobek, Movsessian, Reece SH3: Sittler, Ulion, Bailey, Johansson -- -- -- -- -- Extras: Meghan Smith Bangor, ME Providence 98 Angela Ruggiero Simi Valley, CA Choate-RH/CT Polar Bears Jamie Totten Stafford, NY Northeastern 99 Kathy Issel v Ann Arbor, MI Princeton 95 Steph O'Sullivan z Dorcester, MA Providence 95 USA Selects Wendy Tatarouns v Billerica, MA UNH 95 Asst UNH Sandra Whyte y Saugus, MA Harvard 92 Asst Harvard v = played on 1992 x = played on 1990, 1992 & 1994 y = played on 1992 & 1994 z = played on 1994 _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 18:35:17 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: ECAC Women: 96-97 composite I have just added the Brown Women's ice hockey schedule, and the extrapolated Providence College league games to the Women's composite schedule in the Hockey-L archives. The composite contains matches for Colby, Northeastern and Brown and travel partners: UNH, Harvard and PC. The URL is: gopher://maine.maine.edu/11//MISCINFO/LSTSERV/HOCKEY-L The file name for the women's composite is: 9697WCMP SCHEDULE Other women's files available in the Hockey-L archives (due to the generous support of Wayne Smith and the UMaine system) are: WOMEN DIRINFO 9697WCNF STAND 9596WCMP SCHEDULE 9596WCNF STAND 9495WCNF STAND 9495WCMP SCHEDULE You can also get these files via email sent to: LISTSERV@MAINE.MAINE.EDU The body of the message should read: GET 9697WCMP SCHEDULE If you have any problems please email me. Keep those schedules via email and fax coming! _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 16:41:27 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: Re: NC$$ Women's Championship I do not believe either the Olympics or the Women's World Championships will produce an NC$$ Women's Championship. I think the steady growth of the women's game, not the hype, will bring a final four (The Puck Stops Here?). The numbers of women and girls playing ice hockey in places like Minnesota and Michigan, as well was the Northeast is the critical factor. Only when there is a competitive league in the midwest will that happen. I am not so sure, given the Wooger's priorities, how soon that may be. _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 19:14:54 -0600 From: Pam Sweeney Subject: Re: Potential Final Four Slogans... >> Since we're all about as 'in' the hockey community as you can get, >> does anyone have some ideas (besides Phinal Phour--I doubt they'd go >> for that one). > >I think it would be kind of cute if they adopted 'Frozen Four' (or would it >have to be Phrozen Phour?) If they copyright "Frozen Four" then we'd have to call it the Phrozen Phour, I guess. (And there'd have to be a rather long explanation in the FAQ! :-) ) Pam Sweeney Go Gophers!!! Ski-U-Mah!!! HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to INFO-HOCKEY-L@MAINE.MAINE.EDU, The College Hockey Information List. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:03:01 -0400 From: Mike Machnik Subject: Re: NC$$ Women's Championship The real key as to whether the NCAA will even consider sponsoring a women's hockey championship is the number of varsity programs competing in the sport. Under section 18.2.4.1 of the 1996-97 NCAA Manual, "A National Collegiate Championship or a division championship may be established during the 1994-95 through 1998-99 academic years in a women's sport in which the Association does not already conduct a championship if at least 40 institutions sponsor the sport." The number is 50 institutions for a men's sport. 18.2.4.2.1 adds the provision that "The applicable minimum spnsorship number must exist for two consecutive academic years in order for a championship to be established." The way I understand this, it would be possible to establish a single women's NCAA championship that would cover all divisions once there are 40 programs existing at the NCAA level for two straight years. I don't know how many there are now. (Richard?) However, according to 18.2.1, "A National Collegiate Championship for which any active member in good standing is eligible may be established by majority vote of all members present and voting at an annual Convention, subject to the requirements, standards and conditions regarding the required number of members sponsoring the sport as prescribed in this bylaw." So, not only does there have to be the 40 program minimum for two years, but it would also be necessary to get the NCAA to vote for a championship at its annual convention. That looks to be the biggest hurdle once the 40 program minimum is reached. --- --- Mike Machnik machnik@tiac.net *HMM* 11/13/93 ***** Unofficial Merrimack Hockey home page located at: ***** ***** http://www.tiac.net/users/machnik/MChockey/MChockey.html ***** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 18:21:57 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: ECAC Women: Cornell added to composite I have added the Cornell Women's ice hockey schedule, and the extrapolated St.Lawrence league games to the Women's composite schedule in the Hockey-L archives. The composite contains matches for Colby, Northeastern, Brown and Cornell and travel partners: UNH, Harvard, PC and St.Lawrence. As always, these schedules are tentative. The URL is: gopher://maine.maine.edu/11//MISCINFO/LSTSERV/HOCKEY-L The file name for the women's composite is: 9697WCMP SCHEDULE Keep those emails and faxes coming! BTW, yes Cornell really is playing its travel partner twice in Canton this season. Next year both league matches will be in Ithaca. _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 14:47:00 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: ECAC Women: TUSAW news Team United States Women, which features mostly former, current and future ECAC League players, will be busy preparing for the Women's World Championship 97 at Kitchener over the next several months. According to USA Hockey, this week the Under-19 national side is having a camp in Lake Placid. They will be playing the Under-19 Team Canada Women. The full national TUSAW side will get together at the end of August (18th-24th) for a training camp and a three game series with current European champion Sweden (Aug 21st-24th), again at Lake Placid. The Three Nations tournament will take place in Ottawa on October 20th-26th. That competition will include TUSAW, TCW and Team Finland Women. Those are the "big three" teams that should challenge for the gold at WWC 97. Seems like a smart plan for all three teams, and should have a few players in great shape for the start of the ECAC League! TUSAW head coach Ben Smith has not picked his assistant coaches yet. I believe the plan is to bring in a few coaches and a number of players at these different events and try to find a good mix. Seems like a wise plan to me. I will try to get the TUSAW roster for the Sweden series later this summer. _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 01:08:23 -0400 From: Mike Machnik Subject: 01Jul96 NCAA News: Title IX Ticker http://www.ncaa.org/news/960701/active/3326N06.html The above article from the July 1st issue of the NCAA News deals with Title IX and has possible implications for some hockey-playing schools. The entire article can be read by following the above URL, but here are some extracts that I found interesting. > Title IX Ticker -- OCR: Benefits to teams more important than dollars spent > > Benefits received by comparable men's and women's teams -- not the dollar >value of those benefits -- are important in determining whether programs are >equivalent, a representative of the Office for Civil Rights said recently. > > "It is not the amount of the funding. Teams of similar sports, like sports, >however you want to refer to them, do not have to receive equivalent >dollars," >said Beth Downs, a civil rights investigator at OCR, during an NCAA-sponsored >seminar on Title IX earlier this year in Boston. ... >A seminar participant asked about a donation to the hypothetical program's >men's soccer team. A donor gave $5,000 for men's soccer. Does the university >need to spend $5,000 on women's soccer to be in compliance with Title IX >regulations? > >"It's the benefit that those dollars buy that needs to be equivalent," Downs >replied. "You need to make sure at least one other women's team has similar >benefits to this men's soccer team despite the amount of that funding." ... >Another question concerned a situation in which the men's and women's >basketball teams play back-to-back, with the women playing at 6 p.m. and the >men's team playing at 8 p.m. Should the institution have the men's and >women's >teams alternate playing times? > >Because the later time often is considered the prime time, a women's team >should have the opportunity to play during the later time slot, Downs said. > >"If no other women's sport received prime-time game times, I think that -- >although this might not be a significant violation or a significant enough >disparity to be a violation and send the school to enforcement -- it is one >disparity that would be thrown in the pot with the rest of them if there were >any, and considered toward a violation finding," she said. > >"Just so everyone is clear, there is a difference between each component when >we look to see if there are disparities. Some of them are significant enough >that there would be a violation, but usually we look at the overall program, >assess all the disparities and then determine if we think the school is in >violation overall with Title IX and the athletics regulations. > >"So this would be one disparity if no other women's team received such a >benefit." ... >One participant asked about a Division III institution that sponsors one >men's >program in Division I: Is a Division I women's program also required? > >OCR would analyze the percentages of females that compete by divisions and >whether they are above or below the norm, Downs said. It is likely that the >institution would have a disparity. > >--Compiled by Sally Huggins --- --- Mike Machnik machnik@tiac.net *HMM* 11/13/93 ***** Unofficial Merrimack Hockey home page located at: ***** ***** http://www.tiac.net/users/machnik/MChockey/MChockey.html ***** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 11:06:56 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: ECAC Women: TUSAW information + Below is a good summary of the status of women's hockey from ESPN's SportsZone. I would add that the Women's World Championship (Kitchener '97) is also a major event. The Olympic hype may be huge, but the best sport often remains at the world championship level of any sport. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- OLYMPICS THE FIRST STEP TOWARD LEGITIMIZING WOMEN'S HOCKEY By David Albright ESPNET SportsZone BOSTON -- For the U.S. Olympic men's hockey team, the 1998 Olympics represent a first-ever chance to compile a Dream Team to compete against the world's best. For the women, just fielding a team, any team, represents the realization of a dream. Although women's hockey has been around for over 100 years -- the first organized and recorded all-female ice hockey game was played in Ontario, Canada, in 1892 -- it will make its Olympic debut at the 18th Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. For a sport that's seen meteoric growth this decade, inclusion in the Olympics will give it a certain credibility. At least that's the thought and hope of the sport's leaders who convened at The World Hockey Summit here July 11-13. "When they do get center stage at the Olympics, it's going to be the springboard for women's hockey," said Ben Smith, who recently was named the first-ever head coach of the U.S. Olympic women's ice hockey team. "I think it will put women's hockey on the international map." Exploding interest Some might argue that it's not even currently on any map. But the numbers tell a different story. There are more than 20,000 female players registered with USA Hockey. While that represents a very small percentage of the 350,000-plus total players in this country, there were just 5,500 registered females playing five years ago. In terms of competition, women's hockey is mostly played at the club level in the United States, but there are a couple of dozen colleges that offer it as a varsity sport. "We're classified as an emerging sport by the NCAA," said Cornell women's coach Julie Andeberhan, who also serves as the president of the American Women's Hockey Coaches Association. "That means we follow all of the rules of the NCAA, but we don't have a championship. Hopefully that will change soon." A second look On the international level, the U.S. team has finished second to Canada in each of the three World Championships (1990, '92, '94). The other nations that make up the forefront of women's hockey and who will compete in next year's World Championships in Kitchener, Ontario, are: China, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland. But the real focus for everyone concerned is the '98 Olympics. "They really want to continue their careers because of the Olympics," said Finnish national coach Rauno Korpi. "Nagano means more publicity for women's hockey, which is good for these athletes, because they make such a sacrifice to play the sport." Because of the scarcity of all-girls programs, a lot of girls are forced to play with the boys during the early part of their development. According to USA Hockey, about half of all the registered females play on boys' or men's teams. The American plan The appointment of Smith, who spent the past five seasons coaching the men's program at Northeastern University, to lead the U.S. national program is major step in the recognition of women's hockey as a legitimate sport. Smith's first exposure to the women's game was in 1972 when he helped coach a team in his hometown of Gloucester, Mass. The majority of his coaching experience is with the men, including assisting with the 1988 U.S. Olympic team in Calgary. But there's something special about women's hockey, according to Smith. "The thing that really won me over was the type of dedication they have to the sport," he said. "They want to be an Olympic athlete and play for their country. It's been a long time since I've found true sport. The game is played at a pure form." And Smith thinks the Olympics is just the beginning. "This is the cusp of a very big leap for the sport," he said. "I'm very excited about what just happened in the Stanley Cup. With Florida and Colorado you have two new markets. I think there will be some great players to come out of Florida and California, the dense population centers. "There's a misconception that you have to come from the upper Midwest or New England to play the game. What we need is more college hockey, and I'm not just talking the men. We need the bigger schools to take up hockey, and when a Syracuse takes it up, they need to start both a men's and women's program. It's going to happen." Build it and they will come In 1994, Minnesota became the first state to sanction girls' ice hockey as a high school varsity sport, and 24 schools took part that first year. That number grew to 47 last season and 63 schools have registered to field a team next year. There's also legislation in Minnesota that would mandate 50 percent of available ice time would go to girls' and women's teams. "It's a matter of resources," Andeberhan said. "When they're made available then there's interest." There has even been some preliminary discussion of a small professional league between Canada and the United States that would aid in retaining players after their college eligibility is exhausted. "I think a league of their own is inevitable," said Frank Lento, the chairman of Canadian Hockey. "I don't know when, but somebody will see it as a viable way to make money." A professional league, while not out of the question, isn't exactly realistic right now. Besides, it is Nagano that is the first big opportunity to be experienced for women's hockey. "The significance of the Olympics is tremendous," Andeberhan said. "There's no NHL million-dollar contract waiting for them. This is their goal. This is their dream." One that's been a long time coming. merci ESPN _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 15:29:44 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: ECAC Women: TUSAW August camp A 1996 Team USA Women's camp will be held in late August at Lake Placid. After practicing for a week, the 40 players listed below will be cut to a 20 player squad to play Team Sweden Women in a three game series. I'll have to say I like some of coach Ben Smith's new picks for this camp! We are missing a few significant players (outstanding PC goalie Meghan Smith, stylish PC/Concordia defender Michelle Johansson, super fast Princeton defender Sue Reece and multi-talented Brown forward Nan Gorton), but it is a good start. Maybe those players will get their shot during the October Three Nations Tourney. It is great to have Tueting, Amidon, Cheatham, Coelho, Baker, King, Pfeiffer and Zaban in the mix! TUSAW August 1996 camp Player WWC Hometown School/Team Grad Currently ________________________________________________________________________ GOALIES: (4) Laurie Belliveau Manchester, MA Yale 98 Sarah DeCosta Warwick, RI Tollgate HS Sarah Tueting Winnetka, IL Dartmouth 98 Erin Whitten y Glens Falls, NY UNH 93 Flint (IHL) DEFENDERS: (12) Michele Amidon v Portland, CT St.Lawrence 94 Asst Bowdoin Chris Bailey z Marcellus, NY Providence 94 Asst PC Winny Brody Bree Cheatham Dearborn, MI Northeastern 97 Amy Coelho North Truro, MA Dartmouth 97 Colleen Coyne y Teaticket, MA UNH 93 USA Selects Courtney Kennedy Woburn, MA BBN/Chelmsford Tara Mounsey Concord, NH Brown 00 Vicki Movsessian z Lexington, MA Providence 94 Kelly O'Leary x N.Providence, RI Providence 90 Suisse Angela Ruggiero Simi Valley, CA Choate-RH/CT Polar Bears Jamie Totten Stafford, NY Northeastern 99 FORWARDS: (24) Laurie Baker Concord, MA Providence 99 Beth Beagan x Falmouth, MA Providence 92 Concordia Alana Blahoski St. Paul, MN Providence 96 Lisa Brown-Miller x W.Bloomfield, MI Providence 90 Karyn Bye y River Falls, WI UNH 93 Lake Placid Brandy Fisher Potsdam, NY UNH 98 Barbara Gordon Glendale, CA Colby 97 Cammi Granato x Downers Grove, IL Providence 93 Concordia Andrea Kilbourne Saranac Lake, NY Northwoods Katie King Salem, NH Brown 97 Shelley Looney y Trenton, MI Northeastern 94 Asst NU Erin Magee Troy, NY Boston C. 99 Sue Merz x Greenwich, CT UNH 94 Suisse Allison Mleczko New Canaan, CT Harvard 97 Steph O'Sullivan z Dorcester, MA Providence 95 USA Selects Mandy Pfeiffer Davison, MI Princeton 97 Jenny Schmidgall Edina, MN Meaghan Sittler Buffalo, NY Colby 98 Jeanine Sobek x Coon Rapids, MN Northeastern 94 Toronto RW Wendy Tatarouns v Billerica, MA UNH 95 Asst UNH Gretchen Ulion z Marlborough, CT Dartmouth 94 USA Selects Kathryn Waldo Cross Plains, WI Northeastern 99 Sandra Whyte y Saugus, MA Harvard 92 USA Selects Carisa Zaban Glenview, IL UNH 99 v = played on 1992 x = played on 1990, 1992 & 1994 y = played on 1992 & 1994 z = played on 1994 _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 17:45:16 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: ECAC Women: Dartmouth schedule added The Women's College Ice Hockey composite schedule (9697WCMP SCHEDULE) now has the Dartmouth games added to it along with travel partner Boston College's league matches. The tentative schedule is available in the Hockey-L archives. The only two games I need to complete the composite's ECAC League games are the Princeton-Yale matches. So, Tigers and Elis, it is time for you to be true to your school: anyone have one of those schedules? _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 19:38:00 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: ECAC Women: new NU web site Northeastern Women's Ice Hockey has started a web site: http://www.dac.neu.edu/SG/WHockey/WHockey.html At the moment it contains last season's results, the coming season's schedule and directions to Matthews Arena. _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 10:58:56 -0400 From: paula weston Subject: hockey weekly Hockey Weekly is a Michigan publication devoted to amateur hockey. During the college season, Frank Kroll and I write about the CCHA. (Frank handles Michigan, I handle Ohio). Hockey Weekly has just finished a web site. Its address is: http://www.amateurhockey.com e-mail to: puck@amateurhockey.com Several hockey-lers have asked me about publication information. Here it is. Check it out! Paula C. Weston Girl Reporter ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 18:36:15 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: Midwest Alliance: new women's league + I am extremely happy to hear that this year there will be a new women's college ice hockey league. The Midwestern Collegiate Women's Hockey Alliance (MCWHA) will be made up of teams from Minnesota and Wisconsin. The varsity program at Augsburg will be joined by club team Minnesota and several other teams (St. Cloud State?, Minnesota-Duluth?, Wisconsin?, Wisconsin-River Falls? ...). I have heard from people involved in these programs and hopefully we will have some of their schedules and results in the women's composite (9697WCMP SCHEDULE) this season. It seems to me that very soon we should be hearing of a postseason tournament between the ECAC Alliance and the Midwest Alliance as women's hockey progresses towards a national championship. And for those of you planning a trip to OZ next week: Northeastern Women's head coach Heather Linstad will be down under helping the Aussies get their program together. Carl Grey's Assabet Valley team should give them something to shoot for. My understanding is that Australia hopes to start competing in the Asian Qualifier (with China, Japan and Kazakhstan) in the near future. >From rec.sport.hockey: Four Australian states will compete for the Joan Mckowen Memorial Trophy this month at the Canterbury Ice Rink, Sydney, NSW. There will also be a series of exhibition games between Australia and a visiting US team from Assabet Valley, Massachusetts. Wed Aug 21 8.00 pm Opening ceremony ; Australia v USA. Thu Aug 22 7.35 am New South Wales v Australian Capital Territory. 9.10 am South Australia v Western Australia. 10.45 am USA v Australia 3.35 pm Australian Capital Territory v South Australia. 5.45 pm New South Wales v Western Australia. Fri Aug 23 6.00 am New South Wales v South Australia. 7.35 am Australian Capital Territory v Western Australia 9.10 am Australia v USA Sat Aug 24 12.40 pm Australia v USA Sun Aug 25 7.00 am First semifinal (1 v 4 on ladder) 9.05 am Second semifinal (2 v 3 on ladder) 3.30 pm Grand Final. There will be an extra exhibition match, New South Wales v USA, at 8pm on Monday 26 August, to be played at Blacktown Ice Rink. Also next week will be Team USA Women's August training camp at Lake Placid. The forty women trying out will be cut down to a twenty player team to face Team Sweden Women in a three game series. The Women's Directory (WOMEN DIRINFO) has been updated recently and now includes several new email and snail mail addresses. _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 18:17:34 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: AWCHA Women's National Collegiate Club Championship 1997 The following post is by Jill Depto and is reposted with her permission. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Those of us organizing the College Club Championships just had a meeting with the MIT Athletic Department and here are some more details about what will (probably) be happening providing we get final approval (which should come in mid-September). All of the information in this email is PROPOSED, however, and may change depending on a number of things. This is just PROBABLY how it will be and is in no way definite yet. I will certainly let you know when it is definite. 1. The tournament will be broken down into 2 divisions. The top division (the A division) will be limited to club teams from universities or colleges. The level of play in this division will be for teams with women who have been playing hockey for several years. This division could have anywhere from 8-12 teams and will have a semifinal and a final round. The bottom division (the B division) will not be limited to colleges and universities; however, if too many teams are interested, college and university teams will be chosen over non-college/university teams. This level of play will be for teams of women who have been playing for 2 years or less (this season being their 2nd season). This division will be mainly for fun and will probably only have 6 teams which will be broken into 2 pools of 3 teams with the winners of each pool playing each other in the final game. 2. Colleges/universities may enter one team in each division (no roster overlap allowed). 3. Teams in the A division will be guaranteed at least 3 games and teams in the B division will be guaranteed at least 2 games. 4. There will be an entry fee to cover refs, programs, trophies, etc. We don't know how much this will be yet, but it will be less for B division teams. 5. The tournament will most likely be held March 6-9 (Thurs.-Sun.) 1997. Only local teams (MIT, Harvard Business School, etc.) will be scheduled to play on Thursday. Semi-local teams (Amherst, Holy Cross, etc.) could be scheduled to play on Thursday and Saturday (but not Friday so they don't have to stay in a hotel and don't have to make the 1 or 2 hour trip 2 days in a row). If you are a semi-local team please let us know if you would be willing to play on Thursday and Saturday. Non-local teams (those more than 2 hours away) will probably have one game on Friday and 2 on Saturday. In the A division, only the semifinals and final will be played on Sunday. In the B division, only two regular games and the final will be played on Sunday. 6. The regular A division games will probably be 3 12-minute periods. The regular B division games will probably be either 3 10-minute periods or 2 20 or 25-minute running time periods. Ice will DEFINITELY be done before every "A" game and PROBABLY before every "B" game (unless we run into time problems). 7. The semifinals and final of the "A" will be 3 15-minute periods. The final of the "B" will probably be 3 12-minute periods. Ice will DEFINITELY be done before these games. 8. Some sort of award will be given to the winning and runner-up teams of the "A" and to the winner of the "B." We're also trying to find out the whereabouts of the club trophy that is engraved with the winner after these championships are held. Does anyone know of this trophy? I think that's about it for now. Again, we don't get final approval until mid-September but we're 90% sure this is going to happen. So, if you have any questions please feel free to ask. Also, please send a mailing address so we can send you an entry form if you are interested. I've already gotten several emails from interested teams and we have yet to call other teams. It looks like it's going to happen and all of us at MIT are very excited about it!! Thanks, Jill Depto jill@mit.edu MIT Women's Ice Hockey _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:36:40 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: USA Women: Sweden series + Team USA Women swept a three game series with the Swedish Women's Ice Hockey Team this past weekend (7-1, 4-1, 2-1). Head coach Ben Smith used a number of different players and line combinations as TUSAW gear up for the Women's World Championship in April 1997. Assisting Smith were Harvard Women's head coach Katey Stone, and Kelly Dyer (NU 90) who is also still in the player pool. Seems like the Harvard-Northeastern axis is firmly in place. The good news is that Smith is trying out a number of players and assistant coaches as he tries to find a good mix to compete with Team Canada Women. TUSAW should have beaten TSW and so Smith was smart to use as many players as he did (I hope to have the roster for the Sweden series later today). Next up will be the Three Nations Tourney in Ottawa with TCW and Team Finland Women (October 20th-26th, 1996). There will be another Lake Placid training camp just before that event. Again the core of the USA Women's team plus some new tryouts will be there. Over the December holidays, there will be a camp with the players making that cut going to China in January 1997 for an exhibition series. That is very intelligent as TUSAW have played Canada, Finland and China who are the main contenders for WWC '97 in Kitchener, Canada. The experience of the long plane ride should also be valuable as TUSAW gets ready for Nagano '98. In mid-February TUSAW will have a two week camp at Lake Placid. The idea is to use the first week to make the final cuts for Kitchener '97, and the second week as time for the team to play together. It should be an interesting end to the ECAC Women's League title drive with the possibility of some teams loosing their power players for a couple of critical weeks! Overall I am very happy to see the amount of national team activity for the USA Women. I also like the attitude of Ben Smith who is clearly trying to learn as much as he can about the potential players. _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 17:02:57 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: USA Women: roster for Sweden series Some interesting changes! Tueting is a great goalie and could be a key factor for TUSAW. I like that Ben Smith is trying out a lot of new defenders. Getting Baker and King up front for the USA also looks a great idea! There are still some players here that I find rather dubious, as TUSAW needs fast skaters if they are to compete with Team Canada. However this squad has a better look to it. TUSAW August 1996 camp Player WWC Hometown School/Team Grad Currently ________________________________________________________________________ GOALIES: (2) Sarah Tueting Winnetka, IL Dartmouth 98 Erin Whitten y Glens Falls, NY UNH 93 Flint (IHL) DEFENDERS: (7) Chris Bailey z Marcellus, NY Providence 94 Asst PC Winny Brody Roseville, MN Amy Coelho North Truro, MA Dartmouth 97 Colleen Coyne y Teaticket, MA UNH 93 USA Selects Tara Mounsey Concord, NH Brown 00 Vicki Movsessian z Lexington, MA Providence 94 Angela Ruggiero Simi Valley, CA Choate-RH/CT Polar Bears FORWARDS: (15) Michele Amidon v Portland, CT St.Lawrence 94 Asst Bowdoin Laurie Baker Concord, MA Providence 99 Beth Beagan x Falmouth, MA Providence 92 Concordia Alana Blahoski St. Paul, MN Providence 96 Lisa Brown-Miller x W.Bloomfield, MI Providence 90 Karyn Bye y River Falls, WI UNH 93 Lake Placid Cammi Granato x Downers Grove, IL Providence 93 Concordia Andrea Kilbourne Saranac Lake, NY Northwoods Katie King Salem, NH Brown 97 Shelley Looney y Trenton, MI Northeastern 94 Asst NU Sue Merz x Greenwich, CT UNH 94 Suisse Alison Mleczko New Canaan, CT Harvard 97 Jeanine Sobek x Coon Rapids, MN Northeastern 94 Toronto RW Gretchen Ulion z Marlborough, CT Dartmouth 94 USA Selects Sandra Whyte y Saugus, MA Harvard 92 USA Selects v = played on 1992 x = played on 1990, 1992 & 1994 y = played on 1992 & 1994 z = played on 1994 Head coach: Ben Smith Asst coach: Katey Stone Goal coach: Kelly Dyer Equipment: Ed Maturo USA leader: Bob Allen _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:55:02 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: ECAC Women: new Princeton coach Re-posted with permission from: Nate.Ewell The new Princeton women's hockey head coach is Jeff Kampersal, a 1992 Princeton graduate and four-year defenseman for the Tigers' men's team. He replaces Lisa Brown-Miller, who resigned to join her husband in the Detroit area and train for the US national team. Kampersal was an honorable mention All-ECAC defenseman for the Tigers and played one year for the Richmond Renegades of the ECHL before becoming director of youth hockey at the Bridgewater Sports Arena in Bridgewater, NJ, and head coach of the New Jersey Rockets youth organization in Bernardsville, NJ. Nate Ewell _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 19:21:42 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: Ivy League Women: 1996-1997 league schedule Below is this season's Ivy League Women's schedule. The ECAC League schedule is now complete and available in the Women's Composite schedule available at the Hockey-L archives (via email and the web: 9697WCMP SCHEDULE). If you have problems, email me directly. A reminder that I will be happy to add any college women's schedule to the composite as long as I get it before November and someone pledges to provide me with results. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Ivy League Women: 1996-1997 league schedule * = ECAC League match Home team listed first Nov 96 - - - Sat 11/16 *Brown __ - Dartmouth __ 2:00 pm *Harvard __ - Princeton __ 2:00 pm Sun 11/17 *Harvard __ - Yale __ 2:00 pm Sat 11/23 *Cornell __ - Brown __ 2:00 pm *Dartmouth __ - Harvard __ 3:00 pm Dec 96 - - - Sat 12/07 *Brown __ - Princeton __ 2:00 pm Sun 12/08 *Brown __ - Yale __ 2:00 pm Wed 12/11 *Princeton __ - Yale __ 7:30 pm Jan 97 - - - Sat 01/04 *Brown __ - Harvard __ 2:00 pm *Cornell __ - Princeton __ 2:00 pm Sun 01/05 *Cornell __ - Yale __ 2:00 pm Wed 01/08 *Yale __ - Princeton __ 4:00 pm Sat 01/11 *Harvard __ - Cornell __ 2:00 pm *Princeton __ - Dartmouth __ 1:00 pm Sun 01/12 *Yale __ - Dartmouth __ 1:30 pm Sat 01/18 *Dartmouth __ - Cornell __ 3:00 pm Feb 97 - - - Sat 02/01 *Cornell __ - Dartmouth __ 2:00 pm *Princeton __ - Brown __ 2:00 pm Sun 02/02 *Yale __ - Brown __ 1:30 pm Sat 02/08 *Harvard __ - Brown __ 2:00 pm *Princeton __ - Cornell __ 1:30 pm Sun 02/09 *Yale __ - Cornell __ 1:30 pm Sat 02/15 *Cornell __ - Harvard __ 2:00 pm *Dartmouth __ - Princeton __ 3:00 pm Sun 02/16 *Dartmouth __ - Yale __ 3:00 pm Sat 02/22 *Brown __ - Cornell __ 2:00 pm *Harvard __ - Dartmouth __ 2:00 pm Mar 97 - - - Sat 03/01 *Dartmouth __ - Brown __ 3:00 pm *Princeton __ - Harvard __ 1:00 pm Sun 03/02 *Yale __ - Harvard __ 1:30 pm Please send corrections to: hungerf@husc.harvard.edu _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 10:23:08 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: WWC '97: Team Canada coaches selected Shannon Miller of Calgary, Mel Davidson of Castor, Alta. and Daniele Sauvageau of St. Eustache, Que. will lead Team Canada at the 1997 Women's World Championship in Kitchener, Ont. Canadian Hockey announced that Miller will serve as head coach as Canada tries to win it's fourth straight World Championship. "The coaching staff's first challenge will come this fall when they take on Finland and the USA in the Three Nations Challenge this October in Ottawa," said Bob Nicholson, Canadian Hockey's senior vice-president. Games are scheduled for Ottawa, Cornwall, Kingston, Smiths Falls and St. Lawrence University, New York. "We've brought together three people that we believe complement each other and bring all the necessary components from motivation to teams tactics," added Nicholson. "The gap from first to eighth place has narrowed so much since the worlds in 1990 that it's critical that all elements of the team are strong. We have it at the top - now it's up to them to put together the rest of the puzzle." -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- These are the coaches I expected TCW to go with. I am somewhat dubious that Canada will be as strong at WWC '97 because of Miller's performance at the Pacific Championship '96. I do not believe she is getting the best out of her players. The team is also becoming too defensive oriented which I think makes them more vulnerable. In addition TCW seems to be facing some minor problems with player selection. The overall feeling I have is that TUSAW has a great shot at winning WWC '97. Ben Smith is doing a lot of good stuff with the Americans and for the first time I feel a growing confidence! _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 21:56:47 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: Women's Wrap: 5 Sep 1996 According to USA Hockey's American Hockey Magazine and other sources: 1) Hamilton College has made its women's ice hockey team a varsity sport starting this season. Hamilton now has 13 varsity sports for men and 13 for women. Hamilton is in the ECAC Alliance. The teams listed below with an & are also varsity programs. ECAC ALLIANCE - EAST Amherst & Bowdoin & Maine Wesleyan & Williams & ECAC ALLIANCE - WEST Colgate Hamilton & Middlebury & Rensselaer & RIT & Vermont To be in the Alliance a school has to have a varsity program, or a club program run through its athletic department which is headed for varsity status. Middlebury won the first ECAC Alliance Championship last season 5-0 over RIT. 2) Is it Winny Brodt or Brody from Roseville, MN? I have seen both spellings. Winny B is a new defender who has been playing with the USA national team. 3) Brown head coach Margaret Degidio-Murphy (Dige) was an assistant coach for the USA Women's Junior side that beat Canada two out of three games in Lake Placid in early July. Good to see the Harvard-Northeastern axis broken slightly! 4) The University of Minnesota hopes to pick its first women's varsity head coach in October. The new coach will spend this season recruiting, scheduling and helping with the planning of the new rink. Minnesota's varsity will play its first games in Mariucci in 1997. They hope to be in their new "mini- Mariucci" (3000 seat bowl:non-Olympic size rink) in 1998. This season the Minnesota club team will play in the All-American tourney and the new Midwest Alliance. 5) The 1996 USA Hockey Women's Player of the Year was Cammi Granato. Granato was a brilliant goal scorer at Providence and continues her powerful play at Concordia University. Cammi Granato is one of the key players on Team USA Women. _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 15:58:13 -0400 From: Jim Love Subject: Hockey Tunes !!! Greetings - Well, it won't be long now .... Practices can "officially" begin in just a few weeks, so now's as good a time as any to begin thinking about spending weekend nights in *your* favourite Arena/Rink/Center. And what better way to get back in the right frame of mind than with a dose of hockey songs !!! Here's an update of a periodic posting I've made to the List in years past re: track lists/sources/etc. for hockey-related tapes/ CDs. Pop any one of these on the 'ole CD player for a guaranteed good time; nothing beats a rollicking chorus of _In Through the Five Hole_ :-) *************** Ken Connor writes: >Since I didn't see it mentioned by anyone -- I may have missed it -- there >is an excellent collection of pop music one can hear at a hockey game or >about hockey available from the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. It's called >"Contact!" and cannot be found anywhere in the US where I've looked. Mail >order firms in Canada handle it but delivery takes months. This CD includes >two "Hockey Songs" including a great one by Jughead. It's also readily available by mail-order direct from the Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame itself; I called 'em up, gave them my credit card number, and was listening to the disc (CAN$19.95 - that includes P/P) in less than a week :-) The CD itself is a gorgeous picture disc in red/blue of a hockey player in mid-stride, stick at the ready (almost - almost - as nice as the hockey player design that graces the HOCKEY-L buttons/T-shirts :-). While Don Cherry is (sadly :-) missing, other Arena announcements/chatter are in- cluded to accompany the pop song collection they've compiled to round out the disc. For anyone who's interested, here's a complete track list: 1) ... Introduction of Referee 2) Pat Benetar: "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" 3) ... Crowd Stomp Clip 4) Gary Glitter: "Rock 'n Roll Part II" 5) 2 Unlimited: "No Limit" 6) ... Go team Go Chant 7) Steppenwolf: "Born to be Wild" 8) 95 South: "Whoot, There It Is" 9) Crowbar: "Oh What a Feeling" 10) The Goods: "The Hockey Song" (originally by Tom Connors) 11) ... Momentum Clip 12) Technotronic "Move This (Shake That Body)" 13) Bachmann Turner Overdrive: "Takin' Care of Business" 14) Europe: "Final Countdown" 15) Jughead: "Hockey Song" 16) The Nylons: "(Na Na Hey Hey) Kiss Him Goodbye" 17) ... Play-by-Play Clip 18) The Shuffle Demons: "Hockey Night in Canada Theme" 19) Bob and Doug McKenzie: "Take Off" For anyone who might be interested in ordering a copy (makes a great gift), the general information number for the Hockey Hall of Fame is (416) 360-7765. Hours are: Monday - Saturday 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. / Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. They'll gladly accept phone orders, and will have a copy winging its way to you tout suite. They also have a www site: , or if you'd rather write them, the HoF is located at: Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame BCE Place 30 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario, CANADA ****************** Another disc of hockey-related songs was released by the Canadian punk label Wrong Records called PUCK ROCK CLASSICS, VOL. 1. It's an entire CD of hockey songs by 20 different artists [The Hanson Brothers (no, not the same guys from "Slapshot," but that's their inspiration :-), D.O.A, SNFU, The Wingnuts, Smugglers, etc.] - it's priceless (but R-rated too, so don't play this when young kiddies are about). Wrong Records can be reached at: wrong@musicwest.com (or) at their www site: (or) via telephone at (604) 438-9789. You can order on-line, or via postal money order (US$13 + $3.50 for shipping) to: Wrong Records P.O. Box 3243 Vancouver, B.C V6B 3Y4 Canada Puck Rock Classics Vol. 1 / Johnny Hanson Presents: * Hockey Night Tonight (Hanson Brothers) * Cancer Sticks and Hockey Sticks (SNFU) * Joe Murphy (Wheat Chiefs) * Pencil Neck Geek (Joey Shithead and cub) * Drinkin' Whiskey, Playin' Hockey (Tankhog) * Of Orange Pucks and Mighty Ducks (Mr. Nobody) * Hockey Song (Jughead) * Head High (Front End Loader) * What's Wrong With Lumme (Glen Ford and His Piers) * In Through the Five Hole (Bombshells) * Gump Worsley's Lament (Huevos Rancheros) * Pull Your Goalie (Aging Youth Gang) * Overtime (D.O.A) * Our Stanley Cup (The Smugglers) * Boy From Omsk (Swell Prod) * (Do You) Wanna Go!! (UIC) * She Devils on Skates (Muscle Bitches) * Swampwater (Itch) * Slapshot (Wingnuts) * Hockey Sucks (Sweaters) * I'm Gonna Play Hockey (Hanson Brothers) However, as much fun as these discs certainly are, nothing can hold a candle to the glorious cheekiness of a disc I picked up in Stockholm while visiting Sweden in 1989. It's called HOCKEY 'N ROLL, and like CONTACT! is in part a compilation disc of various Swedish favorites played (evidently) in Swedish hockey arenas, and was sold as a fund-raiser for the upcoming World Championships that were to be held in Stockholm later that year. Believe me, you haven't lived until you've heard the members of the Swedish National Team singing _Nu Tar Vi Dom_ (their theme song) at the top of their lungs (in Swedish, of course :-) with multiple choruses of "hockey, hockey, hockey!" While most of Canada mourned as P. Kariya skated away from his final shot at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, I had visions of most of Sweden spontaneously breaking into a nation-wide chorus of _Nu Tar Vi Dom_, and I had to smile despite myself :-) :-) Other hockey-related titles I've skimmed off of rec.sport.hockey whenever it's been discussed include the following; if anyone knows the identities of missing album/artist names, I'd be grateful for any updates: Song Title Artist Album/Source ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hockey" Jane Siberry Bound by the Beauty "Hockey Game" ??? Untamed Heart Soundtrack "The Zamboni Song" The Gear Daddies Mighty Ducks 2 Sndtrck "Fifty Mission Cap" The Tragically Hip Fully, Completely "Skatin' on Thin Ice" Kinky Friedman Under the Double Ego "Big League" Tom Cochrane ??? "Jaromir Jagr" Angstones ??? "Wendel Clark" Rheostatics ??? "Hockey Chick" ??? ??? ============================================================================== Hope someone finds this useful .... Cheers from Maryland - Jim Go Blue !!! Someday we'll win .... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 16:34:54 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: USA Women: WWC prep The Team USA Women's program just keeps getting better! I talked with head coach Ben Smith today and found out about some additional training the women's national side will be having. Starting this fall Smith will be having a training program at an Olympic size rink in Walpole, MA. The idea is to give college grads, and others who don't have a team to work out with, a place to come and build up their skills. In addition he plans to use the sessions to tryout new players. Periodically this group of players will be playing ECAC League teams as they gear up for the Women's World Championship 1997 in Kitchener, ON. In addition TUSAW will be getting together for the following events: Early October: two week camp in Lake Placid to prepare for Three Nations Tourney. October 20-26: Three Nations Tourney (USA, Canada, Finland) played at St. Lawrence University and various rinks in Ontario, including Ottawa. First week of November: two game series with Norway at Princeton. Late December holiday week: at Lake Placid to prepare for trip to China. First week in January: China trip (may include Russia or Japan?) Early March: training camp and team selection for WWC '97 First week of April: WWC in Kitchener, ON. The plan sounds really strong to me and only impacts the ECAC League season during the China trip. This amount of open preparation is a refreshing way to develop a national team. _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 20:41:00 -0600 From: Pam Sweeney Subject: Re: Women's Wrap: 5 Sep 1996 Richard Hungerford wrote: >2) Is it Winny Brodt or Brody from Roseville, MN? I have seen both >spellings. Winny B is a new defender who has been playing with the USA >national team. The St. Paul Pioneer Press consistently refered to her as Winny Brodt in stories about her (winner of the inaugural Minnesota Ms Hockey award) last year. I believe she has accepted a scholarship to one of the programs in the East (UNH???). A search of the Pioneer Press Archives turns up this, among other articles: BRODT WINNER OF MS. HOCKEY AWARD Published on 03/01/96, Article 11 of 33 found. TEXT: Winny Brodt, the state's regular-season scoring leader with 59 goals and 60 assists, has been selected as the winner of the inaugural Minnesota Ms. Hockey award Playing both forward and defense and rarely coming off the ice when the game was on the line - Brodt led Roseville to a 26-0 record and a state championship in its first season of girls hockey. Pam Sweeney Go Gophers!!! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 07:42:42 CDT From: "Philip R. Baumann" Subject: Re: Women's Wrap: 5 Sep 1996 > Richard Hungerford wrote: > >2) Is it Winny Brodt or Brody from Roseville, MN? I have seen both > >spellings. Winny B is a new defender who has been playing with the USA > >national team. > > The St. Paul Pioneer Press consistently refered to her as Winny Brodt in > stories about her (winner of the inaugural Minnesota Ms Hockey award) last > year. I believe she has accepted a scholarship to one of the programs in > the East (UNH???). Last spring, the Star Tribune reported that she had declined a scholarship offer from UNH to stay at the University of Minnesota and be a member of their inaugural women's team. Brodt played youth hockey on boys teams and played men's JV her sophomore year in high school. Philip R. Baumann Phone: (218) 236-2943 Department of Political Science Fax: (218) 236-3945 Moorhead State University Moorhead, Minnesota 56563 E-mail: Baumann@MHDMA.Moorhead.MSUS.EDU ------------------------------ From MAINE.MAINE.EDU!owner-HOCKEY-D Thu Sep 12 05:04:01 1996 Status: RO ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:55:47 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: ECAC Women's League Championship site The ECAC Women's League Championship finals will be held at Northeastern's Matthews Arena in Boston, MA on Saturday and Sunday March 15th and 16th 1997. The last time the play-off championship was held at Northeastern was 1993 when John Marchetti's wonderful Providence College Friars beat UNH 3-0 in the final. The stunning game of the weekend was the semifinal between the host Northeastern Huskies and the UNH Wildcats. Co-captain Karyn Bye won the match for the Wildcats 6-5 in overtime. That match remains one of my top ten hockey games of all-time. _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:08:35 +0000 From: Philip Hotchkiss Subject: Winny Brodt A three-year lurker cautiously raises his head, looks around, makes his first post to the list, and then sinks back into the depths. I haven't seen anything about this yet so... An article in today's Minneapolis Star-Tribune says that Winny Brodt, who has accepted a scholarship to play at UNH has been declared academically ineligible by the NCAA. Apparently she is short 1/2 credit in English, because the course she took her senior year did not contain the required 75% grammer instruction. The school maintains the course is designed for college bound seniors and that it meets the requirements. The problem apparently arose from the fact that Roseville High School never included this course in it's list of "core courses" they sent to the NCAA Initial Eligibility Clearinghouse (something I'd never heard of before) in 1993 when it was created. They attempted to add the course on August 1, 1996 but the addition was denied. Winny has lost her first appeal and she, her family, and UNH are exploring other appeals since UNH was forced to withdrawl their scholarship offer. A complete copy of the article can be found on the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Web page at http://www.startribune.com/ Cheers, Phil Hotchkiss ************************************************************* Philip K. Hotchkiss Department of Mathematics The University of St. Thomas phone: (612) 962-5527 e-mail: pkhotchkiss@stthomas.edu WWW: http://www.stthomas.edu/www/math_http/faculty/hotchkiss/ ************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:31:45 -0400 From: Blackthorn Zaban Subject: WOMEN'S WRAP Regards to all the concern regarding Winnie Brodt. It is "Brodt." Ms. Brodt accepted a scholarship to UNH for the 96-97 season. Unfortunately because of NCAA Clearing House problems she was forced to withdraw her acceptance. On a happier note. Congratulations to Stephanie Akers, who will be attending Northeastern University to play hockey for the coming season. UNH was saddened last year by her need to withdraw. Good luck on your coming season Steph. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:47:00 EDT From: Stephen E Roth Subject: Re: when can teams begin practice? Wayne wrote: >There isn't one day for everyone. There is an NCAA first game date and >first practice date, but other rules come to bear. For example, the >Division I/II first practice date last year was September 7th, but I >don't know that anyone started until weeks later. Time off from >competion and practice enter into the picture as does the number of .weeks until the NCAA Championship. Anyone care to summarize this year's >rules wrt practice and playing season? This is one of those rare instances where the NCAA regs are simple and very straightforward. Practices may not begin until either September 7th or the first day of classes, whichever comes first. This applies to all divisions (I/II/III); also applies to women's ice hockey. I believe (but don't know this for sure) that conferences can set their own "start practice" dates, and I think the Div. III conferences do in fact impose later starting dates. The rest of it is also fairly simple: student-athletes may practice no more than 4 hours a day, 20 hours a week (regardless of what date they actually begin practices). There must be one day off each week. There can be no practices or games after the conclusion of the NCAA Div. I tournament. -------------------------------------------------- Dr. Stephen E. Roth ROTH@CANISIUS.EDU Dean of Student Services Canisius College (716) 888-2522 Buffalo, New York 14208 FAX (716) 888-3190 -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:22:41 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: Women's Midwest Alliance update The new Midwestern Collegiate Women's Hockey Alliance (MCWHA) will be made up of the following teams from Minnesota and Wisconsin: Augsburg (varsity) St.Cloud State Carleton St.Mary's Gustavus Adolphus St.Olaf Minnesota Wisconsin Minnesota-Duluth Wisconsin-Eau Claire St.Catherine/St.Thomas Wisconsin-River Falls This season the league will have one varsity program at Augsburg and the other teams will be club programs. I have updated the Women's College Ice Hockey Directory with this new league (available in the Hockey-L archives: WOMEN DIRINFO). BTW the directory now has email addresses for most of the ECAC League teams and several other teams. The Women's Composite Schedule will hopefully start having some of these MCWHA team's schedules soon (available in the Hockey-L archives: 9697WCMP SCHEDULE). BTW one of the 3 Nations Tournament games between the USA and Finland will take place at St.Lawrence on Tuesday, October 22nd at 7:30 pm. The Women's Standings will also probably contain the Midwest Alliance standings this season (available in the Hockey-L archives: 9697WCNF STAND). _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 02:00:55 -0400 From: "Joan M. King" Subject: World Cup Hockey Mike Machnik wrote: "We have a policy on HOCKEY-L that the exploits of college hockey players after they leave college are generally off topic. But this is an exploit that has direct relevance to the world of college hockey and US hockey as a whole." "Tonight in Montreal, Team USA defeated Team Canada, 5-2, in Game 3 to take the inaugural World Cup. Over the history of the sport of ice hockey, very few international tournaments have ever been held that qualify as true world championships involving the very best each country had to offer." --------------------------------------------------------------------- This World Cup for ice hockey is not the real inaugural World Cup. Women have been playing in their World Ice Hockey Cup for several years now with Canada always winning. When I saw the U.S. men's hockey team win, it gave me hope that the U.S. women will finally beat Canada to win their World Cup coming soon in Kitchner or Toronto, Canada. Joan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:03:24 -0400 From: Paul Gentile Subject: World Cup Hockey -Reply >>> Mike Machnik wrote: >>> "Tonight in Montreal, Team USA defeated Team Canada, 5-2, in >>> Game 3 to take the inaugural World Cup. Over the history of the >>> sport of ice hockey, very few international tournaments have ever > Joan M. King 09/19/96 02:00am >>> > This World Cup for ice hockey is not the real inaugural World Cup. > Women have been playing in their World Ice Hockey Cup for ... The European mens teams have been playing World Cup hockey for many years now. In fact, the U.S. and Canada used to send teams but stopped in the late 50's/early 60's. Once upon a time, U.S. and Canada used to send student teams (100% amateur) and they used to win handily. Then the European teams started to improve with national squads full of "military" players. Of course, these skaters only real responsiblility was to play hockey and these squads became pretty powerful as we know. Well, our North American teams wanted to send some professional players because our student teams were getting beat, however Russia, Czechoslavakia, etc. wouldn't allow this .... claiming their teams were "amateurs". So we stopped sending teams. However, they've still been competing all these years and just recently, we've re-entered the tournament. I'd be interested in any other history posters may have on these "student" teams we used to send. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:46:27 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: USA Women: Three Nations schedule Three Nations Tournament (Team Canada Women, USA, Finland) Sun Oct. 20: Canada vs. Finland at Ottawa Mon Oct. 21: U.S. vs. Canada at Cornwall Tue Oct. 22: Finland vs. U.S. at Canton, N.Y. (St.Lawrence Univ:7:30 pm) Wed Oct. 23: Canada vs. Finland at Kingston Thu Oct. 24: U.S. vs. Canada at Smiths Falls Fri Oct. 25: Finland vs. U.S. at Ottawa Sun Oct. 27: Championship final at Ottawa Civic Centre An article on this event is available from the Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/thestar/editorial/sports/960919SPB4_SP-HOCKEY19.html and features a summary of the Canadian preparation. So, if you want to see what AJ has been up to (back to the gym) ... _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 17:04:02 +0000 From: Lee Urton Subject: US College Hockey Online announced! For IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Lee Urton, Media Relations September 20, 1996 U.S. College Hockey Online PHONE: (612) 379-7555 FAX: (612) 379-7733 EMAIL: info@uscollegehockey.com *** U.S. COLLEGE HOCKEY ONLINE DEBUTS *** ALLIED WITH TV'S COLLEGE HOCKEY USA & TOP JOURNALISTS MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 19 - U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO), the World Wide Web's newest college hockey resource, debuts today, promising to be the premiere source of timely college hockey information for media and fans alike. U.S. College Hockey Online supersedes the successful and respected College Hockey Home Page. USCHO's expanded resources include timely news and features; standings, schedules, scores, and information for every Division I school and conference; and alliances with major audio/visual media from around the nation. The Web site is free of charge and accessible to anyone with Internet access and a World Wide Web browser, at the address: http://www.uscollegehockey.com COLLEGE HOCKEY USA, JIM RICH, & FRANK MAZZOCCO FEATURED U.S. College Hockey Online is also the home of the official Web site for College Hockey USA, the national weekly television show dedicated to recapping the week in college hockey. "I have been very careful of what organizations I have allowed our show to be associated with," said College Hockey USA anchor and headman Jim Rich. "I really like the work and effort U.S. College Hockey Online has done to make themselves the best site on the Internet for college hockey. "I think this is something that is sorely needed for the fans of college hockey across the country," Rich added. "I make covering the sport my job, and sometimes it takes me a couple of days to find out who beat who. Now with this service, people can instantly find out what's happening." Rich will write a weekly column for U.S. College Hockey Online, "Ask Jim Rich." Readers will be able to submit questions to Rich, with several to be selected and answered in the column. The site will also contain the weekly CHUSA Top Ten poll and other information dealing with the show. The link between the television show and the Web site is believed to be the first of its kind in the world of college hockey. Along with Rich, Midwest Sports Channel hockey broadcaster Frank Mazzocco also joins the U.S. College Hockey Online staff. "I'm thrilled to be a part of this Web site, which is one of the best uses of the Internet anywhere," Mazzocco said. "College hockey fans, myself included, are devoted to the sport and crave up-to-date information. This is where it will be." Mazzocco will preview and review the top games in Division I hockey in a special "Game of the Week" section. "By designating a national game of the week, we're helping to elevate college hockey to a coast-to-coast sport," Mazzocco continued. "There are many marvelous players and exciting teams in the country. When fans get out of their regional shells and experience other leagues, teams and players, they realize how truly grand and colorful the sport is. That's the excitement we want to capture and convey." USCHO is also proud to present Around the Rinks, the nation's first and only national college hockey talk show. Host Adam Wodon, play-by-play announcer for Princeton University and longtime freelance writer in the ECAC, presents this innovative 30-minute program each week over the Internet using RealAudio technology. The show debuts on September 23rd. Around the Rinks discusses topics that cannot be heard on any other national talk show. Listeners will hear firsthand from the top people in college hockey, using a format that enables people from around the globe to hear the show whenever they please. "I often hear the frustrations of displaced alumni who can't hear games on the radio or get scores on local television, let alone the discussion of news and issues," said Wodon. "College hockey fans are probably the most net-aware sports fans already, partly because they have to be. We hope to reach them and everyone else, and expand on that." ALL THE BASES COVERED U.S. College Hockey Online will also feature extensive regional coverage of all four major Division I hockey conferences by experienced correspondents located in the regions they cover. Reporting on the CCHA is Kirk Koennecke, former Miami and Ohio State assistant coach. "This is a wonderful opportunity for online members to read about their favorite teams from the perspective of a beat writer who is covering their own favorite turf," Koennecke said. "There are a myriad of occurrences which decide the fate of your average Division I hockey team. As a writer, I want to bring those subtleties to light for the fans, as well as the critics." University of Wisconsin-River Falls Sports Information Director Jim Thies provides coverage of the WCHA, longtime Rensselaer radio voice Jayson Moy watches the ECAC, and freelance writer Dave Hendrickson brings in-depth analysis of Hockey East. The debut of USCHO features an interview by Hendrickson with newly departed Boston University All-American Chris O'Sullivan. Each writer will produce a weekly preview of his respective conference, and every other week he will add a feature article on some aspect of college hockey. Each week, there will be both a Western and an Eastern conference feature available at midweek. In addition to the conference coverage, U.S. College Hockey Online will also cover the latest breaking news in the sport. "This is where the online medium is most successful," said Deron Treadwell, editor of U.S. College Hockey Online. "We plan to have news, previews and articles available in a timely and convenient fashion." SCORES, STATISTICS AND SCHEDULES Through U.S. College Hockey Online, followers of the sport will have immediate access to all the statistics and scores available from across the nation. Individual team schedules and conference standings will be automatically updated with the most recent scores available. USCHO's front page will feature a score ticker containing the latest results. The site will also contain an easily accessible, comprehensive listing of Division I college hockey television broadcasts. Visitors will find updated team and conference statistics, box scores, and other information. History will be an important part of the site's offering; USCHO will provide immediate access to all Division I conference standings going back to 1986-87. NEW HEIGHTS With U.S. College Hockey Online, the creators of the former College Hockey Home Page take coverage of college hockey to new heights. The College Hockey Home Page debuted in 1995 under the management of Tim Brule and Lee Urton and quickly became one of the top sources of information for followers of college hockey. Brule and Urton, who will serve respectively as owner and media relations contact of USCHO and are joined by Mike Machnik on technical support, have brought together a number of well-respected college hockey journalists from across the country to ensure USCHO's success. "We're very excited about the debut of U.S. College Hockey Online and the opportunity to bring to the college hockey community a new way for people to follow their favorite sport," said Brule. "We hope people will check back regularly to stay up on the latest news and to discover the new things we have planned." ------------------------------ From MAINE.MAINE.EDU!owner-HOCKEY-D Tue Oct 1 05:14:18 1996 Status: RO ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:49:21 -0400 From: Howard Quimby Subject: UNH kicks off Hanson Bros. at Midnight Madness The Men's and Women's UNH Hockey teams kicked off the 1996-97 campaign last night/this morning with their first Midnight Madness. The evening began around 10:30 with Wild E. Cat skating around and tossing pucks and stadium cups into the dancing crowd. The crowd grew slowly as a DJ from WERZ in a full tux took the ice on skates. He called out some raffle ticket winners and one guy went down to the ice to do the crowd call. (Blindfolded and on all fours, the crowd directed him to a prize envelope located on the ice). The other raffle winner took a shot at 2 round trip tix to Orlando like "shoot the puck" for the car. He missed that, but got to shoot at the open net for a t-shirt and some other prizes. At 11:00, the lights went out and the Zamboni took the ice as three spotlights focused your attention on it. The Zamboni stopped, the front opened, and the Hanson Brothers dropped out! That was cool. They grabbed water-ski tow lines off the back of the Zamboni and performed various "stunts" as they were towed around the arena. The lights came back on and a game between the Hanson Brothers and local media took place. The Hanson's, Wild E. Cat, someone else and goalie Alicia Roberts from the Women's Team took on Barry Scanlion and Mike Wolflein from Foster's Daily Democrat, Jason Grucel from The New Hampshire, someone else, and Pete "Five- Hole" Webster from the Wildcat Sports network. Channel 9's Charlie Shermann was a no-show. Friend of UNH Hockey Mark Houle was the ref. The Hanson's, foil knuckles and all, took cheap shots at their opponents as they were introduced and made comments like "nice helmet" as they cracked their sticks across Grucel's face mask. :) The game began with the Hanson's breaking out and scoring quickly. On the next face off, Houle couldn't get them lined up and they had some words. One of the brother's pulled Houle's pants down to his ankles and as Mark tried to recover, a pie hit his face. Houle finally got his pants back on, cleared his eyes and play resumed. The "Media" team broke in on Roberts and everyone piled up beside the net as the puck squirted out in front. Rather than cover up, Roberts took the puck the length of the ice to score. (No one realized she was going in for the score until she was at center-ice). After the goal, Grucel had some words for one of the Hanson Brothers, pushed him, and then realized all three of them were looking at him. He took off in a panic down the ice with the Hanson's in pursuit until he got stuck in the corner and a melee ensued. Houle ejected the Brothers for fighting and declared the game a forfeit as Grucel lay lifeless in the corner. Grucel's teammates locked their sticks in his skates and dragged him off the ice. After the game, the Hanson's mingled through the crowd, flirted with the coeds and signed autographs. At 12:01, UNH's hockey theme song "Black Betty" blared through the arena, the approximately 1500 on hand stood and cheered and the Men's and Women's teams took the ice. They did a quick skate around and then the lights went out. The teams left the ice and then spotlights moved all around the arena with anticipatory music. The spotlights then converged on the corner where the women were lined up to take the ice once again. One by one, the players were introduced. They skated to center-ice, paused, and lined up on the blue line with the spotlights on them. The same was done with the Men's team. After all the players were introduced, the music changed once again and the PA directed everyone's attention to the West end of the arena. Still with only the spotlights active, the Women's 1996 National Championship banner was unfurled. The place went crazy and everyone was on their feet. That was awesome! This was certainly a good way to start the year. The men started practice after that. They had a blue vs. white shootout (Matile makes it look sooooo easy to stop those pucks) and a couple guys had some fancy moves that were real crowd-pleasers. Then they scrimmaged. The fish flew for the first goal and the music played when each team scored. And I thought it was particularly cool that they had a fish for both the first white score and the first blue score. :) 1:00 AM rolled around and one more summer was officially declared "done!" \_ \_ \_ Howard M. Quimby howard@natural.com \_\_\_ \_ Natural Intelligence, Inc. Tel (617) 876-7680 x1208 \_ \__ \_ Cambridge, MA Fax (617) 492-7425 \_ \_ \_ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:10:31 -0600 From: Greenie Subject: Re: UNH Midnight Madness Just wanted to add that I think it's great to know that UNH not only put both men's and women's teams together for Midnight Madness, but that they also introduced the women (and raised the banner) -- first. I now have a tremendous amount of respect for both hockey programs, as well as the athletic department of UNH. greenie S P O O N ! ! (go BU) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 09:09:02 -0400 From: Howard Quimby Subject: UNH Women -- Championship Banner Just to clarify -- The banner unveiled at Midnight Madness for the UNH Women says "ECAC Champions" rather than National Champions. I consider them the same thing where the women are concerned, but I wanted to clear up any confusion. Howard Quimby - howard@natural.com |\ ( ) Natural Intelligence, Inc. _________|_\_________________________ Tel 617.876.7680 x1208 ----- -_-_ Fax 617.492.7425 -- - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 18:03:43 -0400 From: Richard Hungerford Subject: Women's World Championship schedule Take 2: the gold and bronze medal game times are now correct below. Kitchener, Ontario, Canada March 31st to April 6th 1997 POOL A W L T P Overall POOL B W L T P Overall Canada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 USA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sweden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Russia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Finland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Switzerland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Norway 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TEAMS TIME RINK Mon Mar 31st USA __ - Norway __ 4:00 pm Kitchener Sweden __ - Finland __ 4:00 pm Brampton China __ - Russia __ 7:00 pm Hamilton Canada __ - Switzerland __ 7:30 pm Kitchener Tue Apr 1st Sweden __ - Norway __ 4:00 pm Kitchener China __ - Switzerland __ 7:00 pm Mississauga USA __ - Finland __ 7:00 pm Brantford Canada __ - Russia __ 7:30 pm Kitchener Thu Apr 3rd Finland __ - Norway __ 4:00 pm Kitchener USA __ - Sweden __ 7:00 pm London Russia __ - Switzerland __ 7:00 pm North York Canada __ - China __ 7:30 pm Kitchener Fri Apr 4th 3rd Pool B __ - 4th Pool A __ 4:00 pm B3-A4 Kitchener 3rd Pool A __ - 4th Pool B __ 7:30 pm A3-B4 Kitchener Sat Apr 5th 1st Pool A __ - 2nd Pool B __ 1:00 pm A1-B2 Kitchener 1st Pool B __ - 2nd Pool A __ 5:00 pm B1-A2 Kitchener Sun Apr 6th Los B3-A4 __ - Los A3-B4 __ 8:00 am 7th pl Kitchener Win B3-A4 __ - Win A3-B4 __ 12:00 pm 5th pl Kitchener Los A1-B2 __ - Los B1-A2 __ 4:00 pm Bronze Kitchener Win A1-B2 __ - Win B1-A2 __ 8:00 pm Gold Kitchener Canada, USA & China qualify due to finishing 1-3 in the 1996 Pacific Championship. Sweden, Russia, Finland, Norway & Switzerland qualify as top five finishers at 1996 European Championship. Seeds: Canada (1) - USA (2) - Sweden (3) - China (4) - Russia (5) - Finland (6) - Norway (7) - Switzerland (8). I don't see anyone relishing the idea of playing the 6th seed! _____________ / good shooting hungerf _____________/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 10:56:20 -0500 From: Carol S White Subject: Finalists for Minnesota Women's Hockey coach According to an item in Sid Hartman's column in the Sunday Star Tribune: Former Olympic, Gopher and NHL coach Herb Brooks is one of four finalists for the job of women's hockey coach at Minnesota. The other candidates are Bethel coach Bill Butters, former Burnsville coach Tom Osiecki and Karen Kay, who coached the University of New Hampshire to the women's national title. Brooks is the leading candidate and can have the job if he wants it. The Gopher's coach, who will be paid about $65,000, will be selected this week. -Carol GO Gophers!!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:06:46 -0500 From: Carol S White Subject: Correction: MN Women's coaching finalists Today in the Minneapolis Star Tribune in Sid Hartman's column we find the following: Former Gophers, U.S. Olympic and NHL coach Herb Brooks says there isn't any truth to the report that he is a candidate for the Gopher's women's hockey coaching job. "I've visited with (women's A.D.) Chris Voelz and she did ask me to become a candidate," Brooks said. "I don't have any interest in coaching the women but I have encouraged Chris to develop a women's program and have told her that I would help in any way I can. I did recommend Bill Butters for the job." Top officials of the University apparently were led to believe that Brooks was a finalist for the position along with Butters, Tom Osiecki, and Karen Kay. My comment: I must say that I am relieved, as I really couldn't see Herbie coaching a women's team! As always, the Scud disclaimer applies to all information in Hartman's column. :-) -Carol GO Gophers!!! ------------------------------