On 4/12/13 9:19 AM, True North wrote:
On Friday, 12 April 2013 09:27:25 UTC-3, F.O.A.D. wrote:
This Saturday, Yale vs Quinnipiac for the U.S. national collegiate

hockey championship. Both teams are "at home" in New Haven County,

which, for the moment, is the U.S. college hockey capitol of the universe!



QU is 3-0 against Yale this year, but I think the Elis may have a few

tricks up their sleeves this time!



Quinnipiac probably isn't a college you've heard of...from Wiki:



Quinnipiac University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational

university located in Hamden, Connecticut, United States at the foot of

Sleeping Giant State Park. The university grants undergraduate,

graduate, and professional degrees through its College of Arts and

Sciences; School of Business and Engineering; School of Communications;

School of Health Sciences; School of Law; School of Nursing and School

of Education. U.S. News & World Report's 2013 America's Best Colleges

issue has ranked Quinnipiac University first among northern universities

with master's degree programs as having made the most promising and

innovative changes in academics, faculty, campus or facilities.

Quinnipiac is home to the well-known Quinnipiac University Polling

Institute.

University hockey can be exciting, skilled and competitive.
Last month, our local school St Mary's, lost out in the final game of the Canadian University Hockey Championship to rival University of New Brunswick.
The games were played way out in Saskatchewan.
Big hockey excitement around here is our local major Junior team run at the Quecec League championship and then the memorial Cup against top teams from the Ontario and Western Leagues.
BTW.. a player on St Mary's was named MVP for the Canadian University Association and we have a couple players on the Mooseheads who topped the Junior list. Lots of good talent on display.



I like ice skating and the pickup hockey games we'd have on winter
weekends, but I was never a good enough ice skater to even consider
trying out for the high school team. We had a low-level pro team in New
Haven in those days called the New Haven Blades, part of the Eastern
Hockey League. But the real competition back then was collegiate, and
Yale had and has a gorgeous ice rink. Tickets were cheap then, don't
know about these days.

Pro hockey for me these days is too "Americanized," with serious
violence instead of sportsmanship. The only two pro team sports I will
even consider watching are baseball and basketball and, of course,
girls' beach volleyball.