Hosts?

Who are the hosts of the 2007 East Regionals in Rochester?

2007
• East Regional: Blue Cross Arena, Rochester, N.Y. (March 23-24)

From what I've seen, the ECAC is hosting, with no team identified. Hopefully they'd send us there for attendance purposes anyway, but it'd be nicer to be assured of going to Rochester if we made the tournament.

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

From what I've seen, the ECAC is hosting, with no team identified. Hopefully they'd send us there for attendance purposes anyway, but it'd be nicer to be assured of going to Rochester if we made the tournament.[/q]

Back in June 2003 the ECAC announced it was hosting the 2007 NCAA regional not, say, Cornell (95 miles away) or Colgate (long haul) or Syracuse (oops, no team).

[hockey.ecac.com]

Don't get your hopes up hoping they'd seed Cornell in the region for attendance reasons. There's so much pressure on the NCAA for other things, starting with trying to avoid early round in-conference matchups, especially when the WCHA has half the teams in the tournament and Hockey East has 3 or 4 more, or so it seems. Remember how Schafer lit off at the NCAA for giving Cornell a tough first-round opponent in the 2003 tournament, done in order to avoid some conference matchups for the WCHA. So this year the NCAA pays attention to that, too.

But one inviolate rule is that the host school of an NCAA regional gets to the stay in the region. It has to, of course, make the tournament, but this is McKee's senior year (let's hope he wants the education more than the turn-pro-early payout), and Cornell will be coming off that awesome Final Four appearance led by All-America forward Matt Moulson, right?

Has an undrafted college player ever left early to sign a pro contract?

[Q]Greg Berge Wrote:

Has an undrafted college player ever left early to sign a pro contract? [/q]

Good question. I know a couple Cornell players left to go back and play junior hockey when they didn't get enough (or any) playing time -- I'm trying to think of one guy's name, early 1970s, something Nattress or Natrass -- and they would likely have been undrafted had they made the pros. I'm sure there are examples, just as there are walk-ons making the Oklahoma football. The pros draft way more players than ever can play in all of pro hockey. Still and all, it's possible someone was a really late bloomer.

sure....last year's hobey winner. Peter Sejna signed with the Blues after his junior year, but wasn't an NHL draft pick.

[Q]Greg Berge Wrote:

Has an undrafted college player ever left early to sign a pro contract? [/q]
RPI has had a few, Brad Tapper in 2000 and Adam Oates and George Servinis after the 1985 championship come to mind.