From Placid to Albany

I have a feeling Messers. Whalen and Berge may have ghost-written this sentence for a small fee, but this was the closing thought in the weekly Hockey column in the Boston Globe today:

"Sorry to hear the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference will be pulling its annual hockey playoffs out of Lake Placid and taking its fine show to Albany. Taking a tournament out of Lake Placid is like pulling Santa out of the North Pole. As for Albany, that's like moving Santa to Moosejaw."

Spelling quibble: Whelan (but pronounced like "Wailin'"

Not sure significance to attach to the comment appearing in a Boston newspaper...

Sorry for the spelling mistake.

I just thought an ECAC comment by a prominent hockey scribe in what is normally an NHL notes column might be interesting to some folks. Guess not.

Mark wrote:

I just thought an ECAC comment by a prominent hockey scribe in what is normally an NHL notes column might be interesting to some folks.

Oh, certainly (although not too surprising, as the Globe is at least somewhat college-hockey-friendly, as I understand). I was just referring to the irony that the ECACs were in Boston before they were in Placid.

The best revenge will be to pack the Knick with so many Cornell fans that from the inside you would swear you were in Ithaca.