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[imafrshmn]

hockey w/o checking isn't hockey.

Of course it's hockey. It's just not as much fun to watch. (Probably not as much fun to play either, assuming you know how to take a check.)

A lot of the women's team players will tell you that they would prefer hitting, with some of them having grown up playing with boys.

[dag14]

Really good women's hockey IS fun to watch, as anyone who watched Cornell's post season games last spring could tell you.  It is different from men's hockey so those used to the men's game might not appreciate the game at first.  I would encourage every Cornell men's ice hockey fan who can get to a women's game to give it a try.  Some of the best teams in the country play in the ECAC so you can see good competition as well as our outstanding team.  Don't knock it until you've tried it!  And if you have watched Cornell women's games in the past and are basing your opinion on those experiences, you really need to see this team in action because it just isn't the same.  I have been a fan who attended games because I felt I needed to support the players.  I still support the players, but now I look forward to the games because this team is fun to watch.

[Trotsky]

Strongly agree with the previous poster.  Watching Cornell womens hockey in the 90's was brutally painful because (1) we were bad and (2) the game was bad -- there were about a dozen high quality athletes in the Entire World.  Watching last year's team was a revelation -- the quality of play had improved by roughly the difference between watching 8 and 18 years old play.  It was extremely good hockey (albeit now a top notch program in a playoff environment).

I encourage everybody who may have had crappy experiences in the past to try it again -- it's greatly improved.

[RatushnyFan]

-- there were about a dozen high quality athletes in the Entire World.

And we had one of them, no?  Kim Ratushny.