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Message: [QUOTE="RSTuthill, post: 4622284, member: 7322"] I was a fan of UConn hockey when they were in the ECAC East. In 1991 they went down to Hamden HS and beat Quinnipiac 14-2 with Sean Walsh scoring a double hat trick. In 1994 QU hired Rand Pecknold, an assistant at Conn College. In 1995 they hired Jack McDonald the AD at University of Denver. Then QU President John Lahey set forth a new vision for Q athletics to move towards D-1 with hockey as its primary featured sport. When the MAAC was formed, Holy Cross won the first championship and UConn the second. But QU won three after that. The rest is history, but this should serve to define how far they have come in three decades. A very very long way. Our Huskies have come almost as far. (And incidentally Cav played for a much better team than Rand, a team that almost always beat UConn.) Nonetheless in many respects it has been a much tougher road for the Huskies with football and basketball ahead of them in institutional priorities. But UConn is getting there. Keep the faith. Keep the faith. [/QUOTE]