April 7, 2005
Eight Notes About Sweaters Spotted in the Crowd

• Nearly every sweater from the four major conferences was represented in the crowd, plus Army, Bentley, Bemidji State, Niagara and RIT. The only ones from the CCHA, ECACHL, Hockey East and WCHA that we didn't see were Brown, Ferris State, Harvard, Merrimack, Minnesota State Mankato, Northeastern, St. Lawrence, Union, Vermont, Western Michigan, Yale.

• Among our favorite club teams represented were Wake Forest, Iowa State, Marquette, Fordham, Syracuse and Georgia.

• Two third jerseys that caught our eye: a Jason Krog Anaheim model and a Rob Blake No. 4 from Colorado.

• Our favorite personalized college sweaters: BU's Tommi Degerman, MSU's John-Michael Liles, North Dakota's Josh Siembida, Minnesota's Andy Brink and UNH's Patrick Foley (who we're told just got a job with the Boston Red Sox, so it probably wasn't him).

• The best of the pro jerseys we saw: a vintage Canucks sweater, a vintage North Stars, and a few of Rick Nash's No. 61.

• A couple of major junior fans donned Sudbury Wolves and Windsor Spitfires jerseys. No, you can't have our players.

• You just can't escape Buckeye football in this town. One sweater we saw: a No. 47 scarlet and white football jersey (the Bucks' A.J. Hawk).

• Unquestionably the ugliest jersey in attendance was Wisconsin's Big Bucky, circa 1998. Runner-up status goes to the old triangle designs from UMass.