It's clear to me that the citizens of Anchorage simply don't deserve Division 1 college hockey. It's a shame. Because Division 1 college hockey BUILT the rest of the hockey in this town. There were a couple of pioneers who got youth hockey going in this city but it didn't blossom until kids from all over Canada came to UAA to play hockey and decided to stay. The ADN's favorite and much ballyhooed Aces team simply wouldn't exist had former UAA players not started it. Aces succeed where UAA doesn't because college hockey isn't a game for drunken douche-bag fans who need an outlet for the misery they repress all week at their crappy jobs. D1 hockey is the last of the big college sports which is uncorrupted by the profit motive and apparently in Alaska that's enough to end you. Anchorage has the worst sports fans of any American city. I miss much about the city I lived in for 37 years but each day (since leaving in January to get cancer treatment) I find reasons to never come back.