I have been a huge hockey fan since the days of Keon, Bower, Mahovolich and the rest of the Stanley cup winning teams that dominated all my free time during my youth. In 1985 I had an opportunity to join a fantasy league started by Scott Abbot of Trivia Pursuit fame. It was appropriately called the Token Hockey League. What a drug I found this to be, as it consumed me entirely. The following year I started my own league which is still active today, the Alpha Hockey League. The early years were truly a labour of love as all the stats were done manually, having to wait till Tuesdays, so we could get the numbers from the paper. Now i am talking of 8 to 10 hours of intense number crunching to get the weekly numbers. Where was Fantrax when we began. We had a GM who was a semi geek on the laptop and he wrote us a program to sort the numbers by 1992. Just to download the stats over a 9000 baud modem was a 1 hour endeavour, but it beat the 10 hours that it used to take. Truthfully I miss the old days of a handful of managers getting together every Monday night and crunching the numbers, our anticipation like that of a five year old Xmas morning. Flag to the present and what used to take hours is now mere seconds, goals are scored ang you can see the standings change before your eyes. Thank the hockey gods for technology.