Alumni in the Pros_ March 2011

Rita
Missed that. Since Greening is now with the O-Sens, I switched to that game, He is indeed playing with Spezza (no joke there) and in the last 8 min of the 2nd period had at least 3 shifts.

Trotsky

Rita
Missed that. Since Greening is now with the O-Sens, I switched to that game, He is indeed playing with Spezza (no joke there) and in the last 8 min of the 2nd period had at least 3 shifts.

Since you are a (spits) Caps fan, you should be sure to catch the replay of Ovie's ot goal tonight. It was very painful to watch (but gorgeous).

billhoward
Rita, get over it. For Hartford & Whalers fans, the roof fell in twice.

RichH

billhoward
Rita, get over it. For Hartford & Whalers fans, the roof fell in twice.

I speak for a hell of a lot of Whaler fans when I say this: Fuck off, Bill. All she said is that she doesn't have a primary team to root for.

Trotsky

RichH

billhoward
Rita, get over it. For Hartford & Whalers fans, the roof fell in twice.

I speak for a hell of a lot of Whaler fans when I say this: Fuck off, Bill. All she said is that she doesn't have a primary team to root for.

Still the greatest logo in hockey history:

hartford-whalers.jpg

Rita

Trotsky

RichH

billhoward
Rita, get over it. For Hartford & Whalers fans, the roof fell in twice.

I speak for a hell of a lot of Whaler fans when I say this: Fuck off, Bill. All she said is that she doesn't have a primary team to root for.

Still the greatest logo in hockey history:

hartford-whalers.jpg

I'm partial to this logo; because it was the logo on my first hockey jersey. However, I had #35 Cap Raedar's jersey. I still get nostalgic in the spring when Cap does the color commentary for some the the NC$$ regional games.

Trotsky
Still the greatest logo in hockey history

Trotsky

RichH

billhoward
Rita, get over it. For Hartford & Whalers fans, the roof fell in twice.

I speak for a hell of a lot of Whaler fans when I say this: Fuck off, Bill. All she said is that she doesn't have a primary team to root for.

Still the greatest logo in hockey history:

hartford-whalers.jpg

RichH

Trotsky
Still the greatest logo in hockey history

A terrific look at the evolution of that logo through the design process (via sketches and notes from the artist) is included midway through the following article:

[www.icethetics.info]

Rita
I'm partial to this logo; because it was the logo on my first hockey jersey. However, I had #35 Cap Raedar's jersey. I still get nostalgic in the spring when Cap does the color commentary for some the the NC$$ regional games.

Greening, meanwhile, is a tantalizing prospect. He looks even bigger than the 6-foot-3, 211-lbs. he’s listed at, and he can fly, as the new fastest lap record he set at the team’s skills contest can attest.

Indeed, he has power forward written all over him.

Also 24, Greening played on the Senators top line in Tuesday’s game versus the Bruins, and he did not look out of place.

How about that one shift he had in the first period? With the puck in the neutral zone, Greening made a nifty little move to get around Brad Marchand, who was trying to hit him and wound up sliding into the boards. Instead, Greening then started a pretty three-way passing play with Jason Spezza and Sergei Gonchar that resulted in a scoring chance for the Senators.

A few seconds later, Greening made a great defensive play, getting his stick on Patrice Bergeron’s shot at an open side of the net.

ebilmes
More on Greening:

Greening, meanwhile, is a tantalizing prospect. He looks even bigger than the 6-foot-3, 211-lbs. he’s listed at, and he can fly, as the new fastest lap record he set at the team’s skills contest can attest.

Indeed, he has power forward written all over him.

Also 24, Greening played on the Senators top line in Tuesday’s game versus the Bruins, and he did not look out of place.

How about that one shift he had in the first period? With the puck in the neutral zone, Greening made a nifty little move to get around Brad Marchand, who was trying to hit him and wound up sliding into the boards. Instead, Greening then started a pretty three-way passing play with Jason Spezza and Sergei Gonchar that resulted in a scoring chance for the Senators.

A few seconds later, Greening made a great defensive play, getting his stick on Patrice Bergeron’s shot at an open side of the net.

C'est what?

Jason Spezza’s wingers on the Sens’ top line Tuesday — Bobby Butler and Colin Greening — have a combined 24 games of NHL experience and eight years of college between them.

“Lot of college guys around here now,” Spezza said, as he glanced around the Senators dressing room Tuesday morning. “I’m the one with the OHL education. We’ll see how it is.”

Jim Hyla
Via ECAC site, article on NHL.com Network about Greening's first goal.[[i]/quote]
"Then again, storytelling should come easily to Greening — his father, Fred, worked for the CBC for more than 40 years, most recently as a documentary producer for Land and Sea. And as a former TV and radio reporter in St. John's, he learned the value of a good quote, a quality he's tried to instill in his hockey-playing son.

"He’s been in the trade long enough to know the tricks of the trade," Greening said of his dad. "He’s always big on not giving the same old jargon, the ‘same old hockey talk’ as he (puts) it. Sometimes, when you’re tired and you come in after a period and you’ve got to do an interview, that’s all you can muster. But whenever I say the same stuff the other people say, he’ll tell me.

"(Dad) always talks about giving specifics and examples. It makes for better television, I guess.[/i]"

I'm definitely looking forward to more Colin Greening interviews .

Josh '99
It was also noted that the Sens have a fairly significant number of players who played four years of NCAA hockey, including Greening, Butler, Ryan Shannon (BC), Jesse Winchester (Colgate), Erik Condra (Notre Dame), and Brian Elliott (Wisconsin).

Josh '99
The Rangers' broadcasters have had some good things to say about Greening during tonight's game in Ottawa. Colin continues to skate with Jason Spezza and Bobby Butler on the Sens' top line, but hasn't had much luck on offense tonight (nor have most of the res of the Sens against Henrik Lundqvist), and was IMO at fault for the Rangers' third goal. It was also noted that the Sens have a fairly significant number of players who played four years of NCAA hockey, including Greening, Butler, Ryan Shannon (BC), Jesse Winchester (Colgate), Erik Condra (Notre Dame), and Brian Elliott (Wisconsin).

scoop85

Josh '99
The Rangers' broadcasters have had some good things to say about Greening during tonight's game in Ottawa. Colin continues to skate with Jason Spezza and Bobby Butler on the Sens' top line, but hasn't had much luck on offense tonight (nor have most of the res of the Sens against Henrik Lundqvist), and was IMO at fault for the Rangers' third goal. It was also noted that the Sens have a fairly significant number of players who played four years of NCAA hockey, including Greening, Butler, Ryan Shannon (BC), Jesse Winchester (Colgate), Erik Condra (Notre Dame), and Brian Elliott (Wisconsin).

Elliott was recently traded to Colorado

George64
Article about Ryan O'Byrne's injury on Edmonton Journal website.

billhoward

George64
Article about Ryan O'Byrne's injury on Edmonton Journal website.

100 stitches on the inside and outside of his cheek. O'Byrne on the upside: “Could have been worse, it could have been my neck, too."

“They said the skin is still fragile, and if I took another hard hit it might just burst open again. I’ll probably be wearing the cage for the rest of the year. It’s not too bad; I played college hockey, so I’m used to the cage a bit.”

RatushnyFan
As I was hoping, and expecting given his recent play, Colin Greening was recalled by the Senators today.

I was somewhat surprised that they sent him down, just for a game. At this point in the season, my question is whether the risk of additional rookie fatigue outweighs the benefit of the experience from an additional AHL game.

RatushnyFan
As I was hoping, and expecting given his recent play, Colin Greening was recalled by the Senators today.

I was somewhat surprised that they sent him down, just for a game. At this point in the season, my question is whether the risk of additional rookie fatigue outweighs the benefit of the experience from an additional AHL game.

RatushnyFan
As I was hoping, and expecting given his recent play, Colin Greening was recalled by the Senators today.

I was somewhat surprised that they sent him down, just for a game. At this point in the season, my question is whether the risk of additional rookie fatigue outweighs the benefit of the experience from an additional AHL game.

Rita
Colin gets his 3rd NHL assist tonight against the Devils in a 2-1 win.

RatushnyFan

Rita
Colin gets his 3rd NHL assist tonight against the Devils in a 2-1 win.

Can anyone find the obvious mistake in the box score.............first to get it right gets, well nothing.

RatushnyFan

Rita
Colin gets his 3rd NHL assist tonight against the Devils in a 2-1 win.

Can anyone find the obvious mistake in the box score.............first to get it right gets, well nothing.

Rita

RatushnyFan

Rita
Colin gets his 3rd NHL assist tonight against the Devils in a 2-1 win.

Can anyone find the obvious mistake in the box score.............first to get it right gets, well nothing.

I know, I know.

Colin was a minus 1 on the night.

He was on the ice for the NJ goal, but it looks like his assist (a secondary assist) was off a pass he made while he was going off on a line change, so "technically" he wasn't on the ice when the puck crossed the goal line. Thus the -1 and not 0 for the night.

I noticed that too, and watched the replay a few times and he wasn't in the post-goal hug, so that is the only way I can rationalize it.

Last time I did one of these ELF contests, it was LAX post-season (mid 2000's) and Hillel was sick of the seeding compliants so he said "first one to offer up insightful comments about this weekend's game gets Cornell Lax swag". I still wear my lax t-shirt .

Can I at least get some chocolate?

RatushnyFan
It seems like a silly rule then, no? I'd argue that the normal +/- rule should be adjusted when you're not on the ice for an assist. Give the assist man the + and take away the from the individual who just stepped on the ice.

Probably doesn't happen often enough to get too fussed about it, but I'm a man of principle. At least somewhat, particularly when it's convenient to my line of thinking.

NO CHOCOLATE FOR YOU!!

RatushnyFan

Rita
Colin gets his 3rd NHL assist tonight against the Devils in a 2-1 win.

Can anyone find the obvious mistake in the box score.............first to get it right gets, well nothing.

Head Coach Todd McLellan said. “It’s good for him to mentor a young player. He helps him through hard times and makes sure he’s rewarding him when he makes good plays. I think Cranky makes Brauny feel good when he’s on the ice with his physical presence. He’s a bright guy and he’s got a good memory. He knows the past he experienced.

Jim Hyla
Via ECAC site, article on Professor Murray teaching pupil Braun. I like this quote the best.

Head Coach Todd McLellan said. “It’s good for him to mentor a young player. He helps him through hard times and makes sure he’s rewarding him when he makes good plays. I think Cranky makes Brauny feel good when he’s on the ice with his physical presence. He’s a bright guy and he’s got a good memory. He knows the past he experienced.

Jordan 04
Sam Rosen mentioned Murray's 31st birthday during last night's game. I felt old.

Rita

Jordan 04
Sam Rosen mentioned Murray's 31st birthday during last night's game. I felt old.

Try watching Jeff Halpern (Habs, former Princeton Tiger) or Martin St. Louis play . I long for the days of watching games in section D (not a typo, I was a gradual student, and actually loved my seats in D).

Rita

Jordan 04
Sam Rosen mentioned Murray's 31st birthday during last night's game. I felt old.

Try watching Jeff Halpern (Habs, former Princeton Tiger) or Martin St. Louis play . I long for the days of watching games in section D (not a typo, I was a gradual student, and actually loved my seats in D).

Jim Hyla

Rita

Jordan 04
Sam Rosen mentioned Murray's 31st birthday during last night's game. I felt old.

Try watching Jeff Halpern (Habs, former Princeton Tiger) or Martin St. Louis play . I long for the days of watching games in section D (not a typo, I was a gradual student, and actually loved my seats in D).

I felt this was too good to pass up, but I can't come up with a good response. Any help out there?

Rita

Jim Hyla

Rita

Jordan 04
Sam Rosen mentioned Murray's 31st birthday during last night's game. I felt old.

Try watching Jeff Halpern (Habs, former Princeton Tiger) or Martin St. Louis play . I long for the days of watching games in section D (not a typo, I was a gradual student, and actually loved my seats in D).

I felt this was too good to pass up, but I can't come up with a good response. Any help out there?

Jim.. I was in graduate school a long time, thus the "gradual".....

Cactus12
moulson gets a ppg against the bruins with 2sec remaining in the 2nd period
(29 on the season)

jeff '84

Cactus12
moulson gets a ppg against the bruins with 2sec remaining in the 2nd period
(29 on the season)

Matt now gets credit for first period goal -- #30

ebilmes

Jason Spezza’s wingers on the Sens’ top line Tuesday — Bobby Butler and Colin Greening — have a combined 24 games of NHL experience and eight years of college between them.

“Lot of college guys around here now,” Spezza said, as he glanced around the Senators dressing room Tuesday morning. “I’m the one with the OHL education. We’ll see how it is.”

RatushnyFan
What did Dougie do to draw 17 PIM from Steve Ott? Atta boy!

Looks like a tough night on paper for Greening (-3), I didn't see the game though.

DisplacedCornellian

RatushnyFan
What did Dougie do to draw 17 PIM from Steve Ott? Atta boy!

Looks like a tough night on paper for Greening (-3), I didn't see the game though.

Ott was upset about


this hit by Murray, so he decided he wanted to


try to fight Douglas. Ott really is a punk.

Rita

DisplacedCornellian

RatushnyFan
What did Dougie do to draw 17 PIM from Steve Ott? Atta boy!

Looks like a tough night on paper for Greening (-3), I didn't see the game though.

Ott was upset about


this hit by Murray, so he decided he wanted to


try to fight Douglas. Ott really is a punk.

I watched the game with the Dallas announcers and they had a completely different take on that hit by Murray. They made comments like next season that hit should be illegal and they thought it was a dirty play on Murray. It looked fine to me; Murray made a play on the puck, make contact with puck, and his momentum of making that play put him in Eriksson's path. Eriksson needs to keep his head up and know if there are big, burly defensemen on the ice and play accordingly.

After that hit, Ott decided to fight Murray and got an extra 2 min for instigating and a 10 min misconduct.

Jordan 04
If anything Murray appears to pull his left side (shoulder and knee) away from the Eriksson in an effort to avoid contact. At worst, he keeps skating straight ahead -- he never moves a shoulder or knee towards the opponent.

Rita

Jordan 04
If anything Murray appears to pull his left side (shoulder and knee) away from the Eriksson in an effort to avoid contact. At worst, he keeps skating straight ahead -- he never moves a shoulder or knee towards the opponent.

I agree with you and ftyuv. However, if you were wearing green/black/gold glasses like Darryl Reaugh and his sidekick, you probably didn't see it that way. Heck, they even compared Murray with Bryan Marchment. Yes, if Murray is on the ice, you probably should have your head up, but the way Reaugh was talking, if you just tuned into your first game, you'd think Murray was a dirty player!

Josh '99

Rita

Jordan 04
If anything Murray appears to pull his left side (shoulder and knee) away from the Eriksson in an effort to avoid contact. At worst, he keeps skating straight ahead -- he never moves a shoulder or knee towards the opponent.

I agree with you and ftyuv. However, if you were wearing green/black/gold glasses like Darryl Reaugh and his sidekick, you probably didn't see it that way. Heck, they even compared Murray with Bryan Marchment. Yes, if Murray is on the ice, you probably should have your head up, but the way Reaugh was talking, if you just tuned into your first game, you'd think Murray was a dirty player!

God, really? That's a horrible comparison. Marchment was to knees what Scott Stevens was to heads.

sah67
Doesn't really count as the "pros", and I'm not sure if it's been mentioned already, but Topher Scott is apparently now a "Volunteer Assistant Coach" for the Miami men's team:

[www.ccha.com]

Here's a photo he posted on Facebook of him hoisting the CCHA championship trophy:

Rita

Josh '99

Rita

Jordan 04
If anything Murray appears to pull his left side (shoulder and knee) away from the Eriksson in an effort to avoid contact. At worst, he keeps skating straight ahead -- he never moves a shoulder or knee towards the opponent.

I agree with you and ftyuv. However, if you were wearing green/black/gold glasses like Darryl Reaugh and his sidekick, you probably didn't see it that way. Heck, they even compared Murray with Bryan Marchment. Yes, if Murray is on the ice, you probably should have your head up, but the way Reaugh was talking, if you just tuned into your first game, you'd think Murray was a dirty player!

God, really? That's a horrible comparison. Marchment was to knees what Scott Stevens was to heads.

During their tirade on Murray, I was shouting some not so nice words at them/my TV.

Jim Hyla

sah67
Doesn't really count as the "pros", and I'm not sure if it's been mentioned already, but Topher Scott is apparently now a "Volunteer Assistant Coach" for the Miami men's team:

[www.ccha.com]

Here's a photo he posted on Facebook of him hoisting the CCHA championship trophy:

Well pro can mean profession, making money, and if it's a hockey activity it seems to qualify. He's learning from one of the best. Will he bring that back to CU?

Jim Hyla

sah67
Doesn't really count as the "pros", and I'm not sure if it's been mentioned already, but Topher Scott is apparently now a "Volunteer Assistant Coach" for the Miami men's team:

[www.ccha.com]

Here's a photo he posted on Facebook of him hoisting the CCHA championship trophy:

Well pro can mean profession, making money, and if it's a hockey activity it seems to qualify. He's learning from one of the best. Will he bring that back to CU?

Jim Hyla

sah67
Doesn't really count as the "pros", and I'm not sure if it's been mentioned already, but Topher Scott is apparently now a "Volunteer Assistant Coach" for the Miami men's team:

[www.ccha.com]

Here's a photo he posted on Facebook of him hoisting the CCHA championship trophy:

Well pro can mean profession, making money, and if it's a hockey activity it seems to qualify. He's learning from one of the best. Will he bring that back to CU?

abbottfan
Colin Greening just netted his 3rd NHL goal against the Carolina Hurricanes.

Rita

abbottfan
Colin Greening just netted his 3rd NHL goal against the Carolina Hurricanes.

The announcers said it was a garbage goal. I think it is more of a great job following the shot and getting the rebound. It was also a nice pass Colin made to Spezza.

Ronald '09

Rita

abbottfan
Colin Greening just netted his 3rd NHL goal against the Carolina Hurricanes.

The announcers said it was a garbage goal. I think it is more of a great job following the shot and getting the rebound. It was also a nice pass Colin made to Spezza.

They don't ask how, they just ask how many.


(That's not my original. NBC, Versus, and Devils' play-by-play guy Doc Emrick says that often when people get garbage goals.)

abbottfan

Ronald '09

Rita

abbottfan
Colin Greening just netted his 3rd NHL goal against the Carolina Hurricanes.

The announcers said it was a garbage goal. I think it is more of a great job following the shot and getting the rebound. It was also a nice pass Colin made to Spezza.

They don't ask how, they just ask how many.


(That's not my original. NBC, Versus, and Devils' play-by-play guy Doc Emrick says that often when people get garbage goals.)

I can't remember what his 2nd goal looked like, but I don't think any of his goals have been that great-looking. The first one went in off a skate.
A goal is a goal whether it's pretty or not.

Josh '99

abbottfan

Ronald '09

Rita

abbottfan
Colin Greening just netted his 3rd NHL goal against the Carolina Hurricanes.

The announcers said it was a garbage goal. I think it is more of a great job following the shot and getting the rebound. It was also a nice pass Colin made to Spezza.

They don't ask how, they just ask how many.


(That's not my original. NBC, Versus, and Devils' play-by-play guy Doc Emrick says that often when people get garbage goals.)

I can't remember what his 2nd goal looked like, but I don't think any of his goals have been that great-looking. The first one went in off a skate.
A goal is a goal whether it's pretty or not.

Yep. And better players than Greening made careers out of garbage goals, no shame in that.

RatushnyFan
Beating your man to the net and slamming home a rebound is a beautiful thing IMHO.

Rita

RatushnyFan
Beating your man to the net and slamming home a rebound is a beautiful thing IMHO.

In my opinion too. That is why I got a bit miffed when it was referred to as a "garbage goal". I just thought it was good hustle, a good hockey play on Greening's part.

Ronald '09

Rita

RatushnyFan
Beating your man to the net and slamming home a rebound is a beautiful thing IMHO.

In my opinion too. That is why I got a bit miffed when it was referred to as a "garbage goal". I just thought it was good hustle, a good hockey play on Greening's part.

I think the term garbage goal is appropriate, but also doesn't necessarily mean it's ugly. If you look at the analogy more closely, it refers to "cleaning up the garbage" meaning that it came on a rebound. Calling it a garbage goal is a fairly specific description of how the goal was scored, not a comment on the goal's relative "beauty." I'm just making a general comment, didn't see Colin's goal last night.

ftyuv
Maybe it's just semantics, but to me a garbage goal is one which you really "shouldn't" have had. For instance, you're behind the net, you try to pass it to a someone, there's a weird deflection and it goes in off a defender's stick. Yeah it's in, yeah you get the point, and yeah you could argue that you had something to do with the defense being scrambly -- but it's not like you meant for it to work that way.

Kyle Rose

ftyuv
Maybe it's just semantics, but to me a garbage goal is one which you really "shouldn't" have had. For instance, you're behind the net, you try to pass it to a someone, there's a weird deflection and it goes in off a defender's stick. Yeah it's in, yeah you get the point, and yeah you could argue that you had something to do with the defense being scrambly -- but it's not like you meant for it to work that way.

Everyone I play with uses "garbage goal" this way, as well.

amerks127

Kyle Rose

ftyuv
Maybe it's just semantics, but to me a garbage goal is one which you really "shouldn't" have had. For instance, you're behind the net, you try to pass it to a someone, there's a weird deflection and it goes in off a defender's stick. Yeah it's in, yeah you get the point, and yeah you could argue that you had something to do with the defense being scrambly -- but it's not like you meant for it to work that way.

Everyone I play with uses "garbage goal" this way, as well.

Kinda like these?

Trotsky
I always thought it just meant the puck and a whole mess o' players were mixed up in a scrum in front of the net and it winds up in (that's what a Steve Shutt Special is: everybody's in there with elbows high and limbs flailing about and the goalie is probably under 2 of his own guys). Deflections off the back of pads from a terrible angle were, I thought, "fluke goals."

Trotsky
Deflections off the back of pads from a terrible angle were, I thought, "fluke goals."

ftyuv

Trotsky
Deflections off the back of pads from a terrible angle were, I thought, "fluke goals."

Sometimes they're intentional.

scoop85
Greening scored last night (after lengthy video review). I saw his game against the Rangers on Thursday, and he was excellent, with 5 SOGs. He looks every bit like an NHL regular to me.

Josh '99
And better players than Greening made careers out of garbage goals, no shame in that.

jkahn

Josh '99
And better players than Greening made careers out of garbage goals, no shame in that.

It remains to be seen who will be the better player.

abbottfan
Here's a link to a recent interview with Colin from the Sens website
[video.senators.nhl.com]

Rita

abbottfan
Here's a link to a recent interview with Colin from the Sens website
[video.senators.nhl.com]

Thank you for posting this link. Chris and Cam are 1A and 1B in my heart, but Colin is making a hard charge from the #2 slot .