Did anyone get their jersey?

Remember those jerseys that were auctioned off? I recall some people saying they won the bids on a few. Has anyone managed to get their hands on one? I've waited and waited for them to contact me about payment. Finally I started mailing Sue and still there's no reply. Are they ignoring everyone or just me?

Sue's always very busy. I didn't bid on a jersey or anything, but in general my advice is to be patient.

I didn't get a response yet either. And I have also sent a follow-up email.

[Q]BCrespi Wrote:

I didn't get a response yet either. And I have also sent a follow-up email.[/q]Same with me. I got a verbal yes, but no email notification, nor a response to my follow-up email. I guess I'll just ask this Sat..

I won't be at the Canisius game, but if you find out anything, could you please post here? I'd be really nice to have the jersey for the Yale/Princeton weekend.

I heard from Sue on 11/26 about 4:15 PM e-mail with a list of winners and how to arrange for payment/recieving shirt. (Thanks to Sue for her dedication over Thanksgiving) - I responded by e-mail on Monday 11/29 and haven't heard back yet. But I don't forsee any problem.

I will be mailing her a check tonight or tomorrow AM.

I heard from her too. I will be stopping by Lynah tomorrow afternoon to pick-up my jersey. Can't wait to wear it to this weekend's games.

I got mine on monday

We picked up our jersey last Saturday.

Doug

[Q]Doug Dickerson Wrote:

We picked up our jersey last Saturday.

Doug[/q]Ditto

Anybody care to brag about the name/number on the back of theirs?

Baikie - 23

I got 21-Manderville which I think i'm the only person that bidded on. Maybe finding him when the NHL starts up again I can find him and get his autograph and make it more valuable.

31 - LeNeveau

Since you paid $500 for it, at least learn to spell it.

Or maybe athletics punked him?

Haha! I knew there'd be at least a few smartasses out there. Time for a lesson, boys.

A quick Google on "David LeNeveau" reveals 189 results. On my! How can that be? Is there an impostor Lenny? No, it seems not. Is it then that half the US College and Professional Hockey world is crazy? Nope again. What is true, is that there are two acceptable spellings of his name. If you disagree, go argue with uscho.com, hockeycanada.com or a good number of other sports press of AHL team sites. True, grammatically "LeNeveu" is correct, for in French that means "the nephew". However, phonetically the way to go is "LeNeveau".


Class dismissed.

Class un-dismissed ...

Call me crazy ... somehow i think the only spelling that matters is the one on the back of his jersey: L-E-N-E-V-E-U.

class re-dismissed

Where in my post did I say that the name on the jersey was anything other than "LeNeveu"?

This is getting silly. I can't believe I'm arguing over spelling. It doesn't matter. LeNeveau. LeNeveu. Crazy-ass-hockey-puck-blocking-money. It hardly matters. What does matter is that he was an awesome goalie, that it's an awesome jersey and that I will enjoy wearing it on Friday when we shall annihilate Yale.

Because I love to argue over silly crap that really doesn't matter...

I thought his name was pronounced leh-NEH-view. So I don't see how an alternate spelling of "LeNeveu" could possibly include the letter 'a', unless this is a weird French language thing.

Besides, we're not talking about a word we're using in sentences, we're talking about someone's name. I have a friend from college who legally changed the spelling of his surname from Topchy to Topczy to more accurately reflect its origins, but to my knowledge the goalie of whom we speak has done no such thing.

I can't believe I'm about to do this, but:

Pulaski: Dah-ta, come and look at this.
Data: Day-ta.
Pulaski: What?
Data: My name. It is pronounced Day-ta.
Pulaski: Oh?
Data: You called me Dah-ta.
Pulaski, laughing: Day-ta, Dah-ta, what's the difference?
Data: One is my name. The other is not.

Beeeej

It's easy to misspell a name now. Cornell hockey was so much simpler back when. Names were easy to spell and pronounce: Dryden, Cornell (Brian), Cropper, Brush, Bertrand, Harkness, Orr (Harry not Bobby), Pettit (okay, you could mix up the double and single T's), Hughes, Tufford. The worst it got among the stars was Lodboa; Stanowski was long but spellable. Then in the mid-1980s it turned out skaters with impossible-to-spell names played good hockey. While RPI went for easy-to-spell Adam Oates (give or take that "e" and a national title, we got Joe New, Nieu, Noo, wait, Nieuwendyk; that and Darren one-L-or-two Eliot. And the defenseman who went on to be coach with a name that seemed easy to spell, all four ways: Mike Schaeffer, Shaeffer, Shafer, er Schafer. Matt Underhill was a perfectly good, All-America goalie with a spellable name, and then we moved up to the guy whose name is hard to spell *and* no one is sure which way to pronounce it: David LeNeveu. David McKee is more normal, although it could be McKie if you're not careful.