Sieve

In the old days around the gold rush, sieves were used to seperate the gold from the other crap which was allowed to pass through. Perhaps a modern day example of a sieve is a collander which is used to drain pasta. The pasta stays in the collander while the water passes through. The eLynah cheers page (the foremost authority on sieves) defines a sieve as follows:

[Q]sieve \Sieve\, n.1. a device full of holes by which a coarse material may be separated from a finer material...[/Q]

Using this definition, wouldn't it follow that a sieve would be a good goalie because it collects the coarse material (i.e. the puck)? In hockey, the puck is gold and if you used a sieve, you would not want the gold to pass through. Similarly, you want to hold on to the pasta, you don't want it to go down the drain. It just doesn't make sense.

Thus, I call on all Lynah faithful to change their cheers and join me in pointing to our goalie and to chant proudly and in unison "SIEVE!"

Well, since a sieve has many, many holes, and a goalie is only supposed to have five...

Don't you mean 6?

Could've sworn it was 5. 1 over each shoulder (2), one between the left arm and left leg (3), same on the other side (4), and between the legs (5).

Based on the current contextual use, let's not!

Just start tinking of it this way. The opposing goalie keeps out the coarse material, as in his own goons and the charging Cornell players, and let's the finer material, read pucks, go by.

Yeah, I was also pondering our blackhole/vacuum/suck cheer... It seems that if the opposing goalie is truly vacuuming or sucking everything up (including the puck) this would make him highly effective... Any thoughts? Of course I understand the thought process behind the cheer, and it always sucks to suck, but this was just one of those deep thoughts moments...while trying to avoid doing any work today...

Considering a hot goalie is called a "wall" , I think anything with holes in it would be a step down, regardless of technical definitions. I would much rather see our goalie be a wall and let nothing through, which is obviously what his job is and what he tries to do.

[Q]Facetimer Wrote:

In the old days around the gold rush, sieves were used to seperate the gold from the other crap which was allowed to pass through. Perhaps a modern day example of a sieve is a collander which is used to drain pasta. The pasta stays in the collander while the water passes through. The eLynah cheers page (the foremost authority on sieves) defines a sieve as follows:

sieve \Sieve\, n.1. a device full of holes by which a coarse material may be separated from a finer material...[/Q]
Using this definition, wouldn't it follow that a sieve would be a good goalie because it collects the coarse material (i.e. the puck)? In hockey, the puck is gold and if you used a sieve, you would not want the gold to pass through. Similarly, you want to hold on to the pasta, you don't want it to go down the drain. It just doesn't make sense.

Thus, I call on all Lynah faithful to change their cheers and join me in pointing to our goalie and to chant proudly and in unison "SIEVE!"[/q]

This sounds like an excellent idea. You should insititute this immediately, McKee needs your support!