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Re: Rule Changes? - 13 years ago
Towerroad ftyuv David Harding ftyuv KeithK ftyuv Or heck, why not replace the shootout with a skating relay race? If you're going to determine the whole game based on how three people do on one specific skill, why does that skill have to be shooting in particular? Even better, you could have a whole series of events. Wait that would take too long. How 'bout this? Take all of the skills from aby ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Rule Changes? - 13 years ago
David Harding ftyuv KeithK ftyuv Or heck, why not replace the shootout with a skating relay race? If you're going to determine the whole game based on how three people do on one specific skill, why does that skill have to be shooting in particular? Even better, you could have a whole series of events. Wait that would take too long. How 'bout this? Take all of the skills from a skills contestby ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Rule Changes? - 13 years ago
KeithK ftyuv Or heck, why not replace the shootout with a skating relay race? If you're going to determine the whole game based on how three people do on one specific skill, why does that skill have to be shooting in particular? Even better, you could have a whole series of events. Wait that would take too long. How 'bout this? Take all of the skills from a skills contest (and maybe make up sby ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the Pros - January 2011 - 13 years ago
Trotsky nr53 Moulson seen as trade bait? Oh god, not the Bruins. Please. Anybody else. Unless he's a rental, we bang them for every prospect they have, and he's right back with us next October. In which case, let your Ryan Smyth freak flag fly. Bruins, Bruins, bring him here! :D I miss Bitz.by ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Rule Changes? - 13 years ago
Al DeFlorio Give My Regards Al DeFlorio Agree. Seems to me OT was longer at one time. OT was ten minutes until the 89-90 season. The ice was resurfaced prior to OT and, as I recall, there was a full intermission.Better that way, IMO. Just like the lacrosse OT procedure from the '70s (total goals, not sudden victory) was better. I agree. And if the league really has to have a shootout, I thby ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Top 50 Players in ECAC Hockey - 13 years ago
CowbellGuy adamw ...Tim Thomas... You're dead to me! Oh lord, another Tuukka fanboy?by ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Top 50 Players in ECAC Hockey - 13 years ago
Tim Thomas of UVM? We here in Boston have learned to love him.by ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Math thread - 13 years ago
This conversation reminds me a bit of a suggestion I heard on NPR a while back on reforming universities. The person pointed out that professors in universities are often extremely specialized; they'll know their one (sometimes esoteric) field through and through, but most useful applications require application of various fields. The person's suggestion was that majors be focused on problems ratby ftyuv - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Math thread - 13 years ago
Math is just one theory, and I think schools should be allowed to teach alternative theories as well.by ftyuv - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Canadian Reality TV - Battle of the Blades - 13 years ago
Suggestion: the dances should include a randomly-placed open-ice hit. For that, I might actually move to Canada so that I can watch it.by ftyuv - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell only Ivy in WSJ Top 25 on desirability-of-hiring - 13 years ago
ugarte billhoward I could have written it (Ugarte,insert quick comeback here): You couldn't have written it in two sentences. "There are" -> "With" "with attendees" -> "and attendees" "nations. Undergraduates" -> "nations, undergraduates" That's why they paid me the big bucks at the Sun.by ftyuv - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: "A Bad Idea: The Hybrid Icing Rule" - 13 years ago
Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m sure that most hockey fans in the world would have to agree with me: one of the unquestionably most exciting parts of the professional game would have to be the fights. I hear this a lot, and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Am I just not watching the same games? Most of the "fights" I see in the NHL consist of two mediocre players skating arouby ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the Pros - August 2010 - 13 years ago
The Rancor Jon Gleed to take on the Bruins You got me all excited. I thought at first read he was going to join them.by ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Concussions - 13 years ago
Beeeej ftyuv Robb ugarte Jim Hyla ugarte Jim Hyla KeithK Jim Hyla ugarte The rest of the injuries were stick-related because youth hockey leagues do not allow fighting, the report did not say. (I don't even know if Canadian youth hockey bans fighting; it sounds un-Canadian.)?????? It's a joke, repeating an oft stated opinion about the need for fighting.I was actually referring to the English, orby ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Concussions - 13 years ago
Robb ugarte Jim Hyla ugarte Jim Hyla KeithK Jim Hyla ugarte The rest of the injuries were stick-related because youth hockey leagues do not allow fighting, the report did not say. (I don't even know if Canadian youth hockey bans fighting; it sounds un-Canadian.)?????? It's a joke, repeating an oft stated opinion about the need for fighting.I was actually referring to the English, or lack thereof.by ftyuv - Hockey
Re: OT: Good recording of Gonna Fly Now/Gary Glitter? - 13 years ago
billhoward Roy 82 Jim Hyla Roy 82 I figured that you would have been inundated with replies by now, even in the off season. But since you are not then I'll take a shot. If you really are a young woman and your young age is the focus of the celebration (and this is not a prank) then you should probably stay away from anything having to do with Garry Glitter. Look it up. Just because he's a jerkby ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Potential NCAA Rule Changes - 13 years ago
amerks127 ftyuv PPs already have, what, about 30% conversion rates? Most teams convert at the 17-20% range. You and your facts. Well, my point still stands, even if its validity is reduced by 30%.by ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Potential NCAA Rule Changes - 13 years ago
Roy 82 polar And if they make icing illegal during penalty kills, I will break something. Actually, I always thought that no-icing PKs was a good idea. Why reward a team with the ability to play bad defense when on a PK? I also think that a penalty shot should be followed up by a Power Play if the shooter does not score. Does this make me a bad person? PPs already have, what, about 30by ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Potential NCAA Rule Changes - 14 years ago
Some of these rules are just crazy, btw. the crazy proposed rule Further punishing penalized teams by not allowing them to change players before the start of the penalty and to make them kill the entire length of minor and double-minor penalties. The latter proposal didn’t have much support, Karr said. Does this guy just not get around to watching much hockey?by ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Potential NCAA Rule Changes - 14 years ago
I'm a couple years out of date with my NCAA rules, but from when I was in watching regularly, the one (and only) rule I'd have liked to see is that teams that ice can't change lines. I remember one Princeton game where they got the early lead and spent the rest of the game icing. Yuck.by ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Literature Fans - 14 years ago
ugarte I have to admit that I didn't see this thread getting Godwin'd. You know who also didn't see themselves getting Godwin'd? The Nazis. It's true. Look it up.by ftyuv - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Buh-bye, seniors - 14 years ago
DafatoneBoth teams could have scored a number of times, and the game could have gone either way. Not to take anything away from it, but that's almost a truism when you're more than halfway into the 3rd OT.by ftyuv - Hockey
Re: 3/26 viewing parties - BOSTON - 14 years ago
jputterman24 I know I posted in the other thread, but since its buried in there... Sports Depot said we could have the private room if we show up around 6ish (they don't reserve the private room during March Madness...) Not sure I'll make it there, having some sports bar fatigue...if you have problems getting it set up, ask for Teddy, the manager. Apparently this wasn't as useless a threaby ftyuv - Hockey
Re: CU & ECAC Tourney on TV - 14 years ago
andyw2100 Just an idea, but some of you Boston viewing people may want to start a Boston viewing thread. The info is kinda buried here. We'll big dig it out. Just give us a few billion, and make sure to look up.by ftyuv - Hockey
Re: CU & ECAC Tourney on TV - 14 years ago
Kyle Rose ugarte What is the TV situation for Friday night? *sigh* Others of us can't make it, either. At least you have a good excuse: raising the next generation of fans. Who is interested in a Friday night viewing in Boston? I can give Sports Depot a call and see if they can reserve one or two TV's for us, depending on how many can't make it to Albany this weekend. Is this going on?by ftyuv - Hockey
3/26 viewing parties - 14 years ago
Sorry if this is a dupe, but I'm somehow not seeing anything here about it. Are there any viewing parties going on? Specifically, in Boston? EDIT: turns out I'm blind. Ignore this thread.by ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Beanpot Tournament - 14 years ago
KillerShaughnessy is a douche. This is a truer fact than 1+1=2 for base n > 2. I used to read his articles every now and again, as a sort of morbid curiosity. But these days I actively stay away from him -- I don't want to give him the page clicks.by ftyuv - Hockey
Re: Nancy Pelosi to be Convocation speaker - 14 years ago
Meh. I skipped my convocation speaker (2006), and I don't remember any of the others I've had to sit through. Actually, I don't remember much from my graduation -- and, somehow, that's not because I was still drunk from the night before. I've never been one for ceremony. That said, if the University can get a guarantee that it won't turn into a political rally, I think a sitting legislator isby ftyuv - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Alumni in the pros - January 2010 - 14 years ago
sah67 Jim Hyla Article on Jon Gleed from the Stamford Advocate. I hope this doesn't happen again if Gleed gets called up to the Islanders and joins Moulson Did anyone ever figure out what happened with that? I heard rumors of whisperings that there was some love triangle or something. PM me with details?by ftyuv - Hockey