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Title: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Red Neophyte on June 06, 2006, 08:52:39 AM
I was making mac and cheese when I realized that as I was straining the mac I was chanting sieve, sieve, sieve.  Also, did anyone else hear the crowd yell RED! during the national anthem for the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals, or am I just hearing things? ::screwy::
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: redhair34 on June 06, 2006, 09:13:35 AM
[quote Red Neophyte]Also, did anyone else hear the crowd yell RED! during the national anthem, or am I just hearing things? ::screwy::[/quote]

Yeah, but it was pretty weak
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Chris 02 on June 06, 2006, 09:40:55 AM
Probably cause Carolina has some red in their jerseys.  I was listening, but didn't pick up on that.  But then again, I was also making dinner and probably not paying quite close enough attention.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Jordan 04 on June 06, 2006, 12:05:36 PM
[quote Red Neophyte]I was making mac and cheese when I realized that as I was straining the mac I was chanting sieve, sieve, sieve.  Also, did anyone else hear the crowd yell RED! during the national anthem for the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals, or am I just hearing things? ::screwy::[/quote]

Well, don't we all do our own little "RED!" and fist pump wherever we hear the nationl anthem these days.

As for my own "you know you're itching for...", I'm reading a thread now about Vin Scully and the one-man booth, and while thinking of one-man booths in sports, the first (and almost only) reference that comes to my mind is listening to the Cornell games on the radio/internet.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Trotsky on June 06, 2006, 12:21:15 PM
I miss college hockey every weekend I spend home with my kids...

OK, kidding.  Mostly.  I usually starting really itching for hockey when the Mets fall out of the race.  Say, June.  This year will be an instructive exception.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Roy 82 on June 06, 2006, 02:51:02 PM
...it is June and you still check this website every day. ::nut::
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: KeithK on June 06, 2006, 02:53:48 PM
[quote Roy 82]...it is June and you still check this website every day. ::nut::[/quote]Just every day?  How about every few hours?  And I find myself thinking "why isn't anyone posting?" :-/
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Roy 82 on June 06, 2006, 09:53:43 PM
[quote KeithK][quote Roy 82]...it is June and you still check this website every day. ::nut::[/quote]Just every day?  How about every few hours?  And I find myself thinking "why isn't anyone posting?" :-/[/quote]

I know what you mean.:)
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: judy on June 06, 2006, 11:29:24 PM
[quote Red Neophyte]I was making mac and cheese when I realized that as I was straining the mac I was chanting sieve, sieve, sieve.  Also, did anyone else hear the crowd yell RED! during the national anthem for the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals, or am I just hearing things? ::screwy::[/quote]

Oh good. I thought the Lynah Faithful voices in my head were screaming a little louder from outside my head last night and got a little confused.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: billhoward on June 07, 2006, 07:10:33 AM
... when you search the Carolina stands for a Cornell jersey in the crowd.

If you see one, don't cry out and tell your girlfriend or wife, because she'll think you're really off the deep end, and console herself with a trip to the day spa, depleting your joint cash reserves by a couple hundred dollars.

(An understanding spouse or friend would say, "Wow! Cool! Was it home or away?" Then shake her head and head to the spa ... )
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Bio '04 on June 07, 2006, 02:10:23 PM
... when you plan an exotic vacation in the summertime to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.  :-P
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Beeeej on June 07, 2006, 02:23:15 PM
[quote KeithK][quote Roy 82]...it is June and you still check this website every day. ::nut::[/quote]Just every day?  How about every few hours?  And I find myself thinking "why isn't anyone posting?" :-/[/quote]

I seem to be down to a nearly reasonable two or three times per week.

Beeeej
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: HeafDog on June 07, 2006, 02:35:50 PM
Holy crap.  Totally fitting thread.  I just dreamt last night that I played for the team.  I was getting ready for the game and was walking around in full gear.  I was so excited I could hardly contain myself.  (Although a part of me was wondering, "Uh, dude, didn't you, like, graduate?  TWICE?")

And then I woke up. :-/

This isn't the first time I've dreamt that.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Jeff Hopkins '82 on June 07, 2006, 03:34:19 PM
[quote Bio '04]... when you plan an exotic vacation in the summertime to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.  :-P[/quote]

Been there, done that.

How about being in a meeting with another person named Jeff, and when someone asks "which Jeff were you referring to?" you go "Good Jeff...Bad Jeff...etc."   ::nut::

Not only that, but you've done it often enough that the other people in the meeting do it with you.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Trotsky on June 07, 2006, 05:00:37 PM
Each time anyone says "(so and so) called..." I am compelled to fill in the rest.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: marty on June 07, 2006, 05:20:00 PM
One of my elderly friends and former fellow season ticket holder at Houston FH in Troy passed away this week.  I will miss him but felt like this :-D when his widow pointed out a hockey puck in the coffin.

Here is part of his obit:

"He also was a faithful supporter of the RPI hockey team with season tickets since 1952. Merrick chaired a testimonial dinner in 1952 for then coach, Ned Harkness."

Many years ago my friend's brother was the team doctor for the Big Red.  Merrick used to mention this once in a while when our conversations about hockey hit a lull.

Makes me itch for hockey and makes me tear up that my friend will no longer be in the stands...
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: French Rage on June 07, 2006, 10:33:58 PM
College hockey?  Itching?  There's gotta be a good Nickerson reference somewhere in there.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Red Neophyte on June 08, 2006, 10:31:29 AM
Well, I definitely heard the Carolina crowd yell RED! last night...geesh, you would think that they could come up with their own cheers. ::rolleyes::  ::laugh::
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: RichH on June 08, 2006, 06:44:41 PM
[quote Red Neophyte]Well, I definitely heard the Carolina crowd yell RED! last night...geesh, you would think that they could come up with their own cheers. ::rolleyes::  ::laugh::[/quote]

Well...stealing teams...stealing cheers.  What else is new in Carolina?
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: RichS on June 09, 2006, 05:59:27 PM
North Carolina wasn't the criminal in that move.  Karmanos was.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: KeithK on June 09, 2006, 07:14:43 PM
[quote RichS]North Carolina wasn't the criminal in that move.  Karmanos was.[/quote]How do you know that Karmanos didn't steal the cheer and send his agents into the stands to get it started?  Or maybe it was the evil North Carolinians who seduced the once noble Karmanos into moving the team from Hartford.  How can you be sure?
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: DeltaOne81 on June 10, 2006, 02:48:55 PM
[quote KeithK]the once noble Karmanos[/quote]

 ::laugh::  ::laugh::  ::laugh::  ::laugh::

< muttering > ... formerly pony-tailed asshole ... < / muttering >
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Rita on June 10, 2006, 06:48:29 PM
Go Oilers !!!!!

signed,
The woman who still holds a grudge about Karmanos moving the Whalers out of CT. :-(

[quote DeltaOne81][quote KeithK]the once noble Karmanos[/quote]

 ::laugh::  ::laugh::  ::laugh::  ::laugh::

< muttering > ... formerly pony-tailed asshole ... < / muttering >[/quote]
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: French Rage on June 11, 2006, 08:51:24 PM
When you change your sig.

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Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: nyc94 on June 11, 2006, 11:21:51 PM
[Q]03/23/02: Maine 4, Harvard 3
03/28/03: BU 6, Harvard 4
03/26/04: Maine 5, Harvard 4
03/26/05: UNH 3, Harvard 2
03/25/06: Maine 6, Harvard 1[/Q]

Please use this at USCHO.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Rich S on June 12, 2006, 02:19:42 AM
because of all the lies Karmanos told the people in CT and his politicking.  That's how.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Trotsky on June 12, 2006, 10:46:36 AM
[quote nyc94][Q]03/23/02: Maine 4, Harvard 3
03/28/03: BU 6, Harvard 4
03/26/04: Maine 5, Harvard 4
03/26/05: UNH 3, Harvard 2
03/25/06: Maine 6, Harvard 1[/Q]

Please use this at USCHO.[/quote]

It will just fuel the "EZAC argument" for the Hockey Least puckheads.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: cornelldavy on June 14, 2006, 02:53:19 AM
I heard "RED!" also. Kent Manderville played in Hartford and then three seasons with the 'Canes (the only Cornellian to play there, I believe), so there's your Cornell connection. Then again, he played in Edmonton, too, but I didn't hear them shout "RED!"
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Bio '04 on June 20, 2006, 12:45:33 PM
[quote Red Neophyte]Also, did anyone else hear the crowd yell RED! during the national anthem for the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals, or am I just hearing things? ::screwy::[/quote]

It definitely was audible before the start of Game 7 last night!
Title: Back to the main theme
Post by: ugarte on June 20, 2006, 02:29:57 PM
[q]Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...[/q]You see Erik Cole with the Stanley Cup and you sigh. And make a recovery-from-syphillis joke that your fiancee does not understand.
Title: Re: Back to the main theme
Post by: WillR on June 20, 2006, 06:28:00 PM
[quote ugarte][q]Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...[/q]You see Erik Cole with the Stanley Cup and you sigh. And make a recovery-from-syphillis joke that your fiancee does not understand.[/quote]

I get the Clarkson/Cole park of this, but the syphillis part eludes me.  Anyone want to explain this?

Thanks,
WillR
Title: Re: Back to the main theme
Post by: KeithK on June 20, 2006, 06:43:12 PM
[quote WillR]I get the Clarkson/Cole park of this, but the syphillis part eludes me.  Anyone want to explain this?

Thanks,
WillR[/quote]I thought it was well established here that all Clarkson players had syphilis?  :-D

(j/k RichS.)
Title: Re: Back to the main theme
Post by: ugarte on June 20, 2006, 07:18:15 PM
[quote KeithK][quote WillR]I get the Clarkson/Cole park of this, but the syphillis part eludes me.  Anyone want to explain this?

Thanks,
WillR[/quote]I thought it was well established here that all Clarkson players had syphilis?  :-D

(j/k RichS.)[/quote]And, more importantly, who patient zero was.
Title: Re: Back to the main theme
Post by: Liz '05 on June 21, 2006, 12:08:59 AM
[quote WillR][quote ugarte][q]Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...[/q]You see Erik Cole with the Stanley Cup and you sigh. And make a recovery-from-syphillis joke that your fiancee does not understand.[/quote]

I get the Clarkson/Cole park of this, but the syphillis part eludes me.  Anyone want to explain this?

Thanks,
WillR[/quote]

See, and here I had no idea who Erik Cole was, but figured he must've gone to Clarkson to have gotten syphilis (I checked the spelling guide) :)
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: RichH on July 11, 2006, 07:46:03 PM
I went to see "Wordplay," that white-hot Shortzian worship docu-epic sweeping the land, and when they introduced the guy from Colorado (who wound up making the crossword finals), there were some photographs of his family.  I'm fairly certain that one of his sons was wearing a Frozen Four shirt from Buffalo.  It was partially obscured, but it definitely said "Frozen" at the top and "Buf..." at the bottom.

And I got excited that I saw that.

3 months until Red/White?
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: ebilmes on July 11, 2006, 11:29:20 PM
[deleted because apparently I spoiled the movie for JerseyGirl]
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Jerseygirl on July 12, 2006, 12:02:37 AM
THANKS FOR RUINING IT! RUINER! AUGH!
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: ebilmes on July 12, 2006, 01:39:33 PM
[quote Jerseygirl]THANKS FOR RUINING IT! RUINER! AUGH![/quote]

I'm sorry ::innocent::


Also, I thought this was interesting: one of my co-workers this summer graduated from Union this year and dated Kris Mayotte for three years.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Bio '04 on July 12, 2006, 08:43:35 PM
[quote ebilmes][deleted because apparently I spoiled the movie for JerseyGirl][/quote]

May I ask what the movie was?
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: ebilmes on July 12, 2006, 09:26:57 PM
[quote Bio '04]
May I ask what the movie was?[/quote]

Wordplay.
Title: Re: You know you are itching for college hockey when...
Post by: Jerseygirl on July 12, 2006, 09:27:34 PM
It was Wordplay. A crossword puzzle movie. Nerd alert. Yup, I loved Spellbound, too.