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Douglas Murray has not played for the Canadiens in the playoffs so far.  Healthy scratch every game.

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Quote from: kicksaveNow here comes the rant which will be very unpopular on this forum but I'm gonna do it anyway.  The band is too damn loud and obnoxious.  Everytime there's a break in the action you can't even talk to your neighbor because the band is going all out.  I realize they need their practice but it is just too much and when the crowd is sparse it just seems to echo and seems louder than normal.  I truly don't go to a hockey game to listen to a band.  I go to watch and talk about hockey.  Sorry I'm just not a fan.

Some of us think that the band adds to the atmosphere of a college hockey game.  Yes I'm sure echoing is probably annoying but that's an attendance question, not a band problem.  Here's the thing. Having the band play is a lot better than having Jock Jams blasted over the PA. If you want a quieter spot to talk hockey you probably need to find a time machine 'cuz arenas fill every available moment with sound these days.  It's like it's a law or something.

If I'm reading kicksave's comments correctly, he's speaking in particular about the Red-White Game, which is sort of a special case because there's a White Band and a Red Band competing with each other (although everyone knows that the Red Band is sub-par) and both sound louder than normal because fewer bodies in Lynah means harsher echoes off concrete, and not so much about the virtues of the band in general.  Though I could be wrong.

Absolutely correct.  The red/white scrimmage is what I was referring to.  During a regular game the band plays when there's stop in the action and that is fine with me but at the red/white it is just over the top (for me) with the bands battling back and forth and seems way too loud.  Now, GET OFF MY LAWN!

Here's my two cents having been a season ticket holder for 15 years.  I now sit with my son when he wants to go or alone when he doesn't because my friends that were Lynah faithful have decided over the years that the uncomfortable bench with 14 inches of space is just not worth it anymore.  Many games I can't even give the tickets away.  It's just not the thing to do anymore as it was when I first started going.  Having someone's knees in your back for 2 hours and fifteen minutes and your knees smushed in between the people seated in front of you is no fun.  My high school had more comfortable seats than Lynah.  The upside of having a mediocre team is that most games there is some room to move now but being a larger than average man makes Lynah very unattractive.  It's much easier to sit at home with a cold beer and listen on the radio than suffer the "atmosphere" of Lynah.  In the old days when I was a smoker I used to go out of the doors at the top of section N or M to grab a smoke between periods.  There was a female usher at the top of M who yelled at me every time I used those doors.  She wanted me to shuffle like cattle to go to the main doors near the concessions to exit.  For NO APPARENT REASON other than she wanted to bitch about something and flex her powerful usher muscles.  The lines for the bathrooms are too long unless you want to walk to the far bathrooms on the other side of the building in between periods.  When they redid Lynah was it so cost prohibitive to put in larger cans inside the actual rink?  I dont usually eat there but the lines seem ridiculously long.  I have had friends spend the entire time in between periods on line.  It seems like things could be done to make it a better experience.
On a separate rant, the red/white scrimmage is a fun family evening for seeing the players for the first time and seeing friends at the game for a more relaxed and comfortable time.  There are usually a lot of kids running around and having fun.  I like to see the guys who sit in my section and catch up a bit.  Now here comes the rant which will be very unpopular on this forum but I'm gonna do it anyway.  The band is too damn loud and obnoxious.  Everytime there's a break in the action you can't even talk to your neighbor because the band is going all out.  I realize they need their practice but it is just too much and when the crowd is sparse it just seems to echo and seems louder than normal.  I truly don't go to a hockey game to listen to a band.  I go to watch and talk about hockey.  Sorry I'm just not a fan.

Atmosphere aside, we missed Cole Bardreau on the PP and offense in general.

NBCSN on DirecTV in Ithaca area is channel 220.

I saw Ryan Vesce at the Red/White game.  Apparently he's on his way to play in Sweden.

Let's say that there's someone who has worked under you for decades, someone that you personally hired, and personally mentored and groomed as your successor.  At times your relationship with each other was strained because of the tremendous stress of your high powered jobs.  But you've been in the trenches together, shared amazing success and dark failure.
You are 75 years old.  You have seen the world change so much in your lifetime.  The amount of information available is astounding.  Even though you are 75, you are not a doddering old fool.  You are at the top of your profession and you have been around the block.  It is not 1955.  Nothing is flabbergasting in this day and age.  
Someone close to you tells you that your protegee has done something horrible to a young child.  Something so horrible that he may not have even told you the details of the transgression but enough information that you know you need to make a report to your superiors.

Now if this old gentleman is me, I would go to my employee's house, put my hands around his throat, give him the death stare that would kill a weaker man, and in no uncertain tones explain to him that this behavior will not go on ever again.  Period.  If the administration is not going to do anything about it, so be it.  If the authorities aren't going to do anything about it, so be it.  But not under my control.  No way.  No how.  This man would be scared to pull his pants down to take a crap much less go on to continue his abominations.

Joe Paterno never confronted Jerry Sandusky.  Why are you guys defending that?

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Quote from: ugarteOne act. An act that was a cover up of the rape of a minor that enabled the rape of many more. Fuck Joe Paterno and his memory. I don't care how much money Penn State was able to raise off of the sham that was the Paterno Way.

Countless students got a world class education because of what he did for the university. I understand that he failed his duty and I'm not trying to excuse him of that, but many people are better off today because Paterno coached at Penn State. All the good he did does not cancel out his failings, but his failings do not cancel out the good either.

He didn't fail his duty.  His supervisors failed THEIR duty.  He reported the incident to his supervisors and THEY covered it up.  And that includes the current governor of PA, who was the local DA at the time.

It's like this:  you reprimand and discharge the soldiers that abused the prisoners at Abu Ghraib.  But you ream out the generals who tried to cover it up.  But you expect the lesser officiers in between to use the chain of command to fix the problem.

I have a feeling you'd have a different opinion if it was your son getting sodomized.  Joe Paterno was an extremely powerful man in that community.  When he became aware of what was happening he should have put an end to it immediately and personally.  Don't give me this chain of command crap.  Joe Paterno COULD have and SHOULD have done more.

Greening had an assist last night against the Rangers.  He looked good out there.

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Quote from: BeeeejI can't speak to Age's ultimate reasons for deactivating it, but I do know that it was being abused to target individual users.

This is such a lame reason if true.  Facebook has a "Like" button but no "Dislike" because heaven forbid if people are "attacked" or get their feelings hurt online for posting something.  Does ELynah really need to be this way?  Do people really take their ratings personally or seriously?  Golly. It's just an amusement.  We might as well have automatic censoring of foul language.

I don't entirely disagree, but really... which is lamer:  That a petty individual user might vent his disagreement with another individual user by scuttling the second user's rating with flames, or that we'd rather that not happen?

Nobody has to take their rating "seriously" for such a juvenile act to be obnoxious and unwarranted.

Each person got ONE vote either + or -.  If your rating is so important to you then stop making obnoxious, condescending posts and multiple people will not "scuttle your ratings with flames".  Simple as that.

Bummer.  Casey is a heckuva nice guy and even took the time to get involved in IYHA.  I am proud to say my son got to experience him as a coach and he was outstanding.  He will be missed around here!

Need a "like" button for Roy 82's post!

Nice!  Haven't had a Nine's pizza in forever.  Enjoy it guys and Go Big Red!!!

What is your usual pregame plan, pray tell?
We go to the Plant for burgers and beers.  Yeeha!

So whats the story with Chris Moulson?  His father says he's better than Matt was at this stage and two healthy scratches.  He scored in the Red/White scrimmage as a freshman and got very little playing time last year.  He looked good again in Red/White scrimmage and again no game time.  Is he on Schafer's s***-list?