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It's club hockey...I play for the UCLA team, and USC has a reputation around our league for being a classless team. (Admittedly, there may be some bias there, but I know other teams have complained in the past, too.) It is kind of a funny incident and I'm sure it would have been hilarious to be there in person, but excuse me while I get a little righteous...

[joebuck]Our conference, the PAC-8, and the ACHA (the national club hockey organization) has been pushing for years to gain more legitimacy and even be considered a viable alternative to NCAA hockey (a lofty goal, to be sure). This kind of stunt is the only way some (most?) people will hear about ACHA teams, and it really sets back any progress that has been made. This is the kind of move that really belongs in the beer leagues, where everyone can have a good laugh about it without any harm being done. In this case, it's amusing, but it doesn't help ACHA schools and teams that want to bring in student athletes to play serious hockey.[/joebuck]

Apparently Doug's not too happy about his player rating in NHL 2K7:

[Q]Thornton had some of his teammates over recently for a little tournament at NHL 2K7 for the 360, and since he's on the cover, some of the guys have even begun appealing their ratings to him personally.

"We have one guy, Doug Murray, who is an up and down player, and he had to send one of our teammates down so he could get on the roster and play. He couldn't believe he was a 60. 'A 60! What are you doing to me?' He wanted to see if I could talk to the guys who make the game. Put in a good word. It was funny, he got a good kick out of it."[/Q]

http://sports.ign.com/articles/740/740463p1.html (the Murray reference is on the second page of the article)

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!"

[quote Jerseygirl][quote cornelldavy][quote Jerseygirl](See: Lauren Weisberger and the borderline unreadable Devil Wears Prada. Ok, dishing on Anna Wintour helped too.)[/quote]

Also, Lauren Weisberger didn't use an entirely original name for the main character's boyfriend in that book. Now when you Google me, you get a bunch of hits for The Devil Wears Prada.[/quote]

Right, didn't she add a suffix to the name of a friend's boyfriend or something?
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I know that's what she said, but I still have my suspicions that she might have just taken a name she liked from a byline in the Daily Sun. It must have been his excellent writing that she admired, or perhaps his mug shot by his column.

[quote Jerseygirl](See: Lauren Weisberger and the borderline unreadable Devil Wears Prada. Ok, dishing on Anna Wintour helped too.)[/quote]

Also, Lauren Weisberger didn't use an entirely original name for the main character's boyfriend in that book. Now when you Google me, you get a bunch of hits for The Devil Wears Prada.

[quote jmh30]I may be in the minority here, but I think Chanda Gunn is kinda cute.

On a more serious note, the fact that she fought through epilepsy to become a world-class goalie is one of the more impressive sports stories I've heard in the past few years.[/quote]

I'll pass that along...her brother plays for UCLA.
By the way, she kept a diary of her Olympic experience for www.usahockey.com , and she closed out her last entry with an announcement about the UCLA-USC game.
http://www.usahockey.com/06oly/main_site/main/home/06oly_diary_gunn/

[quote Jacob '06]Do you know how good cal techs team is? There is a good chance i'll be going there next year and I wanna play hockey in some manner, but I'm figuring having only been playing for a year I won't be able to make the club team. Have you seen them play?[/quote]
I don't know that they have a team; I've never heard of it if they do. I would check out www.achahockey.com , that's the national organization that runs collegiate club hockey. Most teams are registered there, so if they have a team, they probably are there too. Knowing what I know about CalTech's varsity athletic program, I can't imagine their club hockey team is particularly good, so even though you've only played for a year, if they have a team, I would guess you could hang with them.

Not a Cornell alum, but Brett Nowak, who played at Harvard, is retiring from the AHL at age 24 following surgery for testicular cancer. Hopefully he maintains a clean bill of health now. It's always a shame to see someone's athletic career end when it's not on their terms.

http://www.syracuse.com/crunch/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/1139392506234770.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

I know there's at least a handful of people here who live near LA, so I'll throw this out there.

For those of you who want to see college hockey in Southern California, the UCLA and USC club teams wrap up their seasons this weekend in games 4 and 5 of their annual Crosstown Cup series. UCLA currently leads the series 2-1. If the last few games between the teams are any indication, it will be a very hard-fought, physical, and entertaining game. The teams have played nine times in the last two seasons, and eight of those games were decided by 1 or 2 goals. In the last meeting, in the conference semifinals, the game went to a shootout, where USC's first shooter ran UCLA's goalie and knocked him out of the game. USC went on to win on their last shooter, and the game was followed by fights both in the handshake line and in the players' hotel. As you might imagine, both teams are fired up for this weekend's games.

Here's the info:

USC at UCLA
Friday, March 3, 8:00
Toyota Sports Center
555 N. Nash St., El Segundo

UCLA at USC
Saturday, March 4, 7:30
Anaheim Ice
300 W. Lincoln Ave., Anaheim

If you go, I recommend getting there early (especially for the Friday game), because it is likely to sell out. Also, U.S. Olympic goalie Chanda Gunn will be on hand for the ceremonial puck drop.

And most importantly, if for no other reason than a Cornell grad plays on the team, root for UCLA!

Out of curiosity, does anyone know/is anyone willing to volunteer how much club athletes from various sports pay in dues to play at Cornell?

Well, no, not really.

But Off Wing Opinion, a pretty good sports/hockey blog, takes a look at some of the criticism of USA hockey following its disappointing Olympic performance, and it references McKee as the exception to the rule that all U.S. players come from the "M" states. Looks like he's saying the solution to Team USA's problems is to produce more David McKees (so to speak).

[q]Sure, more kids play hockey in the U.S. than ever before, but it's safe to say that the vast majority of our top athletes don't get anywhere near a sniff of hockey. Despite growing roots in the Sunbelt (Cornell's starting goaltender is a Dallas Stars fan from Texas), hockey is still a regional sport in the U.S. Like it or not, that's going to hurt our national program.[/q]
http://www.ericmcerlain.com/offwingopinion/archives/005780.php#005780

[quote jtwcornell91]They have all the stuff I remember going to Joe's for: bottomless salad, breadsticks, and kick-ass chicken marsala.  Now if only Billy Bob Jack's would re-open...[/quote]

BBJ's closed? The one by the Pyramid Mall? Aw hell no!

[quote nyc94][quote Jerseygirl]Whatever, Ugarte. I eat lunch with Bode Miller on occasion. PM me if you want more details on ski length and speed.[/quote]

It would be better if you had an occasional après ski beer with Bode.[/quote]

Or an avant ski beer.

[quote KeithK]Every fan should feel they have the right to pillory any so-called Lynah Faithful who show up wearing the clothing that matches the colors of the opposing team though.  Actually, an obligation.[/quote]

UCLA fans do this if they catch someone in the student section wearing red - USC's color - regardless of who the opponent is that day. They'll chant "Take off that red shirt" until the offender does (or at least puts a different-colored shirt on over it).

I'm all for that at Lynah, except the reverse: "Put on a red shirt!"

[quote Jacob 03][quote RichH][quote ebilmes]Was it Welch who got hit by a fish a few years back? Anyone have a picture of that?[/quote]

I'd rather have a picture of Welch tripping over the blue line, which led to a Cornell goal.  Anyone remember the details of that?  Who undressed him, and was it a SHG?[/quote]

i remembered watching hornby score it after welch fell down, which means it happened on section h's end. so it must've been second period.  seems to be this game, rich:
http://www.uscho.com/recaps/20022003/m/11/22/hu-cor.php

so yeah, not a shg, but still very amusing for us.[/quote]

It was amusing for Hornby, too...I remember interviewing him after the game, and he was trying to be as diplomatic as possible about the play:

[Q]Hornby's gamewinner, which was scored at 12:06 of the second, came in unusual fashion, as Welch, a second-round draft pick in the 2001 NHL draft, stumbled and fell backward at his own blue line. Sophomore Mike Iggulden swooped in and picked up the loose puck as Hornby joined him on a 2-on-0. Iggulden fed Hornby with a backhand pass, and Hornby deked past Grumet-Morris with a backhander for the third Red goal of the night.


"The Harvard D-man made an unfortunate mistake there by falling down," chuckled Hornby. "Any time you get a 2-on-0, you try to take advantage of those opportunities."[/Q]
http://www.cornellsun.com/media/paper866/news/2002/11/25/Sports/FourPoint.Weekend-1330520.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.cornellsun.com