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I'm just excited that we're likely to have our first 100-point career scorer in, well... seems like forever.

Even with Castagna's departure, we're building quite a stable of offensive talent. We have four other guys who, if they stay for four, might reach the 100-point mark, and one of them's a defenseman! If that happened, he would very much be the first in "forever." (Chris Norton's senior season was my family's first full season at the rink.)

Might we dream of a 20-goal season?

Strangely enough, hockey just did away with the last remnants of the Pairwise.

I always liked some aspects of the pairwise, even aspects of the "old" pairwise like record in the last 16, which could've ultimately been tweaked to be more fair regarding strengh-of-schedule. I think it's foolish that hockey now ignores even the results of head-to-head matches. That lacrosse, which has always been one of the worst smoke-filled rooms, might go to this fairer method at this point is certainly ironic.

Quote from: stereax on March 27, 2026, 09:49:31 PM"They're an extremely talented team. Their goalie played well. They got Pohlkamp back there. They're a really deep team, right? They're going four lines all night."

There was a time when we were the really deep team, but I feel like it's been while since we had three dangerous, wear-em-down lines and a checking line, if that's a thing anymore. I'd like to see us get back there.

As far as I'm concerned, the weakest part of our play this year was puck possession by forwards in the offensive zone. Sure, when we win a lot of face-offs our possession numbers are good. But we lose the puck a lot on rushes, and we haven't seemed to have a lot of cycling time; hence, we don't have the dwell time necessary to force in "greasy" goals when we need them. It's the difference between 22-11-1 and 31-5-1.

Quote from: marty on March 20, 2026, 10:25:30 PM

Quote from: nagowski on March 20, 2026, 10:07:08 PMWould love to donate to the Pep Band to hear a cover of the Grateful Dead's 'Casey Jones' every game.

Not sure why they don't play it...perhaps the words. But donate anyway!

Looking forward to hearing Casey Jones at quarter note = 144.

("Be careful Ryan, sh-ome things in here don't react well to bullet-sh.")

Quote from: RichH on March 20, 2026, 08:49:37 PMSure, but how is their Russian?  Look, I'm just going to assume anyone new is either a bot or a 12th account created by one of us just to mess with everyone. 

Like all the various jhu####s on the old Laxpower forum. Oh, the games they used to play!

We need to stop farting around with the puck on every rush and put it on net. Good things happen.

I also suggest outlawing drop passes for the rest of the season.

I am only here to say fie to Bill Howard and his defeatist attitude. Piped-in music is a scourge and must be eliminated.

Quote from: Trotsky on March 14, 2026, 11:50:02 PMThe same number of titles as Princeton won over the same period.  Princeton appeared once.

As long as QU doesn't win next year, Princeton will pull ahead, as the next installment of the decennial cycle is nigh.

I still hate overtime.

I remember Dave as a man with discerning tastes. He was quite more than once somehow at the bar of the Chariot during the Glee Club's post-Wednesday rehearsal shenanigans back in my day.

Those of us in the know would him a nod as we picked up a pitcher and then get back to singing, knowing that we had at least one very pleased audience member.

Quote from: CU2007 on November 02, 2025, 09:57:24 AM🍿

Someday it'll just be AI simulacra of Trotsky and ugarte arguing on their own hallucination of eLynah. And then the world will end—poof!

Quote from: VoltairePangloss sometimes said to Candide: "All events are linked together in the best of all possible worlds. For after all, if you had not been expelled from a fine castle with great kicks in the backside for love of Mademoiselle Cunégonde, if you had not been subjected to the Inquisition, if you had not traveled about America on foot, if you had not given the Baron a great blow with your sword, if you had not lost all your sheep from the good country of Eldorado, you would not be here eating candied citrons and pistachios."

"That is well said," replied Candide, "but we must cultivate our garden."

Quote from: Latouche/BernsteinOnce one dismisses
The rest of all possible worlds,
One finds that this is
The best of all possible worlds!

Quote from: Chris '03They run billboards bragging that they were included in USNWR rankings. Not where they rank just that the magazine includes them.


It is des-ti-n[ee]
The Big Red will show up.

...

We are a [i]member[/i],
Of the Ivy League.


Quote from: TrotskyI'm ragging on pop up for profit degree mills.  Q is not a joke for who they admit, they're a joke for deliberately aiming to be a Brand rather than an institution of higher learning.  

I have very close second-hand information on this. They are starting to pick up some better students, and many faculty members are very focused on teaching and being good at it. Overall, the student outcomes are perhaps better than some here might imagine. Whether those outcomes justify the cost of attending is another matter, but that's an open question at a lot of schools.

But the administration is unduly focused on branding, as you say, and to no purpose. Under Leahy, the president who dragged Quinnipiac out of commuter school-dom, the branding was in the service of accumulating more funding so that they could acquire or develop new academic units to round out the school. Now, exactly no one is certain what it's for. Presidents and administrations post-Leahy have no idea what they want the institution to be.

Quote from: wolcomaIt ain't rocket science but modern coaches want to pretend they are Clemson or LSU.

Clemson likes to pretend they're Clemson this year.