Red Hot Hockey, 11/25/17

[billhoward]

If you tally up the tickets you bought to attend all six Red Hot Hockey games for yourself, your family, friends you got tickets for who backed out last minute, bridge and tunnel tolls, parking, dining, drinks before and after, refreshments ($12 for Bud Light?) in that most famous arena, we were closing in on two grand by the time Galadja and the defense finally secured a W for the team and the fans. It was sweet.

And worth every penny. Plus, you got to learn which friends to exclude from future block purchases (at least if they backed out without paying).

But you misspelled "Galajda," so you owe me another $2,000.

At least when the Kazakhstan (another word with few correct spellings) rifle team won an international shooting match in Kuwait, I wasn't the one who pulled the Borat version of the Kazakh national anthem off the Web and played it at the medal ceremony. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-17491344

>>> Kazakhstan greatest country in the world.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium.
Other countries have inferior potassium.

...

Kazakhstan industry best in the world.
We invented toffee and trouser belt.
Kazakhstan's prostitutes cleanest in the region.
Except of course Turkmenistan's

[Beeeej]

If you tally up the tickets you bought to attend all six Red Hot Hockey games for yourself, your family, friends you got tickets for who backed out last minute, bridge and tunnel tolls, parking, dining, drinks before and after, refreshments ($12 for Bud Light?) in that most famous arena, we were closing in on two grand by the time Galadja and the defense finally secured a W for the team and the fans. It was sweet.

And worth every penny. Plus, you got to learn which friends to exclude from future block purchases (at least if they backed out without paying).

But you misspelled "Galajda," so you owe me another $2,000.

At least when the Kazakhstan (another word with few correct spellings) rifle team won an international shooting match in Kuwait, I wasn't the one who pulled the Borat version of the Kazakh national anthem off the Web and played it at the medal ceremony. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-17491344

>>> Kazakhstan greatest country in the world.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium.
Other countries have inferior potassium.

...

Kazakhstan industry best in the world.
We invented toffee and trouser belt.
Kazakhstan's prostitutes cleanest in the region.
Except of course Turkmenistan's

That'll be another $2,000 for using an absurdly gratuitous non-sequitur in the hopes it would seem like a related gag.

Make the check out to "Bee3eej."

[billhoward]

This is going to cost more than rent-to-own.

[Trotsky]

This is going to cost more than rent-to-own.

Oh, I think you've been owned already...

[Trotsky]

This post is pretty elitist.

It's part of my charm.

As a figure of speech, dirt farm in Manitoba had a certain Leona Helmsley-esque charm.

I come from a long line of oily Bohunk dirt farmers.  Any disparagement inferred is in the mind of the reader.

Still, it is a fate that a young man might want to avoid.

"I haven't even told my father about the scholarship I didn't get. I'm gonna end up working in a lumberyard the rest of my life."

"What's wrong with lumber? I own two lumberyards."

"I notice you don't spend too much time there."

[Beeeej]

Seriously, Nate?!

http://www.uscho.com/2017/11/30/friendship-four-champion-clarkson-continuing-to-fire-on-all-cylinders/

Cornell won its first ever Red Hot Hockey matchup with Boston University at Madison Square Garden Saturday, beating the Terriers 4-3. The Big Red had been 0-2-3 against BU in the bi-annual matchup.

Does he seriously not know that he could click elsewhere on the website for which he's writing his column to find these things out? Or, y'know, check the comments on his last column from a week ago that induced him to edit the column to correct it?!

[Trotsky]

Seriously, Nate?!

http://www.uscho.com/2017/11/30/friendship-four-champion-clarkson-continuing-to-fire-on-all-cylinders/

Cornell won its first ever Red Hot Hockey matchup with Boston University at Madison Square Garden Saturday, beating the Terriers 4-3. The Big Red had been 0-2-3 against BU in the bi-annual matchup.

Does he seriously not know that he could click elsewhere on the website for which he's writing his column to find these things out? Or, y'know, check the comments on his last column from a week ago that induced him to edit the column to correct it?!

Maybe he's listing records the way soccer fans do, W-T-L.

To be fair it makes more sense.

29-0-0 works either way.

[Swampy]

Seriously, Nate?!

http://www.uscho.com/2017/11/30/friendship-four-champion-clarkson-continuing-to-fire-on-all-cylinders/

Cornell won its first ever Red Hot Hockey matchup with Boston University at Madison Square Garden Saturday, beating the Terriers 4-3. The Big Red had been 0-2-3 against BU in the bi-annual matchup.

Does he seriously not know that he could click elsewhere on the website for which he's writing his column to find these things out? Or, y'know, check the comments on his last column from a week ago that induced him to edit the column to correct it?!

Maybe he's listing records the way soccer fans do, W-T-L.

To be fair it makes more sense.

29-0-0 works either way.

+1

[Beeeej]

Seriously, Nate?!

http://www.uscho.com/2017/11/30/friendship-four-champion-clarkson-continuing-to-fire-on-all-cylinders/

Cornell won its first ever Red Hot Hockey matchup with Boston University at Madison Square Garden Saturday, beating the Terriers 4-3. The Big Red had been 0-2-3 against BU in the bi-annual matchup.

Does he seriously not know that he could click elsewhere on the website for which he's writing his column to find these things out? Or, y'know, check the comments on his last column from a week ago that induced him to edit the column to correct it?!

Maybe he's listing records the way soccer fans do, W-T-L.

To be fair it makes more sense.

29-0-0 works either way.

If it weren't a record of hockey results instead of soccer, or if USCHO consistently used that style throughout, it would certainly make more sense. But it is, and they don't.

[BearLover]

Seriously, Nate?!

http://www.uscho.com/2017/11/30/friendship-four-champion-clarkson-continuing-to-fire-on-all-cylinders/

Cornell won its first ever Red Hot Hockey matchup with Boston University at Madison Square Garden Saturday, beating the Terriers 4-3. The Big Red had been 0-2-3 against BU in the bi-annual matchup.

Does he seriously not know that he could click elsewhere on the website for which he's writing his column to find these things out? Or, y'know, check the comments on his last column from a week ago that induced him to edit the column to correct it?!

The Nate Owen pieces are great for their factual inaccuracies, but as far as USCHO ECAC articles go, I prefer Nathan Fournier's weekly picks. Each game synopsis presents one or two irrelevant facts about each team and then makes a prediction that nearly always has absolutely nothing to do with those facts.

[Trotsky]

Nathan Fournier's weekly picks. Each game synopsis presents one or two irrelevant facts about each team and then makes a prediction that nearly always has absolutely nothing to do with those facts.

Also includes the following middle school error:

The Bears are coming off a week and half break while Union had a successful weekend in North Dakota. This could be a trap game for the Dutchmen as Brown will be chomping at the bit to get back on the ice.

[ugarte]

Also includes the following middle school error:

that is not a middle school error; almost nobody knows that phrase because it is (unless you are part of the horsey set) archaic usage

[Trotsky]

Also includes the following middle school error:

that is not a middle school error; almost nobody knows that phrase because it is (unless you are part of the horsey set) archaic usage

As words wend to and fro through the centuries, they can erroneously lurch the meaning of their kith, by dint of trends that defy the hue and cry of the crowd.
 
I merely don't wish to give those terms short shrift and cast them into umbrage.

tl; dr: It's fucking champing, and not even listed as archaic.

[Swampy]

Also includes the following middle school error:

that is not a middle school error; almost nobody knows that phrase because it is (unless you are part of the horsey set) archaic usage

As words wend to and fro through the centuries, they can erroneously lurch the meaning of their kith, by dint of trends that defy the hue and cry of the crowd.
 
I merely don't wish to give those terms short shrift and cast them into umbrage.

tl; dr: It's fucking champing, and not even listed as archaic.

Unless the original author really meant "chomping." Yum, what a bit of a tasty morsel that was.

[upprdeck]

http://grammarist.com/usage/champing-chomping-at-the-bit/