Alumni in the Pros - February 2011

[ftyuv]

Interestingly enough, the "was Paille's suspension justified?" poll on Boston.com's Bruins blog is pretty evenly divided. Personally I think 4 games is good. Paille isn't a dirty player, but the hit was dirty. Hopefully the NHL is sending the message that dirty without intent is 4 games, so if you throw in intent (ahem, Matt Cooke) you better be prepared to sit for a good, long while.

Bruins fans and fans of Gordie Howe hockey can see enough in the replay to see a hard hit on a player who wasn't looking around so, sure, the poll could be evenly divided. Could Paille have delivered a check that was more check and less corporal punishment? Certainly.

Paille teammate Andrew Ference criticizes the hit ("I mean, it's a bad hit, right?" [you'd think he'd say "eh" unless the Times cleaned it up]) and dings Sidney Crosby for not doing same when a Pengins teammate delivered a cheap shot on the Bruins' Marc Savard. http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/bruins-ference-criticizes-teammates-hit/

Just to be clear, I was pleasantly surprised by how many Bruins fans saw it as a dirty hit. We're not all homers!

[dbilmes]

Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy defends Ference for telling it like it is about his teammate's hit that injured Sawada, while some other hockey neanderthals like Don Cherry say you never badmouth a teammate, even if he's an ax murderer. No wonder they can't eliminate fighting from the NHL!

[CKinsland]

Interview with Scrivens in the Cornell Daily Sun.

[profudge]

And  Douglas Murray gets a   Hit of the Night!

[Roy 82]

And  Douglas Murray gets a   Hit of the Night!

After setting a franchise record with 7 blocked shots the previous game against the Bruins.

(back to back defensive oriented 2-0 shutouts. Maybe Douglas suggested that the Sharks take a look at Schafer's game strategy.)

[Larry72]

Matt Moulson gets his 19th goal of the season on the PP with a great pass from Tavares Tuesday night in the Islander's 5-3 loss to Toronto.

[jeff '84]

Matt Moulson gets his 19th goal of the season on the PP with a great pass from Tavares Tuesday night in the Islander's 5-3 loss to Toronto.

... And he just got #20 (Isles crushing Pens 7-2 in second.

[Jordan 04]

Matt Moulson gets his 19th goal of the season on the PP with a great pass from Tavares Tuesday night in the Islander's 5-3 loss to Toronto.

... And he just got #20 (Isles crushing Pens 7-2 in second.

Just flipped it on and caught the goal.  Thought surely I was seeing a typo on the top of the screen!

[jeff '84]

.... and 21st.... yeah crazy game.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Not "in" the pros; more like "at" the pros: I just noticed someone with a "Cornell Hockey" t-shirt or sweatshirt sitting right behind the visiting bench on today's Kings-Flyers game.

(Didn't feel the need for a new thread).

[cbuckser]

The Canadiens called up Brendon Nash today.

[Josh '99]

The Canadiens called up Brendon Nash today.

From another article, "Youth Movement", on the Canadiens' website:

With Tuesday morning's call-up of defenseman Brendon Nash, Habs head-coach Jacques Martin can now count five Bulldogs in his lineup and none of them are there to play the spectator's role.

...

Another Hamilton transplant that stands the chance to make a splash of his own is Brendon Nash who could find himself in the Canadiens lineup as early as tonight's game against Buffalo should Jaroslav Spacek be unable to play. Max Pacioretty, one of Nash's former teammates, doesn't doubt for a second that the young defenseman will answer the call if given the opportunity.

"Brendon's got great hands and really good stick work. He's a really useful guy to have on the power-play and he's good at starting the rush. I'm sure he's going to be able to do all the things here that brought him success in Hamilton," promised Pacioretty. "Playing at this level, at this time of the year is something that makes us all better players."

Tonight's Habs-Sabres game is on Vs. for those who might be interested in watching, though at this point it's not clear whether Nash will play.

[Ronald '09]

The Canadiens called up Brendon Nash today.

Sounds like he will be in the lineup and wearing number 47.  7:30 on VS.  He's expected to be paired with Yannick Weber.

He played 5 shifts totaling 3:37 in the first.  Most of that was in the first half of the period.  He only played 22 seconds in the latter half of the period.  2 shots on goal, one shot attempted blocked, one blocked shot.

The best place to follow for detailed statistics is here: http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20102011/ES020849.HTM

[Jim Hyla]

The Canadiens called up Brendon Nash today.

Sounds like he will be in the lineup and wearing number 47.  7:30 on VS.  He's expected to be paired with Yannick Weber.

He played 5 shifts totaling 3:37 in the first.  Most of that was in the first half of the period.  He only played 22 seconds in the latter half of the period.  2 shots on goal, one shot attempted blocked, one blocked shot.

The best place to follow for detailed statistics is here: http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20102011/ES020849.HTM

This, to me, is the most amazing of our grads. Remember how many of us talked about him; not believing in his skills. Joined as a free agent, and called up this year. Now, he probably won't stay, but just doing it is great. How I'd like to have him back.

[ugarte]

...assign a fragment identifier to each of a plurality of backbone fragments, each of the backbone fragments comprising one or more of the backbone nodes, each of the backbone fragments being unable to communicate with the remaining backbone fragments due to a fragmentation of the communication network...

Are you doing medmal work or something?