Alumni in the pros - March 2014

[Rosey]

I heard Snow's little insert statement about the team "not being able" to sign Moulson in the off-season and chalked it up to a desperate attempt to save his job with BS. Same goes with his justification for making up the picks lost in the Moulson deal in the AMac deal.  Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.  "Honey, I know I blew 250k at the track, but it's OK, I made it back up by selling the house, so we're even!"

Now I know what I sound like when I'm being a bitter Jets fan.

Not that this new-found awareness will change my behavior or anything; it's just interesting to know.

[KeithK]

I heard Snow's little insert statement about the team "not being able" to sign Moulson in the off-season and chalked it up to a desperate attempt to save his job with BS. Same goes with his justification for making up the picks lost in the Moulson deal in the AMac deal.  Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.  "Honey, I know I blew 250k at the track, but it's OK, I made it back up by selling the house, so we're even!"

Now I know what I sound like when I'm being a bitter Jets fan.

Not that this new-found awareness will change my behavior or anything; it's just interesting to know.

It is possible to transcend the bitterness of being a Jets fan.  I have done it.  Of course, I basically don't watch footbal anymore.

[Trotsky]

I heard Snow's little insert statement about the team "not being able" to sign Moulson in the off-season and chalked it up to a desperate attempt to save his job with BS. Same goes with his justification for making up the picks lost in the Moulson deal in the AMac deal.  Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.  "Honey, I know I blew 250k at the track, but it's OK, I made it back up by selling the house, so we're even!"

Now I know what I sound like when I'm being a bitter Jets fan.

No Isles fan who saw 1975-85 is bitter.  I didn't realize at the time I'd be paying off that debt for the rest of my NHL-watching life, but it's a deal I'd gladly accept again.  Not to mention that being an Isles fan in the 70's is what made me a Cornell hockey fan.

The Isles could go 30 more years of never winning a playoff series and I'd still be way ahead.

Occasionally irritated.  But never, ever bitter.

[Josh '99]

I think he's a rental in MN if Vanek wants to be there.  GMs usually go for top-end skill versus grit/determination/going to those dirty goal spots when they have a choice.

I was actually wondering if Moulson would head back to the Islanders to play with his buddy Tavares.  Seemingly Garth Snow closed that door, I heard him "defend" the Vanek trade on the NHL radio network yesterday, one of the points he made is that they decided that they weren't going to re-sign Moulson.  It was a little unclear if he was saying that the Islanders didn't want him or if they had discussions and couldn't work out the economics.  I would assume the latter given his productivity.

I think a lot of teams will want him and he'll be able to land on a good team as a top 6 forward.

I'd love him back with the Iles, after Wang sends Snow back to Orono in a wooden box ...

Heh.

[MattS]

I think he's a rental in MN if Vanek wants to be there.  GMs usually go for top-end skill versus grit/determination/going to those dirty goal spots when they have a choice.

I was actually wondering if Moulson would head back to the Islanders to play with his buddy Tavares.  Seemingly Garth Snow closed that door, I heard him "defend" the Vanek trade on the NHL radio network yesterday, one of the points he made is that they decided that they weren't going to re-sign Moulson.  It was a little unclear if he was saying that the Islanders didn't want him or if they had discussions and couldn't work out the economics.  I would assume the latter given his productivity.

I think a lot of teams will want him and he'll be able to land on a good team as a top 6 forward.

I'd love him back with the Iles, after Wang sends Snow back to Orono in a wooden box ...

Heh.

Nice!


I think that Moulson is at a crossroads so to speak. If he wants a Cup then he's got to move somewhere besides the Isles. But if he wants to be a scoring machine (for his talent level) then heading back to the Isles with Tavaras make sense. And if he wants to be paid ridiculous amounts of money then start sucking up to Sather!! (said as a Rangers fan)

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I heard Snow's little insert statement about the team "not being able" to sign Moulson in the off-season and chalked it up to a desperate attempt to save his job with BS. Same goes with his justification for making up the picks lost in the Moulson deal in the AMac deal.  Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.  "Honey, I know I blew 250k at the track, but it's OK, I made it back up by selling the house, so we're even!"

Now I know what I sound like when I'm being a bitter Jets fan.

No Isles fan who saw 1975-85 is bitter.  I didn't realize at the time I'd be paying off that debt for the rest of my NHL-watching life, but it's a deal I'd gladly accept again.  Not to mention that being an Isles fan in the 70's is what made me a Cornell hockey fan.

The Isles could go 30 more years of never winning a playoff series and I'd still be way ahead.

Occasionally irritated.  But never, ever bitter.

And for the record, it was putting up with JAP Islander fans during my four years at Cornell which helped turn me into a Flyers fan.  I was a Bruins fan up until I got to Cornell.

It's all your fault!  It's all your fault!  It's all your fault!  It's all your fault!

[jeff '84]

It's not Lynah, but still pretty good.

Former Calgary Flames great Joe Nieuwendyk, who won a Stanley Cup there in 1989, had his No. 25 raised to the rafters at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Friday night.

http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2014/03/08/video-flames-great-joe-nieuwendyk-has-no-25-raised-to-rafters-at-saddledome/

[billhoward]

Maybe we should declare March AITP wasted and start early on April. Like Vietnam, declare victory, get the hell out. You see seven new posts in three hours and think Moulson got a hat trick or Scrivens had another 60-save shutout. But nooo.

[Beeeej]

Maybe we should declare March AITP wasted and start early on April. Like Vietnam, declare victory, get the hell out. You see seven new posts in three hours and think Moulson got a hat trick or Scrivens had another 60-save shutout. But nooo.

...and... this was supposed to help the situation somehow?

[nshapiro]

The only school I really hate is Duke, and that is because of the institutional response to the Lax scandal - after unilaterally suspending the team's season, and then realizing that the lax boys had not been guilty of gang rape, just of hiring strippers, underage drinking etc... they petition the NCAA to get another year of eligibility for those poor boys that were wrongly accused.  It makes me sick.

[Rosey]

just of hiring strippers, underage drinking etc...

The horror! The horror! Before long they'll have progressed onto marijuana, which we know leads straight to premarital sex.

[marty]

just of hiring strippers, underage drinking etc...

The horror! The horror! Before long they'll have progressed onto marijuana, which we know leads straight to premarital sex.

In the old days it would have led to "The Clover Club".

[Trotsky]

If you want to hate Duke TA at Duke for a year.  My best friend from HS was in the Duke doctoral program and he had to deal with those little monsters.  I've never heard him say anything mean about anybody except those kids, who he was ready to drop into a crevasse.

I had exactly the same reaction at Stanford.  Perfect teeth, nice clothes, well-spoken, and not an inkling of an original thought or a spark of sincere curiosity -- or sincere anything -- among any of the little bastids.

[sah67]

Moulson scored his first goal with Minnesota tonight, but the Wild fell to St. Louis in a shootout.

Scrivens was faced with yet another barrage of shots, stopping 46 of 50 in a 4-2 loss to the Kings.

[Rosey]

If you want to hate Duke TA at Duke for a year.  My best friend from HS was in the Duke doctoral program and he had to deal with those little monsters.  I've never heard him say anything mean about anybody except those kids, who he was ready to drop into a crevasse.

I had exactly the same reaction at Stanford.  Perfect teeth, nice clothes, well-spoken, and not an inkling of an original thought or a spark of sincere curiosity -- or sincere anything -- among any of the little bastids.

I have a hard time believing the culture at any of these schools is substantially different from any of the others. Maybe Cornell is an exception because it has a much broader base (given that most of these other elite schools are at most Arts + Engineering), but I knew plenty of well-spoken, self-important, utterly oblivious douchebags with perfect teeth and hair during my time on the hill.

Re: Duke specifically, let's not forget that as horrible as the Duke lacrosse players obviously were ("Only someone as ugly as I am could love me", etc., etc.), that they were wrongly accused and the victims of a witch hunt by an all-too-credulous prosecutor looking to make a name for himself by taking down the big bad racist white boys. (In a way, he did make a name for himself: "mud".)