Opponents News 2: Hockey's the Reason for the Season

[billhoward]

Very sad, but we can help. Rensselaer assistant coach Graham struck by car, in ICU at Albany Medical Hospital and RPI Assistant Coach Struck By Vehicle, In Intensive Care.

Here's the GoFundMe page. Looks like the community has already been generous. Hope and suspect that a goodly amount was from the hockey community. Give as generously as you can.

Guy fractures his skull, needs money for therapy to recover. Be nice if RPI medical for professors and staff covered that.

One would hope/expect that RPI's medical coverage would include such things. (Even Obamacare, if we still have it.) Maybe the GoFundMe is to support his family if RPI stops paying him while he's out of commission.

And wouldn't the insurance carried by the driver of the vehicle who hit him supposedly be responsible for all these costs? I'm not saying it's not wonderful when a community pulls together, and I really hope he's going to be okay, it's just a little weird.

Like when we're asked to send razors, foodstuffs, sox to our servicemen in Iraq. Isn't that the job of our government? I can see sending Episcopal crosses and inflatable life-size dolls, but not sox or foot powder.

[RichH]

Like when we're asked to send razors, foodstuffs, sox to our servicemen in Iraq. Isn't that the job of our government? I can see sending Episcopal crosses and inflatable life-size dolls, but not sox or foot powder.

Personally, I would love to move the American League teams from Chicago and Boston that far away. Good riddance.

[drs48]

+1

[Trotsky]

Like when we're asked to send razors, foodstuffs, sox to our servicemen in Iraq. Isn't that the job of our government? I can see sending Episcopal crosses and inflatable life-size dolls, but not sox or foot powder.

Personally, I would love to move the American League teams from Chicago and Boston that far away. Good riddance.

You hate the White Sox?

How can anybody summon the energy to even opine on the White Sox?  They are the most anodyne team in baseball not named the Padres.

The Red Sox obvs I agree.  Fuck them with Roger Clemens' broken bat.

[RichH]

Like when we're asked to send razors, foodstuffs, sox to our servicemen in Iraq. Isn't that the job of our government? I can see sending Episcopal crosses and inflatable life-size dolls, but not sox or foot powder.

Personally, I would love to move the American League teams from Chicago and Boston that far away. Good riddance.

You hate the White Sox?

How can anybody summon the energy to even opine on the White Sox?  They are the most anodyne team in baseball not named the Padres.

Two words: Hawk Harrelson. His voice scrapes my retinas, and I want him to be tortured in hell for as long as he has tortured the airwaves.

But really, I don't dislike the White Sox. I call out the White Sox as yet another dig to Red Sox fans who insist on calling them "The Sox." I do so to remind them that there's a team that had the name "Sox" first, AND they went through a longer WS drought, AND their fans weren't 1/10000th as annoying about it. When *they* ended the 88-year stretch, their reaction wasn't "LOOOK AT US!!!" it was "Leave us alone and let us enjoy this."  The White Sox = The Right Sox.

[Trotsky]

But really, I don't dislike the White Sox. I call out the White Sox as yet another dig to Red Sox fans who insist on calling them "The Sox." I do so to remind them that there's a team that had the name "Sox" first, AND they went through a longer WS drought, AND their fans weren't 1/10000th as annoying about it. When *they* ended the 88-year stretch, their reaction wasn't "LOOOK AT US!!!" it was "Leave us alone and let us enjoy this."  The White Sox = The Right Sox.

What do you expect?  Boston is the City of Losers.  When they win it's just that much more apparent they, personally, are losers.

Save the Cornell fans and the other buildings; sink the Pru and the other people in the Harbor.

[French Rage]

Interesting observation on the other semi: Harvard hasn't lost an ECAC semi game since 2001 and Clarkson hasn't since 2002.  Granted, Harvard's run is a little more impressive as they've been in 10 since then, and Clarkson only 2.

[Beeeej]

...and now we root for Harvard (ugh) to win today, or if Clarkson wins, Princeton tomorrow, to get NoDak off the bubble and onto the golf course.

[BearLover]

I'm still not rooting for Harvard.

[BearLover]

For those who saw Clarkson's GWG, have we seen a Cornell goal like that all year? We almost never score on those tic-tac-toe passing plays in transition, and we convert on an extremely low percentage of odd-man rushes. As great as Cornell's season has been, they don't have the offensive firepower of any of the other three teams at Lake Placid. Cornell is still a few more Donaldsons away from that...

[scoop85]

For those who saw Clarkson's GWG, have we seen a Cornell goal like that all year? We almost never score on those tic-tac-toe passing plays in transition, and we convert on an extremely low percentage of odd-man rushes. As great as Cornell's season has been, they don't have the offensive firepower of any of the other three teams at Lake Placid. Cornell is still a few more Donaldsons away from that...

A fair point, although we did have a number of very nice goals in the rout against Q.  But a good percentage of our goals have been by driving the net, getting wrap-around chances, rebounds, and the like. Tonight we had a hard time stringing together passes and when we had some clean looks from the slot we couldn't convert.

Certainly disappointing making the trip to LP and having the rug pulled out from under us. But hey that's sports.

[BearLover]

For those who saw Clarkson's GWG, have we seen a Cornell goal like that all year? We almost never score on those tic-tac-toe passing plays in transition, and we convert on an extremely low percentage of odd-man rushes. As great as Cornell's season has been, they don't have the offensive firepower of any of the other three teams at Lake Placid. Cornell is still a few more Donaldsons away from that...

A fair point, although we did have a number of very nice goals in the rout against Q.  But a good percentage of our goals have been by driving the net, getting wrap-around chances, rebounds, and the like. Tonight we had a hard time stringing together passes and when we had some clean looks from the slot we couldn't convert.

Certainly disappointing making the trip to LP and having the rug pulled out from under us. But hey that's sports.

Cornell can find guys in the slot and score on wraparounds and rebounds and that will win them enough games when their defense is as good as it's been this year. But they are still flat out bad at scoring in transition. Maybe that's something that will change with next year's freshman class. This year's seniors are good at many things, but scoring in transition isn't one of them. The number of times this year I've seen Cornell with numbers in transition not even get a shot off has to be at least four times greater than the number of goals they've scored in such a spot.

[Beeeej]

For those who saw Clarkson's GWG, have we seen a Cornell goal like that all year? We almost never score on those tic-tac-toe passing plays in transition, and we convert on an extremely low percentage of odd-man rushes. As great as Cornell's season has been, they don't have the offensive firepower of any of the other three teams at Lake Placid. Cornell is still a few more Donaldsons away from that...

I can't tell you which game it was, but I watched a pretty limited number of games this season via livestream, and I absolutely saw one such Cornell goal. It stood out to me exactly because it has not been a typical way for Cornell to score in the last several years.

I'm not about to start watching footage, but I'm sure it's in the highlights on YouTube if you want to look for it.

[BearLover]

For those who saw Clarkson's GWG, have we seen a Cornell goal like that all year? We almost never score on those tic-tac-toe passing plays in transition, and we convert on an extremely low percentage of odd-man rushes. As great as Cornell's season has been, they don't have the offensive firepower of any of the other three teams at Lake Placid. Cornell is still a few more Donaldsons away from that...

I can't tell you which game it was, but I watched a pretty limited number of games this season via livestream, and I absolutely saw one such Cornell goal. It stood out to me exactly because it has not been a typical way for Cornell to score in the last several years.

That sort of proves my point, though. I considered adding the disclaimer "I'm sure someone could dredge one up, but..."

[BearLover]

Also, Miami has decided to fire its assistant coaches and also some of its players.