Opponents and Others 2023-24

[Weder]

How do you people remember this stuff?  I am not sure what I had for breakfast this morning. **]

I covered that game as a student and the postgame interviews (not so much the fight itself) have always stuck in my brain. Burt's version was that he declined an offer to fight and that prompted Shtrom to say something along the lines of "Well, let's go then." (Too lazy to look up the story but it probably still exists somewhere online, though it is assuredly some mediocre writing.)

[David Harding]

How do you people remember this stuff?  I am not sure what I had for breakfast this morning. **]

I covered that game as a student and the postgame interviews (not so much the fight itself) have always stuck in my brain. Burt's version was that he declined an offer to fight and that prompted Shtrom to say something along the lines of "Well, let's go then." (Too lazy to look up the story but it probably still exists somewhere online, though it is assuredly some mediocre writing.)

The 1998 Suns aren't digitized, but the Ithaca Journal report is here:  https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ithaca-journal/125932876/

[Beeeej]

How do you people remember this stuff?  I am not sure what I had for breakfast this morning. **]

Well, it helps to have seen the absurdity in person. But once you read Bill's summary from the late, lamented Hockey-L, you'll remember it forever, too.

"...suffice it to say that the next time somebody asks me what I consider to be the height of stupidity, I'll have an answer ready:  five feet ten inches, because according to the game program, that's how tall Leeor Shtrom is."

Full summary:
https://lists.maine.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A3=9812&L=HOCKEY-L&E=0&P=112370&B=--&T=text%2Fplain;%20charset=us-ascii&header=1

[jtwcornell91]

Shep also picked up a fighting major at Lynah in 2000.

And a double-DQ, IIRC, since he skated the length of the ice to fight with our goalie (Ian Burt?)

That was Union's Leeor Shtrom in 1998.

Oh, right.  We seem to have had a lot of goalie fights back then.

[jtwcornell91]

How do you people remember this stuff?  I am not sure what I had for breakfast this morning. **]

Well, I was just reflecting on the fact that current undergrads were not born when all this happened. ::wow::

[dag14]

How do you people remember this stuff?  I am not sure what I had for breakfast this morning. **]

Well, it helps to have seen the absurdity in person. But once you read Bill's summary from the late, lamented Hockey-L, you'll remember it forever, too.

"...suffice it to say that the next time somebody asks me what I consider to be the height of stupidity, I'll have an answer ready:  five feet ten inches, because according to the game program, that's how tall Leeor Shtrom is."

Full summary:
https://lists.maine.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A3=9812&L=HOCKEY-L&E=0&P=112370&B=--&T=text%2Fplain;%20charset=us-ascii&header=1

I rarely missed a game between 1969 and 2018 except for 3 years in law school in the mid-70's so I quite likely DID witness the antics in person.  I do vividly recall Randy Wilson's missed open net and defenseman Robbie Gemmel's goal scored from the crease in a game decades earlier, however.  I guess my memory is selective....

[marty]

How do you people remember this stuff?  I am not sure what I had for breakfast this morning. **]

Well, it helps to have seen the absurdity in person. But once you read Bill's summary from the late, lamented Hockey-L, you'll remember it forever, too.

"...suffice it to say that the next time somebody asks me what I consider to be the height of stupidity, I'll have an answer ready:  five feet ten inches, because according to the game program, that's how tall Leeor Shtrom is."

Full summary:
https://lists.maine.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A3=9812&L=HOCKEY-L&E=0&P=112370&B=--&T=text%2Fplain;%20charset=us-ascii&header=1

I rarely missed a game between 1969 and 2018 except for 3 years in law school in the mid-70's so I quite likely DID witness the antics in person.  I do vividly recall Randy Wilson's missed open net and defenseman Robbie Gemmel's goal scored from the crease in a game decades earlier, however.  I guess my memory is selective....

One of the best parts of life is trading memories.  If I remembered what my friends do and vice versa,  my world would be a sad place.

All of us except Marilu Henner have selective memory.  Yippee!

[billhoward]

How do you people remember this stuff?  I am not sure what I had for breakfast this morning. **]

Like Italian (or Irish, pick one) Alzheimer's: You forget everything but the grudge.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

How do you people remember this stuff?  I am not sure what I had for breakfast this morning. **]

Well, it helps to have seen the absurdity in person. But once you read Bill's summary from the late, lamented Hockey-L, you'll remember it forever, too.

"...suffice it to say that the next time somebody asks me what I consider to be the height of stupidity, I'll have an answer ready:  five feet ten inches, because according to the game program, that's how tall Leeor Shtrom is."

Full summary:
https://lists.maine.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A3=9812&L=HOCKEY-L&E=0&P=112370&B=--&T=text%2Fplain;%20charset=us-ascii&header=1

I rarely missed a game between 1969 and 2018 except for 3 years in law school in the mid-70's so I quite likely DID witness the antics in person.  I do vividly recall Randy Wilson's missed open net and defenseman Robbie Gemmel's goal scored from the crease in a game decades earlier, however.  I guess my memory is selective....

I remember Nethery's goal tying it up.  Gemmell's goal less so.

[dag14]

I remember Robbie's goal primarily because of where he was when he took the shot -- practically in the crease.  I mean -- what was he doing there?  He was a defenseman!

[Chris '03]

Mike Vecchione wins the Calder Cup. https://twitter.com/hockeydaily365/status/1671750115487363072?s=46&t=_waXTmQfZ9rEGNNzPJe2Yw

[David Harding]

https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/college/2023/06/28/tennessee-state-hockey-hbcu-nhl-draft-2023-nashville-predators/70364516007/

Tennessee State University is prepared to become the first Historically Black College and University to field a collegiate hockey team, the school revealed Wednesday ahead of the 2023 NHL Draft in Nashville.

A men's club team is planned for the '24-'25 season, moving to D-I by '26-'27, with women's team to follow.

[Chris '03]

23-24 opponent Arizona State to NCHC for 24-25. https://twitter.com/chnews/status/1676644980352229376?s=46&t=_waXTmQfZ9rEGNNzPJe2Yw

[Dafatone]

23-24 opponent Arizona State to NCHC for 24-25. https://twitter.com/chnews/status/1676644980352229376?s=46&t=_waXTmQfZ9rEGNNzPJe2Yw

An odd number of teams in a conference hurts my brain.

Wonder where Augustana winds up. D1 hockey in my backyard, somehow.

Edit: apparently they're CCHA.

[Trotsky]

Good for them.  

Nacho needs another now if you're listening, Rand.