Opponents and Others 2023-24

[adamw]

There is literally no information that indicates Syer might be the next Cornell head coach. That Syer is interviewing elsewhere when Schafer sometimes suggests that he may be ready to retire soon indicates, if anything, the opposite. You aren't getting more information because adam has done everything but send you a letter with a wax seal that says "i heard this off the record and i'm not telling you my source."

My rule for internet forum posting is to assume people are talking out of their ass unless I'm give a reason to assume otherwise. Is "editor of one of the biggest college hockey news websites" enough of a reason to disregard all the publicly available information that I consider to be pointing in the opposite direction? Maybe. Somebody bookmark this thread and we'll return to it when Schafer retires.

I believe your problem, clearly, is that you believe "publicly available information" points in the other direction -- when it clearly does nothing of the sort. That you believe it does, is invented in your head. But I think Ben Syer is a great dude, so I really have no interest in going on and on about any of this. It's just very weird that you think what I said has been "borne out as incorrect" - and you're using ... what? exactly as evidence? very bizarre.

By "publicly available information" I mean all the stuff I previously said (been associate head coach for long successful period, coaches the defense, leads recruiting, wants to be a head coach, Cornell often hires from within, wife works for the university, etc.). I'm going to drop this point now. I hope he doesn't get hired by Princeton. I still believe there is a good chance he is our next head coach.

All of your "publicly available information" led you to insist Cornell would be no better than 20th in the Pairwise this year. ::whistle::

[dbilmes]

In this opinion column in the BU student newspaper, the writer laments the lack of support from the student body for the school's hockey program.
"The support the team receives from the student body and BU community does not meet the expectations one would expect from such a high-caliber program."

[billhoward]

Our son got paid by BU to work the penalty box and I don't think there was a huge amount of competition for the job. You can't yell or cheer but you have one hell of a view. I think at Lynah you could have charity bidding war for the right to work it.

(He went there for the hotel school. Got recruited by an ex-Cornell hotel prof who'd been a Hobart lacrosse guy early 1970s. In the era when the Cornell side of the sideline got pelted with beer bottles in 1973 or 1974.)

[Trotsky]

We all missed this 2 weeks ago:

The NHL's Carolina Hurricanes have announced that the team has signed Quinnipiac sophomore defenseman Charles-Alexis Legault to a three-year, entry-level contract.

Good.  Fuck them.

[billhoward]

We all missed this 2 weeks ago:

The NHL's Carolina Hurricanes have announced that the team has signed Quinnipiac sophomore defenseman Charles-Alexis Legault to a three-year, entry-level contract.

Good.  Fuck them.

Hey, in other Quinnipiac news: This month is the 10th anniversary of the escapade of a Quinnipiac student who called in a bomb threat on graduation day in hopes of masking from her parents that she had used all the senior-year tuition and housing money tranferred from her parents to party, thus she would not be graduating, and figured if she called in a bomb threat, no graduation ceremony, parents wouldn't know. She called in the bomb threat from her own cellphone.
College Student Calls In Bomb Threat to Graduation So Parents Wouldn't Discover She Dropped Out

[Al DeFlorio]

Read it and weep, Greg:  https://www.wcvb.com/article/northeastern-university-plans-to-replace-historic-matthews-arena-former-home-of-bruins-celtics/60950106

[billhoward]

Northeastern's Matthews Arena is 114 years old, seats 4666.

The most inclusive story is the Boston Globe:  

[A] letter [to the Boston Planning and Development Agency], sent by the university's Vice President of Planning, Real Estate, and Facilities Kathy Spiegelman to the BPDA, said Matthews would be replaced by a 290,000 square foot facility for Northeastern's sporting events. Matthews is the world's oldest multi-purpose athletic building and was purchased by Northeastern in 1979, the school's website reads.

If approved, the new facility would include an arena, a field house with multi-purpose turf, basketball courts, recreational courts, and "other accessory uses" to support Northeastern's athletic needs, according to the letter.

"The Project will also include site improvements, including new street trees, pedestrian improvements, and public realm improvements," Spiegelman wrote.

The author must be a generalist. Her story three days earlier:
"Boston news anchor appears to swallow a fly — or an eyelash — live on air"

[Trotsky]

And Appleton only am escaped alone to tell thee.

[jtwcornell91]

And Appleton only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Do they not have a historic preservation board in Boston?  Or is the whole city so historic that they can tear anything down?

[Trotsky]

And Appleton only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Do they not have a historic preservation board in Boston?  Or is the whole city so historic that they can tear anything down?

The rule in Boston is you can bulldoze anything historically black, while for whites you must meticulously document somebody rich wants the land.

[Trotsky]

Today in the North Country

[scoop85]

Today in the North Country

Geez, that's a bizarre tragedy. Sad for the young woman and her family.

[Jim Hyla]

Read it and weep, Greg:  https://www.wcvb.com/article/northeastern-university-plans-to-replace-historic-matthews-arena-former-home-of-bruins-celtics/60950106

Some interesting memories from the old Boston Arena. The 1966 ECAC Tournament was played there and we lost in the championship. Most interesting parts of that game were that although we finished second, lost to Clarkson 6-2 in finals, we were ineligible for the NCAAs. Also we didn't have our band there. So after Brown lost their game, the Brown band came to play for us.

The next year might have been the most memorable game played at the Boston Arena. We played in the Boston Christmas Tournament at the Arena. It was a three night, three game tournament, !2/28, 29 & 30. We won the first two and played BU in the third game. It was tied after 2 OTs, short memory but I think each were 20 minutes, and after having played what amounted to almost 4 games in 3 nights, both coaches agreed to call it a tie and quit. That's one reason why some of us long for going back to traditional OTs. Imagine if that game ended in a 5 min OT and then a shootout. Would anyone remember it?

Memorable quote from the Boston Globe, "It went past midnight, the trolley closed down, yet nobody left."

The Arena had an unusual quirk. It had an egg shaped ice and boards behind the nets. Rather than two corners, it was basically a continuously curved boards going from one side boards to the other side boards. Made for some interesting play.

[abmarks]

surprised this hasn't been posted yet.

Clarkson Turns to Alum J.F. Houle as Next Coach

Seems like a solid hire for Clarkson as they get an alum who's been successful (and had just been extended) as HC with Montreal's AHL affiliate.
 Also probably good for the ECAC overall to land coaches thatve reached that level.

Makes me wonder whether Cam Abbott might get a future sniff with us after Casey given he just landed an AHL HC gig himself.

[BearLover]

surprised this hasn't been posted yet.

Clarkson Turns to Alum J.F. Houle as Next Coach

Seems like a solid hire for Clarkson as they get an alum who's been successful (and had just been extended) as HC with Montreal's AHL affiliate.
 Also probably good for the ECAC overall to land coaches thatve reached that level.

Makes me wonder whether Cam Abbott might get a future sniff with us after Casey given he just landed an AHL HC gig himself.

A few days ago I posted that CJ's sudden and late departure totally screws Clarkson. I was entirely wrong. In the matter of a week Clarkson managed to replace, and maybe even upgrade, their coach.

Makes you wonder whether Clarkson is really such a difficult place to win at, given they managed to attract a successful AHL coach.