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With all the more consequential matters on Harvard’s plate right now you wouldn’t think they'd find the time to be in compliance with my long-standing directive: ANNOUNCE RECRUITS BEFORE THE FIRST SCRIMMAGE OF THE FALL!!! But they did, which accounts for the remarkable fact that here’s a new...
Though it more or less disappeared during Covid, I found the old annual “Scoreboard" to be a useful real time thread, avoiding the need to hunt and peck elsewhere or to navigate the pretty clunky USCHO site for updates. So here’s a shiny new iteration for those who might want it.
Assuming there is an incoming class, these recruits will be among Henry V’s "happy few,” joining the band of sisters who once again this season throw themselves into the face of overwhelming odds. Of course Shakespeare, and history, did have that warrior band of brothers winning, but it’s the...
Seven elementary questions for "the silly season”
1. Why do a handful of players excel in the face-off circle, or at least turn randomness into probability, winning puck possession more often than not? Something other than mere sheer quickness must be at play.
2. Why do players who lose their...
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of Duluth*
And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Richard III
*(some manuscripts have “York” here)
Had Harvard not turned the page I was ready to go with McCartney rather than...
Graduation removed from the roster both Harvard’s purest skater in recent years (Petrie) and best playmaker in recent years (Gilmore) and the greatest anticipation I had for this season was to see how the likely successor to fill the skates of either one, sophomore Taze Thompson, would progress...
Katey Stone said that the upcoming bench was going to be a “monster,” and while I think she was referring to its size, let’s hope there’s more to it than that. We’re due. In any case ten members of the class of 2025 will join the four members of this past year’s recruits for a grand total of...
The Russkies? They would have done early March for maximum impact. The Chinese? Too indifferent to the game. Our friends up north, flexing their muscles before the Worlds? Have they the skills???
My annual appeal for the skinny on Harvard’s recruits, from anyone in the know.
We need D . . . and we get 4Fs, 2Gs and 1D!!!!!!
https://www.gocrimson.com/sports/wice/2020-21/releases/20200508ibo5us
(I’m still not convinced anyone’s going to see any ice time, regardless of class.)
https://www.gocrimson.com/sports/wice/2019-20/releases/20190731e2j78p
Let’s hope this helps the Crimson peak early this season.
Thanksgiving weekend, say.
From The New York Times:
C.W.H.L. Folds, Leaving North America With One Women’s Hockey League
The Canadian league, which has been in operation since 2007, had some of the sport’s biggest stars. Many may be absorbed into the rival N.W.H.L...
"I'm not going to talk to them because I'm afraid to mess them up."
Mine may be a one-off post and, alas, it's the men's game that generated this article, but this unique species (aka "keepers") comes up periodically on the forum and perhaps it deserves its own little niche...
Well, we have to try again to establish a lasting thread, and maybe this latest digital phone booth for the legion of Crimson fans out there won’t vanish into a forum cloud that only an archivist could love. I’ll endorse Veritas’s most recent thread’s onward and upward theme, but also want to...
Someone was listening. Harvard has found a goalie whisperer!
http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/wice/2017-18/releases/20170905hclo5m
(Nice CV. And/but wow! Those D3 stints must be a drag: chief cook and bottle washer.)
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