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Michigan Tech Season Thread Part V: We Were Dead On Arrival

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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Yeah, Conner was only called up for the NYR game, probably because Guerin's joints were a little creaky or something.





Mainly, he's not a fit for Detroit's style.
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You're probably right, but any warm body that could skate would have been more then welcome in Detroit with all the forwards that keeping going down.
 
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RaceBoarder said:
That is REALLY, REALLY cool... I think I might try and do that after I finish with my ski-chair project :cool:
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The hardest part of the project today is finding the sticks. I have not built a new table in almost 10 years because you just can't find the materials anymore. With all the composite sticks, if they are under warranty they end up going back to the local hockey shop. I have several dozen wood sticks from Tech players, but since they are not broke, I'm reluctant to cut them up for a table.

The local rink here in town actually has a drop barrel for broken sticks that is 6' tall and has a lock on it. So someone with a connection to the rink is gathering them that way. The few that I find are youth sized and they are not the same shaft size so they don't work well with adult sticks for this top of project.

Dirty said:
I'm embarrassed that I can name almost every single team those jerseys are from in the picture. Including the Kentucky Thoroughbreds. It's a nice collection though.
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Then you'll like my one and only goalie mask... All American, Hobey Baker Finalist Jamie Ram from the Kentucky Thoroughblades (AHL).
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The Darkness said:
You're probably right, but any warm body that could skate would have been more then welcome in Detroit with all the forwards that keeping going down.
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Realistically, C's best asset is (and has always been) his speed. He's too small and not defensive enough to be considered a power forward or a grinder, and is unfortunately not the kind of prolific one-way scoring talent he'd need to be in order to be considered the next Martin St. Louis.

Think about Detroit's current bottom six. Helm alone probably has more speed, and he has enough size to hit, win faceoffs, muck it up in the corners, and kill penalties.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Michigan Tech's marketing department has officially taken a flying leap into the deep end.

Let's have some fun with this.
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I saw that today...it's uhm...interesting...I wonder if we can use fake emails...so they can't tell who's making REALLY stupid words lmao


On another note, had my first broomball game tonight, a loss (4-3), we were up 3-0, then we got a stupid illegal substitution call (anybody else notice the orange sub lines are closer to the ends of the rink this year? Last year they were from the penalty box -> 3 boards down...now they're 1 board down from the penalty box...w/e), I had 1 or 2 assists, depends on how many the captain gave me...

So our first game is done, and what does our captain have to do? File a formal complaint against a ref tomorrow...already...after one game...

Instead of a long paragraph, I will just list the problems:
At least a dozen high sticks...went uncalled...1 got called
Half a dozen kick passes...none called
And the major one, playing with a broken stick...
A player took a shot, broke the head on the broom, pretty much snapped it at a 90 degree angle...lots of bristles showing...he's yelling at his team to see if anyone has a spare stick...(since they had no subs)...meanwhile our captain is yelling at the refs about his broken stick...they don't say anything...so play continues, and he keeps using it until their next goalie ball...at which they call a timeout and then he switches brooms...now our captain is pretty much irate...yelling at the refs if they're going to call something...and the ref calmly looks at him and says, "I never saw him play with it after he broke it...and if you keep yelling, I'm throwing you out." -Guess it turned into a long paragraph anyway

The rule for a broken stick is, if it breaks you drop it...immediately...it doesn't matter if you can play with it or not, you drop it...

So after the game, our captain walked up to the time ref and asked for all ref's id numbers. So hopefully after a formal complaint something will be done with this horrible officiating.

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Re: Michigan Tech Season Thread Part V: We Were Dead On Arrival

As the Down Goes Brown blog proves, humor is sometimes the only way you can get through a rough sports year. So...


13 Signs That the Hockey Huskies Have Packed it in for the Season

13. Captaincy back up for grabs; will be offered to the first player who manages to sleep with the only "Tech 11" on campus.

12. The skating treadmill is up for sale.

11. Phone records indicate Jamie Russell put in a call to Jimmy John's HQ last week, possibly inquiring into franchising opportunities.

10. After Dieter Kochan's police job goes full-time, MTU replaces him with new student volunteer goaltending coach Brandon Maurisak. ;)

9. Water bottles are now filled with an entertaining mixture of 5-Hour Energy and the DT's Long Islands.

8. Since the beginning of January, "practice" has consisted of playing NHL '10 matches against one another, and submitting highlights to Russell to try and repair his shattered confidence.

7. Post-game team meetings are held in the style of Survivor - players sit around the sauna rocks, make overly-dramatic accusatory remarks, and anonymously vote to cut one guy from the team.

6. Coaches are now invited to team parties, since they're going to be fired anyway.

5. Players have already begun annual ritual of signing up as an USCHO newbie and taking turns trolling other fanbases on the boards.

4. Working on getting the Marquette Rangers to drive up and play an intra-squad exhibition at the MacInnes as part of a new crossover promotion - "Come watch Tanner Kero play before he starts missing wide open nets next fall!"

3. Women's basketball t-shirts are the new prize for winning intermission games and contests.

2. Flush with cash and in the spirit of dry humor, the local Domino's has temporarily changed their offer for the Mankato series to, "10% off for each goal the Huskies allow, up to five goals."

1. Announcement that due to the current economic conditions and declining revenues, newly-appointed AD Jim Balsille will be relocating the program to Hamilton, Ontario.
 
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