Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Schafer and Rand are friends off the ice? Don't think that's true; at all. Cordial maybe, friends no. Rand once accused Cornell's Cole Bardreau of embellishing moments after a Quinnipiac player nearly re-broke Cole's neck, waiving his arms at the ref as Cole lay motionless on the ice. I've posted the article in this thread already and don't think I need to do it again. In any case, that killed any chance of Schafer and Rand ever becoming friends.
It is, though. IIRC that happened to Cole in 2012. It was of course shocking at the time, and Rand absolutely deserved all the scorn and derision that was poured all over him for it, some of it from Q people right here. It was not his finest hour, that's for sure.
As I'm sure Rand recognizes, and has made expiation not just with Cole but also Mike.
We as fans have to realize we see only a tiny fraction of what these guys are to each other, good or bad. And what we see is completely filtered by our fandom, and then is amplified and purified by conversations within our own fan group. Just like with politics, it becomes GroupThink. And it's part of the fun of being a fan. But we all need to realize: it's an extremely limited perspective. We don't and won't and will never know what happened after, because we are looky-lous, we aren't part of the family.
Mike talks about Rand positively and he works with him, and that's the only real empirical evidence we have.