After two years of trying, I’ve finally reached 1,000 posts, many of which consist of making stupid comments in the Café, but hey, 1000 is 1000. Therefore, I will celebrate this occasion by creating a post entirely dedicated to my poorly constructed and disliked thoughts. Another hockey season is finally upon us (finally, right?) and so continues another season of celebration, disappointment, and (most importantly) bickering on the board. There’s a lot to look forward to this year (like every year), but there’s been some improvements to the D-II/III board itself. First, we’ve got this sweet new look provided by USCHO, it’s delightful. Second, Prez has added another team to his repertoire! Third, hockeyguy99 has proved that being a 16 seed in a tournament is nothing to be worried about, as name recognition is everything in the TOP. Finally, let’s pretend like the offseason threads were very constructive.
Moving on, theres several things I’ll expect to stay the same this year:
(in no particular order)
• There will be at least 4 people updating the Oswego game in score update threads, and most will provide relatively nothing in terms of game details.
• No matter when I check, Norwich will always be winning their game.
• Adrian will ring up at least 5 goals every game, but I’m not that impressed because the weekend before they put up 12 in the first two periods.
• The West games always start an hour later than the East games, yet I’m always surprised at how late their games go.
• If it weren’t for joecct, I wouldn’t think of any of the MASCAC teams.
• Prez will occasionally wonder who the hell I am.
• Players’ parents will join the board near NCAA tournament time and use illogical arguments as to why their son’s team should be in the NCAAs.
• Plattsburgh has at least 5 different people giving summaries of their game, and most often there’s one that is the complete opposite of every other account of the game.
• Any ref named St. Louis sucks.
• The ECAC-West will be a crapshoot once again.
• Middlebury will get votes on “reputation”.
• Wisconsin teams are interchangeable because of Eastern bias.
• A western FF site means 2 west teams will be in the FF. “ITS NOT FAIR!11!!11”
• The various USCHO correspondents will use two usernames more than Cortland students choose being a gym teacher as their future career.
• There will be no less than three separate occasions where people make score update threads with the wrong date in the thread title.
• The combination of Hammer and Bayliner will do the board equivalent of ***** slap some new poster who claim Adrian sucks because they play no one.
• Northland will still suck.
• Norm will “bring the fire” with the always relevant links in threads.
• No matter how many times they’ve been discussed, pick ‘em thread rules will be complained about by people who miss the pick deadline.
• The most debate in a score update thread could revolve around SUNYAC concessions’ pretzels.
• You know something unique/impressive happened when there’s a D-I poster commenting in a thread.
• Making outrageous game predictions is nothing more than a typical post.
• RIT will still have no class.
So there it is; my 1000th post. Was this a huge waste of time? Of course it was. Did I provide any information or analysis? Nope, just like the previous 999 posts! So here’s to a great season, and another 1,000 meaningless posts. That’s all folks.
elmira or no elmira i still think we have an absurdly potent offense right now. oooo man. this is gonna be a hell of a season
