Re: UMass Lowell '12/'13 Season Thread III
Speaking of disrespect, your timing couldn't have been more perfect. Check out The Ice Is Life's most recent installment of "This Week In Disrespect." Pretty much takes a flamethrower to the media -
http://theiceislife.wordpress.com/2...-men-do-against-such-reckless-hate/#more-2059
Here is me chiming in with my own little rant:
I realize there is so much disrespect out there it’s impossible to keep track of it all but I’m surpised you didn’t mention USCHO.com David Hendrickson’s HEA Semis Blog from 3/18. The guy prattles on and on for over 400 words about over rated (my words, not his) BC and underacheiving (again, me) BU. York’s eye, Parker’s last season, sniff sniff, great theater, end of an era, boo hoo, blah, blah, blah. Hendrickson reserves over 100 words to talk about the also rans in the HEA tournament. UNH who is in the midst of one of the biggest flops in college hockey history (me not him, of course) gets a mention and Hendrickson sheds a few tears for Maine, Vermont and Merrimack who managed to muster up 9 goals in 6 games while getting their lowly buttocks swept out of the tournament.
Grudgingly it seems, Hendrickson dedicates 93 words to the Lowell – Providence game. 93 words on Lowell, who squashed Maine like the backwoods mosquitos they are, outscoring them 6-3 and outshooting them 73-45 and Providence who knocked off NH, a team who’s coach played for a tie when it cost him home ice and who will undoubtedly be a first round patsy for some lucky team in the NCAAs as a host team. Does Hendrickson mention Lowell is the hottest team in the whole country? Lowell’s national ranking or spot in the PWR? That we have the 4th highest winning % in D1 hockey? The fact we have already clinched an NCAA birth and are playing for a #1 regional seed? Does he mention the UML- PC game matches up the top 2 goalies in HEA, who also happen to be freshmen? Nope, I guess none of that stuff is interesting. Instead Hendrickson aptly points out that UML and PC played each other last weekend. Mmm hmm, good to know, as if anyone didn’t already. He then goes on to say we’re strangers to the Garden compared to allmighty BU and BC and that it’s been 12 years since UML and PC have both made the semis, as if that’s some tasty well researched nugget instead of a totally irrelevant and boring waste of bytes.
The most inexplicably disrespectful sentence in the blog however is Hendrickson’s too little, too lame attempt to give UML any credit whatsoever. He gushes: “Kudos to Lowell coach Norm Bazin and PC coach Nate Leaman for the exceptional turnarounds they’ve performed in just two years at those schools.” “Kudos”, which loosely translated means “half hearted pat on the back” is a word most people reserve for when they have to praise someone they dislike. I’ll agree that Coach Leaman has performed an “exceptional turnaround”. 31-33-11 and 2 trips to the Garden in 2 years is very good. Congratulations. But mentioning Leaman in the same sentence with Norm Bazin? Really? The same Norm Bazin who was 2012 HEA Coach of the Year, engineered the greatest 1 year turnaround in D1 history, has a 48-23-3 record in 2 seasons, went to the final 8 in the 2012 NCAA tournament, has clinched a 2013 NCAA tournament birth and became the first coach from a school other than ME, BU, BC or NH to win a Regular Season Title in HEA history? This is like comparing the cute checkout girl at Marketbasket with Kate Upton or the “steak” on a Dunkin Donuts breakfast sandwhich with a Capital Grille 24 oz Aged Porterhouse. Exceptional turnaround? Try historic. Never-before-seen. Never-see-again. Miraculous!
Great “piece” Mr. Hendrickson. Piece of what you ask? Let’s just say it resembles the alternate defintion for your word “Kudos” which is a small, lumpy, brown candy bar.
I'll probably just hit up the box office. Club seats are tempting. I do enjoy padded seats and private bars.