tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79541623340278435142024-03-12T19:23:43.099-07:00Rink RAPTee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-11139898602022126172021-03-25T13:31:00.003-07:002021-03-25T15:08:25.598-07:00WCHA Commish Fends off Slings and Arrows<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Y4rejscQ_w/YFzx_cczzjI/AAAAAAAAFkI/TqWJnf0XGIY3nbXj1XUikMRjqqBgPOa2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1140/58DBB4E7-7DD2-400A-ACA4-2D272FAAFEA4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="1140" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Y4rejscQ_w/YFzx_cczzjI/AAAAAAAAFkI/TqWJnf0XGIY3nbXj1XUikMRjqqBgPOa2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/58DBB4E7-7DD2-400A-ACA4-2D272FAAFEA4.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> Robertson: WCHA opp. will have hands full</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">During last Sunday’s NCAA hockey selection show, WCHA Commissioner Bill Robertson was tucking in to a well-deserved feast at his favorite steak house. He was celebrating his 60th birthday, surrounded by friends and family. At 6 pm Minneapolis time he beamed ESPN onto his mobile device. Somewhere between his appetizer and his ribeye, he got the best birthday present imaginable: three WCHA teams selected into the national tournament, a first for the WCHA since the 2013 realignment.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“I’m ecstatic, a great present” said the man known as Billy Rob. “A great way to cap off a very unusual year in athletics overall.” </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The tireless efforts by Billy Rob and his WCHA staff had a direct impact on getting three teams—Minnesota State, Lake Superior and Bemidji—into the NCAA tournament. Through diligent testing and constant tinkering with league schedules, his eight WCHA teams averaged over 27 games played per team, seven more than Hockey East, who also had three teams selected.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">New England hockey writer Jeff Cox was outraged that both the WCHA and Hockey East had three entries in the national tourney. “It was absolutely unconscionable that the WCHA gets the same amount of teams in the NCAA [tournament] as Hockey East,” Tweeted out Cox.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Robertson begs to differ. “Anybody who has not seen Lake State, Bemidji or Minnesota State are foolish to think they don’t belong in the tournament. They are legitimate.” Cox laments the fact that there was not enough interleague play to warrant the pair wise ranking system to select the teams. But the WCHA had a stellar out-of-conference record, including Bowling Green’s road sweep of tourney-bound Quinnipiac in December. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Actions speak louder than words, and the WCHA’s final entry, Bemidji, leads off the NCAA tournament. The Beavers will take on Big 10 power Wisconsin at 1 ET in Bridgeport, and the entire hockey world will see how the WCHA stacks up with college hockey’s iron. Bemidji’s strength of schedule, including six games versus 5th ranked Minnesota State, makes them a very tough out in single elimination play. Tom Serratore’s club also plays a style that translates well to playoff hockey: tight defense, long swaths of puck possession, and supreme penalty killing. They don’t have the firepower of the Badgers, but they may not need it. Senior goaltender Zach Driscoll could provide the winning edge</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">WCHA tournament champ Lake Superior has also shipped out east, where they will play the formidable Minutemen of UMass. This should be of great interest to pundit Cox and commissioner Robertson: a Hockey East-WCHA matchup. The 2019 NCAA finalists from Amherst should be careful not to overlook the Lakers who have been surging of late.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“If you look at Lake State’s record in the second half, it’s exceptional,” said Robertson, whose Lakers are 12-2 in their last 14 games. This intriguing Round of 16 matchup will probably be settled by an elite international goaltender, either the Finn Filip Lindberg of UMass or Latvian Mareks Mitens of Lake State. National oddsmakers may have been reading Cox; they have made UMass a prohibitive favorite in this game. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The WCHA’s flagship hockey program since realignment is Minnesota State, the winningest team in all of Division I since coach Hastings arrived eight years ago. Those wins have only come outside the NCAA tournament, however, where the Mavs remain historically winless. If there were ever a year for Minnesota State to reverse the trend, this would be it. They open the 2021 NCAA’s Saturday evening in Loveland Colorado, where Quinnipiac awaits. The Bobcats lost their automatic bid by losing the ECAC championship game to Saint Lawrence, but ultimately replaced their conquerors when the SLU was forced to withdraw from the NCAA’s due to Covid protocol. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">MSU coach Mike Hastings has had his troops’ undivided attention for nearly a week of practice following the Mavs’ disappointing semifinal loss on home ice to Northern Michigan. They will resemble a wounded animal in this tourney, looking to avenge decades worth NCAA frustration dating back to 2003.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For the next day or two, optimism abounds in WCHA circles, as dreams of a Bemidji-Lake State regional final has Billy Rob dreaming of a Frozen Four appearance for at least one of his clubs.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Anybody that plays a WCHA team in the NCAA tourney is going to have their hands full.”</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p>
</p>Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-77304006426953580332021-03-09T11:33:00.003-08:002021-03-10T07:42:49.586-08:00Requiem for a (light) Heavyweight<b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Requiem for a (light) Heavyweight </span></i></b><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vMtKZwjPr50/YEjnqUmwSYI/AAAAAAAAFho/1Xap9e0RtTUcL2M5kEOAfNtvo88Ma5_FACLcBGAsYHQ/s300/E36051E8-922D-44A3-8968-03CF8412AE12.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vMtKZwjPr50/YEjnqUmwSYI/AAAAAAAAFho/1Xap9e0RtTUcL2M5kEOAfNtvo88Ma5_FACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/E36051E8-922D-44A3-8968-03CF8412AE12.png" /></a></div><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span><i>New York’s Favorite Smurf</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Star-crossed hockey enigma Mark Pavelich died last week. He follows Bobby Suter as the second Miracle Man to have passed, and with it, yet another baby-boomer icon is gone. Unlike the gregarious Suter, Pavelich was understated, lurking in the shadows, skating into the light only when the puck was dropped. </div><div><div><br /></div><div>To your average hockey fan, Pav’s offensive gifts were unappreciated until he after the Miracle on Ice, when he joined the New York Rangers. He spent five years playing at the World’s Most Famous Arena, averaging close to a point-a-game in five years with the Blueshirts, a 5’8” center in the rough and tumble NHL. 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Another Sun Valley skater knew the Pavelich youth hockey legend firsthand. “I was on a very good bantam team with [future Olympian] Phil Verchota in Duluth,” said Tim Jeneson, who starred at Division II Saint Scholastica in the late 1970’s. “We went up to Eveleth and played Pavelich’s team, when he was an underage bantam. We lost 21-1, and we were a good team. Pav had nine goals.”
According to both Burke and Jeneson, that was business as usual for Pavelich. </div><div><br /></div><div>Hi college numbers his final year at UMD are also breathtaking: over two points per game, 31 goals in 37 games. It was a no-brainer for Herb Brooks to slot Pavelich onto a line with fellow Iron Rangers John Harrington and Buzzy Schneider in Lake Placid, where they picked up the nick-name “cone-heads.” </div><div><br /></div><div>In the NHL, Pav was one of the Rangers beloved “Smurfs,” a line of undersized clutch scorers. It was always more convenient to lump him within a group, because as an individual, Pav kept to himself.
His death has generated more stories than actual fact, Homeresque tales of the man’s outrageous scoring, his isolation, and his mental health challenges. Pav’s Duluth pals who moved on to Sun Valley shared stories both first and secondhand, like how he received a blow to the head so hellacious on the pre-Miracle tour that Herb Brooks thought Pav would never play again. Pav started the next night. </div><div><br /></div><div>Another classic tale emerged from the pre-Olympic tour took place in November, 1979, just after the opening of firearm hunting season in Minnesota. Team USA was scheduled to play Pav’s old team Minnesota Duluth, a happy homecoming at the old DECC Center. Coincidentally, presidential candidate George H.W. Bush would be making the trip to glad hand the fresh-faced U.S. Olympians. The only problem was that Pav went AWOL, missing all the photo ops the day before. USA Hockey officials were justifiably distressed, though Herb Brooks was not shocked when Pav showed up at the rink an hour before game-time.</div><div><br /></div><div>Pavelich had no problem entering the old Auditorium with a familiar wave to his pals in the Zamboni entrance, but he was immediately accosted by George Bush’s Secret Service detail. They were understandably freaked out from the sight of Pav in his blood stained jeans with a rifle slung over his shoulder. Just Pav being Pav.</div><div><br /></div><div>He was always more comfortable deep in the Minnesota bush than in the company of fellow man. His best buddy in college was Mike Jacques, who transferred across town from UMD to play at St. Scholastica. The UMD guys always preferred partying at Scholastica; it was predominantly female, having recently transitioned from an all-girls school to co-educational. But Pav wasn’t really into chatting up the co-ed’s, he would stand around with Jacques and Jeneson, studying the label on his beer. </div><div><br /></div><div>Minnesotans marvel at how Pavelich could make himself disappear in the off-season, portaging his canoe north from lake-to-lake, getting further and further away from any semblance of civilization. He was pure Minnesota: a guy who acquired his hockey creativity in the free space of outdoor ice; a hunter/fisherman who became one with nature during his lengthy forays into the land of 10,000 lakes. </div><div><br /></div><div>His life was also an example of a square peg in a round hole: a Minnesota loner thrust into a starring NHL role on Broadway. He was intensely loyal to his Olympic Iron Range line mates, but balked at the high-profile Miracle on Ice reunions. He never felt comfortable embodying the team that pulled off the greatest victory of the 20th century. </div><div><br /></div><div>One final insight courtesy of the Sun Valley puckers from Minnesota. Multiple sources were aware that Pav was preparing to live out his final chapter in northern Idaho. He had located a plot of land near Couer d’Alene, where he was going to build a refuge away from strangers and their prying eyes. Jeneson and Burke shared the anguish with so much of the Minnesota hockey community when they heard the news of Pavelich’s tragic passing. To this day, they remain in awe of the undersized Pavelich’s prodigious talent, one that dazzled on hockey’s grandest stages: the halcyon days of the WCHA, the Miracle on Ice, and at the World’s Most Famous Arena. R.I.P. Pav.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-65435124520115256172021-01-10T13:35:00.002-08:002021-01-18T11:11:56.176-08:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dCv3TCMTr7U/X_tw-O8yFKI/AAAAAAAAFaI/2eD6Lr5gj9k_lhRCwp-0Qzj_azmKGBQ_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Bros.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dCv3TCMTr7U/X_tw-O8yFKI/AAAAAAAAFaI/2eD6Lr5gj9k_lhRCwp-0Qzj_azmKGBQ_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Bros.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Generation III: Charlie, Tim and Bill Rappleye</b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Unlike his old man or his younger brother, Bill Rappleye requested that he have his ashes spread in the woods, not the water. It only makes sense.</p><p>While his five dynamic daughters may be water creatures during the long summer days up at the family compound in Maine, Bill—like his two brothers and two preceding Willard Rappleyes—is a man of the woods, emphasis on the word "man."</p><p>The Mountainy Pond Club is a bit anachronistic when it comes to gender; testosterone is a vital asset when it comes to felling trees, splitting hardwood, and filling the gaping woodsheds. The electricity-free Rappleye camp, aptly named <i>Sawbuck</i>, runs on wood, and plenty of it. If you're not burning the precisely-measured stove pieces in the archaic wood burning stove, you'll be eating uncooked food.</p><p>That's been the norm since 1930, when Dean Rappleye of Columbia, the original Willard Rappleye, began stacking freshly hewn stove-length pieces into orderly rows. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LSkKIFEN_8A/YAXdSEg78HI/AAAAAAAAFcA/t1F2kK-FVjU2tUa_XiA4tswUxr4SlueNACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Dean%2Bof%2BSawbuck.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LSkKIFEN_8A/YAXdSEg78HI/AAAAAAAAFcA/t1F2kK-FVjU2tUa_XiA4tswUxr4SlueNACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Dean%2Bof%2BSawbuck.jpg"/></a></div>His bulging woodshed became the pride of the lake—the subject of a Henry Sargent oil painting—for most of the 20th century.</p><p>The legacy of those cords of oak, birch and beach may not have been haunting to the Dean's three grandchildren, but they were daunting. As society sped up, days off the grid chopping wood became a luxury, and the once proud woodshed hit hard times. Siblings Bill, Charlie and Tim spend more time raising families in the woods than they did replenishing their stockade. In recent years, supply has barely kept pace with annual demand.</p><p>The recently departed W.C. Rap III and his bro's were groomed to appreciate the gratification of a fully processed tree: combing it for fireplace logs, starter brush and vital stove pieces. Both Willard Cole Senior and Junior taught the three lads to safely master the heavy tools of the woods: the two-man saw; the maul axe, the wedge and the sledge. But after becoming grownups, the ratio of workdays to play days while up north on vacation listed towards the latter.</p><p>With the tragic passing of both Bill and Charles within barely two years of each other, there was genuine cause for concern. Bill's daughters are competent campers, but they don't swing an axe. Entering 2021, Camp Sawbuck needed an influx of eager woodsmen to keep the fires burning.</p><p>Enter Mike and Matt. They are a father-and-son team that has just entered the Rappleye clan. In Bill's final grand act (in a life that contained plenty), he gave away his oldest daughter Georgia to Michael Boyer.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KzbrhRKnFnU/X_twGIE_0XI/AAAAAAAAFZ0/AD4CzlTugwETPEY3oSFkTaoG8Ur7EtuugCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/THE%2B5%2Bsis%2BWed%2Bshot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KzbrhRKnFnU/X_twGIE_0XI/AAAAAAAAFZ0/AD4CzlTugwETPEY3oSFkTaoG8Ur7EtuugCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/THE%2B5%2Bsis%2BWed%2Bshot.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Proud Papa with his "Pentagon"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Michael was fortunate enough to have shadowed Willard Rappleye III through a fortnight of woodsy chores this past summer at Sawbuck. He first lesson was how to start the fires, and the next was how to keep them burning with a full wood box. Check and check. These were lessons pulsing with unspoken urgency; it would prove to be Bill's final summer in Maine.</p><p>It turns out that Michael had a hidden agenda: he has an ten-year-old son from a previous marriage, a spirited lad who coincidentally summers in Maine with him mom. Mike wants to partake in the patriarchal tradition of Mountainy Pond, where fathers teach their sons how to safely split up a tree, to master the art of the sawbuck.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7y63R2UzELs/X_txbfjf4nI/AAAAAAAAFaQ/Kllov6Ysno8oRXHrvF41ziDEeHVuGwxsACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Mike%2Bn%2BMatt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1538" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7y63R2UzELs/X_txbfjf4nI/AAAAAAAAFaQ/Kllov6Ysno8oRXHrvF41ziDEeHVuGwxsACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Mike%2Bn%2BMatt.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Next wave: Mike 'n Matt</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The new men in the Rappleye camp join 32-year-old Dexter, the 6'4" son of the late Charlie Rap, a rail splitter just like his old man. And don't forget the "Three T's," Tim and his two sons Tom and Ted. Together, they split enough hard wood last summer to keep pies baking for all of the 2021 season.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-saZ6oFBViK0/X_tvwMlwNxI/AAAAAAAAFZs/Mu8UmDGeRdQq51ygDsWZzysGhq7U3wXkACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/2%2BT%2527s%2Bw%2Baxes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-saZ6oFBViK0/X_tvwMlwNxI/AAAAAAAAFZs/Mu8UmDGeRdQq51ygDsWZzysGhq7U3wXkACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/2%2BT%2527s%2Bw%2Baxes.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Ted and Tom with fruits of their labors</b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The primary passion of the recently departed Bill Rappleye was his beloved camp, ground zero for his daughters and extended family. This recent addition of Mike and Matt should help fuel Sawbuck for the next generation.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E4LOroMYBik/X_txuWhDcLI/AAAAAAAAFaY/8Ku8BStsQjY_Wx1kClZdlxqjknqdQnDJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Bill%2Bw%2Bstove.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E4LOroMYBik/X_txuWhDcLI/AAAAAAAAFaY/8Ku8BStsQjY_Wx1kClZdlxqjknqdQnDJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Bill%2Bw%2Bstove.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Glowing</b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p>Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-38070994295172421382020-10-27T08:42:00.001-07:002020-10-27T08:42:12.433-07:00Covid on Ice: This s*** is getting REAL<p>Traverse City's head-in-the-sand ostrich strategy—having unmasked referees enforce mask compliance of players—split its seams last week, the inevitable outcome in dealing with the relentless virus. It was the classic combination of factors that has felled empires large and small: external pressure and internal decay. </p><p>Externally, both New Hampshire and Massachusetts tabled all hockey for a month, sending shock waves throughout our National Governing Body (NGB), putting Michigan's affiliate (MAHA) on high alert. </p><p>Internally, the fissures began innocently. A pee-wee sporting a long blonde ponytail made a polite request midway through a Sunday afternoon contest: "Would you please put on your mask?" Neither me nor my officiating partner complied. We continued the untenable position of our district—half-heartedly policing players to mask up while not wearing our own. MAHA assignor Mutt has been caught between the proverbial rock and hard place: to enforce the mask mandates with a tribe of officials who are opposed to masking up for a variety of reasons (physical and philosophical). Mutt claims that a lawyer in his hockey circle has looked at the paperwork coming from the state and has found a reasonable loophole exempting refs from masking up, so the charade played on for several weeks: <i>"Do what I say, not what I do."</i></p><p>The walls started closing in our district Tuesday. I participated in a 50-person virtual seminar to secure my annual certification. It originated from Grand Rapids, the second most populated hockey district in the state. The officials in Grand Rapids are in close touch with the state's referee in chief, and there was not z whiff of ambiguity in the role of the officials when it comes to Covid compliance: We must be fully masked. And we must be the unswerving in the implementation of harsh penalties. One pre-game meeting to serve as a warning, and then Game Misconducts handed out at every faceoff to all maskless faces. </p><p>The news from downstate had not reached out tribe in T.C. My peers were still adamant that they would not be masking, nor would they use the electronic whistles. I came into the officials locker room and saw the red E-Whistles dangling from a hook, largely unused. My partner Terry was loudly spewing how it wasn't healthy to be breathing one's own carbon dioxide, and that hospitals were making false Covid claims to reap illegal benefits. He has not completed a single item on the certification punch list, waiting to see how the mask mandate would all work out.</p><p>Having heard the rumblings from downstate, I was determined to soldier through a game with my new mask and the E-Whistle. I enjoyed the fact that both the mask and the whistle were bright red with black trim, a color-coordinated statement of compliance. I barely survived the night on ice.</p><p>After just two minutes of warmups I was legally blind due to the fogging and condensation inside my visor. All my exhales were traveling north, up past my cheek bones and into the inside of my visor. I dashed off the ice, seconds before puck drop, to grab a cloth wipe to help salvage a semblance of vision. It barely helped.</p><p>In the lengthy of the U-19 women's game, I found myself swiping my visor during play, tilting my helmet back at absurd angles, and guessing at several of my calls. The E-Whistle had no gusto, and if not for the Terry's typical solid performance, it could have been a debacle. He seemed amused in the post-game locker room, firmer than ever in his position of defiance. </p><p>The following day, the winds of authority from downstate had arrived in T.C. Mutt fired off a blast email mirroring the seminar I had been subject to earlier in the week. Everyone masks, no tolerance, no exceptions. Doctor's notes to be ignored, game misconducts to be meted out, no second chances. Boom, boom, boom. That arrived in our inboxes Saturday evening, my next game was noon Sunday. I located my old gaiter, lost after the last laundry. Right after my Sunday coffee I put on the gaiter, strapped on my helmet, and hopped on the stationary bike. It took barely a minute to ramp up my cardio levels, including some heavy breathing. The gaiter did not force as much air into my shield; I figured I would survive.</p><p>My teenage partner, having not been through the sequence of events leading up to the Sunday game, had no idea that he was part of a watershed moment. I informed him that the pre-game meetings were of utmost importance, they would be the official warnings prior to potential Game Misconducts for mask violations. And five minutes into the AA squirt contest, 10-year old winger Magnus showed up at the faceoff circle sans mask. He became a martyr to the cause of saving hockey in Michigan.</p><p>The coach, an official in his own right when he's not wearing his coaching hat, grilled me pretty thoroughly during the intermission, pleading the case for his play getting a second chance, that kids unmask to get water on the bench. I told him under no circumstances would he be allowed to return to play. The coach was understandably pissed, but there were no repeat offenders. A Game Misconduct is a helluva deterrent. Sadly, Magnus will miss his next game as well, standard procedure for the G.M. But in the grand scheme of things, his penalty, regardless of whether or not justice was served, accomplished a lot. The gauntlet has been thrown. We will see how players, and official, respond to the imminent challenges of sports in a pandemic.</p>Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-33424900372482547212020-09-12T08:11:00.598-07:002020-10-21T13:56:24.624-07:00Reffing In the Time of Covid<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">SEPT 19...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-etLmKNXqdXQ/X2h1C3oZPkI/AAAAAAAAFRI/PpyRPpVk_d4cG0lJEiULLqHOsbCmxDBiwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/E-Whistles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-etLmKNXqdXQ/X2h1C3oZPkI/AAAAAAAAFRI/PpyRPpVk_d4cG0lJEiULLqHOsbCmxDBiwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/E-Whistles.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>New World Order</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The "Room" for refs in Traverse City is ample: thirty feet long with showers, TV, a fridge, and dual entrances depending on which rink you are heading towards, east or west. On Saturday it had a new feature, in addition to all the skate laces, old rule books and skate laces, there were four red electronic whistles hanging from the towel hooks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If we officials were to comply with the mandate to keep our faces covered while working the games—and that was the info being passed down to us in no uncertain terms—then these hand-held whistles were the new world order. I gave mine a try and pressed the button—it seemed fairly loud, though a traditional whistle creates quite a screech in our cement bunker. There were three settings on the red whistle, which was the most powerful. It was clearly a whistle, but not piercing. The gadgets were not entirely convincing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nEA3N08fSz8" width="320" youtube-src-id="nEA3N08fSz8"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was partnered up again with Max for another doubleheader—bantams and pee-wees, both AA level. I notified all the coaches during warmup, none had experienced a game officiated with handheld whistles. The devices were clearly a decibel or two fainter than the real thing. This would be interesting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had purchased a "gaiter" this week, comparable to a balaclava, a very thin covering that fisherman use to protect against mosquitos. I could actually blow my original whistle through the material, while still keeping my face covered. I considered trying to combine the old and new, but decided to succumb to the </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Over the next couple of hours Max and I sounded our Fox-40 E-whistles a few dozen times, mostly without incident. He and I both inadvertently squeezed our triggers to the confusion of everyone on the ice. I had to stop play with an apology and conduct a faceoff, when Max sounded his after losing an edge and squeezing his hand involuntarily, I shouted to "Play on!" and that's what they did.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When Max signaled off-sides, I provided accompaniment with my gadget, a little support from my side of the rink. It was a little faint from 100 feet away.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At game's end there were no complaints, but I do think the play was slightly compromised. There are times when a shrill whistle is needed to defuse scrums around the net. This airless facsimile is a lot easier to ignore than the urgent blast from a zebra in your face.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the post game locker we checked in with our two striped counterparts from the East rink. Although they wore masks, neither used the E-whistles. From what I could tell, Max and I were the outliers. The only other official I knew of who had used the E-Whistle was the USA Hockey District assignor Mutt. He and I had texted throughout the week, and I told him about the being able to blow through the gaiter, and he had asked about the brand. Nothing official had come down the line other than to use the E-whistles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The players complied much more thoroughly this week; I estimated 75% of the players had mouths covered, maybe half over their noses. Family members in the stands were in full compliance, by and large. Change has come, and not a moment too soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sunday morning I nearly spit out my coffee when I saw this bold headline in the local paper.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-et9xbQ180_o/X2h70ufiVOI/AAAAAAAAFRU/R3HNn7WI_5AJmDnc4XtOEUsFyOtlCTe7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/TC%2BHeadline.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-et9xbQ180_o/X2h70ufiVOI/AAAAAAAAFRU/R3HNn7WI_5AJmDnc4XtOEUsFyOtlCTe7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/TC%2BHeadline.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Nearly three dozen Covid cases reported from a summer tourney at the rinks. There was anecdotal evidence of unmasked players crowded onto benches hacking and spitting, but there was a valid consideration that these cases were shared away from the rink, socializing together over drinks and dinner, a common spreading scenario. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The rink protocol had clearly improved since that July tourney, but Sunday's blaring headline has placed rink management on high alert. For as long as hockey is permitted up here in Michigan District 7, those funny little fish-shaped whistles will become the new normal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">---------------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">SEPT 12.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v7EK7Lv4LYQ/X14Z3At_CbI/AAAAAAAAFPQ/NF5vrYV9Ds8l3qfglHj2tEcztUPKJuAZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Zam%2Bbath.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v7EK7Lv4LYQ/X14Z3At_CbI/AAAAAAAAFPQ/NF5vrYV9Ds8l3qfglHj2tEcztUPKJuAZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Zam%2Bbath.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Nothing Else Matters</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Searching the icy depths for a crucial artifact; a crowded ref room brimming with Covid protest; and Mettallica sings the anthem that has us all reveling in blissful ignorance.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Arriving at the twin rinks Saturday, I noticed the parking lots were brimming. Turns out this was a showcase tourney, with clubs from Covid-restricted hotspots down state and in Ohio coming up to play here in Traverse City, a Phase-5 region that permits competition. Just as I reached the side entrance, a blast of natural sound informed me of the mask choice of the local refs: A real whistle shrilled, sans mask. Four zebras were at work in the two rinks, none covered above the neck.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Most fans were covered, coaches yes, players partially. Later I saw teams performing dryland with the exuberance that comes from a new season that had been in jeopardy; sadly, only a third were covered above the nose. Another real world experiment: blissful ignorance vs the Corona virus.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I shuffled through the ref's locker room, one of the premier such rooms in the region, and saw it had a half dozen sets of gear bags spread about five-feet apart, no humans visible, the virus level unknown. I walked out to the west rink to track my striped peers at work. Competitive AA bantam play: kids sprinting around, coaches exhorting troops, smart jerseys from Cleveland sporting the old Barons colors and logos. Less than a week after Labor Day hockey appeared to be in full swing. The new season had begun while the NHL still had weeks to play in the old season. A time/space continuum. I wasn't sure about the sustainability of this blind optimism; it's one thing to keep hockey self-contained within this region that had a very small Carona caseload, but it's another to invite the regions not allowed to compete because of their own Covid issues into our bubble. But once the puck drops, it's full on hockey, and nothing else matters (thanks for that kicker Jim Hetfield).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/waBb-UM5m4g" width="320" youtube-src-id="waBb-UM5m4g"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A minute into watching my guys, including the region's dispatcher Mutt, working a tidy game the second day of a new season, a forward got run the through the boards in the far corner. I look to Mutt for the call, but his young partner immediately shot up his arm. At the whistle I watch his hands for what's known at the "TV call," letting the whole building (and a potential TV audience) know the type of infraction, and the kid let the perp have full justice. The young zebra performed a bit of a yoga pose, putting his non-whistle hand between his shoulder blades to signal a hit from behind. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Kind of a ballsy call. Instead of a roughing, where the guilty party simply serves two minutes and the game rolls on, this was an obligatory 2 and a TEN, one of the four minors that includes a ten minute misconduct. The young but extremely competent ref took the time to oversee the off-ice official make two entrees onto the scoresheet, then he had to explain to a snarly coach that he had to pluck another skater from his bench to serve the original two minutes as the primary perp sat for the misconduct. It was textbook work by the young zebra on opening weekend, something worthy of the USA Hockey instructional video at the annual seminar.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I hustled to the scorers table, and during a time-out motioned the kid over to the puck-sized communications circle cut out in the plexi. I complimented him on his stellar work. Then I went back to the room to lace up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I found my favorite ref, a fellow NY and Boston guy nick named "Vig," possesser of a thick New Yawk accent he acquired during his previous life on Long Island. Vig rarely blares below the six-decibel mark. "I ain't wearing no (flippin) mask!" he bellowed. I love Vig, but our politics come from different stratospheres, even though we are both Boomers from back East. "I'm trusting my own immune system. I told them (USA Hockey regional powers) that if I have to wear a mask, I'm done."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Turns out another like-minded ref, Tom, shares his belief in no masks (and the second amendment for that matter), and that they would both gladly retire before donning a mask to work a game. From what I could tell, they were the driving forces that got our region's Poobah's to back off the obligatory masks and electronic whistles. I rationalized that Vig's L-O-U-D protests would simplify my job, but I also sensed that it wasn't great news over the long run. You can't outshout this virus. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I playfully parried with Vig about asymptomatic carriers, and how masks were proven effective, and even asked what he would do when 'They" came for his guns (Vig's plan was to do some high-powered sniping from atop the town water tower). I headed out of this potential Covid reservoir to get on the ice and re-acquaint with my edges. I'm in pretty good biking shape, but as stated before, hadn't touched my blades in half a year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks in no small part to my excellent partner Max, we had a game free from controversy. Halfway through I noticed the name "Drake" on the back of an undersized wing-man, and stole a glance at the Traverse City bench. There was Dallas, the 16-year NHL vet, the soft-spoken legend of the local rinks. In a one-goal game, I saw one of his players get his legs taken out from two-zones away as the trail official. There were too many bodies between me and the infraction to jack up my arm; I heard three sets of adult chirps from the Drake bench. Oh well, no one throws a perfecto on opening day, except maybe the Kid who worked the preceding game against the radioactive Cleveland Barons.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the conclusion of the high-intensity affair (was it January already?) I dutifully hoisted the nets from the pegs and waited on the Zamboni before tilting the cages against the boards. I returned to the uncomfortably crowded room and saw my partner Max fiddling with the adhesive on his official USA Hockey crest. The one you have to dive through many hoops to acquire: seminars; open and closed book tests; NGB Safe Sport training; background checks and countless training videos. Attaining one of those cloth shields in the mail from Colorado Springs always contained some satisfaction fir the effort invested. Watching Max I instinctively pawed at my chest, and felt... <i>nothing.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This was not good. It had happened once before when the two-way carpet tape used to adhere the crest to the striped jersey had come unglued over time. I made a mental note that such a thing would never happen again, yet it had. The Covid protocol had given us an extra half-hour between games, and I began the urgent work of retracing steps before the trail ran ice-cold. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No one had turned in a crest, there was nothing to see on either bench or the scorers' table, locker room zip, zilch, nada. I tracked down Zamboni driver Sam, who hadn't noticed anything unusual on the ice. Deductive reasoning told me that it <i>had</i> to have been scooped up by the Zam. I asked Sam the Zam (no <i>Pharaohs</i> for you oldy music aficionados) to keep on eye out for traces of color in the frosty bath of the Zamboni dump. He agreed to help, but I wasn't terrible confident.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3_pR9sZu6rM/X14xT4X1V3I/AAAAAAAAFPw/UxPj9vMIjQoADRp2yiZqy6q4mF-IymySgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Zam%2Bbath.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3_pR9sZu6rM/X14xT4X1V3I/AAAAAAAAFPw/UxPj9vMIjQoADRp2yiZqy6q4mF-IymySgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Zam%2Bbath.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Meanwhile, Max was setting me up with his two-year old crest, applying a new layer of double-sided tape to a 2018-19 crest when Sam popped his head in the door.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Is this it?" </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And there was my sacred crest, one which cannot be replaced. It had been through the full Zam cycle: gobbled up, spun with snow, and pounded down into the icy depths of a very large ice bath. Turns out it was Tony who spotted it, and rescued my peace of my mind in the form of a five-inch piece of colorful cloth.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7pl-s-CdAGI/X14pJF_PfKI/AAAAAAAAFPc/KPnAfsWIV-4ElTkmBNrGDdvBokdIHkfgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Tony%2BShield.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7pl-s-CdAGI/X14pJF_PfKI/AAAAAAAAFPc/KPnAfsWIV-4ElTkmBNrGDdvBokdIHkfgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Tony%2BShield.jpg" /></a></div><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So I was able to work the pee-wee end of my double header with enough peace of mind to get through it relatively undistracted. It was actually a hybrid pee-wee AA vs bantam A game, and it was kind of fun. I busted a bantam for bodychecking (a new rule to accommodate the pee-wees) and we had a mild discussion on the way to the box. He eventually admitted that the victim was his little brother. Which is just SO hockey, the ultimate clan sport.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, all told, a great day; maybe. I left the ref room, one of my favorite respites in all of the Grand Traverse region, with a glow of camaraderie. I gave Vig an elbow nudge, thanked Max for help with the crest debacle, checked in on Jake's community college drone work, asked Buck about his U.S. Army reinstatement, and repeated my compliment to the young stud who executed the checking from behind to perfection. As if we were picking up exactly where we left off. But we weren't.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Exiting the complex through the east rink, I intersected another wave of geeked up hockey teens from downstate going through their dryland paces. They were laughing and bouncing and largely unmasked. This, my hockey friends, is not sustainable. I love the fact that the guys managing the T.C. rink are finally beginning to dig out from all the Covid-related red ink from a dormant summer, but I did not see a happy ending in this porous "bubble."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By Sunday morning, MAHA had sent down the latest edict in a blast email:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">"So within the last 12 hours MAHA has decided for a 2nd time that officials WILL be required to wear face coverings. For those of you working tomorrow get the E whistles that are there. I have ordered 6 of the fox40 E whistles for us. 2 of them will be available to use at Kalkaska for next weekend only." </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I now wonder if I'll ever work with my guy "Vig" again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5EaXobdfcx4/X1zgqr2mzFI/AAAAAAAAFPA/RiwD336fKEseKsSHPmBoNqJvyWWvQ-OHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/ref%2Bart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5EaXobdfcx4/X1zgqr2mzFI/AAAAAAAAFPA/RiwD336fKEseKsSHPmBoNqJvyWWvQ-OHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ref%2Bart.jpg" /></a></div><br /> March 12. The last time I skated, exactly six months ago. With less than 24 hours notice, my USA Hockey regional assignor dropped two games on me—Bantam AA and Pee Wee AAA. This should be a trip. I started the morning with a coffee and a quick brush up with 'Ol Reliable,' the red <i>Basic Officials Manual</i> that is the first line of defense for every sanctioned ref.<p></p><p>In addition to managing the unfamiliar ice, my partner and I are expected to be masked at all times, and solve the riddle of electronic faux whistles for the first time. I've never seen one, but I'm guessing a button is to be pushed on a handheld gadget. Oh, yeah, this should be a wild ride. I'm trying not to conjure up the worst possible scenario: trying to converse with outraged coaches through my mask, defending a whistle that never sounded, surrounded by angry players. This has the makings of an on-ice maelstrom.</p><p>BREAKING NEWS: The USAH supervisor just weighed in by email, found a loophole on Page 4 of the latest mandate, giving us the <i>option</i> of wearing a mask during live play. Hmm... might make this maiden voyage a little smoother, though my wife and step-daughter might not like the idea of taking any unnecessary risks. Then again, the masks are one-way protection, not for the wearer. My family tested <i>negative</i> this week, so I'm confident I won't be endangering the kids. I'm leaning towards return to status quo during the live action, but will be prepared to go either way. Two pre-Covid whistles are tucked in my bag.</p><p>We live our lives to meet challenges. This is one of those opportunities. Carpe Diem.</p>Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-36250842283125306592020-05-09T08:06:00.004-07:002020-07-24T06:48:55.915-07:00The Garden's Notorious Glass Jumpers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Bedlam. Bobby Orr had just scored the acrobatic goal ending the Bruins 29-year championship drought and Boston Garden was shaking to its foundations. South Boston teen Kenny Callow was against the glass, giving his brother Keith a boost up, just as he was getting smacked down by a Garden security guard. Although Kenny never made it, Keith scooted over, joining a dozen other Southie kids frolicking in the midst of Bruins delirium: clapping backs, cutting in on hugs, and looting. Priceless mementos, mostly sticks and gloves shed by the celebrating players, ended up in the clutches of these adolescent raiders.<br />
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"I've got three gloves from that game," said Franny Flaherty, still living on South Boston, "Hodge, Bucyk and Sanderson. They're down in my basement." He jabbed his thumb over his shoulder, pointing toward a closed door.<br />
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Shuttle the YouTube clip to the1:44 mark you will see a white shirted teenager with two Bruins gloves. He puts them on to consolidate his spoils. At the 2:10 mark, a lad in a yellow shirt caresses a pilfered stick, greeting his buddy in an auburn windbreaker (back to the camera) who's claimed his own. They are all from Southie. The Garden was their turf. How they claimed it, and how they managed to get into every contest they chose, is a Dickensian backstory to hockey's greatest moment.<br />
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Flaherty's cousin Larry Norton lived around the corner on Telegraph Street. A charming and dapper middle aged gentleman, Norton was the lynchpin of this neighborhood gang of sports maniacs who claimed Boston Garden as their turf. Their method of entry was as simple as it was ingenious. "I would put on my Sunday School clothes," said Norton, who was 13 at the time and known for his baby face. "I'd find a well-dressed family and slide in front of the dad. When the usher asked for my ticket, I'd just point behind me."<br />
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In the ensuing moment of confusion, Norton would bolt into the masses, and head for a designated location. "Door 14 off the East Lobby," said Norton, or another favorite spot called the "Cheese Doors." He would push them open, and let his pals in. Those doors led to five or six different areas of the Garden, so the staff couldn't cover all the options. "There would be 25 of us," said Norton. "The ushers would only get three or four of us. Those that got caught usually tried again and got in. We had eight or nine sure ins, and one would always work."<br />
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At the 3:01 mark of the video, a Southie kid comes up to Orr as he embraces an ecstatic old man atop the glass, the youth nearly separating Orr from his gloves. The legend rebuffs the attempt, and at 3:14 Orr hands his gloves to his roommate and team trainer, John "Frosty" Forristall. Orr was one of the few who escaped the swarm.<br />
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Prior to that season, the Garden belonged to kids from the North End and Charlestown. "We controlled Fenway, and Charlestown ran the Garden," said Flaherty, nearly two generations later. "There were a lot of turf battles. You were taking your life into your own hands, you [Southie kids] couldn't go over there. But we started to outnumber them, like locusts, the sheer numbers. Finally in 1969 I could go over there on my own."<br />
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Future firefighter Sean Ingram was also on the ice. He is in other unedited clips of the post-game madness, long red hair flowing as he danced across center ice.<br />
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By pure happenstance, Ingram was on a job in 2010, and began reminiscing about Orr's goal with John Gilligan, a pipe-fitter from Reading. Like so many others in Boston, Gilligan fell in love with the Bruins, and as soon as they swept the Blackhawks in the semifinals, he bolted to the Garden to spend the night waiting for tickets. There is a picture of him in the <i>Record American, </i>patiently queued up in the pre-dawn hours.<br />
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That morning he paid face-value for a pair of ducats worth their weight in gold. Gilligan's next stop was a Xerox copy shop, the first step in forging a reasonable facsimile of a workable ticket.<br />
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On May 10, Gilligan scalped his legit tickets for a sensational markup, and then used his forged version to slip in to the packed Garden, At game's end, he too, made it onto the ice, but he waited for the bedlam to subside. As the ice was being cleared he saw the cages and nets, cleared off inside the Zamboni entrance. With the building off its high alert, Ingram strolled over to cage and cut the netting, slipping it inside his jacket. The historic twine resides in his Reading den, next to the framed picture from <i>The Record.</i><br />
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The Southie gang's lock on Garden access provided high-end entertainment beyond hockey. "We went to prize fights, Celtics, college hockey, AHL, concerts," said Flaherty. "We'd see big name bands on the board and we'd be there. It wasn't like we knew their music. Wednesday night, we're going to The Stones."<br />
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Garden security started wising up, and the Southie kids had to make adjustments. "For big games, we'd get there two hours early, before regular fans were allowed in," said Flaherty. "Sometimes the owners of the Bruins, Westy Adams senior and junior, would be down at ice level before the game, grab a security guard and point us out in the Heavens [the old Garden's Upper Balcony]. Their feeling was <i>No one gets in for free. </i>We'd have to climb up the ventilation shafts and hide in the ceiling until they let the fans in. We'd pop back down and go wash up in the bathrooms. It looked like we'd been playing in coal."<br />
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The good times rolled on for the Southie hockey maniacs into the 1970's. After games at the Garden they would come home and play street hockey for another two hours. When the Bruins made it to the 1972 Finals against the Rangers, they got set for what they thought would be another rollicking Cup party, the Bruins leading three games to one, ready to clinch the championship on home ice once again.<br />
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"We were too cool to take the "T" any more," said Norton. "So instead of sharing a cab, I saw a car with the keys in it." The boys were now riding in style to the Garden, albeit in a hot car. With the Cup in the house, the Rangers upset the Bruins, forcing a Game Six in New York. This provided yet another opportunity.<br />
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"I still had the car," said Norton, "Let's go to New York!" Larry found lots of well-dressed New Yorkers to ply his craft, and Southie's answer to the Bowery Boys found themselves in a much glitzier Garden party. The end result, however, was much the same, with Johnny Bucyk and Lord Stanley taking a victory lap.<br />
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At the final buzzer, old film clips show renegade fans sprinting onto the ice, reminiscent of Mother's Day two years prior. But this Cup celebration was not nearly as accommodating to the gate crashers.<br />
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At the 22:35 mark you see an excited fan in a blue windbreaker sprinting towards Gerry Cheevers and the Boston net, gleefully ready to join the black and gold conga line. That is, until he runs into the elbow of Johnny "Pie" McKenzie, and gets flattened to the ice for his trouble.<br />
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In the remaining footage, the renegades are now out of the picture, apparently deflated by McKenzie's last check of the season.<br />
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The Bruins didn't win another Cup until 2011, and by that time the Norton, Flaherty, Ingram and Callow were all watching from their couches as middle aged men. But like their heroes in black and gold, this Southie gang had a hell of a run.</div>
Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-75430902697797074292020-04-15T15:36:00.003-07:002020-04-17T16:01:12.233-07:00Connecting the Dots at Baker Rink<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Every hockey fan is aware of the Hobey Baker Award, bequeathed annually to the NCAA’s premier player since 1981. Although three decades older than its more heralded cousin, the Hobey Baker Trophy is a forgotten gem in the pantheon of college hockey hardware. Awarded annually to the Princeton freshman who best exhibits the characteristics of its namesake, the Hobey Baker Trophy has been around since 1950. Its list of recipients reads like a Who’s Who of the sport, from Canadian hockey royalty—Syl Apps (P ’70), to a Stanley Cup Champion in George Parros (P ’03), to current elite NHL Prospect Max Veronneau (P ’19). The Hobey Baker Trophy has been a harbinger for hockey greatness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You kind of look back and see who’s won it, to be a part of those guys, and held in the same light, is pretty important,” said Parros. “These are all things that mean something to players when they’re trying to figure out what their hockey careers are going to look like. It was a huge deal for me personally.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The 2020 recipient is Pito Walton (P ’23), a Lawrenceville School product who was introduced to college hockey at Baker Memorial Rink as a toddler. Walton is a useful starting point to play the Hobey Baker version of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” an exercise that takes us all the way back to the Baker era.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Walton’s father Jim was a senior men’s league goalie for the Essex Hunt Club, who often stared down Princeton Hockey Club’s ageless sniper John Cook (P ’63), the 1960 Hobey Trophy winner. Cook and Austin Sullivan (P ’63) actually shared the 1960 award, back in the era when freshmen ineligible to play varsity hockey, had their own team. The Tiger frosh were a juggernaut in 1959-60.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We were a great team, we only lost one game,” said Cook. “We played the varsity that year, and to their chagrin, tied them 5-5.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cook’s older brother Peter (P ’60) was on that humbled Princeton varsity squad, as was captain and scoring star John McBride (P ’60), the 1957 Baker Trophy recipient. McBride will never forget the aura of Hobey when he arrived at Princeton in 1956, a skinny teenager from Chicago. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“We’d heard of Hobey Baker, for sure,” said McBride, “and went and played in Baker Rink. You walk in the rink and there’s a huge portrait of him. If you didn’t know about him before you came, you certainly did when you went out for your first tryout.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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McBride went on to set several Princeton scoring records (Baker’s teams did not keep official statistics in his era), including an astounding 54-point season in 1959-60, a Tiger record that held up for 58 years. John Cook racked up 67 career goals, another piece of Princeton bedrock that wasn't shattered until 2019.<o:p></o:p></div>
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McBride’s father Paul (P ’22) never played hockey, but made annual pilgrimages from his Chicago home to Baker Rink to watch his son take a star’s turn for the Tigers. Back when Paul McBride began his freshman year at Princeton, Tiger sports hero Hobey Baker was racking up aerial victories in World War I France. Shortly after his first exam period in December of 1918, McBride and the entire campus was rocked by news that still confounds the Tiger sports community today: the legendary Hobey Baker had perished in a freak plane crash, the proverbial last man to die in World War I.<o:p></o:p></div>
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During his senior year, Paul McBride learned that Princeton would honor their hockey deity by building their own facility on campus, the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink. McBride missed its grand opening in January of 1923, having graduated seven months prior. Paul McBride’s first visit to Baker Rink wasn’t until 1957, the year his son John won the Hobey Baker Trophy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s impossible for Princeton player not to know the legend of Baker, and cannot help but be inspired by the superstar’s long shadow. John Cook frequently thought of Hobey as he commuted from his Kingston home to Baker Rink, passing the Baker family farm on Castle Howard Court en route. John’s father Peter (P ’37), yet another Tiger scoring star from the Cook hockey clan, painted the quintessential Baker portrait with a grant from Hobey’s 1914 classmates.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And now 20-year-old Pito Walton, who watched his first college game as a five-year-old at Baker Rink, is the 81<sup>st</sup> Princeton freshman to have his name forever associated with the legend in orange and black. He plays all his home games in front of season ticket holder John Cook. Cook is impressed with the lad, and thoroughly enjoyed the club’s playoff sweep over Dartmouth this spring.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Dog Days of Winter had descended upon Grand Traverse County. The month-old snow crunched like styrofoam, barely concealing the dog poop and cigarette butts. Christmas Trees lay prostrate like prickly green corpses, and four calendar months lay unturned before T-shirt weather. What's a fun-loving bunch to do? To paraphrase our late spiritual guru John Belushi...<b>ROAD TRIP!</b><br />
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Nine fun-lovin foodies piled into three sedans for an international moveable feast. A poignant story-line immediately emerged: our sweet Melissa (thanks for the moniker Duane and Greg) was reunited with her former best friend Toyota, and for the first time in ten-thousand rides, our dainty brunette sampled the back seat of old faithful. They remained best buds of course.<br />
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chat. A must stop at the greatest diner this side of SoHo, Cormack's! A humble sampling of 1/2 pound Corned Beef and Ruben sandwiches, Tuna Melts, Tomato Soup, and... and... QUICHE?! Go figure. I'll leave the Quiche eater unnamed, but suffice to say this feline wears purple on NFL Sundays. 'Nuf Sed! And because no one had broken the 10,000 calorie mark, the carnivorous clan reloaded all nine bodies into seatbelts to travel exactly two more minutes, piling out at Johan's pastry shop to imitate our New York friends: coffee and cake. Lips smacked, cups in hand, the gang got serious and put some serious miles on. Zooming past Mackinac City, soaring over the big bridge into the U.P. and then leaving the United States, shuffling passports and Canadian Loony's and Toony's before finding ourselves in the OTHER Soo, a land both glorious and free.<br />
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Downtown Sault Ste. Marie resembles East Berlin circa 1985, so there was not loitering. The slopes were calling, and calling loud, just a few kilometers north. And finally it was before us, fresh snow, live pines and </div>
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inexpensive trail passes. Eighteen skis clicked on, funky blue wax added to the soles, and a little "head wax" for our souls. Round and round we spun, burning a fraction of the calories consumed, but as we all know, Somethin' is better than Nuttin. The gang that couldn't shoot straight raced the sun to the horizon, and then sped north once again.<br />
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The Ninetets hunkered down in our woodsy Ice Station Zebra for three days and two nights. We smoked out any threat of Glaucoma, and we drowned any sorrows that may have crept in. Each meal a showcase for the chefs, both amateur and professional. The moveable feast was now anchored, with a veritable smorgasbord of homemade turkey soup, fresh chopped veggies, salads and hearty loaves. Breakfast employed an armada of cast iron, splashing buckwheat one morn and a Vossian Egg-fest the next.<br />
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But the Piece de Resistance was Saturday night's Fromage Orgy. Dueling Raclette's pinned the cholesterol meter, with Chorizo and veggies and freshly slaughtered deer meat. It was, appropriately enough, to die for.<br />
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The final feast of the weekend was an unforgettable breakfast created by Team Voss. The "Ma" Barker of this gang of nine was in reality a "Mo." Everyone who hunkered down over her Eggs-travaganza loosened their belt two more notches, and piled into their cars for another crack at the fluffy white love.<br />
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It's a motley crew, these nine marauders, and a warning to all who dare to join on. No lightweights need apply.<br />
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Three German national team veterans are trying to make
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Seniors Marc Michaelis (Mannheim) and Parker Tuomie
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Minnesota State currently leads all American Universities
with 24 victories. Ever since Tuomie and Michaelis arrived on the campus
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University team in the United States. In spite of that success, history has not
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spring. Last March the Mavericks, the top-ranked team at their NCAA regional,
failed to hold on to a three-goal lead in their opening match, suffering a
bitter defeat to Providence College. That painful memory motivates young
Tuomie. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Now it’s just fuel,” said Tuomie, who along with Michaelis,
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Michaelis, the two-time captain of Minnesota State, was
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MIchaelis injured his leg and has missed the last five games. His countrymen are doing their best to make up for the loss of their
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“Obviously, with a guy like Marc, you’re never going to be
able to replace a player like that,” said Tuomie. “For me, being in that senior
position, I wanted to make sure I am at the top of my game and do everything I
can to make our team better.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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A day following the injury to Michaelis, his German mates
chipped in with the necessary offense to spark an emotional comeback victory.
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the Mavericks’ winning goal in sudden death overtime.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is no timeline when injured captain Michaelis will
return to the Minnesota State lineup, but sooner is better for Minnesota State
fans. They are counting on German national team veterans Michaelis. Tuomie and Napravnik to lead the Mavericks to their first taste of NCAA tournament success. How
the team copes with the loss of Michaelis, the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer
among active players, is one of the major stories in college hockey today. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Demand as well. Next weekend the Mavericks will be playing nationally ranked Northern Michigan. At this writing, there is no official word as to whether or not Michaelis
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Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-55123701542938173022019-12-03T02:35:00.001-08:002019-12-03T02:35:34.309-08:00How Worcester's Dick Lamby ended up in Bobby Orr's final NHL fight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Following the 1978 NCAA Championship with BU, Worcester's Dick Lamby got his shot at pro hockey with St. Louis. He dressed and took a regular shift in the Blues final exhibition game with Chicago in the 1978-79 season, playing at old Chicago Stadium on West Madison.<br />
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Desperate to get noticed, Lamby picked a fight with undersized Darcy Rota after getting smacked in the face with an errant glove. <br />
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"I'm just firing away," said Lamby, "all I know is that I got a little guy on the ice, I'm going to hit him as many times as I could to make an impression with the Blues." Little did he know that his childhood idol Bobby Orr was dressed for the hometown Hawks. Orr was making a final comeback bid after missing the better part of three straight seasons.<br />
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"I got tackled," said Lamby, "and I turn around to throw a punch, and it's Bobby Orr! I looked up and genuflected. I thought I was in heaven—I saw Jesus Christ."<br />
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<i>excerpted from Jack Parker's Wiseguys (2018 University Press of New England)</i><br />
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Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-81140051946680008282019-01-07T06:46:00.000-08:002019-01-07T07:01:26.767-08:00Hobey Baker comes to The Book Stall<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SAVE THIS DATE: <i>January 23</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hockey author Tim Rappleye returns to the Book Stall </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in </span><span style="font-size: large;">Winnetka to read and sign from his latest book: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Hobey Baker, Upon Further Review.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Decades of research has produced this account of American hockey legend and war hero Hobey Baker, the last man to die in World War I and the first player inducted into the</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Hall of Fame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is the hundredth anniversary of Baker's death, and rumors of suicide continue to trail in his wake. Rappleye uncovered forgotten letters, damning newspaper stories, and one remarkable eyewitness account of Hobey's fatal last day, solving the mystery once and for all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last year, Rappleye entertained a full house at the Book Stall with his rollicking tales of Boston University's hockey <i>Wiseguys</i>. On January 23, expect a reading with brand new history of America's greatest amateur player, the man proclaimed the </span><span style="font-size: large;">"King of Hockey" by our neighbors in Canada. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Wednesday, January 23, 6 p.m. at the Book Stall in Winnetka.</b></i></span><br />
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Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-76893775616939270042018-12-23T10:35:00.000-08:002018-12-23T10:35:09.020-08:00The Ultimate Sacrifice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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December 23, simultaneously both Junior hockey's most joyous and brutal day. Twenty three fresh-faced kids are enjoying a pre-Christmas ultimate present, making Team USA for the coolest International tournament any of them could possibly imagine, the World Junior Championship.<br />
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Rather than celebrate the individual and team joy of the fortunate 23, let us tip our caps to the forlorn six, ambitious teenagers who made it to the bitter end, travelled to the Pacific Northwest with Team USA, laying it all on the line. With the finish line of British Columbia in site, they have been unceremoniously cut, there names forgotten in a heartbeat.<br />
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America's hockey community salutes you, the unheralded half-dozen, without whom there would be no competition to activate Team USA prior to their run for precious metal in B.C.<br />
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Sean Dhooge, Ty Emberson, Sammy Walker, Joey Keane, Michael Callahan and Cole Coskey, a round of sticktaps to you all. They will all have professional futures, NCAA and CHL glory down the road, but only Emberson will get another shot at the New Year's TV hockey spectacle, the World Junior Championship, also known as the IIHF U20 World Championship.<br />
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There hockey lives pick up again shortly. Dhooge and Emberson will join their NCAA Badgers for a series in Denver Jan 4 and 5, one they would have missed otherwise. Sammy Walker will get four NCAA games with his Gophers, while Callahan gets a shot at the Ledyard Bank Classic in Hanover, New Hampshire. While winning a tourney trophy at Thompson Arena may be a silver lining, there is no substitute for the IIHF World Championship gold and silver goblet that the all-time greats have swigged from.<br />
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So while we all prepare to unwrap our gifts this week, a nod to the young men who have their hockey hearts ripped from their chest.<br />
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DHOOGE, EMBERSON, WALKER, KEANE, CALLAHAN, COSKEY. <br />
Some of us will remember your names.<br />
Thank you for everything you gave.<br />
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Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-61814413257503951722018-12-21T06:49:00.001-08:002018-12-21T06:51:34.357-08:00The Death of Hobey Baker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The 1918 winter
solstice in western France was wet and gray, six weeks after the World War I
Armistice. Persistent rain fell rain fell like a thick mist on Toul’s Gengoult
Air Field, used exclusively by the U.S. Army’s 141<sup>st</sup> Aero Squadron.
Air traffic had been light since November 11. Nearly all of the squadron
remained at the base following the end of fighting, each man waiting for the
call to return home from this dreadful war. The past few years had not only cost
the lives of so many fellow pursuit pilots, but also a generation of young men,
slaughtered in the trenches below. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The dirt runways
of the Aerodrome were starting to mud up. All but one of the squadron officers
were huddled in the single-story bungalow that served as their base. The scent
of roasting chestnuts enveloped the men in the semi-circle around the wood
stove; they sipped cognac and Benedictine despite the fact it was not yet lunch
hour. Lethargy reigned.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The arrival of a
loud internal combustion engine intruded into the malaise. The men turned
towards the windows and opened the door. Their commanding officer, Captain
Hobey Baker, was returning from Paris with his chauffeur in a combination
motorcycle. Typical of Baker’s altruistic sense of humor, the designated driver
Howard Nieland was in the sidecar, boots up, smoking a fat cigar. Both men were
beaming smiles and laughing hard, bringing light and energy into an otherwise
dreary day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Baker burst into
the officer’s quarters in a manic rush, brandishing his orders home in front of
his peers, all of them impatient to get off the continent. His subordinates had
no choice but to allow Captain Baker his fun. His tenure as an officer had been
colored by kindness: not only had he shared in all the risk while flying over
German lines, but at every opportunity Baker singled out each deserving mate
for bravery and honor. Despite royal status due to his Ivy League sports
heroics, Hobey shared communal affection with all his men, regardless of rank.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All of a sudden,
Baker’s gleeful reverie took an awful turn in the eyes of his troops. “I’m
taking one last flight in the old Spad,” said Baker, intending to enjoy a final
rush from being airborne in the wicker and canvas Spad aircraft, a machine that
had become an extension of his body and spirit over the last year and a half.
The room went deathly silent, the good-natured laughing quashed as the officers
stared, jaws slack. Every man in that room considered himself a lucky survivor
of this “Great” war; fliers entered WWI with but a two-week life expectancy.
Considering how flimsy their planes were, and that there were not nearly enough
mechanics to keep the machines properly maintained, the fact that these airmen
were still alive and sipping Cognac was a near miracle, and they all knew it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Donald Herring,
Hobey’s academic advisor from Princeton, was in the room, and his blood went
cold after Baker’s declaration. Through fate, Herring found himself a frequent
participant in Hobey’s mythology. Herring kept showing up in critical junctures
in his protégé’s life: he was Hobey’s first academic advisor and his assistant
football coach for two years at Princeton, now he found himself face-to-face
with Hobey at his life’s most crucial fork in the road. The headstrong Adonis
prepared for his final flight off that muddy airfield in western France with
only Herring standing between him and his plane.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Back at Princeton—what
seemed like a lifetime ago—Herring held unquestioned authority over Baker, professor
to pupil. But on this dark day in Toul, none of that held sway. Captain Baker
was the commanding officer of this outfit, and the anxious protests by the men
inside the officers’ quarters were ignored by the giddy Baker. All WWI
dogfighters were a superstitious lot, they knew that whether they lived or died
was dictated as much by luck as skill. Taking “one last flight” to a pilot
often meant just that, and the men were horrified that their beloved leader was
defying the deadliest of all of their unwritten rules—tempting the fates.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Herring cornered
Baker, and made his most persuasive pitch, but failed to dissuade the captain.
Hobey loved to take absurd chances in the air, so Herring at least convinced
the 26-year-old daredevil to keep things simple. “He gave me his promise that
he would fly straight out to Pont-A-Mousson and back, and land without
acrobatics,” said Herring, who fought back tears in their final encounter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
scene took yet another morbid turn as Hobey strode into the squadron hangar
moments later. As the captain approached his trusty Spad Number 2, a mechanic
who will go down in infamy, took center stage for a single line. “Captain
Baker, sir, Number 7 is ready for a flight test.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Number 7 was a
Spad with a wonky carburetor, the most unreliable piece of equipment in the
combustion process for these archaic engines. The original Claudel carburetor
had jammed in a recent flight, prompting a near-accident to Number 7. A young
pilot then refused to fly it until the temperamental equipment was switched
out. The mechanic replaced the Claudel with a Zenith, and presented the
repaired plane to Baker.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over howls of
protest, Baker did not hesitate. “All right, I’ll take Number 7.” Now, even
lowly enlisted men joined the officers in loud protest. “One sergeant in
deliberate insubordination wheeled out Hobey’s own Number 2 from the hangar, but
to no avail,” wrote biographer Davies.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In surreal
succession, the Number 7 was rolled out through the steady rain, the sergeant
spun the propeller, and the motor fired and caught. Herring was the last man to
speak to Baker as the machine warmed up. Once again Hobey assured his concerned
friend that there would be no shenanigans on this flight, a projected 40-mile
round trip expecting to last about 15 minutes. Baker then climbed into the
cockpit, made eye contact with his college mentor, and proceeded to shut
himself into a craft he had never before flown. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Hobey took off
towards the northwest corner of the airfield, directly into the wind. As was
his norm, he lowered the nose of his machine immediately after becoming
airborne and clearing the high trees. He gunned his V-8 Hispano-Suiza engine to
2200 RPM’s. Now fully powered, the plane became Baker’s own wings and ballast.
In front of his stunned mates, he made his signature <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chandelle </i>climb, a near vertical ascent with a slight corkscrew to
the right. The most competent flyer in the squadron leveled off at just over
300 feet and surveyed the socked-in farmlands. He pointed the Spad
east-northeast. A quarter mile into the journey, the Zenith carburetor cut out,
and Hobey was now gliding with a dead engine. Herring looked up, and broke into
a frantic run.<o:p></o:p><br />
<i>The new book, Hobey Baker Upon Further Review, is now available on Amazon</i></div>
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Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-77680908329411848122018-08-16T09:04:00.000-07:002018-08-16T09:04:11.434-07:00Casey Mittelstadt on the "Minnesota Way"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Rappleye: </b><i>People outside of Minnesota want to know what’s the secret sauce that keeps you guys playing together, keeps you guys in High School rather than jumping to the USHL full time. The camaraderie in the room, it seems like it carries over here at the U. Can you help our readers understand what’s so special about the Great State of Hockey?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>Mittelstadt: </b>I think the main thing is you play with the same kids since you’re a really young guy. For me, I got to know some of these guys on the team playing fall and summer teams and you kind of bond, you’re all from Minnesota, you’re all playing for your high school and understand each other. My teammates last year were the same teammates I’ve had since I was five, six. So for me, they’ve been my best friends my whole life, getting to grow up and play with them is something pretty cool.</div>
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<b>Rappleye: </b><i>In the winter, Minnesota becomes the land of 10,000 frozen lakes. How much pond hockey did you play, and do you still play?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>Mittelstadt: </b>I have a rink in my back yard, my dad always put up, I’ve played endless amounts of pond hockey, some really late nights. That’s one of the main reasons it got me to love hockey, playing back there with my buddies and my brothers. I’ve been out there as much as anyone, if not the most probably. I loved it growing up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Rappleye: </b><i>There are stories about 2 a.m. games in your back yard.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>Mittelstadt: </b>I think I got really lucky my parents would let it happen, and my neighbors would be OK with it, they all had kids and some of them played hockey so they kinda understood when the boards are banging at 2 a.m. I got lucky I got some good buddies who loved it as much as me. When you’re out there you lose track of time, just having fun. It’s some of the best memories growing up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Rappleye: </b><i>I understand your parents are not typical hockey parents. Is that true they never played the game?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>Mittelstadt: </b>It’s pretty nice, I don’t get too much pressure from them. My dad skated growing up with his buddies, but never played. I come home, I played terrible, my parents say ‘Good Game.’ It was perfect for me, a perfect situation growing up.</div>
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The fading hockey immortal, Hobey Baker, will get a boost on the centennial of his controversial death. <i>Hobey Baker, Upon Further Review,</i> will go on sale in December, 100 years after the captain of the 103rd U.S. Army Aero Squadron took an ill-fated turn and fell to his death in Toul, France, a month after the World War I Armistice.<br />
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Hobey's death has been an unsolved mystery for a century. With his orders home tucked into his leather flying jacket, Captain Baker insisted on taking one last flight, which initiated a rapid spiral of events that led to his fatal crash. An intrepid newspaper columnist discovered that Hobey's former fiance—the glamorous Mimi Scott—had been writing Hobey throughout their post-break-up, including the bombshell that she was to wed another man, something Hobey learned the day of his farewell flight.<br />
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That column sparked rumors of suicide, a theory supported by plenty of circumstantial evidence, including that Hobey hated the mundane 9-5 working world back in the States, along with his star-crossed love-life. This latest book, <i>Hobey Baker, Upon Further Review, </i>presents the reader with all the relevant evidence necessary to draw a satisfactory conclusion, and a panel of "Hobeyologists" weigh in with their educated guesses on this long debated topic.<br />
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Hobey Baker is a household name to any American college hockey player, but he is more myth than human being. <i>Upon Further Review </i>gathers every known source, follows every lead, to return this fading legend back to flesh and blood.<br />
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I have been intrigued by Hobey's story since 1991, when Ron Fimrite wrote his long-form masterpiece for Sports Illustrated. When both HBO and ESPN omitted Hobey from their list of greatest athletes of the 20th Century, I felt a great injustice had been done to Hobey, a Hall-of-Famer in both hockey and college football. When the funding fell through for a documentary, I set a course to write this book in time for the centennial of his fantastic death. <i>Hobey Baker, Upon Further Review, </i>will settle the century-long debate as to how—and why—America's most romantic athlete perished so pointlessly.</div>
Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-28490805444073853402018-03-15T05:40:00.001-07:002020-05-07T07:30:58.420-07:00The California Kid<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When assessing the playing career of Willie O'Ree, one should never forget his hockey legacy in Southern California. Before the Kings arrived in Los Angeles, Willie had already rung up 175 goals over six seasons in the Western Hockey League, arguably the best circuit outside the six-team NHL.<br />
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With the arrival of the expansion Kings, Willie continued his WHL career down in San Diego in 1967-68, the first of nine remarkable seasons of pro hockey in the town known for surfing and tennis. Willie created a sports love affair between the town and the team, playing before packed houses at the flashy San Diego Sports Arena deep into the 1970's. Willie won the WHL scoring title in 1968-69 with 79 points in 70 games, and worked the phones during the off-season to keep the season ticket sales rolling.<br />
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Willie continued playing pro hockey until 1979, when at the age of 43, the natural born scorer still rang up 21 goals and 46 points for the San Diego Hawks, then playing in the Pacific Hockey League. The franchise has carried several names: Gulls, Sharks, Hawks and Mariners, but regardless of the logo on the front of the jersey, the team will forever be associated with Willie O'Ree, the pioneer of Southern California hockey.</div>
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<br />From Kevin Paul Dupont, Boston Globe<br />
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">Often referred to as the </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">Jackie Robinson</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2"> of hockey, </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">, now 82, twice met the Brooklyn Dodgers icon, the first time only two years after Robinson emerged from the Negro Leagues and integrated Major League Baseball.</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">, at the age of 14, visited New York City with the baseball team from his hometown, Fredericton, New Brunswick. The trip was a reward for winning the town's league championship. </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2"> was a standout second baseman/shortstop, skills that later earned him a tryout with the Milwaukee Braves.</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">"The reward was to see the Empire State Building, Radio City Music Hall, Coney Island," mused </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">. "I got to meet </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">Jackie Robinson</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2"> for the first time . . . at Ebbets Field. I shook hands with him, and I told Mr. Robinson that I not only played baseball, but I played hockey."</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">Robinson, recalled </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">, said he didn't know any black kids played hockey. "Yeah," </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2"> told him that afternoon in 1949, "there's a few."</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">A dozen years later, </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2"> was playing minor league hockey for the Los Angeles Blades in the then-Western Hockey League. The LA chapter of the NAACP held a luncheon in Robinson's honor at a local hotel, and </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">, at the behest of Blades coach Bus Agar, was invited to attend with two teammates.</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">"So we go to the luncheon," recalled </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">, who still has the printed invitation among his keepsakes. "Mr. Robinson is standing over in the corner, talking to some media people, and we're just standing off on one side, waiting for him to finish."</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">Robinson made his way over to the hockey players and Agar made the introductions, including the 24-year-old </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">, who had only recently joined the Blades less than a year after playing his final game with the Bruins.</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">"And Mr. Robinson turned and he looked at me," recalled </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">, "put up his finger and said, 'Willie </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2"> . . . aren't you the young fella I met in Brooklyn?' Now this was 1962, and that day in Brooklyn was 1949. That made a big impact. I mean, isn't that something? When you think of the millions of people he met over the years, and he turns to me and says, '</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2"> . . . aren't you the young fella . . . ?' "</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">Just a few years earlier, at age 20, </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree's</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2"> flirtation with pro baseball lasted but two weeks, after a tryout with the Braves in Waycross, Ga.</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">Fearing what it would be like for a young Canadian black man to navigate his way alone in the Deep South in 1956, </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree's</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2"> parents advised him not to go. The youngest of 13 kids, </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2"> feared one day he would regret not taking the opportunity, so he boarded the flight to Atlanta.</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">"Off the plane into the terminal, the first thing I saw was, 'White Only' and 'Colored Only,' so I went into the colored restroom," recalled </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">. "I had to stay in Atlanta overnight. I didn't have a reservation [to Waycross]. So I spoke to a black cab driver out in front of the terminal and he took me to a hotel in an all-black neighborhood."</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">Once in Waycross, </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2"> said he was assigned to a dorm with eight other players of color, and tried to turn a deaf ear to the "racial remarks by the white players," would-be teammates, during his workouts.</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">"It didn't bother me," recalled </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">, "but I said to myself, 'Ah, why in the hell did I ever considering coming down here?' "</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2"> was cut, told by the coaches he needed "a little more seasoning" as they handed him a bus ticket home.</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">Prospects get an airplane ticket to camp. The unsuccessful get a bus ticket and are told to hit the road.</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">"I'm five days on the bus," recalled </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">, "and naturally I had to sit in the back of the bus. As were rambling up through the states, I started moving up in the bus, as we are getting up north. By the time we get to Bangor, Maine, I'm sitting right in the front of the bus -- another 3½ hours, I think it was, and I am back in Fredericton. And I stepped off the bus and I said, 'Willie, forget about baseball, concentrate on hockey.' "</span></div>
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<span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2">Days later, Punch Imlach reached out to </span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c8">O'Ree</span><span class="m_7066102138332707850gmail-m_361339188952859711gmail-c2"> and signed him to launch his pro hockey career with the Quebec Aces -- the club in Quebec City where the Bruins ultimately found him. #ORee4HHOF</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "franklingothic"; font-size: 17.000000pt;">The infamous NCAA semifinal brawl of 1976 was a proverbial thorn in the side of fiery young coach Jack Parker. It was a crucial factor in BU's loss to eventual champion Minnesota, and it gnawed at him constantly. That agonizing loss motivated Parker, Jack O'Callahan and the rest of the Terriers until they won their own title two years later. This ugly chapter in college hockey history was carefully dissected in the new book, <i>Jack Parker's Wiseguys</i>, excerpted below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "charis";"><span style="font-size: large;">Thirty-three-year-old Jackie Parker walked through the Providence Civic
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">It was the 1978 NCAA semifinals</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">today known as the Frozen Four</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,
</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">down in Providence</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Rhode Island</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">an hour</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s drive from his Boston
home. Parker</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s Terriers were facing off against the top-seeded Wisconsin
Badgers</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">the reigning national champions. Two weeks after his thirty-third birthday</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Parker was coaching his fifth consecutive team to the
NCAA</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s Frozen Four</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">an event he had never missed as a head coach. It
was a string of success unfathomable today</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and it created an untouchable sports record</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">like his hero Ted Williams</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">.406 batting title.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">But the flip side of that mind-blowing success for such a young coach
was the raw frustration of four consecutive failures in those national
tournaments</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">each to a Western school. Those losses were the equivalent of the NFL Buffalo Bills</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">record of futility in the 1990s: both teams
were champions of their conference</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and both suffered four consecutive losses on the biggest stage in their sport. Boston University</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s conquerors read like a who</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s who of Western Collegiate Hockey Association
(WCHA) powerhouses: one loss apiece to Michigan and Michigan Tech</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,
</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and two to the dreaded Golden Gophers from the University of Minnesota. As Parker watched the current WCHA champion Wisconsin Badgers take their warmup laps in Providence</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">the hyper-competitive coach
once again felt that bitter angst from those four NCAA losses. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">His mantra</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">spoken publicly and privately</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">was how “sick and tired” he was over
the dominance of WCHA schools. Teams from that powerhouse conference had owned the NCAA tournament the previous five years. Over that
span</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">not a single school from the East had even advanced to the championship game.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">Two years prior</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Parker</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s best team by far had been ambushed out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">west by Herb Brooks</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Minnesota Gophers in the ugliest NCAA game of
all time. The acrid taste of that awful defeat never left Parker</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s mouth</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,
</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">a game so violent—and in the opinion of BU fans</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">so despicable—that it
threatened the sanctity of the national tournament. Parker</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s current captain</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">the irascible Jack O</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Callahan</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">was at Denver Arena for that NCAA
debacle in 1976. He was a freshman who dressed</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">played</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and fought like
a warrior. Thirty-eight years later he remained spitting mad</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">literally.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">“In Denver in 1976 we played Minnesota</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said O</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Callahan</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">“Terry
Meagher was our captain and leading scorer. A little scrum by their
bench</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and their trainer spit in Terry Meagher</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s face. So Terry was kind
of like</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">“Mother(p)ucker!” So now they start punching Terry and we all
jump off our bench; it was a bench-clearing brawl.”
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">A fact check of the story reveals that a spitting incident did ignite the
unraveling of the game at the seventy-second mark of the 1976 NCAA
semifinal</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">but there is some controversy as to who spit on whom. There
were two major reasons as to why the situation erupted: (1) the Gophers</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’
</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">nationalistic fervor instilled by Brooks and (2) ancient construction of
the penalty boxes in Denver.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">The Terriers came into the 1976 NCAAs with the nation</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s best record
at 25–3</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">having just swarmed through the Eastern College Championships with five-goal victories in both the semis and finals. This was a
team that</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">although it did not win a ring</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">still remains a source of pride
within the annals of Terrier hockey. If BU hockey had a Mount Rushmore
for excellence</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">two of the legends</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">juniors Mike Eruzione and Rick Meagher</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Terry</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s younger brother</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">were playing together in their prime on
that </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">76 club. Close observers call that squad the most talented BU team
of all time.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">“Jack Parker always said</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">you measure teams by winning national
championships</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said Eruzione from his home in Winthrop</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Massachusetts. “But we didn</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">t. We were a wagon; we were awfully good. Of all my
four years at BU</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">that was the best team.” This coming from a man who
won Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championships each
year he played. “I might say we were the best team ever to play at BU
that didn</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">t win a national championship.”
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">None of BU</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s excellence in 1976 was a mystery to Minnesota coach
Brooks</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">who had a controversial record in the WCHA for tactics that flirted with the dark side. His Gophers teams were known for flagrant </span></span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">physicality</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">politely referred to as “chippiness” in this often-brutal sport.
Brooks</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">who four years later played the jingoism card to tear down the
aura of the dynastic Soviet Red Army hockey legends</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">took careful note
of the BU roster. It revealed that eight of the nine Terrier seniors were
Canadian</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">and two of BU</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">s best were named Meagher</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">with the French
pronunciation “ma-HARR.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">Brooks</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Gophers prided themselves on being not only 100 percent
American but also being raised in the state of hockey itself</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Minnesota.
Brooks had seen film of BU</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s run to the NCAAs: their speed</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">their stick
skills</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">their sheer offensive brilliance. But as all hockey people know</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,
</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">their sport is a two-headed coin: ballet on one side and brawn on the
other. Brooks might not have had the players to compete in a footrace
with the Meagher brothers</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">but he had the muscle to drag them into a
ditch</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">to turn a finesse game into a nasty slugfest. It is known euphemistically in hockey circles as “will over skill.”
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">Brooks</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">primary attack dog was six-foot-two slugger Russ Anderson</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,
</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">whose stat line that year included two goals and an astounding 111 penalty minutes. Rick Meagher</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s older brother Terry wore the red “C” on the
front of his jersey and the proverbial bull</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s-eye on his back. He led the
Terriers with thirty goals that season and sparked their vaunted power
play. If Brooks</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">troops were to prevail in this NCAA semifinal</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">they had
to neutralize BU</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s captain. The Gophers</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">dutiful Anderson was sent off
for cross-checking Meagher just forty seconds into that infamous game.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">Violence resumed in the ensuing faceoff scrum. Opponents always
share the hash marks at the faceoff circle</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">frequently jostling as they
wait for the puck to drop: shoulder-to-shoulder</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">hip-to-hip</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">sticks crossing and uncrossing. Seventy seconds into this contest</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">push came to
shove</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">lumber pounded on lumber—or in this case</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">a leg. In an effort to
stifle the brewing storm</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">the refs whistled Meagher for slashing</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">which
evened up the manpower. This is where Denver Arena</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s aging architecture became part of the story.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">Not only did the penalty boxes have no side glass</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">but BU</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s box abutted
the Minnesota bench. Terry Meagher</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">the man who had been targeted on
Brook</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s chalkboard all week</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">was now eyeball-to-eyeball with the enemy.
Angry jeering ensued. “You F***ing Frog!” was the chorus</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">alluding to
the supposed ancestry of the English-speaking native of Ontario. The
maroon and gold Gophers were but a few feet away</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">howling epithets at </span></span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">their boxed in enemy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">Then came the tipping point: an enraged Minnesota player spat into Meagher</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">s exposed face</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">and spark hit powder. Meagher spat back</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">hitting Minnesota</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">s trainer Gary Smith. Despite not wearing
skates</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">Smith was one of Brook</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">s' most intense soldiers. He went ballistic</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, fi</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">ring a punch at the BU captain. Meagher</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">normally a peaceful man
with a minuscule career penalty mark</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">answered in kind. The Gophers
surrounded Meagher and began pummeling</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">which prompted the BU
players to catapult their bench and Meagher to flee the penalty box. One
stride out of the box</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">Meagher met up with Gopher enforcer Anderson.
They attempted to settle their affair with bare knuckles. The old Denver
barn became a stage for an old-fashioned donnybrook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">“We cleared our benches to protect Terry</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said O</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Callahan. “Everybody on the ice paired up beating the crap out of each other; it was like
the movie </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-style: italic;">Slapshot</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">.” BU</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s sophomore scoring star Mike Fidler</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">who along
with O</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Callahan hailed from the hardscrabble streets of Charlestown</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,
</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">endeared himself to all the pro scouts with his incessant brawling.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">“It was a free-for-all</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said Eruzione. “Mike Fidler was just pounding
people. Even our seventy-year-old trainer Tony Dougal was being challenged by a Minnesota kid—they almost went to blows. It was just insane.”
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">“Mike Fidler walked over and challenged the entire bench</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said BU
goalie Brian Durocher</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">a sophomore at the time. “I</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">m sure they had great
tough players on the Minnesota team</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">but that was part and parcel for
Mike</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">the Charlestown edge and all that. A minute and eight seconds
into the semifinal game</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">it didn</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">t make a lot of sense.”
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">Chaos reigned</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and nearly a half hour of unmitigated brawling raged on. Finally the NCAA officials shut off the lights. With the combatants unable
to see their counterparts</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">the melee finally petered out. But the controversy was far from over.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">NCAA rules dictate that a player guilty of fighting is automatically
ejected from that contest</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";"><i>and</i> the ensuing game. That put the whole
1976 tournament in jeopardy</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">because there would be no one left to finish this last semifinal</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">barely a minute old. Michigan Tech had already
beaten Brown in the other semi</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and enforcing the rules would have
given Tech a championship by default. A meeting was hastily called.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">According to tournament reports from the </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-style: italic;">Denver Post</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">game officials Dino Paniccia and Frank Kelley were joined by the on-ice officials from
the first NCAA semifinal—Medo Martinello and Bill Riley</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">along with </span></span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">NCAA Hockey committee men: Dennis Poppe</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">Harvard coach Bill Cleary</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">,
</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">former Boston College coach Snooks Kelley</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">WCHA head of officials Bob
Gilray</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">and NCAA ice hockey committee chair Burt Smith. The meeting</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-size: large;">s final two members included the embroiled coaches—Brooks and
the seething Jackie Parker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">An estimated half hour later they emerged with a solution—a flawed
one according to many</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">but something that would allow the championships to continue: game misconducts to the original combatants only</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,
</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Terry Meagher and Anderson. The remaining brawlers could play on.
O</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Callahan remains outraged</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">if not objective</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">to this day.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">“So they</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">re WCHA refs</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">they throw our leading scorer and captain out
of the game</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">who did nothing</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">who was the most kind guy</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">he maybe had
ten minutes in penalties all year</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">but this guy spits in his face. He throws
Terry and some fourth line guy out of the game. So we lose our best
player</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and they lose nobody</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and we kind of got screwed in the penalty
distribution of it all because we cleared our bench first.”
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">BU lost its way and the game</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">4–2</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">in an episode that no one involved
from BU can ever reconcile. The 1976 assistant coach Toot Cahoon</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">two-time national champion as a player for the Terriers</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">has a thoughtful
assessment of what went down. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">“When I step back from it and really analyze it</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said Cahoon a generation later</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">“whether or not it was ethical</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,
</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">it was a brilliant ploy by Brooks and his staff. The thing evolved into a
perfect storm for them in that it took what I think is the best BU team of
all time</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and took them right out of their game.”
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">Parker was understandably furious</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">ripping Brooks during an inter-
view with the </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-style: italic;">Boston Globe</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">: “No question they came out with the intent
of running at us. It obviously is the coach</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s philosophy. He not only tolerates it</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">he condones it. Herb Brooks is known as Herb Bush in the WCHA
and now I know why.”
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">The victim of the attack</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Terry Meagher</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">is reticent when it comes to
the topic of the Denver debacle. “It was gasoline ready to explode</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and it
did</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said Meagher from his office at Bowdoin College. “I just wish it didn</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">t
happen.” He left it at that.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">Eruzione acknowledges what a bitter pill it remains. “That</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s a game
you don</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">t talk about. Maybe it</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s like how the Russians don</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">t talk about
our game against them</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said Eruzione</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">in a reference to the Lake Placid
Winter Games.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">The Denver brawl fueled a four-year cycle of anger and violence that
manifested in Olympic Festival scraps and a scene in the movie Miracle</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">in which the O</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Callahan character fought the actor portraying Gopher Rob McClanahan (who incidentally was not yet on the Minnesota
club that mugged BU). Eruzione found levity in that. “McClanahan never
would have fought O</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Callahan</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said the former Team USA Captain.
“They should have picked [Phil] Verchota</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">pick a tough kid. Robby never
would have fought Jack. We kind of laugh about that.”
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">It took decades for Parker to get over the Denver episode</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">even after
winning his own championship ring. Harvard legend Bill Cleary has been
one of Parker</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s closest friends for half a century</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">despite their in-town rivalry. Cleary recalled how long it took Parker to recover from that game.
“He was upset for years over that Minnesota game.”
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">Here in Providence</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">two years after that bitter NCAA loss to Minnesota</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Parker was once again facing the WCHA</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s best</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">the lauded Badgers
of Wisconsin. The reigning national champs featured the most star-studded lineup in the country. Parker prided himself on preparation</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">yet
he entered this game woefully underprepared</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">coming off a three-day
week in which he had to deal with the aftershocks of his wife</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s death
and the ruptured lives of his five- and ten-year-old daughters. He took
one last drag from his cigarette while he surveyed the players exiting as
the Zamboni took the ice. The Civic Center was a sea of red from both
Wisconsin and BU fans.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">Enveloped by excruciating pressure and the prospects of an unbear-
able fifth consecutive NCAA semifinal loss</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Parker crushed out the smoldering butt and strutted with defiant confidence toward the BU locker
room. He had a message that was certain to jack up his Terriers. His
professional fate lay in their hands</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">their skates</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and their sticks. They
would have to find a way. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";"><i>Jack Parker's Wiseguys</i>, on sale now.</span></span><br />
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Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-54765438563922549102017-11-12T18:33:00.000-08:002018-01-08T05:39:01.611-08:00The Genesis of Animal House?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dartmouth hockey fans were the perfect role models for John Landis' rowdy film project in 1977. Miracle Man Dave Silk found himself smack dap in the middle of the Dartmouth frat scene. This passage is excerpted from author Tim Rappleye's new book: <i>Jack Parker's Wiseguys. </i>Tim, a Traverse City youth hockey referee, will be signing books and chatting hockey this Saturday, 3 pm at Horizon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">The Terriers</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">next test was up in Hanover</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">New Hampshire</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">facing
Dartmouth and their rowdy student fans in Thompson Arena. This was
a game in which BU</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s fresh faces once again rescued the upperclassmen</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,
</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and a Terrier veteran returned the favor.
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<span style="font-family: "charis";">A controversial incident occurred during the pregame</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">in which Silk
obtained a DNA sample from one of Dartmouth</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s most boisterous fans.
Like so many other road buildings BU played in that year</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Thompson Arena
was a tempest of negative energy during warm-ups</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">with fans perched
on top of the Plexiglas to make sure they could express themselves fully.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">“All the Dartmouth frat boys are hanging over the glass</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said Silk.
Keep in mind that the movie </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-style: italic;">Animal House </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">was in production at that moment</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and director John Landis and the late writer Harold Ramis both
stated that the lm was based on Dartmouth College and its raucous
frat party life. The undergrads hanging over the glass on that December
afternoon were essentially </span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-style: italic;">Animal House </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">role models. At least one had
obtained a roster and done enough homework to connect names with
uniform numbers of the enemy players. And they desperately sought
Silk</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s attention.
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<span style="font-family: "charis";">“We</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">re skating around</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and the frat guys are yelling</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">‘Hey Silk</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">hey
Dave!</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">And as I look up</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">he spits this big loogie in my face</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">all over me.
So now I</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">m thinking</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">that son of a . . .” </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">Rather than stop and confront
this real-life Bluto Blutarsky</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Silk skated a tight circle around his zone</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,
</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">picking up speed like a Roller Derby villain</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">intent on getting even for
the obscene injustice. Silk arrived just prior to another DNA deposit. “As
I do a loop</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">I see the same guy yelling</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">‘Hey Fidler</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Fidler! Hey Mark!</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">So I
sped up.” Just as young Bluto puckered up to unload on the unsuspecting
Fidler</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">he noticed a blunt object heading his way</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">with evil intent. Some-
how the Blutarsky wannabe was sober enough to pull a Keanu Reeves
</span><span style="font-family: "charis"; font-style: italic;">Matrix </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">dodge to avoid the heel of Silk</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s Christian Brothers stick. “He saw
me coming at the last minute</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said Silk</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">“and ducked down so my stick
broke over the glass</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">not over his head.” The frat party on the glass immediately broke up</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">sans bloodshed but not controversy. “It might have
glanced him</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” conceded Silk</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">“but it certainly didn</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">t hurt him.”
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<span style="font-family: "charis";">Silk added insult to psychic injury when he scored early at Thompson Arena</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">but BU had dificulty shaking the Big Green</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">who pounded
thirty shots at BU netminder Brian Durocher. Coached by clever tactician George Crowe</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Dartmouth held a 2–1 lead entering the final period.
That</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s when BU</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s freshmen stepped up once again with the game on the
line. Daryl MacLeod got the tying goal early on a feed from Billy Cotter</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,
</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and then Cotter banged home the winner with helpers from classmates
MacLeod and Miller. BU secured the 3–2 victory</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">a game that could have
easily gone sideways. It was Durocher</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s first Division I win of the young
season</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and the Terriers were ready to steal away into the frigid New
Hampshire night with two valuable points. Then the long arm of the law
arrived.
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<span style="font-family: "charis";">Silk remembers being in his birthday suit when he was alerted. “I</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">m in </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">the shower</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and one of the coaches says</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">‘Dave</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">come out.</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">And there</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">s a
couple of Dartmouth cops</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and they want to press charges</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said Silk. “I
remember Al Sidd</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">a friend of BU hockey</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">was there</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and they're all huddled
up with Jack Parker and the coaches.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">BU radio play-by-play man Artie Moher arrived at a scene he clearly
didn</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">t expect to see: Silk dripping wet</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">wearing only a towel</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">being questioned by men in badges. “Campus security was there</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said Moher</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">“and
one of these kids claimed that Silk hit him with his stick. For a second we
were thinking we might have to wait a little longer than we thought to get
out of Hanover.” Fortunately</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">the Dartmouth athletic director saw what
actually transpired and was a compelling witness. “Seaver Peters came
down</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and he pretty much put the blame on the students</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said Moher.
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<span style="font-family: "charis";">“There was a summit meeting outside</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">” said Silk. “One thing led to
another</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and it all went away.” After dressing</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">Silk was now free to get on
the bus and head home with the rest of his teammates. As for his accus-
ers? “Those knuckleheads were right out of central casting.”
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "charis";">There is no definitive record of Dartmouth AD Peters</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">next meeting
with the frat boys in question and whether or not he uttered the phrase</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">,
</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">“Fat</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">drunk</span><span style="font-family: "charis";">, </span><span style="font-family: "charis";">and stupid is no way to go through life.”</span> </span></div>
Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-51061022688504858062017-11-11T03:49:00.000-08:002017-11-11T03:49:13.282-08:00Casey Mittelstadt: In his Own Words<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the midst of a scintillating November series between Minnesota and
Michigan at Yost Arena, Gophers freshman sat down with reporter Tim Rappleye <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rappleye: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You just played in one of the greatest games
in memory here in this old barn. What was it like from your perspective?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mittelstadt: </b>It
was my first time here,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>it was pretty
special to come out and play, obviously it was a great atmosphere with the
student section and things like that. We’ve got to play a little better in the
second half of the game, but it was definitely a cool atmosphere and a fun
game.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rappleye: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How about for you, a freshman getting big
minutes at the end, with the game on the line. This is your first go-round in
the NCAA, you appeared to have a big battle level.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mittelstadt: </b>Coming
in I try and bring the same compete level back home in school and at the USHL.
It’s not too much different, just try and come out and make plays, play my game
and see where it takes me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rappleye: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Coach Lucia was surprised at your intensity,
compared it to Kyle Rau.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mittelstadt:</b>. He’s
very good with me. Growing up watching him (Rau) helps a lot, I got to watch
him since he was in pee-wees and bantams. That’s definitely special being
compared to a guy like that and try and carry on in his shoes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rappleye: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Minnesota and Michigan are two of the great hockey
states in America. I know you’ve played summers in Plymouth at the World Junior
Showcase, what other experiences have you had in Michigan?</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mittelstadt:</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>I came out here for a couple of weeks,
played a couple USHL games with the (NTDP) program before I went to Worlds, so
I was there for a little bit. I’ve been here the last two summers with the
World Junior camp, so I got to know Plymouth pretty well I guess, it’s been
pretty fun seeing what it’s like. The World Junior camp is the middle of
summer, and the stands are full, it’s a pretty special place and it’s
definitely a good atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rappleye: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On the topic of World Juniors, once the
first half of the college season is complete, the odds are you are going to be
an important point producer for Team USA. Does that cross your mind at all?</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mittelstadt: </b>Not
really. At this point we’ve got to come out and get some wins back here with
Minnesota. It’s important to get a good start and I think for us we’re starting
to get rolling, making plays and play how we want. I’m definitely focused on
being with Minnesota right now, and when time comes, I’ll be ready for that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rappleye:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There’s
one cherry on top of the Sundae, the outdoor game versus Canada. Have you
played in some big outdoor games in the past?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mittelstadt: </b>I
played in Hockey Day in Minnesota last year, that was outdoors in down in Stillwater,
Minnesota. That was a pretty big deal in Minnesota. Hopefully if I make it
there (Buffalo) it probably won’t compare, it will be pretty special.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rappleye: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Do you remember watching Sid Crosby’s
winning goal in that first Winter Classic back in snowy Bufffalo? Because you’ll
be playing in that same venue.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mittelstadt</b>: I’m
probably the biggest Crosby fan you’ll ever find, so yeah, I have definitely
seen that, it will be special to go out, especially to play against Canada in
that big game on New Year’s Eve. I’ve watched that since I was a young boy,
being able to go out and play in that will be something cool and will cherish
it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rappleye: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You have a lot of new fans in Buffalo since
the NHL draft. You spent time at the NHL Combine there. Have you sampled the culture,
the Buffalo wings? What’s your memory of Buffalo and your thoughts about the
city?</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mittelstadt: </b>Actually,
my earliest memory of Buffalo was really just to fly in there when we’re going
to Toronto and spend the night. I’ve had some of the wings, I’ve been around to
a few places, I think the Anchor Bar was the first one I went to. I’ve been
there, been to development camp, not too much, but I’ve seen a little bit.
Everything I’ve seen I’ve liked.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rappleye: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">People outside of Minnesota want to know
what’s the secret sauce that keeps you guys playing together, keeps you guys in
High School rather than jumping to the USHL full time. The camaraderie in the
room, it seems like it carries over here at the U. Can you help our readers
understand what’s so special about the Great State of Hockey?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mittelstadt: </b>I
think the main thing is you play with the same kids since you’re a really young
guy. For me, I got to know some of these guys on the team playing fall and
summer teams and you kind of bond, you’re all from Minnesota, you’re all
playing for your high school and understand each other. My teammates last year
were the same teammates I’ve had since I was five, six. So for me, they’ve been
my best friends my whole life, getting to grow up and play with them is
something pretty cool.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rappleye: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I thought you being a freshman at Minnesotan would bring a lot of pressure, but there have been contributions from other freshman.
Does it help to have other freshman share the burden?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mittelstadt: </b>If I
come in with pressure, I’m not scared of it, I’ve grown used to it. You get
really close to the freshmen, we all live in the dorms together, we all know
each other really well, so any time you see them doing well it’s a huge boost
and it makes you want to play harder.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rappleye: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In the winter, Minnesota becomes the land of
10,000 frozen lakes. How much pond hockey did you play, and do you still play?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mittelstadt: </b>I have a rink in my back yard, my dad always put up, I’ve
played endless amounts of pond hockey, some really late nights. That’s one of
the main reasons it got me to love hockey, playing back there with my buddies
and my brothers. I’ve been out there as much as anyone, if not the most
probably. I loved it growing up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rappleye: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There are stories about 2 a.m. games in your
back yard.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mittelstadt: </b>I
think I got really lucky my parents would let it happen, and my neighbors would
be OK with it, they all had kids and some of them played hockey so they kinda understood
when the boards are banging at 2 a.m. I got lucky I got some good buddies who
loved it as much as me. When you’re out there you lose track of time, just having
fun. It’s some of the best memories growing up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rappleye: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I understand your parents are not typical
hockey parents. Is that true they never played the game?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mittelstadt: </b>It’s
pretty nice, I don’t get too much pressure from them. My dad skated growing up
with his buddies, but never played. I come home, I played terrible, my parents
say ‘Good Game.’ It was perfect for me, a perfect situation growing up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-78576415476425677642017-10-26T16:11:00.000-07:002017-10-26T16:11:15.849-07:00Seth Appert's Return to ECAC Hockey <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Seth Appert spent 2016-17 on the Hot Seat</b></span>(<i>Times Union</i>)</td></tr>
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ECAC Hockey fans may have noticed that a Seth Appert-coached
team rolled through Dartmouth and Harvard in late October, as USA Hockey’s U-18
National team split a pair, opening with a 3-0 win at Dartmouth before bowing
to Harvard 7-2 the next night. When Appert was fired by RPI last March, coaching
at Thompson Arena and the Bright-Landry Center must have seemed light years
away. But before the 2017-18 Ivy schedule was even officially underway, there was
Appert back on familiar ground, coaching his teenage wunderkinds against the
men of the ECAC. The last six months have been a long, strange trip for Appert,
and we caught up with him by phone before he jetted off to Finland with the Red,
White and Blue.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>RinkRap</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You’ve been
through some pretty intense highs and lows this past off-season. Can you share
your mindset as this all went down?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">APPERT: </b>You have
to go back to mid-March when I had one of the worst professional days of my
life, being fired from RPI. People say coaches are hired to be fired, but when
it’s you, and it’s your family and your kids that are going to have to be
uprooted, it’s hard. I’m really proud of what we built at RPI, and getting that
program back towards national prominence, but we had a bad year last year, and
those things happen. That’s a hard day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A Dark Day in March, and then the phone rang-</b><i>(Daily Gazette)</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The next day you’re kind of talked out. Everybody’s calling
and checking in on you and all those other things. It’s probably eight in the
morning, and my phone’s ringing and it’s John Wroblewski, the other head coach
of the (NTDP) national team. I was getting my daughters on the bus, and I let it
go to voice mail. I was assuming he was calling to see how I was doing, right?
But he was calling to ask me to join their coaching staff for the Under-18
World Championships.</span></div>
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I’ll be forever grateful for the opportunity that John and
Director Scott Monaghan provided me at that moment. The moment when you’re in a
real bad spot, for those guys to call me the next day and offer me the
opportunity of a lifetime, to join a U.S. National team for a world
championship event, was very, very special. I’m very grateful for that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I spent six weeks with them, a couple weeks of practice and
then a month overseas, and then went right back overseas with Jeff Blashill
with their staff for the men’s championship. During that process I interviewed
for the job here (in Plymouth with the NTDP) after Danton Cole became head
coach at Michigan State.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>RinkRap</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Were those
World Championships an audition of sorts, were they observing you?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">APPERT: </b>It wasn’t
intended for that, at that point Danton was still on the job and the Michigan
State job wasn’t even open yet. Robo (Wroblewski) and I have some of the same
philosophies and styles of play and coaching, and he wanted me to join the
staff. In the end, it did become a two-month interview process, with USA Hockey
people at the highest levels, interacting with me on a daily basis, watching
how I interact with both the Under-18 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>team and also the men’s national team. That
eventually led to this opportunity.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Appert at his New Home with the NTDP</b>-(Hometown Life)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>RinkRap</b></span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">: You and the
NTDP seem like a pretty good fit.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">APPERT:</b> From my
end, I believe it is, I’m having a blast. It’s extremely re-energizing and
exciting. I’ve been coaching college hockey for 12 years and I love college
hockey and believe in it strongly, but this is refreshing. They’re younger,
they’re hungry to learn, they’re extremely talented and driven; there’s a lot
of mentorship in their work ethic and habits and also in their off-ice life. We’re
just trying to march forward every day to get them better individually and
collectively.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>RinkRap</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It must
have been surreal to leave Thompson Arena with a win, after playing them so many
times with RPI.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">APPERT: </b>It’s
different. When you walk out with a win when at RPI, you’re excited about the
two points in the standings and you're thinking about the next game. When you
walk out with these young men, and seeing how hard they have to battle to give
themselves a chance to win against a college team, it wasn’t about the two points,
it’s about all these things we’re trying to do— We’re trying to put our guys in
as much adversity as possible, and then helping them through that and growing
from it so we can become better. I was really happy for our guys.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Appert's Teens Claim a Scalp up at Thompson </b></span></td></tr>
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From the perspective of being back on a Dartmouth-Harvard road
trip, it didn’t feel very much different from years past. It’s funny, Rand
Pecknold texted me, “Dartmouth-Harvard this weekend, it’s like you never left.”
That’s certainly a trip you’re familiar with coming from the ECAC.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>RinkRap</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Did you
allow yourself time for introspection as you exited Thompson Arena? Being back
in such familiar surroundings, yet in a totally unexpected setting?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">APPERT: </b>That’s
not who I am. I’m not a real nostalgia type of guy, I am a live-in-the moment
type of guy. I’m not a guy that walks around and tries to soak up those kinds
of things, that’s just not who I am, but at the end of the day, it was great. I
have tremendous respect for Bob Gaudette, and really cherished the opportunity to
coach against him for those 11 years I was in the ECAC. Associate coach Dave Lassonde
has been a good friend of mine since I was a young coach in this game the last
27 years. It’s always good to see old friends and visit with them either before
or after the game. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For the record, the
last time a Seth Appert-coached club won at Thompson Arena was November 2,
2013, when RPI defeated Dartmouth 7-1. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-50526961476470595792017-09-15T18:04:00.002-07:002017-09-21T22:01:58.589-07:00Good Guy Gavin Bayreuther<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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(This interview is excerpted from NY Hockey Journal)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Four Year Skating Saint Gavin Bayreuther</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<i style="font-size: 12pt;">Gavin Bayreuther was a
dynamic force in North Country Hockey the last four years, helping return Saint
Lawrence University into an ECAC Hockey contender during his tenure in Canton
as an offensively gifted blueliner. In the spring of 2016 coach Greg Carvel
bolted SLU for U.Mass, yet Bayreuth chose to postpone his pro career with the
Dallas Stars in order to graduate with his class at Saint Lawrence. NYHJ’s Tim
Rappleye caught up with Gavin at the NHL Prospects Tournament in Traverse City,
Michigan, </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NYHJ:</b> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why did you stay at St. Lawrence for a
fourth year? Was it because you wanted to play for new coach Mark Morris?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">G.B.</b> We didn’t
know coach Morris would be the coach until really that last week or two at
school, it was kind of a mystery. The older guys had to step up and be leaders
that spring. It was a really good experience, a leadership opportunity, I
learned a lot. The school gave me so much during those three years, why not stay,
why not get that education? Education is so important, and my family,
especially my parents who are teachers at Cardigan Mountain School, it’s always
really important. When coach Morris came in, it worked out really well, and I was
happy to stay.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NYHJ</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: Coach Morris has a huge pro hockey resume.
Did he talk to you about the next level?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">G.B</b>. He
immediately handled the program like a professional. He coached us like pro’s,
he demanded a lot from us, little things like he expected every pass to be on
the tape and all that stuff as he would in the NHL and the AHL, he really
stepped my game up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NYHJ</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ECAC has a reputation as a tough checking
league. How has the transition been to pro hockey?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">G.B.</b> Obviously,
it’s a big step. College hockey is college hockey, it’s really good hockey but
when you try to take that step up into the pro ranks, you got to learn a lot,
you got to keep it simple at the start. At times in college I would do too much
with the puck, it may have or not have worked in college, but at the next level
it didn’t. Coach Morris was really good, he helped simplify my game, rounded
out my game.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NYHJ</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You’re wearing the “C” for the Stars. It’s a
very cool look. How did that all come about?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">G.B.</b> It was a
really good opportunity, and I’m very grateful for it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NYHJ</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When did they let you know?</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">G.B</b>. Really when
I walked in. I’m one of the older guys here, I played 15 games with Texas in
the AHL at the end of the year, so I was able to put my foot in the door, and I
learned a lot from the older guys. I kind of just came in here, came to the
development camp early in the summer and just tried to be a good leader, and
just led by example. I worked my tail off and I think it paid off, and I was
fortunate to wear the “C.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NYHJ</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Are you shooting texts to Carvy, or Morris
while you’re out here?</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">G.B.</b> I don’t talk
to Carvy any more, I talk to Mo once in a while. I talk to (Mike) Hurlbut, the
assistant coach, a good amount, (Matt) Deschamps, the other assistant. They did
so much for me. They gave me a gracious four years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NYHJ</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And you did the same…<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">G.B</b>. …yes, so I’m
very grateful for that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NYHJ</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I see another Skating Saint on the roster,
Eric Sweetman, did you use your influence to bring him out?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">G.B</b>. I definitely
put in a good word. He was my road roommate for four years, he’s one of my best
buddies. He’s always one of those defensemen who doesn’t stick out a ton, but
it’s because he’s always doing the right thing, always making the smart play.
Now that he has his opportunity here, I think it’s going to work out for him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NYHJ</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How’s the comfort level here. Decision
making has to be a lost faster, no?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">G.B</b>. Oh yeah. You
definitely have less time with the puck, and you’re playing with other pros, so
it’s definitely a step up. You might have been able to hold onto the puck a
little longer in college, now you gotta really be careful and make the right
play, every time. That’s something I’m still learning, and I’ll probably be
learning forever.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unless you’re mired in nostalgia, going to Joe Louis Arena these days is a rocky experience. Trying to watch hockey replays on the video board is an exercise in frustration, as three pairs of digital cubes have gone out on the south sideboard, creating three virtual pucks to confuse the viewers. It’s amusing, yet maddening.</div>
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“We don’t want the video wall going out,” said Detroit’s rink maintenance icon Al Sobotka, the man best know for collecting thrown octopi from zealous Red Wing fans. “Those are in cubes, sometimes a cube breaks, side’s going bad. We just changed a few a couple weeks ago.”</div>
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The seats wobble, and the upholstery is ripped, even in the most expensive seats. “Why spend a lot of money?” asked Sobatka, who will keep his job with Olympia Entertainment next year at the Little Caesars Arena. “We knew years ago that we’re was going to be moving, so why? We don’t own the building. It’s like if you’re renting a house, why would you want to put a lot of money into it?”</div>
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So The Joe is in a state of rapid decay: rust on bolts, shredded seats, ancient slices of pepperoni in the pot-holed pedestrian ramps to the tram stop. Two women from Traverse City who attended the Big 10 semifinals opted for dinner out in Detroit rather than see the Championship game due to the toxic fumes coming from the ice after each resurfacing. Joe Louis Arena is hockey’s answer to a dive bar: a tough sell unless you have learned to drink there.</div>
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The 2017 Big 10 Championship games are a far cry from the glory days of college hockey at The Joe. With both Michigan and Michigan State eliminated in Thursday’s quarterfinals, the alleged attendance for Friday’s semifinal doubleheader was 2,791. Realistic estimates for Friday’s opener was closer to 500 fans. And that included the team bands. </div>
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Tony Granato, who spent two years behind the Joe Louis bench with the Wings as an assistant coach, referred to attendance when asked to wax poetic about the romantic rust bucket.</div>
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It’s a far cry from the glory days of the CCHA championships, when some of the best teams in the country would meet for a meaningful championship from 1982 to 2013. Michigan’s Red Berenson led his Wolverines to nine CCHA tourney titles at The Joe. He said his squads were all happy to perform in the home of the Red Wings.</div>
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With the failing infrastructure of The Joe, the city of Detroit probably should have brought in the wrecking ball after the last CCHA tourney in 2013. The unique venue hard by the Detroit River has had plenty of college hockey history in addition to the CCHA playoffs, including 38 Great Lakes Invitational Tournaments and several NCAA games.</div>
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The 1990 NCAA Frozen Four was played at The Joe in 1990, where the Wisocnisn Badgers won their 5<sup>th</sup> NCAA title. Sabotka remembers it well, but preferred an earlier Badgers championship, at another hockey venue in Detroit.</div>
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“I remember when we had the NCAA at the Olympia in 1977,” said Sabotka. Wisconsin made that Frozen Four, and stormed the Big D. "That was just above everything that you’ve seen, with all the fans that came in from Wisconsin. They took the neighborhood over. I just spoke to Jack Berry (current Badgers goalie) about it from Wisconsin, he’s a local Caesar’s kid. 1990 we had NCAA here, it was nowhere near the one at the Olympia.”</div>
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Back in 19778, 6000 Badger fans travelled from Madison to see Mark Johnson and Mike Eaves capture Badger Bob’s second NCAA title back in 1977. With Michigan the other finalist, those finals at the Olympia remain the gold standard for NCAA championship games in terms of drama (overtime), dueling bands, and the respective fans' decibel level.</div>
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“I don’t care what people call it; saying it’s a dump, that’s a bunch of B.S.” said Sabotka. “We have a lot of pride in our jobs; we’re doing the best we can with what we have. It’s not easy. It’s still a great building as far as I’m concerned.”</div>
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Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-19562383913470753312016-05-11T10:08:00.001-07:002016-05-11T10:23:15.021-07:00B.U. Men Shine Under Hottest Lights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Penguins rookie coach Mike Sullivan was living out a Kafka-esque nightmare Tuesday in Pittsburgh. A period away from closing out the NHL's best regular season team, his squad took three straight delay of game penalties for firing the puck over the glass. None of the network broadcasters had ever seen anything like it. The resulting manpower became 5 on 4, then 5 on 3, then 5 on 4, and then 5 on 3. When the ice chips settled, the powerhouse Capitals had tied the game at three, sending it to overtime.<br />
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Remarkably, Sullivan appeared calm throughout his tumultuous journey to Bizzaro-world. His face was only one shade closer to red as he sought an explanation from the refs after the third straight delay of game call. "I've never seen it in all the years I've been around the game, I'll tell you that," said Sullivan to NHL.com in the post-game. "Three delay of game penalties in a row like that. That's a tough one to swallow, you know?" Sullivan's college coach, B.U. legend Jack Parker, knows Sullivan well and was one of the few that detected the immense stress his protege was under.<br />
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"When he had is arms folded in front of him, look how hard he was grabbing his stomach," said Parker. "It was like he was in a straight jacket." <br />
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Sullivan and the Pens weathered the unprecedented storm, ("It could have been a lot worse," said Parker), got to overtime and then overwhelmed the Caps with a non-stop flurry in the extra session. Former Terrier Nick Bonino was the man of the late-hour, pounding in the series-winner to catapult the Cinderella Penguins into the conference final. Kudos are in order for Sullivan for standing firm when America's top hockey pundits were loudly questioning his tactics.<br />
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In the third period prior to the delay of game triple nightmare, Pierre McGuire, a single stride from Sullivan inside the glass, wondered aloud when Sullivan would rein in his run-and-gun Pens, and collapse back into a defensive shell. He asked Sully point blank whether he was worried about all the odd-man rushes against during his in-game interview spot. Sullivan said his troops just needed to make better decisions with the puck. He would not take his foot off the gas.<br />
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In the overtime intermission Mike Milbury was incredulous that journeyman minor leaguer Conor Sheary was getting the same amount of ice time as superstar Sidney Crosby. Parker leaped to Sullivan's defense. "I heard Milbury," said Parker by phone the next morning. "I always tell people It's real easy to coach someone else's team. Crosby doesn't kill penalties, that's why he was so fresh for the overtime." As far as McGuire advocating for a defensive clampdown? "I've always felt the 1-2-2 defense is like the prevent defense in football," said Parker. "It prevents you from winning the game."<br />
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Sullivan stuck to his philosophy, distributing ice time through all four lines who hunted pucks down all over the Penguins defensive zone. His fresh troops simply swarmed Washington in sudden death, choking the life out of the Caps with their relentless pursuit. The face of the Penguins franchise,"Sid the Kid," was all smiles in the jubilant post game, and couldn't wait to take on Tampa in a conference final that should resemble a track meet. "It will be fast hockey for sure," said the gleeful Crosby to McGuire after completing the traditional handshake line.<br />
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Sullivan has a history of facing down neighsayers. B.U. national championship hockey alum Todd Johnson recalls another bizzare Sullivan anecdote when he was in his original NHL coaching job with the Bruins. "During the lockout (2005), Mike coached a local pee wee team," said Johnson. <br />
"He did all the right things, taught them all the game, shared ice time equally. You'd think the parents would be honored that a former NHL player and the coach of the Bruins was coaching their kids. Well what did they do? The parents had a big meeting and protested that their kids weren't getting enough ice time. What a joke, unbelievable."<br />
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After being confronted by passionate youth hockey parents, the slings and arrows from television talking heads is pretty routine for Sullivan. His triumph over both the bizarre circumstances in the series clincher and the NBC neigh-sayers brings to mind the Rudyard Kipling classic Poem "<i>IF.</i>" <br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><i>If you can keep your head when all about you</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><i> Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><i>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><i> But make allowance for their doubting too;</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><i>If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><i> And treat those two impostors just the same;</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><i>—you’ll be a Man, my son.</i></span><br />
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One of the biggest stories heading into the NHL's final four is the courageous leadership of Mike Sullivan. A man, indeed.<br />
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Tee Rapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03002555906437982272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954162334027843514.post-14138212100600149372016-05-08T11:23:00.000-07:002016-05-09T03:18:05.342-07:00Back to the Future for Stan Fischler<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Stan Fischler is an incredibly spry octogenarian, often found riding his bike in Central Park or hustling for a game of "Paddle." He still</i><i> blogs and reports on camera for MSG Network,</i><i> patrolling NHL press rooms before games sharing R-rated jokes, and then writing his post-game hockey blog deep into the night. A quintessential New Yorker, he insists that he is from Brooklyn. RinkRap caught up with </i><i>Fischler prior to Game 4 of the Islanders-Tampa Conference semifinals from Barclays Center.</i><i> </i><br />
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"I started watching hockey in '39. The Americans were still playing into the '41-'42 season, I'm living in Brooklyn. By that time I'm 10 years old, so I was very deep into hockey with what the hell is going on. And I knew that Red Dutton changed the name from the New York Americans to the Brooklyn Americans because he wanted to build a Brooklyn rink for the club downtown, right about where the Barclays Center is, where we are now. So I was very aware that something like that might happen, and of course the dream was, since I lived within walking distance, 582 Marcy, near Myrtle, I could walk to the games. That was a nice dream. Now I subway to Barclays. I take it all the time. I get on my home stop 110th and Broadway, I take the local to 96th and then I catch the 2 or the 3 and they go right to here.<br />
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<i>What's the commuting time?</i><br />
Oh about 40 minutes, or about five pages in a book. I read slow.<br />
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<i>When did you start realizing that your dream of NHL hockey in Brooklyn might become a reality?</i><br />
During the last lockout (2012), when they announced that the team would be coming here, I came here, they had a press conference, the commissioner Gary Bettman was here, Charles Wang of the Islanders. Already the building was done, the signing was the<i> fait accompli</i>, dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's. Naturally I was excited about it because I knew exactly where Dutton was... I used to play hockey at the Brooklyn Ice Palace where Dutton's Americans used to practice in '41-42, and the Ice Palace was only about a 10-minute walk from here. It was on Atlantic between Nostrand and Bedford.<br />
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<i>Well, how did you play?</i><br />
The answer is badly.<br />
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<i>Last Tuesday, when you saw all the pomp and circumstance of a Stanley Cup second round game in Brooklyn, that must have been a bit of a dream.</i><br />
The first thing I did was get goose pimples. From the very first time I went to Madison Square Garden in 1939 I was absolutely awe-struck by the whole hockey scene, the ice, the color the whole thing. Even when I worked for the Rangers in 1954-55, the first thing I would do is walk into the building and just look at the ice, it always fascinated me. Of course the fact that this thing was in Brooklyn just knocked me out. Plus it was done very classy, with a color guard and with the anthem sung. What I did, which was sort of a reflex going back to when I was in publicity, I always looked around to see the crowd, to see a full house, a very intense, high decibel count, it was the equal of Nassau Coliseum, which I loved also. It was a combo. I get goose pimples for certain songs, and certain events, and of course when I think about hockey I think about the fact that it was my father that took me to a game. If it wasn't for that, who knows what would have happened?<br />
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<i>Of all the New York boroughs, where does Brooklyn rank?</i><br />
I grew up in Brooklyn. People ask me where I'm from, if I go to visit relatives elsewhere, in Israel with my son, I say "From Brooklyn." Always Brooklyn. I went to Brooklyn College, my father and mother were both born in Brooklyn. I lived at 582 Marcy for 22 years, you can't get more Brooklyn than that.<br />
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I covered the Dodgers for the<i> Journal American</i> newspaper when they won the Series in '55, also covered Game 7 in '56 when they lost to the Yankees. Just recently when my grandchildren were here from Israel with my son Simon, we went to Coney Island, twice. Not for the rides, but for the beach because it was warm. You can't have more Brooklyn than Coney Island and Nathan's hot dogs and the whole schmear. <br />
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<i>Didn't you play a lot of paddle ball on Coney Island?</i><br />
I haven't played paddle for about three years. The last guy I played paddles with was Alan Kreda of the<i> Times, </i>and I beat the crap out of him, he can tell you that. Brooklyn is a good place for paddles. I was supposed to play Sean Avery and he backed out. Lame excuse, too. Of course, I love paddles.<br />
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<i>Do these Islander games against Tampa remind you of "The Bums" heartbreaks against the Yankees?</i><br />
Of course<i>. </i>I was there in '41 when Mickey Owen missed the third strike and Tommy Henrich goes to first base, DiMaggio comes up and starts the kill. That scar never goes away for anybody who was around then. The Dodgers theme was always "Wait Until Next Year," until finally '55. Losing in overtime the way they (the Islanders) did, it was "Wait Until Next Game."<br />
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