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"Hillary Knight lived in NH for about 4 minutes, and they are showing clips of her goal, while touting her NH roots."
"This is hilarious..."
Knight attended prep school Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, and played hockey there for four years. Does that translate into a reason for the TV station to be showing highlights? (Stuff is so close together in the northeast that I'm not sure what kind of audience a given station might have.)
Adding, her UW biography says that her team at Choate were "New England champions", that she was "two-time Boston Globe All-Scholastic Award recipient", and also "earned All-New England honors in field hockey and lacrosse"Last edited by robertearle; 02-23-2018, 05:28 PM.
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Originally posted by Puckdrop14 View PostI know he wore a helmet when very few did. I am fighting the urge to look it up!
While I don't think that he was actually the first to wear a helmut he is generally acknowledged as being so and, as such, as having started the movement of NHL players wearing helmuts.
Ultimately, this is arguably a more important achievement than his 6 or 7 goals in one game.
(Which reminds me of a less that pleasant memory from when I was a kid. My best friend, halfway through one hockey season, convinced me to talk to the coach of his team since they "needed" a goalie and I loved playing goal although I hadn't played organized hockey. I did so and "presto" I was their "starter". The game in question was vs a very very good team, which we certainly weren't, and on that team was a very good player whom I sort of knew and he had a hockey talent reputation after having played for a number of years. During that game their team made ours look like pylons...and that's no exaggeration, with the result being that every time they touched the puck it was a breakaway on me (one skater or more) or a two or three on one, if I was lucky, although I don't recall luck as having played a big part in it that day. It was basically the other team against me. Well, I sure got tired of seeing that guy (and all his team mates) bearing down on me with the puck totally unmolested all afternoon...kind of a lonely experience. By the end of the game he had scored 6 goals on me...2 hat tricks. Their score was a lot higher than that (I'm thinking 13) although I can't recall exactly what it was...just that he had scored the most goals. Needless to say we scored zero. I guess there were no mercy rules back then. I chalked it up to having no team in front of me combined with there's only so much you can humanly do no matter how hard you try, no matter how badly you want it, no matter how competitive you are.
Somehow, I've never forgotten that experience.
I very often have occasion to drive by that outdoor rink that was in a school yard but hasn't been there for maybe 30 years or so but when I do I normally don't think about it. Did so last week...looked over at where the rink was...smiled, as a few video clips were flashed up onto my mind's screen of that cold sunny afternoon so long ago...and kept on driving).Last edited by Blackbeard; 02-23-2018, 07:25 PM.
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Originally posted by drewkal View PostNBC host Tirico told the world that Andover, MN native Maddie Rooney, who was born in Duluth, and plays for UMD, was from Massachussets! Just likely a dumb mistake, doubt he watched the game, ice dancing was probably on the other feed.
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Originally posted by ne7minder View PostHe might also think the only Andover is in MA. But I have to say the NBC team for hockey is the worst I have seen except for the time the B16 Network had two tennis guys doing a hockey game. They do also seem to think the only players come from out East. They had a hard time not crediting a couple from NoDak as well as ignoring a lot of Minnesotans and a Wisconsinite.
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Originally posted by hockeymakesmebroke View PostYou are very wrong about the statement "very few of those girls were actually developed in the Belle Tire program, they were recruited there." This sir is a fact: a core of 12 girls who were all "cuts" from other programs came to BT 3 years ago. That first year together at 16U they took their lumps and were middle of the pack at best. Last year with hard work, chemistry and good coaching they were able to win the National Championship. They have no super-stars that are going to BC, Wisconsin, Clarkson, Colgate or Ohio State, they work hard, run a very disciplined system, have good chemistry and really good coaching. (I am not a coach there so don't go there). This season those 12 are now on the 19U (ranked #5 in the country) and were joined by one HB player, one CYA player and a handful of LC players, why? You'd have to ask them but probably because of the reasons stated above. They may or may not win Nationals this season but the Vigilante's are very good coaches so don't disparage them by saying they didn't develop the BT talent, surely they did and that cannot be denied.Last edited by DDad16; 02-24-2018, 04:51 PM.
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Originally posted by Scott_TG View PostMentioning Belle Tire, I've been very impressed with Erin McArdle, a former BT player playing significant minutes on the blue line for the 4 time defending D3 champ Cardinals as a freshman. Solid defensive play and she has the 3rd best points per game mark for a freshman defenseman in D3.
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Originally posted by shelfit View PostSure. I thought the two defensemen that looked like they didn't belong at the Olympics were Mikkelson for Canada and Stecklein for USA. Not impressive at all and at times even terrible.
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Originally posted by drewkal View PostIf you're serious about getting the Lam's pictures up at Ridder, I'll help! Are you at games this weekend? Where to begin needs to be figured out, and we need to find out if J+M would even back the idea. Is there a way to IM each other info without everyone else seeing our info?
This is not an anti-Lam statement. I applaud what they did for the UND program. They should be on President Kennedy's tombstone.
The wall is for Gophers and the Lams are not Gophers.
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