Spartan Hockey takes a vacation; turns a page

[Pirateasaurus]

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North Dakota might be one team we may be pretty outclassed against. It'll surely be a difficult game to start off the Anastos regime. How we compete in that one may tell us a lot.

[aallenpollreisz]

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So, I'm watching the replay of MSU v. Ferris on Fox College Sports Atlantic right now.

We're getting green helmets this year, right? I maintain the opinion I had nine months ago: The white helmets with the all-green uniforms look ridiculous.

[aallenpollreisz]

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Now I'm watching the replay of the UM v. MSU game from Joe Louis Arena from this past season on FCS-Atlantic. I'm pretty sure I started at least 70 percent of those "Go green!" chants I hear in the background.

Geez. The season doesn't start for another four months and already I miss "being away from it" so darn much.

[Arwen22266]

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Major job cuts at Lansing State Journal today, including word that Neil Koepke is one of the casualties. This likely marks the end of hockey coverage, not to mention the beginning of the end of having a newspaper.

[owslachief]

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So, I'm watching the replay of MSU v. Ferris on Fox College Sports Atlantic right now.

We're getting green helmets this year, right? I maintain the opinion I had nine months ago: The white helmets with the all-green uniforms look ridiculous.

Yep. Leave the white helmets at Munn please people.

[Big Papa]

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Personally I thought white helmets looked classic. Clean and crisp.
You can always add green stickers

[Pirateasaurus]

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I didn't think the white helmets looked thhaaaat bad, but i was overall less satisfied with what the branding did to MSU hockey. I liked neither the home, nor away jerseys more than any we have had over the last decade. I don't even think i need to explain my feelings on the loss of our script 'Michigan State'.

[owslachief]

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I didn't think the white helmets looked thhaaaat bad, but i was overall less satisfied with what the branding did to MSU hockey. I liked neither the home, nor away jerseys more than any we have had over the last decade. I don't even think i need to explain my feelings on the loss of our script 'Michigan State'.

Correct. The loss of the script does not (not (not)) kick a$5. Script belongs to the hockey prog. Block belongs to the gridders.

[Nevergoodenough]

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Major job cuts at Lansing State Journal today, including word that Neil Koepke is one of the casualties. This likely marks the end of hockey coverage, not to mention the beginning of the end of having a newspaper.

Wow.... The newspaper world is a tough one, as you know better than most.

[Polydorus]

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CALGARY - Harley Hotchkiss, one of the founding members of the Calgary Flames, has died at the age of 83.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=369681

He played on MSU's 1950 Hockey team.

RIP

[owslachief]

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CALGARY - Harley Hotchkiss, one of the founding members of the Calgary Flames, has died at the age of 83.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=369681

He played on MSU's 1950 Hockey team.

RIP

Tough day for MSU hockey on the whole. I don't know the specifics of his side's proposals, but in general that was quite a gap he and Linden had to try and close. I'm sure sure long-time Flames fans will miss him. He gave them a pro hockey team.

[aallenpollreisz]

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Giant bummer about Hotchkiss. Guy was a great Spartan and a great ambassador to the game of hockey in Calgary. It's guys like Hotchkiss that make me proud that I hold a degree from Michigan State.

RIP, Harley.

[Arwen22266]

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Someone on spartanmag.com is carping about playoff tickets not being included in the price of their season tickets. There is a really, really good reason for that, so listen closely. The ticket office stopped doing that several years ago because if games already paid for were not played, they had to spend time and energy on paperwork and refunds - which costs money. So instead of paying up front, you pay when the playoffs come around. Is that such a bad thing, to not have to put so much money up front? Beats all heck as to why anyone would consider this to be an issue.

OK, rant over ...

[Arwen22266]

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Glad he landed somewhere ...

http://www.ctpostchronicle.com/artic...4533118124.txt

[kdilks]

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Someone on spartanmag.com is carping about playoff tickets not being included in the price of their season tickets. There is a really, really good reason for that, so listen closely. The ticket office stopped doing that several years ago because if games already paid for were not played, they had to spend time and energy on paperwork and refunds - which costs money. So instead of paying up front, you pay when the playoffs come around. Is that such a bad thing, to not have to put so much money up front? Beats all heck as to why anyone would consider this to be an issue.

OK, rant over ...

The school gets the interest on that money over the course of the season, and at least at Minnesota they ask if you want to refuse your refund as a "donation" to the school, so it's not clear that you lose money by doing things that way. But logistics aside, and more importantly, it gives the impression earning home ice in the playoffs isn't something that's expected to happen on a consistent basis. And given Michigan State's size/history, the quality of the other teams in the league, and the percentage of teams that get home ice in the playoffs in the CCHA, it really should be.