Twist Of The Tails
What a week for Princeton Hockey: The Tigers’ Zane Kalemba was named ECAC Player of the Year, won the Ken Dryden award for most outstanding goaltender, and then was named one of the 10 finalists for the
Zajac the Younger
Bubba and I caught the Princeton-Union ECAC quarterfinal game last night at Baker Rink. It’s always a wonderful trip; the ice equivalent to a Wrigley Field or Fenway Park pilgrimage. Built in 1922, Baker Rink has been refurbished and re-introduced more times than David Cone. It has, and always will, hold a special place in [...]
More Hockey Books
After keeping lists of books in notebooks, Mac sticky notes, Evernote and in physical form on a bookshelf, I decided it was time to update my reading record. Part Two of my hockey book list is now on the sidebar, featuring the best of Jack Falla, books on Zambonis, Hobeys, and midwestern youth hockey. I [...]
THN Not Using Its Editorial Head (Again)
I think I’m starting to enumerate the reasons I should not renew my subscription to The Hockey News – aside from reporting that redefines “timeliness” the same way my health care provider does, they seem to carry grudges from year to year. Latest example comes from the December 19th issue, page 19, in the Player [...]
Reign of Reinhardt Begins
Dale Reinhardt got a bit of a surprise on New Year’s Eve: he was traded from the ECHL’s Bakersfield Condors to the Ontario Reign. It’s something of a “worst to first” transition, as the Condors sit at the bottom on the ECHL’s Pacific Division while the LA Kings affiliate Reign are doing just that at [...]
Tigers On Top?
I have this love-hate relationship with The Hockey News. At times their reporting seems to be a best of collection of beat writers and rehashed stories, and yet having all of the hockey beat writers appear in one regular publication isn’t a bad thing. Their coverage of college, major junior, women’s and international hockey is [...]
Intractability and Incomprehensibility
I attended the (sometimes semi) annual Princeton University Computer Science department affiliates seminar this week, and got to hear a variety of short talks on topics ranging from data management in computational biology to how students infer trust in search results. Professor Andrew Appel opened the day with some statistics about the department, including a [...]
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to my nerd peers. While most of the world aligns to the Gregorian calendar and maps major events into the January to December timeframe, my company operates on a July 1 fiscal year, putting it in an equivalence class with two of my other favorite things: the NHL and Princeton University. For [...]
Pair of Tiger Tales
It’s been a great month if you follow the exploits of former Princeton Tigers in professional sports. George Parros, former captain of Princeton’s ice hockey team (and NJ high school standout) became the first Princetonian to win the Stanley Cup. He joins a reasonable list of Ivy Leaguers on Lord Stanley’s Cup, including Canadian politician [...]
With All Due Respect: Hail, Rutgers
This is a first and probably a last: I’m going to write about football. Not the kind of football that my British boss plays, but the American kind, the subject of analogies and great coaching stories and quarter-century retrospectives. Start with New Jersey jokes. Slather on a healthy dose of random naming (Rutgers, The State [...]