Long Distance Thoughts 9.26.2021 by Paul Hornstein As I write the this, we are less than a week from the puck dropping on the 2021-2022 season. Some teams will open with exhibition games like Colorado College will play its first game in the brand spanking new Robson Arena (from long distance it looks great by …
By Paul Hornstein It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, every single day! No, not December 25th, I’m talking October 2nd & October 3rd! That’s the weekend that ASU hosts UMass-Lowell to open the 2021-22 hockey season. And if you read this space before, you know that I still feel that every season, …
By Paul Hornstein So for the second time in a month, a school’s administration has screwed all of the people involved in their university’s hockey programs. And the only reason I did not use anything stronger or more descriptive is because we try to keep things PG around here. About a month ago, as the season ended …
Okay, so UMass’ win over St. Cloud State in the championship game was anticlimactic. If you think about it, all championship games are. You get all pumped up, you get into the game and when the high of the post-game ceremony is over. That’s it. You instinctively look for the next games on the schedule, …
Sometimes you get what you wish for. I wanted chaos in the NCAA hockey tournament & guess what? I got it. If you heard our College Hockey Southwest Live podcast last night (You haven’t? Let’s go…), I literally was getting the brackets as we were doing the show. I know they were released about an …
Chaos. All I want is some chaos. Is that really too much to ask? No, I’m not talking about real world chaos, we have far too much of that already. I’m talking about sports chaos. The kind of chaos that makes sports fun. The unpredictability of playing the games that paper doesn’t have. All I …
At this time last year, the ASU hockey team was considered a virtual lock for its second straight NCAA Tournament bid. We all know what happened. As the summer went past, and they slowly started resuming sports, at least at the professional level. At the college level, it was not quite assured. However, with college …
Pairwise . . . Fair wise? The countdown to the Frozen Four! As we hit the end of February, it is normally at this time that we start to look forward to the annual guessing game of who will be the guests of the NCAA on the road to the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh April …
As I sit here, awaiting another possible three to six inches of snow, cursing the Valley of the Sun sunset pictures coming across my twitter feed (@pfh1964), ASU completed its ONLY home weekend of the season, splitting a pair of games against the USNDT U18 squad. The games were a mixed bag on the ice, …