It’s a hard case to argue that it was criminally negligent, but the differences between 25 and 36, 30 and 41 in those types of vehicles are considerable in comparison to a passenger car where everyone is seated and restrained. Just that little bit of speeding greatly increased the likelihood of having to make a hard stop, and like I said, I’m still very suspicious that the officer was either distracted or following too closely or something.

I want to know why he had to stop that hard. Was he distracted somehow and reacted late?

11 MPH is a much bigger deal in a large van with an unrestrained person in the back than it is in a passenger car, though. Source: have driven ambulances and been the unrestrained person working in the back.

And for people with kids, especially daughters, who are interested in sports, the collegiate women’s hockey (and all athletics) is such a good atmosphere to expose them to. Even more affordable, some of them are even free, and the lower overall attendance at most of those games makes them even easier to bring a family to, they can get right up to the glass to appreciate the play, they have space to move around and burn off energy during the intermissions, and damn do those athletes appreciate fans, especially young girls like they once were, coming out to support them. The new arenas in Storrs and Fairfield are only going to make those experiences better.

Yale’s built to be a cyclical team in college hockey. They were in a low point of that cycle in the last few years leading up to 2020 but you really can’t understate how badly these teams suffered from having to take a full season off while most other programs kept playing. Beyond the players lost, it’s the year of experience lost from the players they were able to retain… that’s huge when it comes to competing with teams like Quinnipiac who’s returning loads of experience and Harvard who’s suddenly carrying more NHL draft picks than anyone in the country because their recruitment timeline happened to be the only one out of the Ivy’s not brutally impacted by the year off. It’s not going to be that easy for Yale to climb out of it quickly because they can’t capitalize on the new transfer rules as well as other programs, and they don’t take graduate seniors at all.

Fuck yeah! No reason he shouldn’t, tbh. He’s been playing with his U20 team in Finland while awaiting his visa, UConn was sorely lacking at center against BU, and even if systematically he isn’t quite ready to play a regular role on a line, he could be used as the extra skater and certainly benefit more from it than whichever freshman defenseman was gonna get a handful of shifts through the whole game. Add the question of Amonte’s availability into the mix and they’d be crazy not to dress a talented center.

Yale was a pretty regular fixture in the NCAA tournament in the early 2010’s and won a title in 2013. Taking a full season off for COVID killed them and most of the other Ivy’s. Almost all of their top players transferred. Harvard was really the only Ivy that didn’t suffer heavily last season. Yale’s gonna build back to being in a cycle of periodic contention, Allain is a good coach.

Yes and no. The NHL never really wanted a team in Hartford and a group of way more influential owners badly wanted the team out. Hartford has a relatively low ceiling for a sports franchise, it would perpetually be a small market team. So they orchestrated the sale to an owner who wanted to move the team, who then did his best to suppress attendance to build the case for relocation. Hartford fans met the attendance and season ticket sale goals Karmanos said he needed to keep the team in Hartford, and he moved it anyway.

It really came down to Islanders executive Lou Lamoriello’s crusade against anything fun. I also suspect they’re trying to strengthen the link between Bridgeport fans and the New York Islanders, in hopes to flip them away from Rangers fandom. Still haven’t figured out what Island they think Bridgeport is on…

I love the stripped down atmosphere. No video boards, no distractions, just great hockey. Of course there are times where you wish you could watch a replay, but it’s a nice break from gimmicks for the hockey purists out there.

I think it’s one of hockey’s biggest advantages over other college sports. You can watch future NFL, NBA, and MLB players play in college but you don’t know which ones will be playing for your favorite teams. In hockey you get to devote energy into following the specific prospects who are most likely to play for your favorite team. You even get guys like Cale Makar who goes from winning a national championship with UMass to being a key addition to Colorado’s playoff run.

It took me a long time to calibrate that 2020 tournament as actually having taken place in 2020 after essentially writing off that year of college hockey of having no conference or national tournament champions.

I only specifically root for UConn and Quinnipiac but always support Connecticut hockey teams in general as well. I’d really like for them to start alternating sites of CT Ice between Hartford and Bridgeport, it’s always been talked about but never been assured as a plan for the future.

Quinnipiac won it last year, SHU won the inaugural one in 2020.

Don’t forget Sacred Heart who’s about to transition from playing off campus in Bridgeport to a brand new building on campus which is going to finally give them that real college hockey atmosphere.

UConn is also opening a new arena but that’s going to be a tough ticket to come by for the first few games there this year.

As a hockey junkie, I absolutely love the abundance of very affordable options around the state. I grew up at Wolf Pack games and attend about a dozen of them each year now, and I’m a UConn season ticket holder. I also make it down to Quinnipiac a few times a year.

Definitely should mention the Connecticut Ice tournament, where the four D1 men’s hockey programs compete for bragging rights in Bridgeport on January 27th and 28th!