Save me a parking spot.
I’m breaking my rule and covering a game at Palisades Center Ice Rink during the holiday shopping frenzy – Sleepy Hollow/Irvington/Dobbs Ferry and Nyack/Tappan Zee. We’re making a valiant attempt to cover a couple of non-marquee games when time permits this season because every team has a good story. And this promises to be a good matchup.
Follow me @LoHudHockey for updates.
Nov. 28
Sleepy Hollow/Irvington/Dobbs Ferry at Nyack/Tappan Zee, 5:45 p.m. at Palisades
Stepinac vs. Xavier at Bayonne, 5:30 p.m.
Nov. 27
RTH vs. ETB, ppd.
35 Comments
Some good HS hockey later today. I’m torn on which game to attend. Maybe neither.
I don’t know “B”...do you really love hockey?
scoreboard for nov 28 mike (you post nov 27 again)
when will the stats be up on section 1 hockey?
manhattanville just moved all their home games for the remainder of the season to terry connors…so did fordham’s home games (now all at ice hutch/murrays)
looks like anyone else is going to have to do the same thing..
Yup. Rye doing some home gamesat the hutch and some in South Norwalk. Same for RTH. I know Rye’s on ie practice time has been very limited. Figuring the same for RTH.
mike- when will the stats be up on section 1 hockey?
Rye vs. Scarsdale at Muarrys in a scrimmage
@x and 0’s : Mike has nothing to do with “section1hockey.com”, That is run by the hard work of Cliff Clavin (formerly LoHud Hockey)
....FYI
I dont believe RTH practice has been limited because they only practice at RCDS. Only games “were” played at Playland.
X’s and O’s-
Take it easy there tiger. First, give credit where credit’s due. Mike & The Journal News have nothing to do with section1hockey.com (other than using it as reference material when writing about a game). Thanks, Ta-Da, for the plug.
First weekend’s stats are tough with the two local tourneys and the two teams that went upstate along with a couple of one-off games. There are about 35 scoresheets to sort through right out of the gate and with my day job, only so many hours in the day to do it. That being said, I am going to try to have them up (at least the bulk of the games so far) tonight or tomorrow early morning. Stay tuned…
I have to admit… I thought I had the NTZ hockey program running on all cylinders even though I know NOTHING about the game OR how to coach it. We should have won both of our first 2 games this season but…... I just don’t get it!
Let’s see. I hung our goalie out to dry in both games… I took our best defenseman and made him a forward… I made a GREAT addition to our team sit for the first period of the first 2 games because he didnt bring the right shirt to the game or practice or whatever… I have our co-head coach thinking he really has input into the team (hahahaha).... I collect OVER $7000 from the school for doing this (HAHAHAHA)... wait… I gotta stop laughing!!!! OK. OK. I have NEVER taught any team that I coached any offensive system – because I’m not sure what that is (thank GOD there are some players who play travel and have REAL coaches – whew!).... Oh, did I mention that the other “head” coach thinks he has input?
But do you know what I really do well? Come on… Guess! I trick everybody by switching the goalie instead of taking a time out! Why not? They’ll NEVER figure it out! It gives the other team a chance to rest their BEST players at a time when they can barely stand because they are exhausted! So far this year it only cost our team 1 goal in 2 trys. Thats progress!
I would love to share more but I have to go figure out how to make more players and fans hate me. Maybe I can start showing up at some of the parents birthday partys and blowing up balloon hockey sticks and hats!
Al – I love hockey!!
MR Hughes (and I use that name loosely)
I just saw NTZ and the coach you speak of did not lose tonight’s game. You have a decent squad without a single go-to player, so give the kids a chance to figure out where they fit. And then if you have an issue with the way your program is being run, call your AD. We’ll start a pool based on how much time passes before you get hung up on. I’m down for 124 seconds.
Ive been looking at the last couple articles and ive seen greeley come up several times in some of them. Whats the deal with Greeley? Whats all of this hype about?
@MR Hughes,
Ever hear of the 24 hour rule? Geez…
Mike- do you think the people on this blog are overrating greeley
Btw thanks to cliff for getting those stats up there
Greely is over rated. End of discussion.
BTW MR Hughes, I have been dealing with the same issues for past 26 years. Don’t pay any attention to these people. Your getting paid – who cares. That’s the way I approach the game!
Respect the 24 hour rule…but coaches aren’t immune from critiques..like the players.
1) They are adults
2) They are paid employees of the School Admin (Often the coaching stipend is pensionable too)
3) They are responsible for a $40 to 50 thousand budget of public money (probably what it costs to run a HS hockey team.
An analysis on how the program is run is not off limits.
Big hit
Greeley has a very good team. The Quakers have a couple of reliable scorers. A really strong D-man. The only goalie I’d want to be sitting next to on a single-engine aircraft while the pilot is suffering a health crisis. And there is enough depth to get away with playing three lines against most opponents. But … there are so many underclassmen who need to play big roles in order to put this group in the conversation with Rye, Pelham, Scarsdale and John Jay. Greeley needs to spend more time on the ice dealing with contending teams before we really know what this team is capable of. It starts on Saturday with Iona Prep.
Mike-
I don’t get it. Are you saying Greeley has a goalie that is good or bad? I think the joke is that he’s flying high, which means he’d good…? Very confusing comment
Also, very funny Mr. Hughes, your argument has potential. I agree with B, forget the parents and fans.
And Cliff, thanks for the stats.
Question?
Neil’s solid. And if you’re scratching your head, read his Twitter profile … “17 year old private pilot, SR20 owner, blogger, summer intern at Cirrus Aircraft. Slowly making aviation history…”
Its always someones elses fault. The coach and the teacher and the policeman are always at fault
Pathetic anonymous post vs. a coach. Grow up, and deal with the fact that your boys team is not that skilled. Blame the coach all you want… the coaches are always an easy target and it’s easier to point the fingers at someone else instead of yourself.
Sit back and enjoy it, the kids and coaches are doing the best they can. ONce High school hockey is over their senior year… their whole competitive career is over (for 99%) for the kids. If your son was so great, I doubt he would still be playing for a public school team, unless he also plays applecore or hitmen.
Al, maybe the athletic directors should worry about the 40-50 thousand dollar programs. Crying on a blog because your not happy that your sons team is weak is the real reason this guy is complaining. Using the $$$ argument is false advertising… we all know what the real agenda is here. It is a parents frustration that they spend countless crazy hours shuffling their kids to hockey clinics and travel team stuff… and then the culmination of it all in high school is disappointing. Because that parent figured after all that money and time, their kid should be tearing it up in high school hockey. Unfortunately for them, genetics plays a large part in their potential. You can throw all the money you want at it, junior will just be a mediocre high school athlete.
@ AL BUNDY
What you say has some merit.
But that doesn’t mean all coaches are above approach…It’s not always about the W’s, but sometimes you need to examine what is really being done to better the program. The best coaches are usually the ones that are most visible to their players in the offseason.
Thats my criteria.
For the last couple of seasons very good coaches like the Ossining coach and the Sleepy Hollow coach could only do so much with the teams they have had. The last East Ramapo coach was a very good coach and teacher of the game who also did so much with so little.
Keep in mind that coaches get paid to coach between November and February. Sure Ed Witz who runs a rink, and Schelling who is driven to win another state title will coach out of season. But other coaches like Chiapparelli coach 3 sports, he can’t work with kids 12 months of the year.
MOst of these coaches have lives outside of coaching too. Family, friends and other things that constitute a real life. Sure it would be great to have a coach for your kid who coaches all year for them to be good… but in reality, is that really a life? Neglect your own family to coach other peoples kids for free? Why should coaches have to do anything for free? Because the parents want them to?
Coaches like the Mt. Vernon Basketball coach is not married, has no kids. His whole life is Mt. Vernon basketball. Sure the kids benefit… but it is almost unhealthy for a coach to be live like that.
Most people would suggest that kids don’t play so much out of season, and most would also suggest that coaches who want their players to specialize in only one sport is doing a major disservice to that kid.
One of the reasons that there are hardly any more 3 sport athletes is that parents and many coaches put pressure for kids to specialize. Gone are the days where you played a sport for fun, now it needs an endgame. Like a scholarship or playing in college.
Once many of these kids get out from under their parents thumbs, and go to college, they are happy to stop playing and relieved of all the pressure to play a sport 12 months of the year. ALot of parents and coaches take the fun out of it, and it becomes work… not a game.
Obviously, some coaches put in a half baked effort I guess. Some are better than others. But so are doctors, lawyers and every profession. There is good and weak in all professions.
BTW, Where the He—is Ned Bigby? Season started and he is nowhere to be found. Can we have a benefit concert to replace the damaged adult periodicals that were destroyed during the hurricane. He might be in a deep depression.
The Pelham coach coaches middle school baseball not only hockey. The Mount Vernon basketball coach is very involved in his community, not just in basketball.
Rye Scarsdale Scrimmage. Rye went out to a 2 to 0 lead. Scarsdale looked slow to start it up and gave up a bad second goal. They did not play their first line together for the first half of the period. Then when they put them together, they had two goals from Matt Blakely, one from the older Nicholas, and two from Burns. They are very explosive and their power play looked great. They are in desperate need of another defensemen.
Rye looked just OK. No real great threats. Their first goalie looked very good. They rotated their players, hard to get a feel
Mike,
Please do not advocate that a parent call his son’s school AD. That is what a certain Harrison parent did and last season’s Coach of The Year is now gone from RTH.
Mr. Hughes….nice to see you gave the team a whole two games into the season before you pulled out the knives.
In my lifetime I’ve been fortunate to have had some great role models. Teachers, coaches, clergy, family, law enforcement, public servants, and bosses have mostly positive forces in my life.
But along the way there been a couple of real clunkers in each and all of these titles that I have encountered.
I don’t think my experiences are unique in this regard.
Coaches are human and fallible. Some much more than others…We are quick and ready with praise of the good ones…they have been mentioned plenty in this blog.
Good blogging etiquette says don’t name the underachievers…
Al
I’m not saying we shouldn’t question the decision-making from time to time, so if you want to ask whether a coach realized a late timeout would give the opposing team a chance to rest the one player capable of nailing down a win an opportunity to rest, fine. But for the major issues, let some time pass, make a phone call. ... And then quickly hang up when the coach answers. That’ll show ‘em.