Trophy Ceremony Tonight to Wrap up the Season

In a classy move by the Tigers and Scott Owens, the Tigers delayed their trophy presentation to tonight, a move that will allow the home crowd to get a glimpse of both the MacNaughton Cup and the Gold Pan. Hopefully, the Tigers will play the full line-up most of the night but I'm guessing we will see a lot more from the young guys tonight, it will be interesting to see which of the 3 goaltenders will play. This game is essentially meaningless other than the fact we are playing DU. Both teams are in the WCHA and NCAA tournament and CC has locked up the #1 WCHA seed and will play host to Alaska Anchorage next weekend and will get a first round bye in Minneapolis should they beat UAA (it would be a MONUMENTAL upset if they were knocked out, considering this could be the best Tiger since most fans have been alive).

• The Tigers have now won 6 WCHA regular season titles in 15 years, and 3 in the last 6 years.

• CC is 7-1 in the past 8 games against DU, leaving the rivalry one sided at the moment.
• The Gayzette coverage of the game sucked so bad I'm wondering why they even bothered. It was obvious that Kate Crandall wasn't even at the game, and the pics were from the freaking AP. Oh, and you would think that winning the McNaughton Cup, in a hostile environment along with the Gold Pan, would be a big deal. Instead, there was a GIANT pic (obviously space eating so they don't have to write as much, like usual) of.......a Tiger getting checked. All that glamor at the game and you got that? That's why I never use their pieces, freaking terrible. DG's DU blog is better than that.
  
• If you are one of the lucky ones with tickets tonight, bring your camera for the trophy presentation after the game. I'm up high so my pics won't be too great but if anyone wants to send me a link of their pics or have some featured, just send me an email and I'll be glad to showcase them on the blog! (email is in my profile info)
• It may be a record crowd at World Arena tonight. Besides the regular seating, all student seats were sold, along with all the standing room only seats. Hopefully the corporate seats behind the penalty boxes will actually have people in them tonight and not be empty
• DG takes a look at the local media coverage today from "The Magness Massacre", a title that has a pretty nice ring to it doesn't it?!
• One more note, all of the Google run Blogger services crashed this morning so all of us Bloggers were running around in circles. Judging from the huge traffic this site got after midnight, the fans felt just as disconnected today!
• I was out on the city's east and north sides today (holy crap it's so different out there!), getting away from my southwest hideaway, and noticed 4 CC fans dressed in full apparel, which was nice to see. It's rare I get to see fans out in Tiger gear so that's fun (to all of you non-CS hockey fans, this city doesn't revolve around any particular team or school, you locals know:) )
• The game is on TV tonight, Comcast 4 in Colorado Springs and Comcast 5 in Denver. Other internet links can be found below under Friday night's preview.

~PCO

COLORADO COLLEGE TIGERS
2007/08 WCHA REGULAR SEASON CHAMPIONS!!!

This is why people support the hockey team, not the college...

So I opened the paper today (yes some of us still get it at home) to see 4 CC players were suspended for blackface. WTF is blackface? I read the article and, in my head, it read "4 players were suspended for dressing up like TV characters". Um, what?! I read the story again online and looked up the definition for blackface. Ok, so the initial meaning was derogatory and meant to make fun of people who, basically, weren't the accepted status quo. Nothing wrong with that (the concern of the word, NOT the mocking), but dressing up as TV characters on a team outing away from the public is hardly mocking people. I wouldn't' view it any different than a kid dressing up as Garfield for Halloween. What's next, "look at that kid over there, he's dressed up as BUGS BUNNY! That is SO unacceptable, let's send him to tolerance school for the next 5 years" My reaction to this whole thing is "are you f*cking kidding me?!!!!" Everyone I have talked to today thinks its ludicrous. Most put it more bluntly than I just did, with many many more explicatives. I mean seriously, how the f*ck is this even a story? I read a recent comment that said "its official, the gayzette hates white people". I don't even see how this has anything to do with blacks because, helllo!, color doesn't freaking matter! How many people really walk down the street and think to themselves "uh oh, it's a mexican, I better cross the street" NO. We think, if anything, oh, there's a person walking by me. Who cares!!! So now our hockey players have to go through a laundry list of "diversity" activities to remedy the situation. Or as one poster on the Gazette put "brainwashing". What is CC thinking??? Are they taking the run toward being the number one pot school again too seriously?? First off, pretty sure they are not that diverse of a campus to begin with so why do they care? Of course it shouldn't matter anyway, it's not a freaking issue. And then you get the media jumping all over it and poof! national sensation over a non-issue. Crandall should have thought about how ludicrous this whole thing was before causing a national phenomenon. In the words of Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy "makes me wanna puke"