Little bit of irony?

So I was at Panera Bread this weekend and picked up the little pamphlet schedule for the Tigers for portable reference. While eating, my dad pointed out that one of the sponsors is Fittje Brothers Printing Company, who proudly printed the schedule. Big deal right? Well, the Wells Fargo ad on the back features text with a strange halo around the letters a la a misaligned printer (not unlike many Gazette editions featuring an almost 3D look when the ink has gone nuts). Funny, ironic and another example being extremely careful and proofing everything that you do.

On another note, I will be doing an entry once a week entitled "You know your a CC Tiger Hockey fan when..." feature 10 of the features that distinguish us Tiger fans. If there are any ideas, feel free to let me know as I begin to roll it em out.

The season is approaching

You can tell the season is near when traffic online about the Tigers and college hockey starts to pick up. Today, the Gazette featured an article about former Tiger Brandon Straub’s battle to gain a roster spot with the Avalanche at rookie camp and some notes about the first captains practice of the season. One thing that I am surprised about is the source of the last 2 links. It appears Kate Crandall from the Gazette is starting with a solid effort for the season. I'm assuming that she has some privileges in terms of access to the team and practices that most of us non-press don't have. Fine by me, if she reports it I'll find it and post it up on here. I would definitely advise you to check out some of her older posts that have snuck by my alerts the last few weeks. Another sweet entry that I found was one that ranked the cities of the WCHA. C-Springs falls in 3rd place and has a pretty good article about our city and fans. Some things that the visitor found pleasantly surprised me so take a look! It appears I need to do some serious updating of my links section with all these new blogs popping up. I'm out of town on business this week followed by spending next weekend in Lincoln for the Huskers versus USC game. Enjoy the new articles and I will be back in full force in a week!

Anyone else get a certain sense of satisfaction watching the Michigan football team plod along and get pounded at home?!!

Get Ready to SEE Again!!

One of my biggest pet peeves EVER about the World Arena is finally being fixed!! The Arena installed nets inside the offensive zones a few seasons ago which is great for line-drives, except for one thing: They were thick and white and horribly blocked visibility. This coming season, we will get thinner and less obtrusive nets! Check out The Gazette article for the specifics. Thank you season ticket holders!!!


Also in case you missed it, Tom Preissing joined the LA Kings on July 3rd after leaving the SJ Sharks, his first team after leaving CC.

NHL draft updates

Holy crapy I'm writing a new entry! I've been busy enjoying summer so I haven't really had the motivation to sit down and write an entry but I'm making myself do it in light of some recent big news over the weekend. If you haven't already heard, Mr. Quiznos himself Billy Sweatt was drafted 38th by the Chicago Blackhawks in the second round of the draft. I still find it crazy how the NHL draft works, drafting young kids and then sending them off for 2-6 years to college or the minors. ESPN put it best in their headline "There wasn't any chest hair among the NHL draftees". Anyway, there was a fun article about Sweatt in the Gazette Saturday talking about his minimum wage job for the summer. I can't find it on the website because the search function sux on gazette.com (just like most of the rest of the site). Here's the rundown of the draft as a whole.

As far as the blog goes, I'm working on an actual website for all the content so that the links and vids and such can have their own pages. I'll still keep the blog for opinions and my rantings about hockey and then use the website for more formal things about the team and links to all the news releases around the WWW. If you guys have anything specific that you would like to see added, please let me know. As I've said before, blogs and websites work best as a 2-way conversation instead of some webmaster guessing what people care about! One thing of note, I apologize in advance if my coverage of the Tigers is a little weak the beginning of the season. Football season is what I live for so I will be following that more than anything, but I will make sure to give you all something to read weekly!

Back to the grind

I am back in cold Nebraska after 10 days enjoying the sunshine and blue skies of Colorado Springs and Las Vegas. There have been numerous things of note that have happened in the WCHA and CC world over the past week that are of note and that most of you know. Minnesota won the Broadmoor trophy with a cray OT winning goal. The Gazette had a sweet piece about the National Champion CC team from 50 years ago and another former CC player made some news in the NHL. I hope everyone is enjoying the vids and the pics and will continue to the rest of the summer until next season. If anyone has a any media they would like to add, don't hesitate to let me know!

How come everything is out of date??!

As most of you know, I'm always looking around the internet for videos and updates about the Tigers and college hockey. I have noticed a sad trend in the things I've been looking for and that is that things are horrible out of date. The INCH recruiting page is over a year old, the WCHA has a recent news section with the 4th headline about CC being swept by Minnesota (two weeks ago). On YouTube, the only videos are either old or low quality about the east coast teams. Another thing about the WCHA site is that they have the Ohio State logo flashing across as one of the members of the conference. Either I'm blind and stupid or thats an error. Is OSU part of the conference or have they ever been? If anyone knows anything about that, please let me know! I would love to be able to click on a site and see highlights and pics from the game, not 10 select photos from a year ago like the Gazette. When I see how old and out of date the few college sites are, it makes me realize just how much college hockey needs to do before it will be considered a major college sports.

One suggestion that I have heard is that I could set up something called a Flickr account which would allow people to upload pics and videos to the site from their cell phones while at the game! I think this is something we should seriously consider because it would be awesome to see people's experiences at the games: both the game itself and their experience in the crowd.