On ice
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- July
- 28
Spent the day at the Ice Hutch in Mount Vernon. Well, I book-ended the day there, starting with the 7 a.m.—that’s right, a.m.—Hudson Valley-Central game (Central won 4-3.)
On this long, hot, humid day the ice held up pretty well. Oh, there were some ice issues, and it was soft and puddly, but some NHL rinks  we won’t mention any names  can’t do good ice in the dead of winter.
Speaking of that, I want to clear up something I wrote Friday in The Journal News and on LoHud.com, when I said the Ice Hutch was an embarrassing venue.
“Embarrassing� was a poor choice of words. The point was, with all the newer and in some cases state-of-the-art rinks in the area, and with all the first-rate facilities being used in other sports in these Games, it’s a shame another arena wasn’t available, or that the state or the county couldn’t give the old, dark Ice Hutch a facelift.
The Ice Hutch is no worse than most of the older rinks in the area, and the staff has done everything to make it a decent venue, freshly painted and clean.
The rink itself is fine, and so has been the hockey.
I wrote a column for tomorrow about Hudson Valley’s long day, a double-header of games at the crack of dawn and another at dusk—a 5-3 win over New York City that began at 6 p.m.
Today Hudson Valley has it easy. Yeah, right. A noon game against Western, which has won seven straight ESG gold medals and 19 in 25 years. There are still some variables to be finalized, but Hudson Valley will have a medal by the end of tomorrow, and could possibly have gold.
Western beat Long Island 6-4 in the last game tonight, to go to 4-0. Hudson Valley and Central are both 3-1. Any two-way tie will be decided simply by the head-to-head result, which means Hudson Valley loses a two-way tie with Central. But if it ends in a two-way tie with Western, via a win tomorrow, HV gets the gold.
More likely, if HV beats Western, there will be a three-way tie including Central. If that happens, then it comes down to the fewest number of goals allowed in the two games against the other teams in the tie. Western beat Central 6-3, and Central beat Hudson Valley 4-3, so Central’s tiebreaker number is nine goals allowed, Hudson Valley’s four and Western’s three going into the HV-Western game. Of course, if Western beats Hudson Valley, everything is moot. Western gets gold, Central gets silver and Hudson Valley gets bronze.
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true about The Hutch. Its not The Montreal Forum, but I don`t know exactly what it is but people and teams love to play there. I mean people love that place. Its not like a corporate feeling there, I mean you go in theres always friendly people there its always a great place to watch a game. In the winter theres got to be maybe 15 high school teams playing there and its fun. I been to maybe 20 or so awesome games with great crowds great atmosphere etc. For an bubble its fine I guess maybe its the people that make it a fun freindly down home place. Who knows?
The place is definately er, unique. I will say this they are the only rink that cares about the high school game. The Hutch really runs a great show come high school playoff time. and thats for both high school leagues the catholic and Section 1. I played a few section games in there, they got the DJ PA music, and they were the first rink to do that, now everyone does it, they got banners and lots of hockey things all over the place. I always liked that kind of enviroment for hockey.
Now that the ESG is over and I think basketball is also or does the AAU season go on forever. Here are some thoughts to ponder:
ESPN: Who’s Now, they are certainly not! With the exception of the NFL Live, Baseball Tonight and the actual games themselves, I do not waste my time with them.
Michael Strahan: Go retire, we are a .500 team with you and a .500 team without you.
NY Jets: I do not see Mangini as Man-genious this year. This is just a feeling I have that they will struggle in year number 2.
Boston Celtics: Before we start printing NBA Finals tickets in Boston with the new aquisitions, they ain’t Bird, McHale, Parrish, Maxwell and DJ.
New Jersey Devils: They could be 0 – 9 when opening up the new arena. I truly believe the game is passing Lou in the fast lane to a certain extent.
New York Mets: They are missing something and I think it is Pedro. I hope he is back soon before it is too late. Can I trade Guillermo Mota for a box of crackerjacks.
New York Yankees: Just got a feeling they are going to make it a September to remember and I am not a Yankee fan.
NY Rangers: Sean Avery was dissed in his arbitration hearing and will become a cancer to the team.
Only 20 days until high school football double sessions.
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