Mar. 5th, 2019

unicornduke: (Default)
Went ice skating last night. 

The public skate starts at 7 and I got there around 7:10. There were some hockey dudes on the ice and they must have told them they could have the ice until someone showed up for public skate, which was me. Then they took a while to resurface because they had to put gas in the zamboni. Someone else showed up to skate so I didn't feel so bad about kicking the hockey dudes off the ice.

The other person only stayed for about 20 minutes so I had the entire rink to myself for about an hour which was fucking awesome. I spent most of that time skating right to get used to it and it worked because my left hip is sore today in a "good solid workout but not too much" way

The lesson I took last week definitely helped, I can now stop on the right side and kinda stop with both feet like a figure skater. I can't stop on the left side yet, although I got close. 

I also practiced skating backwards and I did a lap of the rink that felt like pulling teeth and then there was about 15 feet where it clicked and I was gaining speed and it felt perfect and easy skating backwards before it went back to a struggle. So I'm getting there! 

I can now do right crossovers 75% of the time, although they aren't pretty, but I know I hit this point with my left crossovers three or four skate sessions ago, so I'm on the right track. 

I've got my lesson tomorrow night and I'm not sure if I want to skate Friday night at that rink, I don't know how busy it gets. I might just skate saturday afternoon and maybe workout thursday night instead. This weekend is also NWHL and CWHL playoffs so I want to time my skate around the games that are streamed. I'll be making a post about those games in a bit. 

I gotta say, it was awesome being the only person in the rink. Despite how cold it was, I worked up enough of a sweat to take my coat off. It was great. 

unicornduke: (Default)
Both the NWHL and CWHL have their playoffs this weekend. I think the NCAA still has theirs going on but RPI was booted so I'm no longer interested for now. All game times are in Eastern time unless otherwise specified. 

NWHL: All the games are streamed on twitter, go to the nwhl twitter page at puck drop time and they post it. They play single elimination games to move on. The Isobel Cup Final will be either March 16 or 17 at the top seeded team's home rink.  

CTW @ MET - Thursday, 3/7/19 at 7pm at the Barnabas Health Hockey House, Newark, NJ. The Riveters beat Buffalo in a shootout on Sunday, which is quite the upset. It gave them the #4 spot and got them home ice advantage in the play-in game of #5 vs #4. Whoever wins this game will fly to Minnesota on Sunday. 

BOS @ BUF - Saturday, 3/9/19 at 7:30pm at the Harbor Center, Buffalo, NY. Boston lost their game against the Whitecaps on Saturday, putting them in the third place spot. They will travel to Buffalo. Whoever wins this game will be in the Isobel Cup Final. 

(Update!) Riveters @ MIN - Sunday, 3/10/19 at 1:30central/2:30eastern at TRIA Rink, Saint Paul, MN. Whoever wins the CTWvMET game will play this game against the #1 Whitecaps, who won the regular season. Whoever wins this game will be in the Isobel Cup Final

Here is a very helpful bracket from the website: 


CWHL: They play best of three to get to the Clarkson Cup Final, which is a single elimination game. It will be Sunday, March 24th at 12PM EST in Toronto, ON. This game will be streamed. 

MAR @ MTL - Friday, March 8 at 7:30PM at Place Bell in Montreal (stream here), QC, Saturday, March 9 at 6:00PM at Complexe sportif Bell in Montreal, QC (Stream here), Sunday, March 10 at 1:30 at Complexe sportif Bell in Montreal, QC (stream here). This is the #3 v #2 game. The winner of this series will advance to the Clarkson Cup Final. 

TOR @ CGY - All games played at Winsport Arena A in Calgary, AB. Friday, March 8 at 8:00PM Central/10:00PM Eastern (stream here), March 9 at 6:45PM Central/8:45PM Eastern (stream here), March 10 at 12:00PM Central/2PM Eastern (stream here). This is the #4 v #1 game. The winner of this series will advance to the Clarkson Cup Final. 

Thanks to the Victory Press for the very helpful article on the CWHL playoffs here. They do great reporting on women's hockey. 
unicornduke: (Default)
 I love her and so does everyone else right now.

NCAA Fantasy Hockey Week 22:

The Eagle has Selanded: Top seed Cornell and eighth seed RPI played not just the most memorable series of the weekend, but one of the most memorable series of the season. On Friday, after Cornell had put more than twenty shots on net without scoring, RPI went 1-0 up on its second shot of the game. Fifteen Cornell shots later, and two RPI shots later, Cornell finally leveled it at 1-1, and nearly sixteen minutes into overtime Cornell took it 2-1. Lovisa Selander (RPI, $59, 59 SP, 8.3 WP, 1 pick) made 63 saves and RPI took seven shots in total. Saturday was even more epic as RPI massively stepped up their offense, registering ten total shots on goal, and with a goal early in the first period and an empty-netter in the dying minutes took the game 2-0. Blake Orosz (RPI, $24.40, 24.4 SP, 4 WP, 0 picks) scored all three goals across the two games, which counts as a hat trick if you’re RPI. Sadly for fans of Cinderella stories, Cornell came to play in the decider and took it 6-1 to progress to the semi-finals. Selander’s save percentage across the series was an amazing .954. Over to Title IX Hockey for some more great stats:

 

Title (MMX)IX Hockey@TitleIXHockey

The 8 seed in the ECAC tournament prior to today had never won a game, and had taken the 1 seed to OT just 5 times for a total of 6 OTs.  RPI is 4 of those times and 5 of those OTs.

29:40 PM - Mar 2, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy
See Title (MMX)IX Hockey's other Tweets

Selander’s NCAA career is over, but college hockey fans will remember her for a long time. She had already broken Brianne McLaughlin’s official NCAA save record a few weeks back; in the game that RPI won, she beat Nicole Hensley’s 4,094, which isn’t the official record because in Hensley’s freshman year Lindenwood was still transitioning to D1. She ends with 4,153 saves, an average of over a thousand saves a season (for a comparison, the average saves made this season by goalies that play 80% or more of minutes is 822, so Selander was about 25% more tested than the average goalie) and now takes her talents to the Boston Pride, who honestly should consider starting both her and Katie Burt and only playing four skaters.

SB Nation's Women's College Hockey Division 1 Poll: 

5. Cornell (16-3-6), 83 — Last poll: 5

• Last week: W 2-1 v Rennselaer (3/1), L 0-2 v Rennselaer (3/2), W 6-1 v Rennselaer (3/3)

• This week: v Princeton (3/9), ECAC Championship (3/10)

One might say the Big Red threw away their shot(s) as they took a staggering 174 shots over three games scoring a grand total of 8, six of which came in the third game. They are glad to never see Lovisa Selander again as they now play Princeton who we assume will not be allowed to build a brick wall at their goal mouth this weekend.

Lovisa Selander is the best goalie you haven't heard of

A native of Sollentuna, Sweden, she broke Brianne McLaughlin’s 3,809-save record for most career saves in Division 1 (and as of yesterday, with a 49-save shutout against Cornell, has beaten Nicole Hensley’s 4,094, which isn’t the official record because in Hensley’s freshman year Lindenwood was still transitioning to D1). With the quarter final decider today, she's bound to add to her current 4098 saves and extend her lead at the top of the record books. 

[...]

If you want one stat that sums up her contribution to the team, think about this. RPI have scored 49 goals total this season, which is less than all but three D1 programs. Yet their win percentage is 0.484, good for halfway down the rankings. Their ratio of win percentage to goals scored per game is 36%; the second team in the country on that stat, Cornell, is on 24%. Every goal scored by RPI gives them a 50% better chance of winning the game than any goal scored by anyone else. That’s how good Selander is.

unicornduke: (Default)
as you can all tell, I am not that busy at work today because of all the posting. 

This came up in a work related thing: the best song in the world

unicornduke: (Default)
 uuhhhhhh there's a LGBT rec league hockey team in the area and NO ONE TOLD ME????????
unicornduke: (Default)
 finally finished another blanket

it had been living in my bed because I'd been working on it last evenings when I would go to bed early but not sleep. I made it specifically to use up all the super bulky yarn I had, which I did use them all up. Now I just need to keep working on all the other yarn lol

but it's super heavy and soft and it's larger than the original plan, which was another lap blanket. It's so heavy that it isn't very useful as a lap blanket so I'm just going to enjoy using it more like a weighted blanket. 

A bulky blanket of many different colors is draped over a computer and other blankets.

Profile

unicornduke: (Default)
unicornduke

July 2025

S M T W T F S
  1 2345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 4th, 2025 01:40 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios