Monday, December 26, 2022

More Tigers Against Tigers On Ice

Hello everyone.

How was your Christmas? Was it awesome?

For most of you, TigerBlog is guessing, it was a pretty cold Christmas. Like, a brutally cold Christmas, the kind where in year's to come, when someone talks about the cold, you say something like "this is nothing. Remember Christmas 2022?"

The final week of 2022 is here. As such, come week's end, TigerBlog will be giving you his annual two-part rundown of the top moments of 2022 in Princeton Athletics, as chosen by him. That's his disclaimer.

It's not the official Princeton Year in Review. It's just what TB thinks. 

He's done this year after year after year. 

By the way, for this year, choosing the No. 1 moment in Princeton Athletics for TB was the easiest it's ever been. He'll have more on that later in the week.

There are still a handful of events left on the schedule for 2022, meaning that TB can't really make his list official yet. There are in fact four teams who still will be competing between now and when the ball drops in Times Square.

The next event for a Princeton team is the home women's basketball game against Rhode Island Wednesday at 2. At least TB thinks it's Wednesday. This is the time of year when it's so hard to remember what day of the week it is.

Yes. It's Wednesday. The 28th. Today is Monday, right? The 26th? 

The women will also be playing Harvard on New Year's Eve day at noon in Cambridge in the Ivy League opener. The men will be home at 1 against the Crimson that day.

The wrestling team will spending its time at the prestigious and loaded Midlands Tournament outside Chicago. The event begins Wednesday and runs through Friday.

The fourth team to play this week will be the men's hockey team, which is flying out to Colorado College for games Thursday and Friday. The weather for Chicago and Colorado Springs this week seems to be pretty cooperative, at least for winter. If nothing else, there won't be snow.

Does anyone know the nickname of the teams at Colorado College? That's correct. It's also Tigers. This will be the second time this year the men's hockey team has a Tigers vs. Tigers series, after splitting a pair of games with RIT.

The Tigers will be coming into these two games having not played in 20 days. Wait, which Tigers? Both of them.

The Tigers are also a game under .500 for the year. Which Tigers? Again, both. Princeton is 6-7-0 to date, and Colorado College is 8-9-1.

Princeton is currently tied for third place in the ECAC Hockey standings, though the Tigers have played 11 league games to date, the most in the league. Of the rest of the 12-team league, there have been three teams who have played 10 and the rest have played either eight or nine. 

It's a tad early to be thinking about first-round byes and home ice scenarios. For this series, it's just a great way to get back on the ice, get used to playing again and get a chance to do some team traveling.

Princeton has only one ECAC series between now and Jan. 20, but it's going to be a huge weekend all around for Princeton Hockey. You can circle Jan. 6 and 7 on your calendar, in fact.

There are two doubleheaders, with the women against Dartmouth at 3 on Friday the 6th and then the men at 7 against Harvard. The next day there are also games at 3 and 7, with the opponents swapped.

It's all part of the Hobey 100 celebration weekend. Hobey Baker Rink turns 100 years old. Among the attendees that weekend will be the Stanley Cup:

Lord Stanley will be part of a special Fan Village outside of Baker Rink on January 7, joining two of hockey's other historic trophies -- the Hobey Baker Award and Patty Kazmaier Award -- for fans to enjoy and take photos with as party of the celebration commemorating the 100th year of Hobey Baker Rink.

You can get more information about the weekend right HERE.

Of course, that's a long way off still. First, there's the trip to Colorado, as 2022 reaches the finish line. 


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