I guess I'm making quarterly updates now?

Life superseded hockey (such a thing can happen once in a while) for a bit, but don't fret kids--I've been keeping tabs on a couple things:

• Marshall is 1-0 after a 5-3 win at West Liberty; Austin German had two goals for the Herd, Steven Macuch and Todd Palmer had a goal and an assist each, and Arleigh Dickerson had 34 saves on 37 shots (Marshall was actually outshot 37-22!). Clay Crabtree had the other Herd goal; for the Hilltoppers, goals scored by Jordan DeMuth, Mike Burch, and Paul Henry. Next game: doubleheader weekend on Dec. 9-10 against Northern Kentucky!
• Current tally on the comments from the Big Sandy Superstore Arena renovation: 26 comments, of which 13 pertain to ice ;^D
• We are on the radar of the Northern Professional Hockey League, which--after having originally tried for a 2011 launch--is shooting for the 2012-13 season. Interestingly enough, they're looking at the old ECHL footprint: Pennsylvania south to the Carolinas, westward to Ohio and Kentucky. I don't know about some of these markets but if they can get eight teams together, the road trips wouldn't be too bad...