tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220121611828242531.post7372902083641242672..comments2023-09-02T12:16:29.832-04:00Comments on The CIS Blog: Women's basketball: 2012 Final 8: semifinal recapsScott Hastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081415078301065374noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220121611828242531.post-52967722643180589292012-03-21T22:53:36.682-04:002012-03-21T22:53:36.682-04:00Iris, if you knew anything about CIS hockey you...Iris, if you knew anything about CIS hockey you'd realize that while almost all of them won't play in the NHL, they are for the most part using their education packages, earned while playing for free for for-profit Junior teams, to get a mostly free education before they move onto the minor pros or life outside hockey (instead of going directly from Junior to the minor pros). A good chunk of them from the better CIS teams do play minor pro hockey in the States or Europe when the graduate. <br /><br />Here's a reality for you: More CIS hockey players probably end up earning a pay cheque playing professional hockey after the CIS, albeit in pro leagues you may have never heard of, than all other CIS athletes combined. And a few of them like Joel Ward, Mathieu Darche, and Darryl Boyce, end up making at least $500K per year in the NHL. Can any other CIS student-athletes ever aspire to make that kind of money in their sport?<br /><br />So yes, you've hit a nerve with that ill-informed washed up and soft crap. You do know there is other hockey outside the 700 players in the NHL, and that the CIS is the TOP level of amateur hockey in Canada (as it comes AFTER Junior.David Kilfoilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16821812362923440575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220121611828242531.post-78174895007639005282012-03-21T21:54:46.477-04:002012-03-21T21:54:46.477-04:00Well, Iris, if you can do better, volunteer your s...Well, Iris, if you can do better, volunteer your services! You are aware the final started at 9 p.m. Eastern on a Monday night and Brian and Rob each have full-time jobs, they had to GET SOME SLEEP before working the next day.<br /><br />Congrats to Coach Vallee and the Lancers, they are great sportspeople in every sense of the world.sagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08757652892056684490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220121611828242531.post-67772400773044660662012-03-21T18:49:08.548-04:002012-03-21T18:49:08.548-04:00After a promising start this blog deteriorated alm...After a promising start this blog deteriorated almost by the sentence. Initially, solid little capsulses with humourous commentary became disinterested self-obsessed musing as the author devoted most of Day 2 to his own experiences at a once proud university now a laughing stock in athletics (and business too if RIM is an indicator)<br /> An absolute overpowering coronation of a team that never trailed in the entire tournament and won all 3 games by double digit margins was somehow undeserving of an entry. Meanwhile the blog moves on to cover a bunch of washed up CIS hockey players too slow, soft and bad to make it in the pros so they bully 19 yr old guys trying to play university hockey. Grow up!!!iris atkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04550460143079816437noreply@blogger.com