Weather plan and update central
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- February
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I heard a lot of weather forecasts on the way in to work saying today was the calm before the storm. Not in hockey  today is the storm. With five big games tonight, four Division I quarterfinals and a winner-take-all Catholic game, this should be the best day of the season so far.
Tonight I’ll be at Murray, and other reporters will be at Playland and Brewster. Hopefully people can post updates below from all five sites (including Sport-O and Hommocks) as the night goes on. Last I heard, the wireless at Murray was password-protected by the county, so I’m not sure how much help I will be.
Tomorrow the plan was for me to go to Brewster to cover a Division II double-header, while someone else takes advantage of a rare early start time and heads to Rye-Ossining. We’ll see if the weather cooperates. Like I posted in a comment earlier, all four DII quarterfinals will either be played or cancelled tomorrow. Section 1 chairman John Orlando will make the final determination in the morning.
If the games are cancelled, they will be played Saturday, with the semifinals still on Sunday and the final on Tuesday. Here are the potential make-up times:
Pelham-Somers/No.Salem, Ice Hutch 4 PM
Rye-Ossining, Ice Hutch 8 PM
John Jay-Pawling/Dover, Brewster 7:15 PM
Yorktown-Brewster, Brewster 9:15 PM
Yes, Rye loses its home-ice advantage. The rest pretty much remains the same, though the Yorktown-Brewster winner will have a shorter turnaround than the Pelham-S/NS winner.
By the way, I enjoyed the Nets-Bulls last night, but it reminded me of one reason (of many, I know) that the NHL is way better than the NBA  there’s only one timeout for each team. Last night, there were six timeouts in the final 1:23 of regulation, and six more in the final 2:08 of overtime. That’s 12 timeouts in 3 minutes, 31 seconds! Here’s the proof. The crowd (about the same number that were at Suffern-Mamaroneck at Sport-O) would get pumped up during a break, and after five seconds of action, the game would stop again.
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on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 at 3:12 pm by Harold Gutmann. 
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any dII quarterfinal predictions so far?
Good point on those excessive NBA timeouts. I grew up playing way more basketball than hockey. I liked the NHL and NBA about equally, but over the last 6-7 years, probably coincidental with the Knicks decline, I cannot sit through an NBA game without dozing off.
Pelham 7 Somers 2
Jay 5 Pawling 4
Rye 5 Ossining 1
Brewster 4 Yktown 3