Your Northeastern Huskies had their annual awards banquet last week and from the reports that are surfacing, it was a time. I mean we would have loved to have been there in person to hand these beauticians some hardware, but our invite must have gotten lost in the mail.
(Sigh) there’s always next year….
So there we were, home on Banquet Night again, suffering from 3rd degree FOMO. Pining away for our chance to hobnob with the Huskies. Maybe we would have sat with some NU bigwigs? Maybe we’d have gotten all gussied up like the team did? Maybe, just maybe they’d give us an honorary degree and ask us to make a speech? (I mean if we’re dealing in a complete fantasy world that even has us at this event, we might as well shoot for the stars).
One thing that I do know, (and something else we missed out on), is that next year’s leadership group was announced.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls and Husky fans all over the globe…
Your 2024-2025 Northeastern Women’s Hockey Captains:
That’s friend of the podcast Taze Thompson rocking the “C” (we know her!) with Molly Griffin and Kristina Allard as the Alternates! What a trio! This year’s squad handing the mantle down to next year’s leaders! What a moment, hopefully it was caught on film.
So we just curled up on the couch with a bottle of bowl of ice cream to console our hurt feelings from missing out on another banquet. Carp was ignoring our face-time calls and we were feeling pretty bad about things. I mean, we can’t go on the team bus for games, they won’t let us take morning skates (and we’re called The Morning Skate!) and now this?? We thought our all-access pass would have gotten us in, but no dice. But wait what was that? In a sky full of dark clouds, is that a glimmer of light? Could that be sunshine on the horizon?
Can it be????
Breaking News: We will be there next year!
In what could go down as one of the biggest mistakes of his coaching career, Coach Carp said we could buy a ticket for next year sneak into the hall where the awards are held crash the award ceremony . Not sure what he said exactly, but I think we got invited?
Poor Carp has no idea what he’s unleashed.
(Disclaimer: Coach Carp jokingly said we should crash the event next year and we ran with it)
The Morning Skate Award? The Morning Skater? The TMS Husky award? The possibilities are limitless (okay, it’s more like 5-7 possibilities). We are completely on board with this turn of events and have already been scheming, plotting, planning what we can come up with. In the meantime, let’s give some shine to this year’s actual award winners.
The prestigious Rowlands Award that is given out to the top senior female scholar-athlete. That’s Meg Carter taking home some hardware to add to her collection. She’s wicked smaht.
Then there was the Top Female Athlete, given out to duh, the top female athlete. Who you going to give that one to but The Great Wall of Philips herself: Gwyneth Philips.
The Kathryn Waldo 7th player award (voted on by her teammates) was awarded to Peyton Cullaton for “consistently going above and beyond the call of duty and putting the team first”. I believe those are formal crutches, thank you very much.
We talked about the awards on last week’s podcast during the NU section and again in our 3 Stars segment. This will also come as no surprise to you if you’ve seen or listened to any of our podcasts, or if you’ve even met us before: this episode goes slightly off the rails. Maybe don’t listen to this entire broadcast Delaney?
But for now, some questions remain:
- Can we find Dumb and Dumber tuxedos in time for this banquet?
- How much does Carp regret even talking to us about this?
- Do we need to get Delaney’s approval for this?
- What type of award should we give out?
Some of these were easy answers:
- Dumb and Dumber gear: Heat Check ✔️
- Coach Carp regret level: Check ✔️ He 1000% wishes he had sent me to voicemail
- Delaney’s approval needed: Probably? I’ll wait to ask her once the Capitals get eliminated in the first round. I mean she gave us the Beanpot Trophy, so this should be cake?
- What type of award should we give out?
This is what we have to figure out. Unsung hero? Best Celly? Gameday Fit Champ? In true The Morning Skate form we have no idea what we should do, but we have about a year to figure it out. Not gonna lie, but that’s probably not long enough to come up with something since I’m still calling Langlois “Ms. No-Nickname”, but we’ll continue to work on it!
In the meantime, when I was a coach I used to have superlative awards for the graduating class and give them to the players during the end of year banquet. With that in mind, we decided to do the same for the 5th year Huskies:
- Longest Shift Award – Peyton Cullaton
- Most Likely to Play in the Olympics – Megan Carter
- Most Likely to Hit a Michigan in a Game – Peyton Anderson
- Most Likely to Piss off the Competition Award – Katy Knoll
- Most Likely to Bust Out the “Miracle Speech” – Becca Van Stone
- Could Have Shut Down Covid Award – Gwyneth Philips
- Most Likely to be Found at a Denny’s on Gameday – Katy Knoll and Megan Carter
So there you have it, a little preview of what we can bring to the table. Congrats to all the coaches, graduates, award winners, support staff and players. Can’t wait for Opening Night.
Keep your head on a swivel as we have some alumni lined up to come on the pod for some “unfiltered in-depth” interviews now that the coaching staff can’t control their ice-time.
Should be a time.
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