Knight unanimous pick for Hockey East’s top goalie
Darien’s Spencer Knight headlined Hockey East’s all-conference teams, announced Friday. The Boston College sophomore goalie, who helped the United States to gold at the World Junior Championship in January, was a unanimous first-team selection in a vote of the conference’s coaches and was naturally named the conference Goaltender of the Year.
Knight was the 13th overall pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, chosen by the Florida Panthers.
UConn junior forward Jonny Evans joined Knight on the first team, along with UMass junior forward Bobby Trivigno and Boston College sophomore forward Matt Boldy, plus senior defenseman David Farrance of Boston University and sophomore BC defenseman Drew Helleson.
UConn also placed two juniors on the third team, forward Jachym Kondelik and goalie Tomas Vomacka.
Providence junior forward
Tyce Thompson, a Milford resident and son of Bridgeport Sound Tigers coach Brent Thompson, was a second-team allconference pick.
BOBCAT FINALISTS: Quinnipiac seniors are two of the three finalists for ECAC Player of the Year, the conference announced Friday. Forward Odeen Tufto, who leads the NCAA with 38 assists and is second with 44 points, and
goalie Keith Petruzzelli, who has four shutouts and ranks sixth in the nation in goals-against average (1.78) and ninth in save percentage (.929), were key pieces of the Bobcats’ Cleary Cupwinning team. The third finalist is Clarkson senior forward Zach Tsekos, who had 14 points and won 56.8 percent of his faceoffs. Tsekos transferred from Sacred Heart to the Golden Knights after his sophomore year.
Dear Abby: My twin sister moved to another state years ago. We always kept in close contact through telephone calls.
But since the invention of caller ID, call waiting, cellphones, texting, etc., things have changed.
Examples: She’ll cut off a conversation to answer another nonemergency call. She frantically texts that she needs to talk right now, then doesn’t call and won’t answer when I try to call her. She doesn’t return calls or texts for days.
When we do talk, she complains nonstop, and if I try to chime in about what’s happening in my life, she cuts off the conversation. Also, we have a two-hour time difference, so when she does call, it’s either super late or the dinner hour. If I can’t talk long, she gets mad and blocks me for days.
I don’t want to be the etiquette police, but something is off. Advice?
Just About Had It in Illinois
Dear Had It: Has your twin always been this self-centered and rude, or is it relatively new behavior? Do not blame advances in technology for it. Accept that she may have a low level of tolerance for frustration and little interest in what is going on in your life.
If I were you, the next time she blocks you, do not repeatedly try to reach her. Wait until she calls back. If you haven’t already taken this up with her directly, you should, because her phone manners are atrocious.
Dear Abby: My husband and I are elderly. We live in a renovated shack I inherited from my family. The neighborhood is degrading, and I’m trying to decide whether to build a new home out in the country on property I own.
If I do, my family, which needs a better place to live, could live in my current house. But I’m worried about the physical and emotional toll it will take on my husband and me to improve the wooded property. I also worry about issues like potential dementia living nearly 30 miles from town in the country. No matter how much I weigh the pros and cons, I can’t reach a decision whether to build or not. Because of our ages, it’s now or never. Can you please help me decide?
Stumped About The Future
Dear Stumped: Allow me to offer a third alternative. You described your husband and yourself as elderly and expressed concern about the physical and emotional toll building a new home far from town could cause. It might make more sense to consider selling your current home and/or the rural property and using the money to buy a place in town in a neighborhood that isn’t degrading and is near medical facilities should you and your husband need them. At this point in your lives, the last thing you need is stress
Dear Readers: This is my annual reminder to all of you who live where daylight saving time is observed: Don’t forget to turn your clocks FORWARD one hour tonight at bedtime. Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. tomorrow.