Many hockey parents spend thousands of miles traveling to rinks each season. Today, we are going to relate common strategies ‘on the road’ to a great forecheck ‘on the ice’. Forechecking is a coordinated pressuring tactic used by the team out of possession in an attempt to create a turnover and win the puck back. Forechecking specifically refers to the coordinated pressuring of the opponent in their defensive end /the offensive end for the team pressuring.

Thank you so much to everyone who has shared a fun memory from 2023 in the community discussion thread. It’s truly wonderful (and, yes, a delight) to read through them. Here are a few examples of what’s been shared so far: 3/4 of our family was stuck for hours on end in a mall in a strange city on Christmas Eve, waiting for the other 1/4 whose flight was extremely delayed.

A couple of weeks ago, as I wandered the internet looking for art opportunities, I stumbled upon a call for art for a new hospital. It grabbed my attention, as hospitals generally have both money and enormous expanses of wall, things painters often lack. As I read on, though, my enthusiasm cooled. The curators had a long list of precise stipulations about the art they were looking for, and it didn’t include watercolor viruses:

Chills. Herstory. Never forget. Started it all. The Earth shifted. A cultural reset. My Roman Empire. The ultimate drag. This was Ellen’s January 6th. Should be a national holiday. Dakota ate like no one ever has before. The end of a decade, but the start of an age. The year was 2019. It was Thanksgiving Eve when Dakota Johnson, clad in an Alessandra Rich plaid cropped jacket and matching checked tweed skirt, sat down for an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show promoting her newest project, The Peanut Butter Falcon.

Let's imagine a bit of research that we could easily perform, following standard procedures, and still get a misleading result. Say I'm an administrator at Harvard, a truly selective institution. I want to verify the College Board's confidence that the SAT effectively predicts freshman year academic performance. I grab the SAT data, grab freshmen GPAs, and run a simple Pearson correlation to find out the relationship between the two. To my surprise, I find that the correlation is quite low.