"It was 128 questions," Aneloski said. "One of them was something like ‘In the future, where would you like to live? In the woods by yourself or in the suburbs?’"
Cedar Rapid RoughRiders (USHL) blueliner Bryce Aneloski, describing the Islanders' psych exam they give to potential prospects. (h/t BC)
Question: You're 17/18/19. How would you answer?
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yeah the question sounds stupid...
but they have some head shrink analysis it and decide what type of person you are.
by Rickfansince76 on Mar 30, 2010 11:36 AM EDT reply actions
I don't mean that it sounds stupid
Just funny when taken out of context. And I like to imagine what’s going through a late teen NHL hopeful’s head when he’s answering all these questions.
Lighthouse Hockey: What's wrong with lotteries? I've been in lots of lotteries.
Well, you should mean that, Dom
Because it does sound extraordinarily stupid.
How about these questions for the Islanders brass:
(a) Would you sign a butterfly goalie to a suicide lifetime contract?
(b) If so, would you insure it?
Hey, if their profile is helping identify kids with a solid head on their shoulders (still to be determined), I’m not complaining. Any exam with 128 questions is going to include some ridiculous ones when taken out of context — I suspect they don’t have the luxury of giving them an essay exam. It could be Myers-Briggs with an NYI logo slapped on, for all we know.
…but for (a) and (b), I’m not sure Wang would pass.
Lighthouse Hockey: What's wrong with lotteries? I've been in lots of lotteries.
Eh.
So this is an interview with a team located in the suburbs. And the question is effectively: “Would you rather live in the suburbs or LIVE ALONE IN ISOLATION WITHOUT TECHNOLOGY OR FOOD OR SHELTER OR ANY OTHER CREATURE COMFORTS?!?!?!!!”
Great question.
What I’d love to know is what the actual question was, then play telephone with how it was rendered in the middle of 127 others, and what the kid thought it meant (as revealed by how he translated it to the reporter).
“Do you follow the most direct path to a goal, or do you like to explore the roses on your way there?” could come out as, “They asked me if when I play Grand Theft Auto, do I go straight for the mission objective or to I veer off and pick up ladies and shoot pedestrians?”
Lighthouse Hockey: What's wrong with lotteries? I've been in lots of lotteries.
I would like to think its related to whether they are pre scared of living in a larger metro area like NY. We see lots of players come to NY and epically fail (specially in baseball). Im thinking if youre a country boy who hates suburbia and city life LI and NYC might not be a place conductive to your success. Of course all those things being equally considered with talent and answers to the other questions and other scouting of the kid in general. Our drafting has gotten better the last few years so I’m willing to give the benefit of the doubt on this questionare. By the way, great job, Ive been a major lurker here for quite a while
Hey, thanks!
Lurkers always welcome ;)
I did wonder that myself. I might be reading too much into it, but it struck me that they said (according to Aneloski) “suburbs” specifically.
Lighthouse Hockey: What's wrong with lotteries? I've been in lots of lotteries.
Maybe they just want to see how they respond to said question. I wouldn’t be pleased with either of those choices, and then began ranting how it was an unfair and challenging question with no satisfying answer. To which I’d then proceed to question whether my future hockey career was just a state of limbo by which I’d always be unsatisfied with my life and career…. and … stuff. The “Suburbs” is probably just the Islanders way of hint hinting “Do you like me? Do you reallllllly like me!?”
Islanders in 3D? At least we won't have to worry about them playing flat in the third!
We see lots of players come to NY and epically fail (specially in baseball).
Jeromy Burnitz did it twice!
Perhaps today IS a good day to die.
- Klingon proverb
by Thomas Wachtel on Mar 30, 2010 8:45 PM EDT up reply actions
As I mentioned,
I could see him being another late round gift like Klementyev and that wouldn’t be bad.
The NHL draft confuses me. If he is already 19 why couldn’t a team just sign him? I always thought a player had two years when he was “draft eligible” and after the second year he could sign with a team as a free agent. Is he still in his second year of eligibility?
You might be right, but it sounded like he’d only been skipped over in one draft-eligible year. (The cutoff date for North Americans is … just before Tavares’ birthday.)
Lighthouse Hockey: What's wrong with lotteries? I've been in lots of lotteries.
But wouldn’t “Unabomber” be a great nickname for a hockey player? On a line with Phil McCracken.
Lighthouse Hockey: What's wrong with lotteries? I've been in lots of lotteries.
Hi
You’re trying out for a team sport….do you prefer being a recluse and avoid human contact or are you smart enough to give the answer a future employer wants to hear….
…and are you cool with suburban living, or do you need bright-lights, big city? Would you like to party like a Flyer? Intern at GQ like a … a … never mind.
Lighthouse Hockey: What's wrong with lotteries? I've been in lots of lotteries.
I'd like to live in...
… a high rise apartment, in a development that offers multiple skating rinks, a minor league baseball field, some shops and where all the parking is underground. Not that parking will be a problem. I want to work to work.
I’d also like my landlord to resemble Pat Morita…. becasue I have a Karate Kid complex.
Wang doesn't need to fire Gordon, just ask him how to address the third period meltdowns... and he'll just walk away.
Channelling Lloyd Dobler
I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.
Lighthouse Hockey: What's wrong with lotteries? I've been in lots of lotteries.
LOL!
Pat Morita…well played. As long as the kid isn’t from Jersey.
Please let Roloson and Biron be the guest announcers on some Chicago playoff broadcasts...please hockey Gods!
by metalcoconut on Mar 30, 2010 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions
10 extra points if you can connect the dots...
Why does The Karate Kid make me want to drink myself to death with a hooker.
Wang doesn't need to fire Gordon, just ask him how to address the third period meltdowns... and he'll just walk away.
I’m pretty sure that this doesn’t have anything to do with the Outsiders but I’ll render that as my guess.
Please let Roloson and Biron be the guest announcers on some Chicago playoff broadcasts...please hockey Gods!
by metalcoconut on Mar 30, 2010 4:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Because you were supposed to get the Mr. Miagi part until a last-minute rewrite?
Lighthouse Hockey: What's wrong with lotteries? I've been in lots of lotteries.
Time for a clue...
The path to the answer, grasshopper, can be found on one of your feet….
Wang doesn't need to fire Gordon, just ask him how to address the third period meltdowns... and he'll just walk away.
Because you have an uncontrollable urge to shtup Elizabeth Shue?
Please let Roloson and Biron be the guest announcers on some Chicago playoff broadcasts...please hockey Gods!
by metalcoconut on Mar 31, 2010 9:23 AM EDT up reply actions
no more calls, we have a winner!
Wang doesn't need to fire Gordon, just ask him how to address the third period meltdowns... and he'll just walk away.
I think they should have Stephen Colbert interview the potential draft picks. "Finish this sentence, ‘I like cocaine because…’
At least make it entertaining…and he is in NY so not that far.
I would love to go through one of those interrogations.
What happens if the prospect asks questions about the questions? What does that tell the interviewer?
Please let Roloson and Biron be the guest announcers on some Chicago playoff broadcasts...please hockey Gods!
Comic gold!
Oh man, if only we had a production staff, we could get hours of fun out of this.
“In five years, I see myself in Year 3 of a 15-year contract. You?”
Lighthouse Hockey: What's wrong with lotteries? I've been in lots of lotteries.
If you were on a long road trip, and you and your boss were… let’s say… a little intoxicated… and your boss kind of touched you inappropriatly… and you know you want to be the fourth line center third pair defenseman…. would you tell anybody?
Wang doesn't need to fire Gordon, just ask him how to address the third period meltdowns... and he'll just walk away.
What are you insinuating there? That Garth or Wang has a thing for young, impressionable kids that can skate backwards?
We're doomed. Doomed!
by David Hanssen on Mar 30, 2010 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Would you kill a man, if it was for a teammate? How would you hide the body?
Lighthouse Hockey: What's wrong with lotteries? I've been in lots of lotteries.
Flashbacks...
When I worked as an archaeologist for NY state, no place produced more stories then projects on Long Island.
One time we were working in this park in Riverhead, in one of the shovel test pits our group dig, one of my colleagues found a NYPD Detective’s badge. In another STP, I found a heroin cooking spoon This was the same project we had to step over passed out crack heads to get to where we were working.
but what this comment reminded me of, one of my former bosses was once surveying in a forest in Suffolk County, can across a body bag. he pretty much refused to talk about what happened next, but obviously it wasn’t good. On the same project a couple of weeks later he found a high chair in the middle of the woods with a tub of Vaseline on it with Polaroids of prostitutes surrounding it.
Needless to say these aren’t the glamor bill Murray cockblock stories you normally hear from archaeologists.
We're doomed. Doomed!
by David Hanssen on Mar 30, 2010 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Holy cow, you’ve had some stories lately!
I suppose I should state for the record that killing people is bad, as are drugs and bad touches, mmmkay.
Lighthouse Hockey: What's wrong with lotteries? I've been in lots of lotteries.
Yeah, I know. Those are the only totally depressing stories from my years digging, most are more of the comedic failure gold the Bill Murray story was.
We're doomed. Doomed!
by David Hanssen on Mar 30, 2010 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions
And who doesnt long for those happy carefree days hanging around highchairs in Riverhead?
I agree with Dom- youve got some great stories, HuF!
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Mar 30, 2010 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions
20th Century Suburban Archeology 101 (No prerequisite classes required)
Do you think highchairs in the woods have anything to do with plastic bags in trees?
Wang doesn't need to fire Gordon, just ask him how to address the third period meltdowns... and he'll just walk away.
Interesting. I look forward to your correlation essay!
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Mar 30, 2010 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Creationism v Evolution
How suburbantes Evolve
You bring the Polaroid and I’ll bring the Eddie Baur Dribbler 3000. I’ll meet you in the sticks for some pix.
Response:
That’s great, I’ll pick up a few bags at Pathmark on the way there and we can make a party of it.
How can you argue against that platform… would you point to the fact that God eventually put us in highchairs… is this what they mean by Intelligent Design.
..and now to make it Islanders relevant…
LET’S DO IT AT THE LIGHTHOUSE!
(is it 5:00 yet… I need a drink)
Wang doesn't need to fire Gordon, just ask him how to address the third period meltdowns... and he'll just walk away.
It’s 5 somewhere. I tell you the two thing archaeologists do best is drink and tell stories. When you’re on the road for 9-10 months out of the year you learn to do both well.
20th Century Suburban Archeology 101 (No prerequisite classes required)
I once heard a professor go on a 15 minute tangent about what people in the future would make of Barbie Dolls. Were they fertility figures? What do they symbolize?
We're doomed. Doomed!
by David Hanssen on Mar 30, 2010 6:25 PM EDT up reply actions
LOL
I once heard a professor go on a 15 minute tangent about what people in the future would make of Barbie Dolls. Were they fertility figures? What do they symbolize?
I believe I’ve delivered that tangent at home, to deaf ears.
Lighthouse Hockey: What's wrong with lotteries? I've been in lots of lotteries.
Was it near that strange beast thing that they found near the Hamptons?
Because I could see people partying with that thing…while it was alive of course.
Please let Roloson and Biron be the guest announcers on some Chicago playoff broadcasts...please hockey Gods!
by metalcoconut on Mar 30, 2010 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions
No, it wasn’t. It was somewhere along 347/454 by Blydenburgh Park if I recall correctly. We worked on that stretch for 2-3 years for all three phases of the project.
We're doomed. Doomed!
by David Hanssen on Mar 30, 2010 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Bonus points
If you kill Avery, you won’t need to hide the body.
Perhaps today IS a good day to die.
- Klingon proverb
by Thomas Wachtel on Mar 30, 2010 8:49 PM EDT up reply actions
I think they should have Stephen Colbert interview the potential draft picks
LOL!!!
Garth Snow: Great GM or the Greatest GM?
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Mar 30, 2010 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Garth Snow is probably the best GM in NHL history who got the job directly from his previous spot as the team’s backup goalie.
LOL, the Isles know ALLLLLL about truthiness.
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Mar 30, 2010 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh come on…I’m sure the Isles really thought that Ricky was ready to play at the beginning of the season. The same way they will probably tell us that he is ready to play at the beginning of the next season. I think it’s time to have a segment of “Better Know a NHL GM.” Part one of a thirty part series will feature Stephen sitting down with Garth Snow of the New York Islanders.
Please let Roloson and Biron be the guest announcers on some Chicago playoff broadcasts...please hockey Gods!
by metalcoconut on Mar 31, 2010 9:29 AM EDT up reply actions
Oh come on…I’m sure the Isles really thought that Ricky was ready to play at the beginning of the season. The same way they will probably tell us that he is ready to play at the beginning of the next season…
MC- I think we need to review the definition of truthiness:
Truthiness: a “truth” that someone claims to know intuitively “from the gut” without regard to evidence, logic, reason, intellectual examination, or facts.
Like I said, the Isles know all about that. Are you saying that you disagree lol?
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Mar 31, 2010 10:23 AM EDT up reply actions
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