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Oregon Ducks Ice Hockey: 2023-2024 Season Review

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3 months ago

September 23, 2024

Oregon Ducks Ice Hockey: 2023-2024 Season Review

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As the calendar creeps closer to October another Ducks sport season is about to get under-way. With hockey season just around the corner today we will be reviewing last year’s hockey season to help Duck fans get caught up on everything puck with the Ducks.

Unlike most of Oregon’s other sports teams, the hockey team is not at the varsity level but is instead a club sport. This means the team is entirely self-funded. The best way to support the team is to attend home games at The Rink Exchange in Eugene, the Pavilion in Bend for one weekend this season, or Autzen stadium for one game this season.

The other way to support the team is to purchase some of the best-looking hockey Jerseys I’ve ever seen. ATQ will let you know when these go on sale again.

The Ducks compete in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) division 1. The ACHA is the national association for Non-NCAA Collegiate Hockey throughout the US and helps organize collegiate club hockey across the country. Similar to how major conferences used to be organized, the ACHA is organized into geographical conferences. Oregon competes as an independent in Division 1 as Oregon’s Pacific Northwest rivals compete in Division 2. Last season the Ducks played one Pacific NW division 2 rival, Washington, and won both games 5-1.

Last season the Ducks played 27 games in total and 25 ACHA games accumulating 22 points by going 8-17-0-0. That’s 6 regulation wins, 2 overtime wins, 17 regulation losses, 0 Overtime losses and 0 ties. The ACHA uses the Olympic point system which is:

· 3 points are awarded for a regulation win

· 2 points are awarded for an Overtime win

· 1 point for an overtime loss

· 1 point for a Tie

· 0 points for a regulation loss

The Ducks also played 2 exhibition games against the Rouge Valley Royals of the USPHL Premier league last season, winning both games by a score of 5-2 and 4-2.

This season the Ducks will look to improve their record with a 27-game ACHA schedule that gets under-way Friday October 11^th in Las Vegas against UNLV. Stay tuned this week for a full preview of the hockey season, including what we will be doing to cover the team here at ATQ.

The first news of the season is a sad one – this week goaltender Henry “Hank” Bradford passed away:

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No utility rate increases until wildfire lawsuits resolved, Oregon lawmakers propose

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5 hours ago

December 25, 2024

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No utility rate increases until wildfire lawsuits resolved, Oregon lawmakers propose

Three Oregon lawmakers say they plan to introduce a bill that would bar utilities from raising rates if they have unresolved wildfire lawsuits for three or more years, describing it as an effort to hold PacifiCorp accountable as the utility faces a series of lawsuits stemming from the deadly 2020 wildfires that ravaged the state.

Republican state Reps. Jami Cate, Virgle Osborne and Ed Diehl announced their proposal in a statement Monday, on the heels of an approved rate increase for PacifiCorp customers and a federal lawsuit against the electric power company.

The federal government sued PacifiCorp last week over the Archie Creek Fire, which ignited in Oregon’s Douglas County in September 2020 and burned more than 200 square miles, about half of which was federal land. The complaint accuses the company of negligence for failing to maintain its power lines to prevent wildfires. In its filing, the government says it brought the suit to recover “substantial costs and damages.”

A PacifiCorp spokesperson said in an emailed statement Monday that the company was working with the U.S. government to resolve the claims.

“It is unfortunate the U.S. government decided to file a lawsuit in federal district court, however PacifiCorp will continue to work with the U.S. government to find reasonable resolution of this matter,” the statement said.

The federal lawsuit was filed on the same day the Oregon Public Utility Commission approved a 9.8% rate increase for PacifiCorp’s residential customers next year. In its rate case filings, the company said its request to increase rates was partly due to higher costs stemming from wildfire risk and activity.

When the new rate takes effect in January, PacifiCorp rates will have increased nearly 50% since 2021, according to the Oregon Citizens’ Utility Board, which advocates on behalf of utility customers.

The three lawmakers said they will introduce their bill in the upcoming legislative session, which starts in January.

“The federal government is doing the right thing by filing this lawsuit, and we stand firmly behind it,” Osborne, who is set to be the future bill’s co-chief sponsor, said in a statement. “PacifiCorp needs to pay up and take responsibility for the destruction they’ve caused, and putting a stop to rate hikes is the best way to achieve it.”

PacifiCorp is poised to be on the hook for billions in damages in the series of lawsuits over Oregon’s 2020 fires.

The company has already reached two settlement agreements over the Archie Creek Fire, including one for $299 million with 463 plaintiffs impacted by the blaze and another for $250 million with 10 companies with commercial timber interests, according to its website.

In other litigation, an Oregon jury in June 2023 found it liable for negligently failing to cut power to its 600,000 customers despite warnings from top fire officials and determined it should have to pay punitive and other damages — a decision that applied to a class including the owners of up to 2,500 properties. Since then, other Oregon juries have ordered the company to pay tens of millions to other wildfire victims.

The wildfires that erupted across Oregon over Labor Day weekend in 2020 were among the worst natural disasters in state history, killing nine people and destroying thousands of homes.

— The Associated Press

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North Central Oregon and Central Oregon under a wind advisory until Thursday morning

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14 hours ago

December 25, 2024

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North Central Oregon and Central Oregon under a wind advisory until Thursday morning

On Wednesday at 2:18 a.m. the National Weather Service issued a wind advisory valid from 10 p.m. until Thursday 10 a.m. for North Central Oregon and Central Oregon.

The weather service states, “South winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 45 mph expected.”

“Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result,” adds the weather service. “Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution.”

Advance Local Weather Alerts is a service provided by United Robots, which uses machine learning to compile the latest data from the National Weather Service.

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