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Tuesday TigerBlog - Players Of The Week
November 25, 2025 | Tiger Blog
Everything went well — except for the fact that he now has to use a walker for a week. If that doesn't make you feel old, there was this from the physical therapy person: "We find that OLDER patients prefer the walker to the crutches."
Even worse than that? She's right. The walker is so much easier.
TB can joke about all this because the skin cancer was caught early from a regular bi-annual checkup with Minnie The Dermatologist. He will repeat this: If you don't have your own Minnie, go find one and make an appointment. Getting in to see the dermatologist is not easy. Call TODAY.
Remember last week's tribute to TB's late friend Chuck Sullivan? He died of melanoma at 54.
Also, if you're a woman under 30 who spends time in the sun — say, possibly a college athlete — you're in a very high risk group. TB told every member of the field hockey team multiple times to make sure she goes. He's telling you too.
As he wrote when this first happened, he would never have guessed that the small freckle on his foot was problematic, let alone life threatening. Let your Minnie figure that part out.
Okay, hopefully you got the message.
And with that, there was yesterday's news that Kai Daniels was the ECAC Forward of the Week. At least, TB assumes he was. He didn't bother to check.
Who else could it be? Ah, yes. It was Daniels.
You read that right. Daniels had six goals this past weekend, including five against St. Lawrence Friday night to be the first ECAC player with that many in a game since 2011.Uhhhhh Ya Think?
— Princeton Men's Ice Hockey (@princetonhockey) November 24, 2025
6?? goals in a weekend, including 5?? in one game, will get you @ecachockey Forward of the Week presented by @bluebirdhotels!
Congrats, KD! pic.twitter.com/DawOIULyCc
He then followed that up with the game-winner Saturday night against Clarkson. Player of the Week? Very much so.
Who is Kai Daniels? He is a junior from Whistler, British Columbia whose cousin Kieran Lubin played football at Princeton and whose uncle Joe Lubin played squash at Princeton. He also had 11 goals in 52 career games prior to this weekend, when he had six in two.
His six goals came on just nine shots. TigerBlog doesn't know a ton about hockey, but that seems pretty good. Daniels was 2 for 17 on the season before he went off this weekend.
It's way too early to look at the ECAC standings, so TB instead will look at the upcoming schedule, which has the Tigers at Bowling Green Friday and Saturday, a trip that presumably includes a team Thanksgiving event.
Meanwhile, speaking of Princeton athletes who won Player of the Week, there was also Skye Belker of the women's basketball team. This one also was pretty much obvious.
From the release on goprincetontigers.com: You can read the entire story HERE.
Belker averaged 19.3 points per game in the Tigers' 3-0 week, shooting 19-of-33 overall (.576) while going 9-of-14 from deep (.643). She also sank all 11 free throws and averaged 4.3 assists per contest.
TigerBlog knows a lot about basketball stats. Those are really good ones.
Belker put up 27 of her points in a 100-93 win over Penn State in a game played in the Bahamas. Talk about heating up.
Wait, 100-93 for a Carla Berube team? That's a rarity.
It was the third time in Princeton women's basketball history that the team reached 100 points. The other two came in a 107-44 win over Wagner in 2016 and a 104-33 win over Portland State in the 31-1 season of 2014-15.
This time, the Tigers needed pretty much every single one of those 100 points.
By the way, do you know what the halftime score was in that game? How about 38-34 Tigers. That means that Princeton put up 66 in the second half alone, shooting 8 for 10 from three in the last two quarters.
Next up for Princeton is a trip to Rhode Island for a game with a 1 pm tip tomorrow. If you're unable to put weight on your foot and don't really want to use your walker, then that's perfectly timed.
One more time — call your dermatologist.
