Big Red Victory!

Well, after last year’s Harvard Game, this year was a  tremendous relief. It was also tremendously exciting.  The important thing that was re-established was of course that Harvard Sucks!

Things started off very well with us getting an early goal, but they relatively quickly got back to 1-1. Then things sort of settled down, although the main noticable feature of the game seemed to be that the ref wasn’t calling any penalties against Harvard regardless of how their players were tripping ours whereas they were calling penalties against us for they tiniest of infractions.

Things took a turn for the worse in the third period when they got another power play goal (which was basically due to sloppy defense, although there may have been some Offensive interference as well). The crowd was getting a little bit out of it for a little while, but right after a face-off Doug Krantz flipped the puck nicely into the Harvard goal to even things up. And that got everyone, including the Cornell players, energized again. So things were suddenly looking a lot more hopeful.

Then there was yet another seemingly pointless  Penalty call against Cornell, which we once again killed. And we got control of the puck just as the penalty was ending. So our player was coming onto the ice, got the pass, was wide open, skated up and was all alone with the goalie and scored. So then there was about two minutes left and we were up 3-2.

I’ve been sick for the past two weeks with a cold and what little voice I had is pretty much completely gone what with all the screaming and shouting.  But wow, it was an exciting game.

This weekend is kind of fun because it’s the all-color teams weekend. In addition to playing the Harvard Crimson, we’re also playing Dartmouth Big Green. What is it with universities wanting to have team names that are colors? I guess the blame should go to Oxford, where they just refer to the team as Blue. Cambridge calls theirs Light Blue, as far as I know. And then you have all the US universities copying that. Stanford changed their team name not too long ago to be Cardinal. Not the bird, the color. The amusing story there is that they had a poll among the undergraduates and the overwhelming choice of the undergrads was The Stanford Robber Barons. Which I think would be a fabulous name. And the mascot could have a little sidekick who could beat up the other team mascot and stuff (no robber baron would stoop to doing that himself, of course). It would be great! But apparently the administration didn’t like this idea, and so they decided to try to emulate Harvard and these other places instead.