Word: ecacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Wednesday, the Crimson turned in a stirring overtime win over normally awe-inspiring Boston University. And last night, the icemen shocked the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Wildcats, the defending ECAC champions, with a 4-1 victory before 3194 at cavernous Snively Arena...
...that Harvard (now 1-2 in ECAC play) didn't make it a contest--in fact, the Crimson battled back from a 2-0 deficit to knot the score, 2-2, at one point. But the favored Friars kept a territorial advantage throughout and broke the game wide open with three rapid-fire man-up goals in the second period...
Beginning anew in collegiate hockey is no movie scenario, and despite some impressive staging (the new rink, the new uniforms, the "new enthusiasm"), things aren't going to be pretty right away. The rules for success in the ECAC are still the same--talent, experience and playing Princeton twice a year. The freshmen again looked strong, and that kind of good omen hasn't been around for four years--or since Harvard let Kevin Constantine get away...
...mind, along with a mind-numbing swamp-job by Brown on national TV--managed to at least stay close until the final minutes in most, pulling their goalie 11 times in 26 games. The squad finished--one must keep in mind while contemplating bus rides to Providence for the ECAC Championships--with a depressing 7-18-1 record (1-8-1 in the Ivies...
While newness is the buzzword for Crimson hockey, at least one tradition will stay put--the ECAC voted provisionally this week not to requre face-masks along with the already-mandatory helmets. Crimson skaters had not been fond of the masks. "The general feeling towards the masks is hatred," one player commented...