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...team has got to be fairly happy to get back on the ice. With the memory of a sloppy three-point weekend at home against Vermont and ECAC patsy Dartmouth lingering and a Beanpot date on the horizon against second-ranked Boston University, it's time to lace 'em up and get back...
Defense: A. Like the offense, the defense is first in the ECAC, surrendering only three goals per game and keeping much of the toughest rubber away from the Crimson net. Go-get-'em captain Sean McCann (10-9-19) leads the excellent backchecking of the blue-line corps, but as often as not it's been the forwards' forechecking skills that has kept opposing offenses struggling to cross center...
...losers, including Manet, Whistler and Pisarro, are somewhat more familiar names today than such winners as Gleyre and Couture. Then there was, of course, the good luck of Germany and Japan to lose their war against the U.S., which enabled both to enjoy a half-century run of knock-'em-dead economic robustness under American military protection. (Foolishly, Vietnam won its war against the U.S., and two decades later is still suffering for that victory...
...Call 'em the Cardiac Kids. Or Frank and the Miracles. Maybe even the Wild Boys...
When it comes to dealing with the media, we are a nation of spin doctors. Afraid that our words will be twisted beyond repair, we never say what we mean. So we say as little as possible and adhere to a common code: Never admit anything. Always keep 'em guessing. Shun the exposure...