Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard and Boston College, presently two of the worst in ECAC Division One hockey, took the battle for the cellar into overtime and the Crimson grabbed a 5-4 victory at McHugh Forum last night...
Instead, I'll enthrall all you spellbound readers with a few of the formative moments in my hockey background...
...knew they would, the I's soon developed into one of hockey's classiest, most talented teams. While the rest of the NHL watched awestruck, the Uniondale youngsters serenely survived eight must-win 1975 playoff contests, upsetting the Rangers (J.P. Parise decided the finale after 11 seconds of OT) and Penguins (coming back from a three-game deficit for only the second time in professional sports history) before bowing out to eventual Cup champion Philadelphia Flyers in seven, after winning three...
Most of my college hockey experience comes from watching RPI during interludes at my Albanian (N.Y., not Europe) grandparents'. The names of Serra, Martinelli and other former Engineer frontliners may not ring a bell, but Harvard skaters remember Stoyanovich (who, incidentally, has been drafted by the Islanders) all too well, for it was he who blasted one of his patented slapshots past Wade Lau to defeat the Crimson last November...
...comes down to this: I've made a habit of backing teams that raise extremely high hopes (delusions of grandeur?), but fall just short when it counts. Will being a Harvard hockey fan prove yet another frustrating exercise in masochism? I look forward to finding...