Word: neutrality
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...ways. First, visitors wouldn’t be able two ways. First, visitors wouldn’t be able to bring their fans with them. At many home sporting events, the number of opposing fans equals or surpasses the number of Harvard fans, rendering the contest a de facto neutral site game. Sure the same is true in a no-fan arena, but at least spectators won’t be able to motivate the other team either...
...German peace feeler was a desperate maneuver by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, the police and the concentration camps, who had escaped from Berlin to the north German port of Lübeck. There he told a diplomat from neutral Sweden that Germany was willing to surrender to the Americans and British. At worst, Himmler thought, this would enable Germany to throw all its troops against the Soviets; at best, the Western Allies would join the German defense. Himmler seems even to have cherished the illusion that the Allies would support him, the lord of the Holocaust...
...catalyst was more often than not Collins, already the focus of the UNH offense with a goal and an assist. With the stanza passing its midway point, the winger carried an outlet pass from the Wildcats’ zone through neutral ice and into the Crimson end by himself, where, had he not fallen down of his own accord, a 1-on-0 surely would have been his. He would nearly find redemption twice in quick succession before all was said and done, though...
Collins in turn earned his final opportunity of the contest four minutes later, intercepting a sloppy Harvard pass in the neutral zone, then breaking in on Grumet-Morris all by himself down the lefthand side of the ice. But as he approached, he briefly bobbled the puck, allowing the Crimson backstop to reach out with his stick to break up the play before a shot ever materialized...
Skating 4-on-4 midway through the opening period, Du threaded a leading pass to Maki through the neutral zone that allowed him to slip behind two UNH defenders and skate in on Wildcats netminder Kevin Regan. As he was hauled down from behind, Maki wound up for a booming wrist shot, which he managed to fling into the top left corner of the net just before crashing to the ice at 9:26, staking the Crimson to a 1-0 lead...