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...time when frustration of losing seasons had built up almost to the point of no return for both player and fan, the Harvard hockey rink rats turned into link ogres, late entries in The Most Belligerent Pass of the year Contest, which for years too many to count had been the stomping ground of lthaca's Lynah Loathsome. For two ECAC schools a long way from home. Princeton and Cornell you could color the devil Crimson...
...weeks ago, Harvard traveled to hellish Lynah Rink in Ithaca and emerged tattered and scarred but riding high after a 5-4 overtime win, the icemen's first victory in that western province since...
Oddly enough, neither Harvard not Yale has beaten the other in New Haven since 1979, and four of the last five games have been ties. Last year at Ingalls Rink (nicknamed the Yale Whale, of American Buildings and Their Architects," Jordy, p. 200) Harvard blew a 4-2 lead fell behind, 5-4, and rallied to tie on a Mark Fusco slapshot late in the game. The year before, the teams played a rollicking 6-6 contest at the New Haven Coliseum which featured hat tricks by Harvard's Greg Olson and Yale's Paul Castraberti...
Friday night started out like the rest of Harvard's recent visits to cavernous Lynah Rink. With a full house of iron-throated primates leading the cheers, the Big Red bolted to a 4 2. first-period lead and looked off to the races as usual. Another blowout, it seemed with the Crimson as helpless as that poor chicken on the goalpost by the third period...
After the first period, the furthest thing from the minds of any Lynah Rink Rat was a Harvard comeback possibility Cornell's Roy Kerling, Mark Henderson and Dan Duffy scored three straight Big Red Goals following Crimson center Phil Falcone's first goal just 3:20 into the game, and it looked like the Lynah Rink jinx was kicking up its heels again...