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While hypothetical rink-length goal scoring rushes dominate the dreams of Harvard hockey fans, those who foster delusions of grandeur for a quick charge from The Bright will center their attention on the inexperienced Crimson defense. Hopes are that freshmen Mark Fusco (of Burlington, Mass.) and Scott Sangster can help fill the gap left by the loss of Mitch Olsen and Jackie Hughes...
...because B.U.'s Walter Brown Arena is once again a place to go for away games only. $2.8 million have transformed Watson--lotsa tradition, lotsa Frostbite, lotsa hard seats--Rink into the Alexander H. Bright Hockey Center. (Ther sparkling reincarnation, bright, comfortable and boasting a climate suitable for non-Canadians, opens up for official hockey business this Saturday night when the U.S. Olympic team comes to town for an exhibition...
Last year, as Cleary is quick to point out, the icemen, who were iced in a few games--the 11-3 (8-1 after the first period) holocaust against Cornell at Lynah Rink comes quickly to 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...
Another tradition, however, has gone the way of Iranian music and Carmine Galante--Section 18 will no longer be the haven of goal-crazed Crimson hockey fanatics. The problem with putting section 18 in the rink's corner, word has it, is that section 13 would end up...right behind the Harvard bench. And who needs that with a New Era underway? Call this one the Era of Good Feelings. And hope it doesn't end when the season starts...
Another possibility would be a movable floor for the Bright Arena ice-rink, modelled after the Boston Garden surface. "There would be five teams, the three hockey teams and the two basketball teams, in the same building, though. It would be awkward," Bertagna said. Reardon emphasized the cost of this complicated system...