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...unmistakable décor of an insurgent operation: thinning, mildewed carpet; litter from sign-painting parties; recycling boxes full of canvassing tally sheets and empty Miller Lite cartons. But the deepening clutter hasn't covered up all the traces of what the building used to be: a hockey rink, which could hardly be a more fitting metaphor for a political contest that is suddenly getting a lot rougher. The old Dr Pepper scoreboard is still on the wall, but the largely twentysomething crew at Obama Central has another way of measuring the team's progress. Staffers ring a silver bellhop...
...like for you, the fan?This parallel universe would start with the venue name, of course. Bid farewell to the Bright Hockey Center, as its name changes to the “insert random bank here” Hockey Center.But that pales in comparison to the ads around the rink, on the jumbotron, on the boards, and amazingly, even on the ice itself. At least this makes it easy to keep track of where all the big plays happened.“I still can’t believe that guy got up after taking that shoulder check into...
...left, it deflected off Brown’s Emma Kromm for another Harvard score.Kessler needed only 14 saves to shore up the Harvard victory.HARVARD 3, YALE 0It took some third-period heroics from the upperclassmen to drop Yale, 3-0, in Friday night’s game at Ingalls Rink.“[This] was, I think, our best game so far,” Vaillancourt said. “We worked really hard from our first period to the end. I think our team really started gluing together and we had lots of power plays and were able...
...think definitely the fans help here,” added co-captain Dave MacDonald, “but I think our team mentality is: no matter what venue we’re playing at...it’s still our rink and we’re going to make sure to prepare like we would any other game...
Times like tonight remind us of the poetry in sports. The Harvard men’s hockey team begins the 2007-2008 season in the same rink where last season ended. On the weekend following Halloween, fittingly, the Crimson has a chance to exorcise last year’s ghosts...