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General Category => Hockey => Topic started by: Mark on August 25, 2002, 11:42:07 AM

Title: From Placid to Albany
Post by: Mark on August 25, 2002, 11:42:07 AM
I have a feeling Messers. Whalen and Berge may have ghost-written this sentence for a small fee, but this was the closing thought in the weekly Hockey column in the Boston Globe today: ;-)  

"Sorry to hear the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference will be pulling its annual hockey playoffs out of Lake Placid and taking its fine show to Albany. Taking a tournament out of Lake Placid is like pulling Santa out of the North Pole. As for Albany, that's like moving Santa to Moosejaw."

Title: Re: From Placid to Albany
Post by: jtwcornell91 on August 25, 2002, 12:20:49 PM
Spelling quibble: Whelan (but pronounced like "Wailin'")

Not sure significance to attach to the comment appearing in a Boston newspaper...

Title: Re: From Placid to Albany
Post by: Mark on August 25, 2002, 12:43:45 PM
Sorry for the spelling mistake.

I just thought an ECAC comment by a prominent hockey scribe in what is normally an NHL notes column might be interesting to some folks. Guess not.

Title: Re: From Placid to Albany
Post by: jtwcornell91 on August 25, 2002, 01:15:10 PM
Mark wrote:
QuoteI just thought an ECAC comment by a prominent hockey scribe in what is normally an NHL notes column might be interesting to some folks.
Oh, certainly (although not too surprising, as the Globe is at least somewhat college-hockey-friendly, as I understand).  I was just referring to the irony that the ECACs were in Boston before they were in Placid.

Title: Re: From Placid to Albany
Post by: Greg Berge on August 25, 2002, 02:02:56 PM
The best revenge will be to pack the Knick with so many Cornell fans that from the inside you would swear you were in Ithaca.