Comments from Dartmouth forward Rob Pritchard

[sah67]

On his NCAA.com blog regarding the Colgate/Cornell weekend:

The atmosphere at Cornell's Lynah Rink is unlike anywhere else I have ever played. The rink is divided into two visible sections, sudents and townies, and the student section is a sea of loud, aggressive, and unified red and white shirts that come with an arsenal of chants that would make soccer hooligans proud. My personal favorite is the "Skate... skate... skate... turn... skate... stop... BEND OVER... BEND OVER..." as they follow the visiting goalie around his zone and back to his crease between whistles. I remember Mike Devine '08 used to try to mess up the cheer by pretending to stop or turn or by bending over before he got back to the crease, just to see what they would say.

 
This year the Big Red has a strong, skilled team with a threatening stretch breakout that reaches from their own goal line to the opposing blue line. They easily controlled the flow for the first 40 minutes of the game and in the third we ran into a case of too little too late, losing 3-1.

 
The loss was particularly disappointing because we knew that we hadn't played to our potential. That's not to take any credit from Cornell who earned the win, but for me losses are only bearable if I know that I worked my hardest and was simply outplayed. That was not the case on Saturday and the bus ride home gave us all plenty of time to think.

Interesting that he calls our breakout "threatening".  The full blog is here:

http://www.ncaa.com/blog/rob-pritchard-blog.html?SPSID=48935&SPID=4728&DB_OEM_ID=11600

[JDeafv]

I'm pretty sure Pritchard was the ::asshole:: that kneed Ross causing him to miss the NoDak trip.