Favorite between-period entertainment?

[Al DeFlorio]

Hillel J. Hoffmann '85 wrote:

1. Call me a fossil, but to me, there's nothing as soothing as watching a well-driven zamboni methodically clean the ice. Such a pleasing contrast to the frenzy of the game. It's like watching an old-school barber shave your grandfather: So graceful, so cleansing, so tuned by experience and tradition.

Not nearly as cool as the old Madison Square Garden, where, as it was designed in pre-Zamboni days, the ice was resurfaced by several guys skating around in formation pushing tanks dripping hot-water while others with squeegee-kinda things followed behind them removing the excess.

[Hillel]

Al sez: "At the old Madison Square Garden, in pre-Zamboni days, the ice was resurfaced by several guys skating around in formation pushing tanks dripping hot water while others with squeegee things followed behind them."

HH sez: And I bet the ice was better then than it is at the new MSG.

[bigggreddd77]

DEFINITELY the little kids scrimmaging in front of the crowd.  Best entertainment ever!

LI-TTLE KIDS!!  LI-TTLE KIDS!!  LI-TTLE KIDS!!

[Greg Berge]

> Not nearly as cool as the old Madison Square Garden, where, as it was designed in pre-Zamboni days, the ice was resurfaced by several guys skating around in formation

On pre-Lynah Beebe Lake, the ice was resurfaced by a horse-drawn contraption that melted down ruts.  One game was delayed when the horse fell through the ice (but was unhurt).

Sixty years later, an ECAC playoff game (at Brown IIRC) had to be postponed when the Zamboni stalled on the ice and melted through it.

[Josh '99]

Subway owns Clarkson.

[Denison 71]

Brown's Pep band was on skates after the game against Cornell this year.

[Jim Hyla]

Greg said:[Q]On pre-Lynah Beebe Lake, the ice was resurfaced by a horse-drawn contraption that melted down ruts. One game was delayed when the horse fell through the ice (but was unhurt).[/Q]And does anybody remember this qoute?[Q]And you were there.[/Q]I was going to say it about Greg, but that would have been mean.:-))

[David Harding]

At a Jr A game this year they had a minivan circle the ice with its sun roof open.  Fans tried to throw imitation pucks in.  I'm not sure where the pucks came from or whether they were purchased or free.  They must have been made of some rigid foam, because the misses didn't dent the hood or roof.  Anyway, the pucks were numbered and anyone whose puck made it through the sun roof won an oil change at the local dealer whose vehicle was on parade.

[judy]

i was disappointed in their performance though. i thought they'd be doing tricks and formations, with movement, like a marching band on a football field. i guess that's a little too much to expect...

[Tub(a)]

[q]i thought they'd be doing tricks and formations, with movement, like a marching band on a football field.[/q]

Their "marching band" doesn't move either  ::nut::