Newspaper Tradition

[yougoon]

I know nothing about any stunt like that.

But what I remember as the most provoking stunt I've ever seen is:
As the starting lineup for Cornell was introduced, most of our players would skate up to the blue line, perhaps spray some ice and greet each other.  When Shafer was introduced, he skated past the blue, to the red line, screeched to a halt, then looking into the faces of (I think) the Harvard players, he broke his stick over his head.   The crowd went crazy. It was beautiful.  

I understand that he'd cut his stick with a saw before the game to be sure that the attempt didn't backfire on him. :-}

[CowbellGuy]

yougoon wrote:
Cowbell Guy, I'm not so great at telling stories, do you want to tell it?  Were you there?

Good Lord, how old do you think I am? ::bugeye::
I'll defer to someone who might have actually seen it.

[Greg Berge]

Harvard was humiliating Cornell 11-3 at Lynah, Schafer's clearing pass became, accidentally, a Clearying pass.

It was no more on purpose than Mitchell ringing up Mike at Potsdam.

[Greg Berge]

The other shoe (stick) dropping in the story of Mike breaking his stick over his head is that Harvard then rushed out to a 4-0 lead in the first 7 minutes of that game.  The rest is history: http://members.cox.net/tbrw/boxScores/box19831210.html

Note the scorer of Cornell's go-ahead goal.



Post Edited (12-04-03 15:25)

[Ack]

20 years ago, nearly to the day.

[Jim Hyla]

Also the ice spraying made some teams (most now) face their goalie so as to not be able to get any spray.

[marty]

I once talked to a teammate of the coach who said that Shafer wanted to break a stick over his head but his friends on the team talked him into making the cut and taping it over to hide the marks.