Article on Top 10 Lynah Faithful Traditions

[ScrewBUHarvardtoo]

The salute should be #1

I had no idea we stole the salute.  The first time I saw it was at Lynah and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Schafer brought the salute with him when he came back from Western Michigan. It didn't originate at Cornell. To say that "Cornell has been given credit for popularizing this tradition" is really an overstatement.

I've been to almost every ECAC hockey rink and the majority of them do a "Lynah Salute" type thing. I'm pretty sure none of those schools did that until Cornell did it, but I may be mistaken

[Josh '99]

Do the kids these days still do the remote control goalie? I liked that. Good way to get into opposing goalies' heads. I vaguely remember Nick Boucher getting scored upon when responding to such taunting from Sections A & B when the Big Red FINALLY beat Dartmouth at home my senior year (2003). That really happened, right? It's not just me creating that memory because Boucher was the woooooooooooooooooooorst?

I thought Boucher's antics were in '99-'00? Finally beating Dartmouth was definitely '03...

http://collegehockeystats.net/9900/boxes/mcordar1.j24

[Chris '03]

Do the kids these days still do the remote control goalie? I liked that. Good way to get into opposing goalies' heads. I vaguely remember Nick Boucher getting scored upon when responding to such taunting from Sections A & B when the Big Red FINALLY beat Dartmouth at home my senior year (2003). That really happened, right? It's not just me creating that memory because Boucher was the woooooooooooooooooooorst?

I thought Boucher's antics were in '99-'00? Finally beating Dartmouth was definitely '03...

http://collegehockeystats.net/9900/boxes/mcordar1.j24

I remember the game... just not the part where both teams scored at 9:56 of the 1st!

[Trotsky]

Do the kids these days still do the remote control goalie? I liked that. Good way to get into opposing goalies' heads. I vaguely remember Nick Boucher getting scored upon when responding to such taunting from Sections A & B when the Big Red FINALLY beat Dartmouth at home my senior year (2003). That really happened, right? It's not just me creating that memory because Boucher was the woooooooooooooooooooorst?

I thought Boucher's antics were in '99-'00? Finally beating Dartmouth was definitely '03...

http://collegehockeystats.net/9900/boxes/mcordar1.j24

I remember the game... just not the part where both teams scored at 9:56 of the 1st!

I don't remember that either...

[Swampy]

I also posted this on the Band Top 10 Playlist thread.

My first time in Lynah, I got there about half an hour early. The lights over the ice were off, and the rink was dark and ominous. Then, as the team waited in the tunnel, the band started playing the the Peter Gunn Theme as the boys skated onto the ice.  The Red skated around the rink and then its half. First a few, then more and more players took shots. There was something jazzy and classy about it, and yet ominous and menacing. Like red sharks getting ready to feast on their prey. And I was hooked.

Not surprisingly, I find a certain similarity between the Peter Gunn Theme and this theme from a film about sharks.

[David Harding]

But being that many of you have been Cornell hockey fans for over a decade, ...

A few of us have been following Cornell hockey since the 1950's, so we have a slightly different perspective.  My undergraduate years were late 60's and early 70's, but I had grown up in Ithaca.  A tradition that has been eliminated in recent years was a real line for season tickets.  We lined up in Barton Hall starting about Thursday in anticipation of sales on Sunday morning.  That was serious business.

[Jim Hyla]

But being that many of you have been Cornell hockey fans for over a decade, ...

A few of us have been following Cornell hockey since the 1950's, so we have a slightly different perspective.  My undergraduate years were late 60's and early 70's, but I had grown up in Ithaca.  A tradition that has been eliminated in recent years was a real line for season tickets.  We lined up in Barton Hall starting about Thursday in anticipation of sales on Sunday morning.  That was serious business.

Sure, but real men from the 60s had to line up, and spend the night, outside Teagle. None of that, stay inside, have a party while waiting, stuff for us. That was when True Hockey Fans were formed.::barf::

[dag14]

I came back to Ithaca after graduate school and stood in line for tickets as an "adult."  Of course, as an adult, I got to keep those seats when the season ended. Still have them more than 35 years later.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

But being that many of you have been Cornell hockey fans for over a decade, ...

A few of us have been following Cornell hockey since the 1950's, so we have a slightly different perspective.  My undergraduate years were late 60's and early 70's, but I had grown up in Ithaca.  A tradition that has been eliminated in recent years was a real line for season tickets.  We lined up in Barton Hall starting about Thursday in anticipation of sales on Sunday morning.  That was serious business.

Sure, but real men from the 60s had to line up, and spend the night, outside Teagle. None of that, stay inside, have a party while waiting, stuff for us. That was when True Hockey Fans were formed.::barf::

70s-80s, too.  

It wasn't until my senior year that they moved the line inside the baseball practice area, but you didn't get to go inside until 6PM.  And before 6 you still waited outside until they opened the doors.  Senior year it was raining.  :-|

[Weder]

But being that many of you have been Cornell hockey fans for over a decade, ...

A few of us have been following Cornell hockey since the 1950's, so we have a slightly different perspective.  My undergraduate years were late 60's and early 70's, but I had grown up in Ithaca.  A tradition that has been eliminated in recent years was a real line for season tickets.  We lined up in Barton Hall starting about Thursday in anticipation of sales on Sunday morning.  That was serious business.

Sure, but real men from the 60s had to line up, and spend the night, outside Teagle. None of that, stay inside, have a party while waiting, stuff for us. That was when True Hockey Fans were formed.::barf::

70s-80s, too.  

It wasn't until my senior year that they moved the line inside the baseball practice area, but you didn't get to go inside until 6PM.  And before 6 you still waited outside until they opened the doors.  Senior year it was raining.  :-|

Who can forget the great mid-'90s tradition of mailing in your ticket application over the summer? Worked out great for me since I lived in Ithaca.

[Trotsky]

But being that many of you have been Cornell hockey fans for over a decade, ...

A few of us have been following Cornell hockey since the 1950's, so we have a slightly different perspective.  My undergraduate years were late 60's and early 70's, but I had grown up in Ithaca.  A tradition that has been eliminated in recent years was a real line for season tickets.  We lined up in Barton Hall starting about Thursday in anticipation of sales on Sunday morning.  That was serious business.

Sure, but real men from the 60s had to line up, and spend the night, outside Teagle. None of that, stay inside, have a party while waiting, stuff for us. That was when True Hockey Fans were formed.::barf::

60's?  Hell, we did that in 83 and 84.

That was one of the great Cornell hockey traditions and it's a shame it has gone the way of, well, pretty much everything else cool.  Although truth be told it was rife with abuse.  It was odd how one frat boy would somehow morph into his whole house 15 minutes before the door opened.

[Jerseygirl]

Do the kids these days still do the remote control goalie? I liked that. Good way to get into opposing goalies' heads. I vaguely remember Nick Boucher getting scored upon when responding to such taunting from Sections A & B when the Big Red FINALLY beat Dartmouth at home my senior year (2003). That really happened, right? It's not just me creating that memory because Boucher was the woooooooooooooooooooorst?

I thought Boucher's antics were in '99-'00? Finally beating Dartmouth was definitely '03...

Conflation on my part indeed. Have we publicly acknowledged that he bears a striking resemblance to The Sherminator from American Pie?

[Josh '99]

Do the kids these days still do the remote control goalie? I liked that. Good way to get into opposing goalies' heads. I vaguely remember Nick Boucher getting scored upon when responding to such taunting from Sections A & B when the Big Red FINALLY beat Dartmouth at home my senior year (2003). That really happened, right? It's not just me creating that memory because Boucher was the woooooooooooooooooooorst?

I thought Boucher's antics were in '99-'00? Finally beating Dartmouth was definitely '03...

http://collegehockeystats.net/9900/boxes/mcordar1.j24

I remember the game... just not the part where both teams scored at 9:56 of the 1st!

It was a faster-paced game in those days.

[Josh '99]

But being that many of you have been Cornell hockey fans for over a decade, ...

A few of us have been following Cornell hockey since the 1950's, so we have a slightly different perspective.  My undergraduate years were late 60's and early 70's, but I had grown up in Ithaca.  A tradition that has been eliminated in recent years was a real line for season tickets.  We lined up in Barton Hall starting about Thursday in anticipation of sales on Sunday morning.  That was serious business.

Sure, but real men from the 60s had to line up, and spend the night, outside Teagle. None of that, stay inside, have a party while waiting, stuff for us. That was when True Hockey Fans were formed.::barf::

60's?  Hell, we did that in 83 and 84.

That was one of the great Cornell hockey traditions and it's a shame it has gone the way of, well, pretty much everything else cool.  Although truth be told it was rife with abuse.  It was odd how one frat boy would somehow morph into his whole house 15 minutes before the door opened.

I kind of wish they'd had a real line when I was in school; of course, I wasn't really as enthusiastic about going to classes as I should've been, so spending a few days in line would've suited me fine.

[Al DeFlorio]

Sure, but real men from the 60s had to line up, and spend the night, outside Teagle. None of that, stay inside, have a party while waiting, stuff for us. That was when True Hockey Fans were formed.::barf::

Yeah...but that was a one-time deal for the season.  In the early 60s, after Ned's arrival, we stood outside each game waiting for the doors to open at 6:30 for an 8:00 start, then sat in the dark waiting for the lights to go on when the teams came onto the ice 70 minutes later.  Otherwise you wouldn't get in.  A full house welcoming roar for the team coming out of the locker room was sweet, and will never be repeated.  

Now people straggle in after 7 and think they're on-time.::pissed::