More Best Moments...

[DeltaOne81]

... this time at the celebration...

(this is also a mini-recap for those who couldn't be there)

::Baby gets up to speak::
::pep band plays the Hey Baby song::
Baby: I'm glad they played that, I'll miss that song, my mom may not, but I will.

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::Schafer gets up to speak::
::pep band plays the Schafer-beer song::
Schafer: "Better than 'kill Schafer kill' "
....
Schafer: "They got something wrong in that season recap - the whole 'UNH got out to a 3-0 lead part.' I've never said this before, but that was a goal."
crowd: ::cheers:: "Kill Schafer Kill..."
Schafer: "That cheer was the reason my wife almost didn't marry me."

There were more, but Scrubs is on :-D.

Oh, next year:
A: Ben Wallace
C: Schafer: "words I never thought I'd say, being from Ontario, but next year's Cornell hockey captain, from Long Island, NY, Ryan Vesce"

[A-19]

thanks for the recap fred. sounds like it was a fun time. were there alot of people there?

-mike 04

[Ken Deschere]

I'd guess maybe 600-700 people were there - loosely spread out in Sects A, B, C, M, and N.  They had a platform up in the scoreboard end of the rink- the remnants of the ice are melting in the parking lot - and the team sat between the platform and the visitors box.  There were a lot of kids there, with a bunch of them sitting on the boards in front of the visitors box, enjoying the rumble they made kicking on the boards.

It was fun and a (final?) chance to celebrate as a group and say good-bye and thanks.  We certainly have a LOT to be grateful for.

Arthur (the emcee) observed that it's only six months until next season.

LET'S GO RED !!

Ken '71

[DeltaOne81]

Speaking of the scoreboard...

Cornell       Harvard
    3              0

Post Edited (04-17-03 21:03)

[Section A]

Those were indeed some nice moments. More on the celebration...

Hornby, Hynes, and Hughes were not able to make it due to "prior commitments." (maybe a gathering of "H" names? Okay, that was a dumb comment, anyway....) The team voted on Captain (Vesce) and Assistant Captain (Wallace) moments before the ceremony tonight, so I'm assuming that the aforementioned trio did not participate in the vote.

Another nice moment was, during Arthur's rundown of the season, at the appropriate times (for Mark McRae's game tying goal vs. Harvard, Paolini's OT winner, and Matt McRae's 2OT goal), they replayed Adam Wodon's radio calls over the loud speaker. Since I had never heard them before, I thought that was really really cool. "Hearing that still gives me goosebumps," commented Paolini after hearing the call for his goal.

It was a really fun evening, and I'm glad they had the event.

[Jordan 04]

I highly doubt that those 3 didn't participate in the vote for team captain.  I'm sure they were at the dinner or whatever the team does, but then had to go to a prelim or something.

Or am I being naive thinking that "prior committments" meant an exam?  ::uhoh::

[CowbellGuy]

I've got mp3's of the goal calls from Adam and I'll get them up on eLynah soon. Yeah, soon. That's the ticket.

[CUlater]

[Q]Schafer: "words I never thought I'd say, being from Ontario, but next year's Cornell hockey captain, from Long Island, NY, Ryan Vesce"[/Q]

That's a subtle dig at his wife who is, of course, from L.I.

Thanks for the recap.  Wish it had been netcast.

[Jim Hyla]

The team stayed around for as long as there were people wanting autographs, but for me the funniest part was at the end when Murray called all the players out, some of whom had gone in and taken off their jersey.

 When they all came back they went up to the band and took their instruments and assembled themselves into a band for pictures. By the way it progressed, I assume it was prearrainged by the band and players. Some of them started playing, etc.. It was alot of fun and I think expresses better than anything why this is truly a college team, not like some semi-pro sports at colleges. The players really seemed to appeciate the band and the fans, much like them calling the fans onto the ice at the end of the season.

However to me the absolute best part, and why this was so important was that they went out as winners, in a happy time, with this as the last memory and not "The goal that was taken away" (my quotes).**)

As a postscript, the event was videotaped. I've emailed Sue Detzer to see if that could be put on the web.



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[Chris Parkin \'03]

The whole team posing as the band thing was pretty spur of the moment.
After the playoffs last year, we took a photo of the band lined up on the bench for use in the CD artwork. We thought it would be neat to also get a shot of the team up in section A. The opportunity never really presented itself though until last night.
During the autograph signing last night, I asked Schafer if he thought the team would go for it. He told me to speak to Doug or Stephen and they'd get it together. Doug said it was no problem as long as we were willing to stick around until all the autographs had been signed. The band stayed, and Doug made sure the team did too. The team seemed kind of annoyed by it until they were told they could grab any instrument they wanted. At that point it seemed sort of like play time in kindergarten with everyone trying to grab the best intstrument.

Mike Schafer trying to fathom how a  piccolo works and Doug Murray with a bass drum on his head now stand as two of the funniest moments I've witnessed in Lynah.

[LetsGoRed]

I was really pleased by how personable the players were.  All extremely friendly and willing to strike up a conversation.  Especially Dougie.  Just talking to him for a couple of minutes left me with the impression that he is a genuine all around nice guy, who really appreciates the fans.

[jeh25]

LetsGoRed wrote:
 Especially Dougie.  Just talking to him for a couple of minutes left me with the impression that he is a genuine all around nice guy, who really appreciates the fans.

Beating out "I can wear snakeskin pants, I'm european" and "Nice rack!" as my favorite Doug Murray moment has to be the time when Doug pretended to blow his nose all over my Yale staff ID at Dunbars only hours after Cornell had swept Yale in the playoffs, on my birthday no less.

[gtsully]

[Q]John E Hayes '98 '00 wrote:

Beating out "I can wear snakeskin pants, I'm european" and "Nice rack!" as my favorite Doug Murray moment...[/Q]

Okay, you can't just say something like that and not explain it - I'm dying to hear this "Nice rack!" story now...

[Jim Hyla]

[Q]Chris said:
 Doug said it was no problem as long as we were willing to stick around until all the autographs had been signed. The band stayed, and Doug made sure the team did too.[/Q]That says it all about this team.

[CUlater]

[Q]That says it all about this team.[/Q]

What, that Murray was really in control of them?  After all, Chris also said "[t]he team seemed kind of annoyed by it..."