I was gonna wait until tomorrow, and I see Dave Delchamps has already posted
something about this game, but I have to send out a few brief thoughts.
 
Except for most of the second period, in which they scored all three of their
goals, the Big Red played terrible hockey.  Sorry, but there's just no nice
way to say that -- they STUNK.  Cornell did some hitting in the second, but in
the other two periods, especially the first, they were so tentative that they
looked scared... and maybe they were.  Even a superlative effort by Bandurski,
perhaps his best game of the season, was not enough.  On the flip side, Colgate
certainly seems to be a much different team with winger Marcel Richard in the
lineup.  He missed most of the early part of the season with mono, but he came
back last weekend, and look what happened:  the Red Raiders scored three times
in a minute in a half late in the third to beat Vermont, and now they've won
at Lynah.  True, Cornell kept doing their best to give this game away, but the
Red Raiders wouldn't have been able to take it the way they were playing
earlier this season.
 
Argh and double argh.  More notes coming tomorrow -- I'll try to keep them
civil, but I ain't making any promises :-(
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LET'S GO RED!!
          (and that wasn't heard very much tonight either)
 
"It's THREE million dollars.  If you're going to insult me, get it right!"
-- Stanley Roberts of the Los Angeles Clippers, to a fan heckling him for
   being paid $2 million to sit on the bench