Ian Kennish wrote:
 
> Speaking as one of the many who have been hit in the helmet by a
> gigantic smelt during warmups, I can attest to the fact that Lynah
> is the loudest rink in the ECAC.
 
Mark Avino wrote:
 
> Both of the rinks are loud but I find Lynah is the loudest, I mean
> LOUD! Being deaf, it's so loud that I can hear even when my
> hearing aid is off!
 
 
Jeff Anbinder wrote:
 
> Undoubtedly, the Lynah crowd's loudest moment in my personal
> (admittedly limited) memory was as the time expired at the end of
> the second game of a two-game ECAC quarter-finals sweep against
> Harvard.
 
I agree all around.
 
 
But perhaps the greatest testament to the Lynah crowd is that it can
even be absurdly loud when rooting for a crappy team, and when way
behind in a game.  After 192 Cornell games, roughly split between
home and away, I think the main difference between Lynah and
Everywhere Else is that Lynah usually rocks during play.  I have heard
crowds at Clarkson, RPI, BU, UNH, and UVM erupt to
dangerous levels after goals or saves, but there's nuthin' quite like the
protracted roar that Lynah can produce at random points during a
game, regardless of the score or even the period.  And I can't count the
times I have seen visiting players stare up at the crowd with a "what
the f*ck is going on here?" look.
 
All of which is fun.
 
But people who attended the award ceremony two weeks ago, or the
o.t. win against Clarkson last year, can remember how this crowd gets
going behind its favorites even in the face of a Bad Team Going
Nowhere, and that is something I haven't seen anywhere else.
 
I don't want an extended test of this hypothesis, though.  I'd rather
volunteer to record the dB results the next time this crowd sees Cornell
clinch an ECAC regular season title.
 
 
Greg
Somewhere in Massachusetts
Let's Go Red!