Hat Tricks Matt Johnson wrote: >I never saw a single hat thrown on the ice at RPI, nor any other >ECAC games I saw. (Did see fish, and sieves after certain goals). >It sounds like a nice tradition (how dangerous can a thrown hat be?). I don't think throwing hats for hat tricks is a Lynah Rink tradition per se but I seem to remember people doing it. When Joe Nieuwendyk scored back-to-back hat tricks in the final weekend home games as a Cornell player in Spring of 1987, I believe hats were tossed in Lynah. I also recall (somewhat vaguely) that someone threw a hat in 1989-90, probably when Ross Lemon '90 was on a hot streak. I'm sure Mr. Mintz can contribute more on this subject. Fish and chickens, on the other hand, were part of the Lynah fable of the great rivalry between Cornell and Harvard. This past Sunday someone threw a fish at the beginning of the third period. Although I was not at the game (had to go to a wedding in Philly), I'd understand that Cornell skated a man short to begin the final period. Coach McCutcheon was quoted in the Ithaca Journal, questioning that how did the referee know for sure that it was a Cornell fan who threw the fish. A really fun sight to watch at Lynah is the newspaper routine. As Arthur Mintz opened the game by introducing the opposing team's starting lineup, the students (and some die-hard old timers) would hold up the Cornell Daily Sun in front of their faces, yelling "Boring, boring, boring....." At the conclusion of the intro, we would all crumple the paper and throw balls of newspaper onto the ice. The crew from Lynah all have big, brown trash bags ready to pick up the newspaper so the game can begin on time. To me that's a harmless thing to do and as long as our AD does not have a problem with it, you'll see more of it. Here is a bit of a history question: Can someone tell me how does the newspaper routine become a routine? I thought it was part of the Harvard-Cornell tradition, but now we do it at all the games. Tom Y. Tseng '87 Lynah Faithful