The Other Team in Lynah

While the market for men’s hockey tickets is alive and well, complete with season ticket deals, no such market exists for women’s hockey tickets, because women’s hockey tickets are free.  Yet as I’ve mentioned, the rink is freezing because almost nobody shows up.  (Though the men’s team was away last weekend and the guy with the flag still came to the women’s games.)

I decided not to go away with the band, and I had a ChemE lunch scheduled for when we were supposed to leave, so I was home for two women’s hockey games and a women’s basketball game.  On Friday night, Cornell beat Union . . . 8 to 1.

So basically, our women’s hockey team is pretty good, and no one watches them.  My point, that I’m getting to, is that for some reason, people don’t like watching women’s sports unless it’s beach volleyball and they’re wearing minimal clothing beach volleyball uniforms.  Women’s hockey can also be more fun to watch than men’s hockey because instead of slamming each other into the boards, they do this thing where they pass the puck around and score goals of a different variety from the shove-the-puck-near-the-goal-and-everybody-whack-at-it-until-it-crosses-the-goal-line kind.  Although at one of the women’s games I was at there was this massive pileup in front of the goal.  There were multiple players in the net.

The only thing about women’s hockey is that the band was recently approached and asked not to play while the teams were warming up.  We’re still trying to sort that out.  On the other hand, a former men’s hockey player stopped by the band room a couple of weeks ago and said that the team would really get excited when the band played.  Sometimes it’s nice to know someone appreciates you.

Still, to anyone at Cornell: go to women’s hockey.