Fancy Hockey

Last weekend and the weekend before that, the men’s and women’s hockey teams finished up their home regular season games.  The women went undefeated at Lynah (they tied Dartmouth during their last home game) and the men capped off a sometimes less than great season with a pair of wins over RPI and Union.  (They’re away this weekend at Yale and Brown to completely finish off the regular season; the women have already won the ECAC title due to a win over Union and a Harvard loss.)

It was a fun weekend in terms of hockey, especially since we won, which hadn't happened at home since . . . last semester.  Yeah, it’s been a long month for men’s hockey.   And for the last home game of the regular season, it’s turning into a band tradition to have Fancy Hockey, in which we dress up instead of wearing red/pep band shirts.

After the game (and after the women’s game a couple weekends ago), they had senior night, to recognize the graduating seniors.  After that, when all the fans had left, the band went down onto the ice to get a picture of everyone in our fancy clothing.  That happened to be where the hockey players were taking pictures with their families.  (They had a guy with a professional looking camera.  We were close to resorting to using someone’s iPhone.)

We took a couple pictures, one of the seniors in the band and one of everyone, and were standing around waiting for the actual photographer when one of the hockey players decided to jump into our picture.  Because we’re the band, we got really excited, and a bunch of the other players got into the picture too.  So somewhere out there, there’s a picture of the band all dressed up with a bunch of hockey players lying on the ice in front of us.  Believe me, it was really cool.

That wraps another regular season of hockey at Lynah.  The band will be back next year, but for now, we’re headed into some playoff action (and the lacrosse season is starting).