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From our home offices in Scottsdale, Arizona (actually Cambridge, Massachusetts), we present to you our Top 10 list of the best characters in the ECAC:
10. Wild Wayne Cowley: Although Cowley has graduated from Colgate, he will always be remembered as a true character of the ECAC. With long hair hanging out of his goalie mask, Cowley was the league's flashiest goalie. He was also one of the best. It seems appropriate that Cowley signed with the Calgary Flames of the NHL, because when he's hot, he's extremely tough to beat.
9. Mike Addesa: The highly-opinionated and large-framed coach of the RPI Engineers is never afraid to speak his mind. Last year, he earned the ECAC's Best Quote of the Year when asked about Harvard's standout defenseman Don Sweeney, now in the Boston Bruin organization.
"If this league allowed for trades," he said, "I would make a trade for Don Sweeney."
Let's hope no one trades Addesa to another conference.
8. Bruce Coles: Harvard fans will never forget this character, who turned into Bruce the Bruiser during last year's Harvard-RPI ECAC Quarterfinal series.
Mention Bruce Coles at Bright Center and be prepared to dash to the exits. Harvard fans would rather have Dan Quayle skate at Bright.
Bruce, you're no Lane MacDonald.
7. Duke Stump: Twice the Duke of Burlington, Vt., swaggered in for a showdown last year against Harvard. And twice the Duke scored the winning goal for Vermont.
His name's not so bad, either.
6. Ricker Love: With apologies to the Duke, Vermont teammate Ricker Love has the best name in the ECAC. Although Dartmouth's Rob Goulet comes in a close second when he's not busy packing Cesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
5. Ingalls Rink: If the ECAC determined its champion on the basis of a hockey rink's architecture, Yale would win the title every year.
Commonly known as "The Whale," Ingalls Rink's curvy, wooden roof looks like the belly of a large fish or the bottom of a Viking boat.
4. Lynah Rink: A place not to take the kids or even the grandparents, Cornell's home rink is the most exciting in the league.
Fish fly from the rafters and chickens run loose on the ice. Just when you think you've seen it all, the Cornell fans will shock you with new flying objects.
Just ask ex-Harvard goalie John Devin, who received an unpleasant surprise last year in Ithaca, N.Y.
3. RPI Bee: Ever wondered what happened to the bee who used to sell tuna fish? Well, it bumbled over to RPI and became one of the stranger looking mascots in the league.
RPI is known as the Engineers and has a bee as its mascot. Can you figure out the connection?
2. Golden Knight: Clarkson's mascot, the last of the great skating knights, was wounded in the Crusades.
But, even though he can skate, the Golden Knight likes to taunt opposing players. Most opposing players respond with a check to the boards.
1. Upstate New York: While Boston is a hockey city, upstate New York is the hockey Promised Land. When there's a hockey game, towns close down and move to the rinks.
It's a simple fact: ECAC hockey is The Show.
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