No Need for Icy Relations
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The following article appeared in the March 14 issue of the Times Union.
By MATT RYBALTOWSKI
Of any sport, visiting hockey teams are among the easiest for home fans to jeer. Looking for any excuse to get riled up, the crowd usually gets it courtesy of a mistimed check to the boards or an illegal slash.
This weekend when Cornell visits Union for a best-of-3 ECAC Hockey quarterfinals series, you might want to think twice before showering the Big Red players with your best Don Rickles-like verbal assault. Under the gruff exterior of players such as 5-foot-11, 195-pound sophomore penalty killer Joe Scali is a soft side that helps others in times of need.
Last Saturday night around 11:30, I was headed out of Ithaca after spending the day at the New York State Indoor Track Championship when Mother Nature intervened. Snow and rain during the day soon changed to ice, turning the blacktop on Ithaca's famed College Street into the surface at Messa Rink and causing a reported 33 accidents on the night.
Complete article can be accessed via the Times Union Web site by clicking here.
