Greening Blog: Happy to be Home
The following blog, written by former Cornell standout Colin Greening, appeared May 31 on the Ottawa Senators Web site.
We were very, very happy to come home from Houston with a split
of the first two games in the Calder Cup Finals. But to be honest,
we’re just happy to be back here. We’ve done a lot of
travelling in the last six or seven weeks and we realize now that
we’ve got one series left. Now we really want to take
advantage of home ice. We’ve really been lucky, especially
the last two rounds, that we’ve had good crowds and
it’s nice to have that. You want to feed off it. During the
regular season, it was a lot different, so this has been a nice
surprise for us.
The humidity was brutal when we were down in Houston. You think
about Binghamton ... we’re not getting a lot of sun here, so
we’re not used to that. I remember walking outside there and
it was 96 degrees Fahrenheit. I guess you just acclimatized to it
as quickly as you can. But skating in that rink for the first time
... I took one step and I was already sweating. Those are little
mental things you’ve got to try to keep in the back of your
mind. We’ve played in hot arenas before, so you try to
remember those experiences and hopefully, it’ll help you
out.
Complete blog can be accessed via the Ottawa Web site by clicking
here.
