Union Players Like it Outside
The following article appeared in the January 11 issue of the Times Union.
BY PETE IORIZZO
Staff Writer
SCHENECTADY — On Sept. 27, 1991, Rick Bennett was a rookie for the New York Rangers taking part in a historic NHL event: an outdoor preseason game against the Los Angeles Kings in Las Vegas.
The temperature was 80 degrees and the sun shone bright above the rink erected in the Caesars Palace parking lot. But still, it brought Bennett back to his childhood, when every winter afternoon his frost-numbed fingers would lace his skates for pickup games on a frozen pond.
"Just being out there with the wind in your face, your hat on, I compare it to being on a Harley Davidson and driving down the highway," said Bennett, the Union men's hockey coach who grew up in Springfield, Mass. "It just seemed like you could skate forever because it was outdoors."
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