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Originally Posted by Geddy Lee
I remember when our high school team took a trip to Cornell; we played two Buffalo prep schools along the way, too - St. Francis (Lee Stempniak's former school) and Nichols - but the highlight of the trip was the actual visit to Ithaca for the Cornell games. The two games we saw at Lynah Rink were pretty electric. Cornell was nationally ranked that year, too; they still had Matt Moulson and Ryan O'Byrne, who were dominant players at that level. Just an incredible atmosphere and product.
The game against Quinnipiac was much better (Mike Fisher's brother stood on his head in goal) but the crowd was way more hostile against Princeton. There were far better chants from the student section, but "PRINCETON'S FROM NEW JERRRRRRRR-SEYYYYY" still sticks with me.
If you haven't seen a DI game at a top tier program's barn yet, scratch that off your bucket list. It's awesome.
For incredible atmosphere and pretty good hockey, come to Boston for the one of the first 2 Mondays in February in any year and catch The Beanpot.
A lot of locals pooh-pooh it saying you have to be from one of the 4 schools (BU, BC, Harvard, Notheastern) to get it, but I think any real hockey fan would love it.