This past weekend, we travelled down to States in our last sleep-over trip of the semester. We were to be facing two very prestigious schools, and very good hockey teams: Dartmouth College and Harvard University. Every year we face-off against them and every year I still can't believe their school buildings, campuses, and facilities. No wonder it cost a fortune to attend there...
On friday night we faced the Dartmouth Big Green. After a slow start to the game, we finally started to get into our groove and scored two nice goals to tie the game at two. We moved the puck very well and had many more opportunities to score. It's too bad that we just couldn't finish around the net, because eventually it was the Big Green that got the go-ahead goal and hold on for the win.
On Saturday we re-focused and were ready to play the Harvard Crimson. After a delicious (not to mention, paid by McGill athletics) meal at The Chateau we bussed to the rink. It is always such a site when enter the campus. There are always so many sporting events taking place, and so many locals come out to show their support. This weekend there was a regatta and the shores of the small river were packed with friends and family. There was also a football game going on. Their stadium is huge! Reminds me of the coliseum in Rome. Its all made out of stone/cement and all along the bottom there are these big tall arch ways.
As soon as the game started, it seems as though we were on the power play for 90% of the time. After a scoreless first period, we were able to capitalize on one of our power-plays and make it 1-0 for the visitors. Unfortunately, the Crimson got that one back at the beginning of the third period. They would go to add an empty-netter to to make it 3-1.
Although, it was not a winning weekend, we did learn some things. The reason why we go down to States and play so many Ivy league schools to get some good competition, realize what and where we need to improve on. Then we go home work hard on those things during practice and implement them into our regular season games, and every other game for that fact.
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