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The Great Capon Caper of the to get the hat back after the game.
Union game has gotten enough attenOne other popular intruder into the
tionatready,but with oSeUMass game domain of players and officials, at
Mowing Thanksgiving so closelyfa least here at Appleton was Skip
few things bear noting: by avoid unau- Chandler's famous rubber chicken
thorized disposal of that last turkey Tossed from the student section at the
end of a suing, it was trolled in front
sandwich.
ofthe
opposing goahe after the Saints
Hockey is a high speed, high contact game played on a surface which had scored
Skip and the fraternity brothers he
enhances the speed and hurts on contact. Rinkduectors across tbecountry passed the tradition on to knew what
suivetogetthehardest,suipothfstjce theyweredoingandwhentodoit As
they can so the players' blades wilt the opposing g6a)ie stood dejected,
have lessfriction,the, puck will slide the chicken made itsbrwfforay onto
when such tlungs hit the ice, then that
person needs other outlets for his or
her curiosity.
Several things do happen, none of
tlwm particularly positive, when foreign objects including ex-barn yard
friends and their ilk, hit/the ice.
Say everyone islucky and nooneis
hurt by what istossedonto the ice
The game has to stop while the linesman or the nnk crew cleans up die
mess. Assuming the mrowing incioent happened after the f a n ^ - r'isai
better and the^^gainj^wijiM i w i t l t the ice an^ was wled bat:tm before
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the players lined up for the next been scored upon a respite from die
. faceoff. It left no bits and pieces of pressure and takes some of the
itself to hide and possibly trip some- momenuim awayIrom the"team that
one up and required nb special main- has scored. If me incident is1 one of a
tenance efforts. Alio*, when the offi- few during the course of a game, the
cials requested the crowd be warned home team canoe given a penalty for
failing to <^nnx>I tile actic^c^ its
andthecMckenm^enofurt^
pearances for die night..as they in- fans and that pehalty can have an
variably did after one or two impact on the otn^oine of a ganw.'"'
The players have enough debns to
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Mast of u^ other tossing Mni the ; brokensucksiwhichmustbedropped •
stands results jn just ttuu";..uSe person as soon as they are broker-am are
who wduie tossing is teased from the picked up, along with the splinters at
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the next stoppage of play) ahd the
progress has been unexj
lly im- rest of what could be and often is a occasional glove which is knocked
off someone's hand All of these obpeded by something on The ice the great game
Hopefully without giving anyone jects are bigenough tobe seen andfor
injuries could escalate
Tossingstuffonthelceisnotarare ideas/among the critters that have the most pari avoided IF would be"
event at hockey games There are Uttered the ice at various rinks are tragic tohaveaplayer'sseasonended
traditions, some of them revered and octopi af Red Wings games in De- or time mused because of an injury
some of1 them reviled, which involve troit, a fish at the University of New sustained from hitting left-over critvarious things goirig ballistic and Hampshire and several other rinks, ter parts tossed by a foolish fan,
and various and sundry fowl off and
St Lawrencenasbeenblessedover
splattingontheice
Probably the favorite in terms of onatjustabouteveryone'srink Only the years with avid, vocal fans the
players is the tossing ofhats after a the people doing thetossingreally' RPIgamewasaclassicexample The
player has scored a hat tnck, But,\ knowwhyawlwh^tyjpcofstaieiuent ^rowd was big, itwas loud and it was
thereiS aprotocoLtotluswluch elimi- they are trying to make, but you have into the game and nobody felt it necnates the nsk of injury One, the hats to have somelhingin mind ifyouare essary to throw anything on the'ice
are tossed after the thud goalis scored, goingloeither find an octopus, fish or You can enjoy a game without creatwhich means that the whistle has some Idodof bud, sit with ifunQlyoji ing addjtir^ di^verswu^screaming
blown theplay dead and the teams are deem tiie moment proper and then profamties at theofjfiqiaborthe other
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team or dSsruptihgthe flow ofthe
getting ready to line up for the next toss it out ofthe stands.^
faceoff Two, hats are bigenough and
If the messageis thai the opposing game and the enjoymeiitofotlierfans.
solid enough that they are easily vis- goalie is a turkey, a fish orachicken, Hopefidly tins a the last ofmeunauible on the ice and there is tune to ltcoulddevetopintoalongandsmelly morized and potentially dangerous
collect them before play resumes
evening if mat goalie is particularly interruptions m what shoukl be an
The only drawback to the hat toss- hot If diere is no message, but some- exciting andenioyable season for all.
uigcereroonyafterahattnckrstrying one wantstosee the splat andlness
its fastest pace. Imagine for a minute
what happens when one skate hits
. something which does, not have the
low friction coefficient of ice.
At best, tot skate SJQWS appreciably and the. player can recoverfroma
momentary unbalance and continue
wiAju|tamimrwobbie in his stride.
, At wc«U|l« skate stpos completely,
but momentum dpcsn% Anynurjafeer
of things can be^penin d^jcasefeoin
a simplefall to aconmciindfracture.
And, in a spon where tjte players are
.in suchcloseip^xjmityiMi
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