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Educating the Chancellor

Ben Barnhart

QUICK STUDIES: Sarah Port ’05, right, coaches the Lombardis. (photo by Ben Barnhart) COMING NORTH TO THE BAY STATE, where ice hockey is revered, from Florida, where football is king and pond hockey might be a term for alligator wrestling, Chancellor John Lombardi and his wife, Cathryn, needed a crash course in Hockey 101. Sarah Port and Anne-Marie Plain, both sophomores on the UMass women’s ice hockey club team, volunteered to tutor the Lombardis during the Minutemen’s 5-3 win over Iona back in November. Armed with a copy of Hockey for Dummies and their many years of experience on the ice, Port and Plain guided the Lombardis through the complexities of the game’s rules, and answered that burning question that all hockey newcomers ask: What is icing? * The Lombardis quickly picked up the nuances of the sport, and conversation ranged from how does a Zamboni work to effective penalty-killing strategies and the box defense. When the referee disallowed a UMass goal early in the game to a chorus of boos from the Mullins Center fans, Port explained that the ref hadn’t seen the goal before he whistled the play dead, thus negating the score. The Lombardis took that idea to heart and when Iona snuck the puck through UMass goalie Tim Warner’s legs for their final goal of the night, the chancellor declared, “I didn’t see that one and if I don’t see it, it doesn’t count!” *Icing is called when a player behind the red line in his end of the rink shoots a puck past the goal line in his offensive zone when both teams are playing at even strength. Play is stopped when an opponent other than the goalie touches the puck. Icing is considered an infraction because it can be used by teams to take away legitimate scoring chances from skaters on the offensive. A club that is a player down may “ice” the puck as often as it likes to kill the penalty.

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