It’s the post you’ve all been waiting for – my pictures from the cheap seats of the Annual Hockey East Mascot Broomball Game, held during the first intermission of the Boston University – Boston College semifinal game.
And they are off! Sam the Minuteman was definitely the most athletic of the bunch, despite having one of the most unwieldy costumes. Maybe they should recruit him to play on the actual hockey team?
Sam the Minuteman lost the ball after some stick clashing with the Vermont Catamount. My favorite, the Skating Monk (actually a friar), is getting in on the play. The Northeastern Husky is depressed and lifeless in the corner. (Insert snide remark about how the Northeastern offense was very much the same in their semifinal game here.)
The Merrimack Warrior and Wiley E. Cat fight for the ball, as the Catamount tries to make a charge.
Oh, Bananas the Bear. Oh, Bananas. You’re making me want to cry. Stop looking so sad. Oh my gosh. I just want to give you a hug or something. Next year, Bananas. Provided Gustav the Mighty stays, you might be playing at the Garden. Have hope!
Bananas reaches out to Wiley E. Cat for some solace. Wiley can’t help him. “Look, dude. My team is labeled as the ‘University of No Hardware.’ You really think I can make you feel any better?”
Hey Baldwin the Eagle, you think touching another mascot’s behind with your stick is allowed by the Catholic Church? I think you might have to go to Confession for that one.
Inexplicably, the Merrimack Warrior decided to take on the Vermont Catamount. Really? Mr. Warrior, you don’t even come out for your own team’s home games, and you decide to throw down at the Garden against a mascot of a team that has only been in the league four years but has probably already amassed more league wins then your own? That takes guts.
The Happy Friar – Skating Monk just looks on, with his big grinning face.
Bye, Skating Monk! Bye, Vermont Catamount! Oh, Bananas. Don’t look so down. No, Wiley E. Cat, you have to get off the ice now. Believe it or not, your team isn’t playing in the semifinals.
In this case I can unequestionably say HE > WCHA. The WCHA Final Five really needs a mascot game.
ARE YOU NUTS … FRIAR TUCK AND RHETT were the respective MVPs, and I DUNNO if they picked teams outta a hat OR if they did rocks paper scissors OR how they divied up, but one team had three legit Mascots who could play and I still cant figure out what the Catamount and River Hawk were doing on the ice … It looked like some sort of tribal cross-anthropomorphic mating ritual, but I am not an anthropologist so I will leave that one to the experts. Forget about people saying a fix was in on the GOAL/NO GOAL situation in the BU-Lowell final, this is like when you are playing pond hockey and you bring a couple buddies who played big time MINOR LEAGUE HOCKEY and say they can skate a little bit. The outcome of this one was decided before the mascots took the ice … Still glad to see BALDWIN representing for the Eagles being true to form in missing an empty netter the same way the eagles did twice during the regular season in games where it came back to bite them. THIS THING WAS RIGGED BY WHOEVER CHOSE UP TEAMS. I DEMAND THAT JOE BERTAGNA AND MAYBE EVEN THE NCAA CLEARINGHOUSE CHECK ELIGIBILITY AND WE MIGHT HAVE SOME PROBATION, OR AT THE VERY LEAST A REDUCTION IN SCHOLARSHIPS, after this one … Still, blows away drunk kids pulling one another around the rink in sleds. Cant say I ever really understood that one.
Thanks for the compelling play by play, I felt like I was there … wait I WAS THERE … felt like I was experiencing it for a second time!!!