From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On 16 Feb 2026 22:23:46 GMT, CrudeSausage wrote:   
      
   > On 16 Feb 2026 18:49:25 GMT, rbowman wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:02:45 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Hockey is hideously boring to me, almost as boring as soccer (football   
   >>> in Europe). Every time it starts to get interesting, somebody knocks   
   >>> somebody down and everything clogs up again. I would rather there was   
   >>> more skill and less brawling. (But this comes from someone who can   
   >>> enjoy a baseball pitcher's duel, which I'm sure is boring as hell to a   
   >>> European.)   
   >>   
   >> One college hockey game, RPI vs. McGill iirc, degenerated into a brawl   
   >> with the fans going out on the ice to join in. The Kampus Kops also   
   >> went out to try to break it up. Some genius had the idea to play the   
   >> national anthem. The Kops came to attention and the brawl went on.   
   >   
   > Would you happen to know when this brawl happened? If it's around   
   > 2011-2013 or so, the captain of the McGill team was my cousin's husband.   
      
   c. 1965   It was about that time a couple of us from the Rensselaer Outing   
   Club stole the McGill Outing Club flag. They were the enemy. They got it   
   back at the IOCA spring get together at Lake George.   
      
   Different times when you could take a spur of the moment road trip to   
   Montreal. I can't remember if it was when we went to Expo 67 or if it was   
   a separate road trip.   
      
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