Old Rook NU'66
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Re: The D-III National Championship - St. Norbert vs. Norwich
Just finished my six hour return hike from Lake Placid--and did loads of thinking about the three games I saw. Every team in all three games have a great deal to be proud of.
Sure I am delighted for our Cadets and having read the previous posts on this and other threads about the NCAA finals, I can't help but smile at how all season long, members of the USCHOL community spend hours trading online compliments, barbs, salutes, insults and other rejoinders and sadly even sometimes forgetting that DIII hockey--has never been about us but about the youngsters getting the job done on the ice for their schools.
And now that the season's final buzzer has blared, we need to remember all players in every conferences East and West--those young paladins on ice who stir and fuel our season long threads and endless debates about the finer points of the game.
And specifically for those who played for NU, SNC, PSC or OSU this weekend in LP as opposed to those of us
who only watched from the peanut gallery, Teddy Roosevelt put it most succinctly:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Thanks to all the players of Division III hockey for a great season. And thanks to all the wonderful old friends and alum from Norwich I saw again in Lake Placid as well as to the new ones from PSU, OSU and SNC that I met and shared this experience with. What a great time.
Just finished my six hour return hike from Lake Placid--and did loads of thinking about the three games I saw. Every team in all three games have a great deal to be proud of.
Sure I am delighted for our Cadets and having read the previous posts on this and other threads about the NCAA finals, I can't help but smile at how all season long, members of the USCHOL community spend hours trading online compliments, barbs, salutes, insults and other rejoinders and sadly even sometimes forgetting that DIII hockey--has never been about us but about the youngsters getting the job done on the ice for their schools.
And now that the season's final buzzer has blared, we need to remember all players in every conferences East and West--those young paladins on ice who stir and fuel our season long threads and endless debates about the finer points of the game.
And specifically for those who played for NU, SNC, PSC or OSU this weekend in LP as opposed to those of us
who only watched from the peanut gallery, Teddy Roosevelt put it most succinctly:It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Thanks to all the players of Division III hockey for a great season. And thanks to all the wonderful old friends and alum from Norwich I saw again in Lake Placid as well as to the new ones from PSU, OSU and SNC that I met and shared this experience with. What a great time.
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All four teams have much to be proud of. Way to go all of you. I am in a bit of post season funk right now, all the leagues have been so entertaining this year... just have to wait until spring and gardening, spring and gardening, spring and gardening
