And while it seems crazy to think that they Lynah Fans would disrupt a young hometown girl's skating routine because her brother defected to the Harvard hockey team, Reycroft presumably knows the Big Red crowd as well as anyone.

Last year, the 4100 played a big role in the Harvard game.

The Crimson jumped all over the hosts and took a 4-0 lead in the first seven minutes of the contest.

Anywhere else in the known world the fans would shut up.

In Lynah they just got louder and inspired the Big Red to six consecutive scores over the next 45 minutes.

And a 6-5 win.

A victory that made Reycroft very happy.

"Anytime you beat those bastards [it's a big win]," he said after the contest.

For the Crimson a trip to Ithaca is not a matter not to be taken lightly.

"I was telling the freshman that if you can't get psyched for Cornell, you're never going to," says sophomore Tim Barakett.

"I like playing on the road," says Scott Fusco. "You can see the reaction of the fans when we score."

"We want to stuff it down their fans' throats," says right wing Tim Smith.

Smith, the Crimson's second leading scorer, will have his work cut out Saturday when he and freshman Lane MacDonald have to watch the Big Red try to refigure their center, Fusco.

Fusco has been drawing a lot of attention--and a lot of elbows--since he returned from playing on the U.S. Olympic team.

The reason the Crimson is undefeated can be directly attributed to his presence, but not just because he is the second leading scorer in the country with a 2.67 points-per-game average.