Even though most of the Harvard sports community is focusing its attention today on The Game in New Haven, the Harvard men's hockey team has to concentrate on its own contest against Yale in Cambridge.

But that doesn't mean they have to be happy about it.

Hockey's version of the Harvard-Yale rivalry, The Other Game, begins tonight when the Crimson and the Bulldogs take the ice at Bright Center at 7 p.m.

And while the Harvard hockey players know they have an important ECAC game to play, they admit that it is sometimes hard not to think about what their missing.

"It's kind of disappointing," Harvard Captain Kevin Sneddon said. "I've never gotten a chance to see The Game."

For at least four years, the ECAC has scheduled Harvard hockey on the same day as the football rivalry. In addition, the team has had to go on the road when The Game is in Cambridge and has been scheduled in Cambridge when The Game is on the road.

Result? Varsity hockey players will never see the most well-attended Harvard athletic contest.

"It hasn't really hit me hard until this year," Sneddon said.

The defenseman has three roommates on the football team, and he regrets the fact that he hasn't had the chance to see them play in The Game.

"It's unavoidable, but it's really a shame," Sneddon said.

Schedule Snafu?

Sophomore forward Brian Farrell doesn't beat around the bush when it comes to his opinions on the scheduling.

"It really sucks," said Farrell. "I'd kill to see [The Game]. I guess I'm going to wait until after I've graduated to see it."

Farrell, like Sneddon, says that he knows a lot of players on the football team, and wishes that he could see them in action.

"I thought maybe someone else would mention it [to the ECAC]. Maybe [Athletic Director Bill] Cleary."