The only pain, as I can attest, from such a moment as Farrell's goal is the extremely hoarse throat I got from screaming and the sore feet I got when I stomped up and down on the floor out of joy.

On the other side of the sports roller-coaster, I sometimes feel like killing myself (or maybe someone else) if one of my teams loses a heart-breaker. (For example, I feel like destroying something every year when the New York Rangers celebrate their annual elimination from the Stanley Cup playoffs.)

But, all of this went through my mind only before Harvard actually won the game.

Of course there was more excitement to come. Junior Perry Cohagan's game-winner at 4:04 of OT was almost too much excitement to handle.

(Especially because the only other person I know from Parma, Ohio--Trin A. Mitra '96-went absolutely bonkers when his hometown guy, Perry Cohagan, scored his second goal of the season. My splitting headache from his loud shouts of 'Parma Power' is enough proof.)

Yet, one would expect that Harvard would win the game in overtime, given the momentum it gained from Farrell's equalizer.

Harvard had already defeated Brown, Princeton and Dartmouth in overtime on the road after rallying from behind late in the third period, so there was some precedent for an extra-session win against St. Lawrence.

My heart didn't stop as much during the other three OT wins, but this one was just too much to take.

(By the way, four overtime wins ties the season record for Harvard hockey, set last in 1989 by that national championship team.)

I guess it is better sometimes to be impartial, but heck--you got to be a fan once in a while.

David S. Griffel is an assistant sports editor of The Crimson. And all in all, we think Harvard has a better chance of winning the national title this season than his Rangers do in breaking through for their first Stanley Cup since 1940.