“I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you” (Job 42:5).
I did not witness the coming of the Lord this weekend, but I did witness the homecoming of the goddesses of women’s hockey, who descended on the Bright Hockey Center this weekend.
I had heard the tales of the Crimson’s victories; how the exalted ones crushed Dartmouth and split a wild weekend in Minnesota. Now, with the annihilation of Colgate 10-0 and Cornell 8-0, I have witnessed the carnage first hand.
I am a believer.
It took only 16 seconds for the Crimson to emerge from the whirlwind and score its first goal against Colgate. Sixteen seconds, and I was a believer.
The women’s hockey team is the real deal. It is the best team at Harvard, and it will compete for an NCAA championship. Just ask Rebecca Lahar, Colgate’s goalie throughout the entire 10-0 onslaught. She went into the game blameless and upright.
“Basically, I had the same warmup,” Lahar said. “I just think about controlling the things I can control.” Like Job, she quickly realized how little was under her control, as the wounds kept multiplying without cause. Indeed, teams are powerless to stop the Crimson assault.
“First I thought we could come back,” Lahar said. “Then I thought, ‘Ok, let’s just hold them to that score.’ Then I wanted it to be over… just kidding.”
But she wasn’t kidding. She was suffering out there, living a veritable Goals Against Average Nightmare, in front of a merciless Crimson attack.
“It was like a practice for me,” Lahar said.
Job’s friends tried to justify his affliction, saying that he deserved it. Those same friends might point to Harvard’s 1-1 tie with Colgate last season, as well as its disappointing 3-1 loss to Cornell.
But Harvard showed no mercy in a 13-0 victory over the Vermont squad, who never came close to hurting them. The Crimson had no sympathy for a Dartmouth roster lacking its best players, destroying the Big Green 9-2. The Crimson destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
There wasn’t much more to learn in the second game of the weekend on Saturday after witnessing the destruction of Colgate the previous evening. A strange curiosity compelled me. Had I truly witnessed the awesome power of the Crimson? Had it simply been an aberration?
It seemed like an aberration as the Crimson led only 1-0 after the first period.
But, sure enough, Harvard emerged from the whirlwind again, scoring four times in the second period.
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