Quality sportswriting

And the award for the lede with the most over-used hockey saying goes to...

Max Delsignore of The Watertown Daily Times for his article on Cornell's terrible loss Friday:

CANTON — They might need to change the bulbs in the red lamps at Appleton Arena today.

The St. Lawrence University men's hockey team illuminated the lights behind the goal often as it dismantled Cornell, 8-1, in an ECAC Hockey matchup Friday night before a crowd of 2,750.

Ha ha.

Seriously, though, this was a great weekend. Driving for hours through lake effect snow, seeing Cornell give up 8 goals, freezing to death in the North Country weather, having to smuggle the cowbell into hockey rinks in my pants. Couldn't have asked for anything more.

EDIT: Allie Perez's lede was also a little bizarre:

At one point in the movie The Replacements, quarterback Shane Falco tries to explain why his team crumbled in a disastrous 1996 Sugar Bowl game, taking Falco’s fictional football career down with it: “You’re playing and you think everything is going fine, but then one thing goes wrong and another and another, and you try to fight back, but the harder you fight, the deeper you sink. ’Til you can’t move, can’t breathe, cause you’re in over your head. Like quicksand.”