Jim writes:
> In light of recent HOCKEY-L postings re: inflated penalty minute totals
>for various CCHA/ECAC players, I think it's worth pointing out that UNH
>senior defenseman Jim McGrath was honored at the Friends Banquet as the
>least penalized every-day player on the Wildcats last season: 0 (that's
>right, zero) penalty minutes despite playing a regular shift in all 38 of
>UNH's games last season. How you can be a superbly effective defenseman
>(his +/- rating was among the team leaders) and not take a SINGLE PENALTY
>minute is amazing to me. Unfortunately for Jim, UNH laboured for much of
>the season without an SID, so his singular talent(s) were not well known
>outside of Durham. But the Snively (Ir)regulars knew, and cheered him long
>and lustily at the Banquet ....
Hopefully it was really Kent Schmidtke and not McGrath that they
cheered, since it was Schmidtke who took no penalties! I don't have
the final totals but McGrath had 20/40 at the end of the regular season.
Anyway, this inspired me to dig the following list of players out of the
statistics provided by Hockey East just prior to the playoffs; it's a
listing of all HE non-goalies who played in 30 or more games prior to
playoffs and took fewer then 10 minutes in penalties. (Kariya, btw, had
5/10 at the end of the regular season.) Again, stats are as of March 11th.
PLAYER (CLASS, POS, SCHOOL) GP G A PTS PEN/MIN
Shane Henry, Jr C/LW, UML 35 21 32 53 4/8
Greg Klym, Sr C, UNH 32 9 19 28 4/8
J.F. Aube, So RW, NU 31 13 7 20 1/2
Kent Schmidtke, So D, UNH 34 3 13 16 0/0
David Hymovitz, Fr W, BC 35 7 5 12 3/6
Mike McCarthy, So LW, BC 33 0 4 4 3/6
Henry was the winner of the individual sportsmanship award this season.
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