GOALS
 St. Lawrence    1  0  2  = 3
 Brown           0  0  2  = 2
 
 SAVES
 St. Lawrence   12  15  16  = 33  (Giroux)
 Brown           2   8  13  = 23   (Finch)
 
 SCORING
 1st Period
  19:06  SLU     Verbeek     (McCourt, Beattie)
 3rd Period
   9:47  SLU     LaPerriere  (Meany, M. Lappin)
  10:38  Brown   Brewer      (unassisted)
  13:36  SLU     McGeough    (Verbeek, Massoud)
  18:14  Brown   Chase       (Chauvette, Hanley)
 
      A tough win for St. Lawrence over a scrappy Brown team.  Lots
  of play back and forth in the neutral zone, without much sustained
  offense by either team - particularly SLU in the first, although
  just their third shot on net with under a minute to go in the period
   was tipped into the upper net by Verbeek for the only goal.
      SLU netminder Brady Giroux (giving Spagnoletti a rest) played
  a solid game, and the SLU defense managed to sweep away anything
  that bounced off him.  Nothing much of note occurred until halfway
  through the third period when Laperriere's blast from the point
  found the net for SLU's second goal.  Breathing room didn't last
  for long as Brown's Brewer brought the puck in from the red line
  less than a minute later and beat Giroux cleanly.  This was starting
  to be reminiscent of the earlier Brown-SLU match-up which featured
  several goals in the last five minutes to give SLU a one goal
  victory at Brown.  McGeough scored at 13:36 to give SLU a two goal
  cushion again on a nice 2-on-1 with Verbeek.  Brown came back with
  under two minutes to go with a 4-on-3 power play goal, but never
  threatened much after that and survived several good SLU chances
  at the empty net.
     As an interesting sidelight, this game featured 4 of the top 6
  ECAC point scorers: M. Lappin & LaPerriere for SLU, Chauvette & Brewer
for Brown.  Each got just a single point for the night.  Other
  contenders are Yale's Kaufman and Colgate's Band (someone for the
  tuba player's on the list to root for). SLU has never had an ECAC
  scoring champion OR won the regular season league title.  It's too
  bad that the recent road losses prevented what otherwise would have
  been a clear battle for first when Harvard comes in tomorrow night.
      Harvard lost to Clarkson (4-2) tonight, so that puts the Clarkson
  folks in the unusual position of rooting for SLU while they try
  to take care of Brown.  Harvard is going to be tough over here
  unless the Saints show a little more scoring spark - particularly
  on the power play which has been anemic since Martin Lacroix went
  out with a broken wrist four weeks ago.  He will still finish
  as the Saints second leading goal scorer (behind M. Lappin) despite
  missing 10 games and may be able to play in the playoffs with an
  appropriate cast.
 
  A final query for those with rule books on a strange play.  M. Lappin
  and two Brown players collided, all went down in a heap together, and
  all dropped thier sticks. Lappin's stick was broken so he just picked
  up on of the Brown sticks and went for the goal since play was in his
  end.  The Brown player naturally took offense and tried to wrestle the
  stick away Lappin.  Is it legal for Lappin to "borrow" the loose stick
  and, if so, should the Brown player get a holding call for trying to
  take it away?  The ref (none other than Pierre Belanger) made no call
  in this case, although I'm not sure he saw what was going on.
     Speaking of Pierre, this was one of the more subdued games I've
  seen him do.  At one point he called a penalty on Brown and when play
  stopped a Brown player sent the puck down the ice in frustration.
  Pierre went over to talk with the player in his usual calm soothing
  way and then made a pointing gesture which many of us interpreted
  as a misconduct for the Brown player.  No - Pierre was merely
  instructing him that this was inappropriate behior and sending
  the offending Brown player down to the other end of the rink to
  bring back the puck so the game could continue.  The puck had rolled
  to the Saint goalie who had a nice conversation with the Brown
  player (I think he made him say  "please") before giving him the
  puck. Way to go Pierre!
 
  Robin Lock   (St. LAwrence)