CORNELL & CLARKSON AVOID UPSETS TO STAY ABOVE PACK
With Vermont and Brown pulling off upsets on the road, ECAC front-
runners Cornell and Clarkson avoided such a fate with two ECAC wins each last
week to stay ahead of the pack. Clarkson swept Vermont and RPI at home in
high scoring games (7-6, 8-5), while Cornell took two on the road, beating
Colgate (3-2) and Dartmouth (7-3).
Four full league weekends remain as each team has played 14 ECAC games,
with 8 remaining.
ECAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Doug Derraugh, Cornell, SR RW, Arnprior, ONT.
Had all three goals in a 3-2 win at Colgate, and followed his first
career hat trick with his second in a 7-3 win at Dartmouth. It was the first
back-to-back hat trick effort since Joe Nieuwendyk's final two games in 1987.
ECAC ROOKIE OF THE WEEK: Craig Conroy, Clarkson, FR C, Potsdam, NY
Had 1-1-2 in Knights' 8-5 win over RPI.
ECAC HOCKEY LEAGUE STANDINGS
Team W L T P GF GA Overall LAST WEEK'S GAMES
Cornell 10 2 2 22 69 48 11-4-2
Clarkson 10 3 1 21 72 54 16-5-1
SLU 9 4 1 19 60 53 12-9-1 1/22 Cornell 3 Colgate 2
Yale 8 5 1 17 60 51 9-7-1
RPI 8 6 0 16 72 60 13-9-0 UNH 5 Yale 3
Harvard 8 6 0 16 88 55 8-8-0 1/25 Clarkson 7 UVM 6
Vermont 7 6 1 15 55 57 11-10-1 SLU 6 RPI 3
Brown 6 6 2 14 52 63 6-9-3 Colgate 5 Dartmouth 0
Princeton 5 8 1 11 60 63 6-11-1 1/26 Vermont 5 SLU 4
Colgate 4 7 3 11 50 54 10-8-3 Clarkson 8 RPI 5
Army 1 11 2 4 36 62 6-12-3 Cornell 7 Dartmouth 3
Dartmouth 0 12 2 2 29 83 1-17-2 Brown 8 Yale 6
Army 11 RMC 1
THIS WEEK'S GAMES
1/29 BC at Cornell 2/2 Brown @ RPI
Lowell @ Yale Yale @ Vermont
2/1 Brown @ Vermont Princeton @ Harvard
Yale @ RPI Army @ Dartmouth
Army @ Harvard Clarkson @ Colgate
Princeton @ Dartmouth SLU @ Cornell
SLU @ Colgate
Clarkson @ Cornell
ECAC SCORING LEADERS
Player School GP G- A- P Player School GP G- A- P
Ciavaglia Harvard 14 19-23-42 DeCosty RPI 14 17- 8-25
Donato Harvard 14 11-29-40 Hughes Cornell 14 9-15-24
Vukonich Harvard 14 21-13-34 Pritchard SLU 14 9-14-23
Juneau RPI 12 9-23-32 Trombley Clarksn 11 10-12-22
Derraugh Cornell 14 15-14-29 Andison Cornell 14 9-13-22
Faust Princtn 14 13-14-27 Dupere Colgate 13 7-15-22
Lappin SLU 14 10-16-26 Cooke Colgate 14 14- 7-21
LeClair UVM 14 11-10-21
ECAC GOALTENDING LEADERS (7-game minimum)
Player School GP W-L-T MIN SV GA ShO PCT AVG
Rogles Clarksn 9 6-2-0 468 202 24 2 .894 3.08
Kuntar SLU 14 9-2-1 737 331 39 1 .895 3.18
D'Alessio Cornell 11 7-1-2 600 231 34 0 .872 3.40
Finch Brown 11 6-2-1 553 262 32 0 .891 3.47
Little RPI 7 3-3-0 391 184 23 0 .889 3.53
Letourneau Yale 14 8-5-1 843 385 50 0 .885 3.56
-Honor Role-
John LeClair, Vermont- SR LW was dominating, going 3-3-6, including 3-2-5
vs. Clarkson and a goal in 5-4 upset of SLU.
John Bracco, Dartmouth- FR G had 48 saves in 7-3 loss to Cornell, including
43 through two periods.
Mark Green , Clarkson- SR LW had 5-2-7 weekend, including hat trick in 7-6
win over Vermont.
Tim Chase, Brown- FR D scored GWG at 16:39 of third period to beat Yale 8-6.
Also had two assists.
Greg Menges, Colgate- SR G stopped all 14 shots in 5-0 shutout at Dartmouth.
Al Brenner, Army- SR LW went 2-2-4 in 11-1 rout of Royal Military College.
NOTES: Brown is unbeaten in its last six games (5-0-1), following a 5-game
losing streak before that. Yale, on the other hand, has lost three straight
after a five-game win streak....Tickets for "HOCKEYFEST '91", the ECAC and
Hockey East tournaments at the Boston Garden, March 8-10, are about to go on
sale at the Garden. Call 617-227-3206 for information. This year's ECAC
tournament is the 30th, and 25th at the Garden...St. Lawrence led UVM, 4-1
after one, before the Cats rallied for the 5-4 win...Cornell outshot
Dartmouth 55-25, 49-16 after 2 periods.
EXTENDED ECAC NOTES
Vermont's John LeClair appears to be playing like the dominant force he
was expected to be. Injuries have dotted LeClair's career but his performance
at Clarkson and St. Lawrence this weekend had observers on both sides of the
ice in awe.
Friday's Cornell-Clarkson game will be televised by the Cornell Sports
Network, picked up by Sportschannel New England live and by Sportschannel
New York at 8:30 p.m.
Last Friday's RPI at St. Lawrence game set an ECAC record for penalty
minutes as the two teams combined for 196 minutes. The previous record of
130 was surpassed in the third period alone where 140 minutes were called
by referee John Malinosky. Some 84 minutes were called at the 17:18 mark of
the third period alone. RPI's 114 minutes set a single team record as well.
Team leaders:
-Offense: Harvard, 6.29 gpg
-Defense: Cornell, 3.43 gpg
-Power play: Clarkson, 42.9% (30 of 70)
-Penalty Killing: Vermont, 82.9% (58 of 70)
-penalty minute, fewest: Army, 178 (12.7 per game)
-Penalty Minutes, Most: RPI, 394 (28.1 per game)
Individual Leaders:
-Goals: 21, Mike Vukonich, Harvard
-Assists: 29, Ted Donato, Harvard
-Points: Pete Ciavaglia, 42 (19-23-42)
-Penalty Minutes: 52, Bruce Coles, RPI (2 min at SLU game)
-GAA : 3.08 Chris Rogles, Clarkson
-Save percentage: .895 , Les Kuntar , SLU
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