I got this off the net. Great that so many people are posting on how
Team USA is doing!
Paul mentions Clark Donatelli in several places as playing for USA -
where is this coming from? He played in 1988, but he wasn't at the tryouts,
isn't on the list Carol posted in August of players who made the cut and
I have not heard of him joining the team. Is this supposed to be Ted Donato?
When I forwarded the San Jose-USA box, I made one change. Donatelli was
listed as assisting on one goal; I assumed that meant Donato. Now we have
two separate people saying that Donatelli is playing for Team USA. Any clue?
- mike
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From: [log in to unmask] (Paul Marchant)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: TeamUSA 3 - Buffalo 3
Date: 25 Sep 91 17:20:08 GMT
Last night at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, OH, TeamUSA and
the Buffalo Sabres skated to a 3-3 overtime tie.
Here is a summary and comments as I saw the game.
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First Period
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Goals: Buffalo - Benoit Hogue(PP) (Darrin Shannon, Doug Bodger)
TeamUSA - Ted Drury(PP) (Bill Guerin, Tom Pederson)
Buffalo - Bob Corkum (Tony Tanti, Kevin Haller)
Buffalo - Joel Savage (Peter Ciavaglia)
TeamUSA - Bill Guerin (Scott LaChance)
Penalties: TeamUSA - Dan Keczmer (Holding)
Buffalo - Mike Hartman (Cross Checking)
Buffalo - Joel Savage (Cross Checking)
Buffalo - Mike Hartman (Roughing)
TeamUSA - Clark Donatelli (Cross Checking)
Shots On Goal: Buffalo - 9
TeamUSA - 13
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Second Period
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Goals: None
Penalties: TeamUSA - Grant Bischoff (Holding)
Buffalo - Brad May (Roughing)
TeamUSA - Clark Donatelli (Roughing)
Buffalo - Lou Franceschetti (Hooking)
TeamUSA - Ted Drury (Holding)
Buffalo - Lou Franceschetti (Roughing)
TeamUSA - Keith Carney (Holding)
Buffalo - Doug Bodger (Slashing)
TeamUSA - Keith Tkachuk (Interference)
Shots On Goal: Buffalo - 8
TeamUSA - 5
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Third Period
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Goals: TeamUSA - Shawn McEachern (Joe Sacco, Clark Donatelli)
Penalties: TeamUSA - Keith Tkachuk (Instigator, Fighting)
Buffalo - Alexander Mogilny (Fighting)
Buffalo - Lou Franceschetti (High Sticking, Roughing,
Game Misconduct(3rd man))
TeamUSA - Scott LaChance (Tripping)
Buffalo - Brad May (Hooking)
Buffalo - Mike Hartman (Cross Checking)
Buffalo - Dave Snuggerud (Hooking)
TeamUSA - Dan Keczmer (Holding)
Buffalo - Tony Tanti (Interference - Goal disallowed)
TeamUSA - Jim Johannson (Delay of game)
Shots On Goal: Buffalo - 18
TeamUSA - 10
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Overtime
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Goals: None
Penalties: Buffalo - Brad May (Cross Checking)
Shots On Goal: Buffalo - 3
TeamUSA - 3
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Goalies: Buffalo - Daren Puppa(13-15)
David Littman(15-16)
TeamUSA - Les Kuntar(35-38)
Budweiser TeamUSA Stars Of The Game:
1) Bill Guerin
2) Keith Carney
3) Les Kuntar
Attendance: N/A (Piss Poor - maybe 2000-3000)
Game was not promoted very well. Only a few radio
announcements. No TV nor newspaper ads that I saw.
Ticket prices were high.
Overall it was a pretty good game. TeamUSA played very poorly in the
1st period. Their passing was sloppy, power play was inept, and play
was sluggish. Buffalo's play was much better: crisp passes, hard
checks, and good defense.
TeamUSA woke up during the intermission and played much better in the
second period. Passing was still very sloppy. Both teams played good
defense and there was lots of hard checking from both sides.
The third period was the best. TeamUSA tied it up within the first
minute of play. Then, Tkachuk and Mogilny went at it in the corner to
the right of Littman. Franceshetti got ejected for jumping in the
middle after the fight was well on its way.
Both teams played hard and fast for the remainder of the game. Kuntar
was excellent in goal to prevent the loss.
Overall, those who attended were treated to a good show. TeamUSA,
however, does have several weaknesses that they need to eliminate if
they want to compete with the other olympic teams. Their passing is
very sloppy and hap-hazard. Their power play is not organized. They
were very ineffective when they had two 5-3 opportunities(few shots
and no goals). They played sluggish until midpoint of the second
period. Need to work on playing hard for 60 minutes.
Buffalo played well. They switched goalies midpoint of the second
period. Not due to poor play by Puppa. I think just to get a look at
Littman.
Buffalo notables absent: Mike Ramsey
Dale Hawerchuk
Rick Vaive
Dave Andreychuk
Pierre Turgeon
Sorry about not providing times of goals or penalties. I was hoping to
get that from the paper this morning, but there was no write up.
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