I found Wayne's summary of the top HOCKEY-L posters very interesting.
Although there's no way I can make a run at first place (thanks to Mike "I
DO work! Really!" Machnik), I can't idly stand by and let Carol beat me out
for second... so I'm going to send out this week's ECAC notes in 29 separate
installments.
But seriously -- congratulations are in order to Dartmouth coach Roger
Demment and his team for their first win over an ECAC opponent since the
last weekend of the 1989-90 season. Congrats also to the Golden Knights,
who scored the weekend's only sweep and find themselves in possession of
undisputed first place in the ECAC, which is where a team ranked #3 in the
country is supposed to be. They looked very impressive.
ECAC scores from last weekend:
Friday, November 22:
Clarkson 5, COLGATE 4
CORNELL 5, St. Lawrence 1
HARVARD 8, Princeton 1
VERMONT 4, Rpi 1
Yale 7, BROWN 6
Saturday, November 23:
BROWN 6, Princeton 4
Clarkson 4, CORNELL 1
DARTMOUTH 5, Rpi 2
St. Lawrence 6, COLGATE 3
Yale 2, HARVARD 2 (OT)
ECAC standings as of 11/25/91:
League Overall
Team W L T Pts GF GA W L T Pts GF GA
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Clarkson 4 0 0 8 25 11 6 1 0 12 41 21
Yale 3 0 1 7 22 15 3 0 1 7 22 15
Harvard 3 0 1 7 23 8 3 0 1 7 23 8
St. Lawrence 3 1 0 6 22 14 5 2 0 10 41 25
Cornell 2 2 0 4 11 10 2 2 0 4 11 10
Brown 2 2 0 4 16 17 2 2 0 4 16 17
Vermont 2 2 0 4 15 14 4 3 0 8 30 22
Dartmouth 1 2 0 2 9 21 1 2 0 2 9 21
Colgate 1 3 0 2 16 24 1 5 0 2 22 35
RPI 1 3 0 2 7 16 3 4 0 6 19 28
Union 0 3 0 0 8 13 0 4 0 0 14 22
Princeton 0 4 0 0 10 21 0 4 0 0 10 21
Notes on a few of the games:
St. Lawrence 6, Colgate 3
Fresh off a close loss to Clarkson, the Red Raiders surprised St.
Lawrence by taking a 2-0 lead just four minutes into the game, as Dan
Gardner and Chris MacKenzie both scored. But the Saints dominated the
game from then on, led by Martin Lacroix's 2-3-5 night and Lee Albert's
two goals and two assists. The Saints outshot Colgate 52-22, including
a 38-9 margin over the last two periods.
Cornell 5, St. Lawrence 1
Perhaps gaining a small measure of revenge for the ECAC semifinal game
last year, Cornell stunned a highly-ranked St. Lawrence squad, as they
checked aggressively and dominated the Saints all night long. Cornell
goalie Parris Duffus had another great night, stopping 29 of 30 shots,
but probably an even bigger key to the victory was the performance of
the Big Red's penalty killers. St. Lawrence's power play unit was
clicking at a better than 50% rate coming in, but they were held to an
0-for-9 performance.
At first, it didn't look like the Saints were going to have much
trouble, as a misplay at center ice by Cornell's Marc Deschamps set up
Chris Wells on a breakaway. Wells fired the puck over Duffus' left
shoulder to put the Saints on the board at 4:43 of the first period.
The Big Red tied the score at the 10:13 mark when Phil Nobel and Jason
Vogel combined on a beautiful play. As Nobel came off the bench and
raced toward the St. Lawrence net, Vogel held the puck deep in the
Saints' zone, then passed across the crease to Nobel, who tipped it in
past goaltender Brady Giroux's leg. Later in the period, Saints
defenseman Mike Terwilliger covered up the puck in the crease following
a brief Cornell flurry (he actually SAT on it), and referee Harry
Ammian chose to call for a faceoff rather than a penalty shot -- or at
least a delay-of-game penalty. On the whole, however, Ammian did a
fairly good job of officiating, although later in the game he seemed to
be following the marble theory previously described on HOCKEY-L. I was
a little surprised, because you generally don't see him do that.
St. Lawrence winger Spencer Meany completed the "box trick" by getting
whistled for his third infraction of the first period at the 16:34
mark, and Cornell was able to capitalize on the ensuing power play to
take the lead for good. Joe Dragon streaked in from the blue line and
let fly with a shot that Giroux got a glove on, but the puck rolled
into the net. On the play, Alex Nikolic tied up Chris Lappin at the
blue line, but the interference went uncalled.
Cornell went up 3-1 at 12:39 of the second, as St. Lawrence defenseman
Ted Beattie slid to stop a hard blast by Etienne Belzile. The puck
somehow went under him and bounced into the net. A bad tripping call
on Wells with 1:56 left in the period set Cornell up with a 5-on-3
situation, and the Big Red wasted little time in converting. Todd
Chambers skated in, faked a shot, and slid the puck over to Dragon in
the right circle, who picked up his second power-play goal of the night
at the 18:57 mark with a high drive over Giroux.
The Big Red closed out the scoring five minutes into the third period,
on Gauvin's backhander off a rebound of Blair Ettles' shot. By this
time, St. Lawrence was a little frustrated and disorganized, and they
later completely blew a 1-on-0 breakaway attempt, as the Saints player
fooled around with the puck so much that he almost lost it and let
loose with a fairly easy shot that Duffus had no trouble with. The
Saints would later waste a 1:24 5-on-3 power play with some awful puck-
handling and passing. Giroux finished with 17 saves in the losing
effort.
Clarkson 4, Cornell 1
Not much to add to what's already been posted. Again, Clarkson was
very impressive, and they look all set to defend their ECAC champion-
ship. It will be tough for anybody to take it away from them. Both
goaltenders (Chris Rogles for Clarkson, Parris Duffus for Cornell)
played well. Perhaps a key difference in the game was how the teams
were able to handle the occasional rebounds that the goalies were
giving up. The Big Red had a few golden opportunities, but the
Clarkson defense was able to keep Cornell away from loose pucks in
front of the net. This was not always true at the other end of the
ice, as loose rebounds led directly to two Clarkson goals.
Oh yeah, Cornell lost the basketball game too. Serves 'em right.
Most of the ECAC will be fairly busy during Thanksgiving week, as there are
a number of non-league games being played. Here's the schedule of upcoming
games:
Nov. 26
Harvard at Brown
Norwich at Vermont (NC)
Nov. 27
Concordia (Canada) at Clarkson (NC) 7:00
Nov. 29
Colgate at Kent State (NC)
Ottawa Tournament: (game times unknown, pairings are tentative)
St. Lawrence vs. Quebec (Trois Rivieres)
Northeastern vs. Ottawa
Nov. 30
Dartmouth at Princeton 3:00
Vermont at Yale 3:00
Brown at Harvard
Clarkson at New Hampshire (NC)
Colgate at Kent State (NC)
Concordia (Canada) at Union (NC)
Cornell at Providence (NC)
RPI at Alabama-Huntsville (NC)
Ottawa Tournament:
Consolation and Finals
Dec. 1
Vermont at Princeton 3:00
Cornell at Boston College (NC)
RPI at Alabama-Huntsville (NC)
Happy Thanksgiving, all!
--
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