Thanksgiving weekend saw most of the ECAC teams take a "break" from league
play to entertain some non-league rivals (well, for some teams it was more
of a break than for others). At any rate, here are the scores of games
involving ECAC teams over the weekend:
Friday, 11/23:
BOSTON COLLEGE 2, Harvard 1 (NLG)
BROWN 6, Alaska-Anchorage 6 (OT) (NLG)
CLARKSON 4, New Hampshire 2 (NLG)
Yale Hockey Classic:
Colgate 3, Colorado College 2
Yale 5, McGill 4
Saturday, 11/24:
Vermont 5, DARTMOUTH 4
ARMY 7, Holy Cross 2 (NLG)
Boston University 7, PRINCETON 2 (NLG)
CORNELL 8, Northeastern 3 (NLG)
New Hampshire 4, ST. LAWRENCE 2 (NLG)
Yale Hockey Classic:
Consolation:
McGill 5, Colorado College 3
Championship:
Colgate 7, Yale 3
Sunday, 11/25:
RPI 5, Boston College 4 (NLG)
I have not been able to find out what the score of the Vermont-Middlebury
game on Wednesday, November 21 was, but I think Vermont won. If anybody
knows for sure, please mail or post the result.
ECAC Standings as of 11/26/90 (not including Vermont-Middlebury):
League Overall
Team W L T Pts GF GA W L T Pts GF GA
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Cornell 3 0 1 7 19 10 4 0 1 9 27 13
Clarkson 3 0 1 7 20 13 7 0 1 15 52 25
Harvard 3 1 0 6 26 9 3 3 0 6 27 15
St.Lawrence 3 1 0 6 15 13 5 3 0 10 34 26
Vermont 2 2 1 5 18 16 2 5 1 5 26 33
Princeton 2 2 0 4 21 13 2 3 0 4 23 20
RPI 2 2 0 4 16 16 4 4 0 8 39 38
Colgate 1 2 1 3 14 18 6 2 1 13 43 35
Army 1 2 1 3 11 16 3 3 2 8 35 28
Yale 1 2 1 3 11 17 2 3 1 5 19 28
Brown 0 3 1 1 8 24 0 4 2 2 15 37
Dartmouth 0 4 1 1 12 26 0 4 1 1 12 26
Some Division III scores:
Saturday, 11/24:
Elmira 4, Plattsburgh State 1
Williams 6, Hamilton 6 (OT)
A few notes from the weekend:
Elmira 4, Plattsburgh State 1
Gaining revenge for last year's minigame loss to the Cardinals that
knocked heavily-favored Elmira out of the Division III playoffs, the
Soaring Eagles exploded in the third period to post their fourth
straight win at Plattsburgh's Stafford Arena. The game was scoreless
after two, but a couple of quick goals at the beginning of the third by
Glenn Wisser and Bernie Cassell put Elmira up 2-0. Plattsburgh's
Martin Beliveau cut the lead to one with a power play goal at the 11:53
mark, and the score stayed at 2-1 until there were just over two
minutes to play, when Jules Jardine picked up a goal from the slot on a
3-on-1 break. Bob Holmes iced the game for the Soaring Eagles with 58
seconds to play, when he stole the puck and scored a power-play, empty-
net goal. Elmira freshman Dave Laudato was terrific in goal with 31
saves, including several point-blank stops. Plattsburgh State's own
freshman goaltender, Mike Mondello, was no slouch in goal either, with
37 saves of his own. The Soaring Eagles outshot the Cardinals in the
decisive third period by an impressive 22-9 margin. The win gave
Elmira a 7-1 mark on the season, while Plattsburgh State fell to 7-3-1
overall.
Cornell 8, Northeastern 3
Northeastern became the first Hockey East team to play at Lynah since
the formation of the league back in 1984, but I don't think the Big Red
will receive many notes from the Huskies thanking them for their
gracious hospitality. Some have said the Huskies are playing better
than their record would indicate, and that may be so, but on this
night, they looked *exactly* like a 1-8-1 team. The story of the game
was Northeastern goalie Scott Hopkins, and it was not a pretty story at
all. I've seen a number of goaltenders (including some of Cornell's
own) have horrible games at Lynah Rink, but I have never witnessed any-
thing like Hopkins' performance last Saturday. To be fair, he got
almost no assistance from his defense, but he didn't help them out much
either.
Northeastern came out slow, and Cornell dominated this game from the
outset, scoring a power-play goal just 2:36 into the game. Ryan Hughes
set up Kent Manderville in front of the Northeastern net with a long
pass, and "Mandy" flipped the puck over Hopkins for the first goal of
the night. About five minutes later, Hughes himself received a long
pass from Dan Ratushny and stuffed the puck into the net. The North-
eastern players were very sloppy with the puck and seemed to be having
a lot of trouble holding on to it. About midway through the first
period, Hopkins almost gave up a cheap goal when he came out between
the faceoff circles to play a loose puck. He swept the puck to his
right -- directly to Cornell's Trent Andison, who lost control of it,
perhaps due to sheer surprise. Got that down? Good -- remember it,
because it'll come up again later...
With 3:20 left in the first, Hopkins blocked a shot from Alex Nikolic,
but he never covered up the puck, which was about a foot in front of
him. Maybe he couldn't see it or something -- there were also a couple
of Husky defenders in front of the net. Anyway, Nikolic was able to
take several whacks at the puck, and it finally went in. The Big Red
then went up 4-0 just 15 seconds into the second period on what was
probably the easiest goal in Cornell history. Ryan Hughes took a pass
at the blue line and let loose a pathetically soft shot that... rolled
by four Northeastern players, including Hopkins... and wound up in the
net, untouched. The "shot" looked more like a pass, perhaps intended
for a Cornell player near the goal post, but there was nobody there to
receive the puck -- so it went across the goal line instead. I don't
know whether Hopkins was screened, or wasn't watching, or what.
Northeastern did pull together a little after that, as they notched a
goal just over a minute later. Dino Grossi beat the Cornell defense to
a rebound and slid the puck by goalie Jim Crozier. However, the Big
Red regained their four-goal lead less than two minutes after that, as
Joe Dragon and Dan Ratushny combined on a beautiful play. Dragon
passed the puck through the crease to Ratushny, who banked it in off
Hopkins' leg. Northeastern had a good opportunity to cut the lead
later in the period, as a Husky forward streaked into the Cornell zone
on a breakaway. However, Cornell's Dave Burke dove to the ice, slid
into him from behind and knocked him down before he could get off a
shot. Burke was called for tripping on the play. Referee John
Malinosky could very easily have given Northeastern the option of a
penalty shot on that play, and I think he should have, but he didn't
for some reason. Malinosky "let 'em play", actually, not calling much
of anything in this game. Fortunately, it wasn't too rough, at least
not until later.
At the 15:37 mark, Cornell made it 6-1 while shorthanded. Remember
what I said about Hughes' goal at the beginning of the second period?
Well, forget it. *This* was the easiest goal in Cornell history.
Hopkins was taking a lot of chances in this game, coming way out of the
crease to play the puck even with a Cornell player streaking toward it
(like Andison in the first), and this time it cost him. The puck
rolled into the Northeastern zone well to Hopkins' right, with
Cornell's Doug Derraugh in hot pursuit. As the puck came to rest near
the back boards, Hopkins came out of the crease, looked directly at the
onrushing Derraugh, and decided to play the puck anyway. Hopkins
actually *turned his back* on Derraugh, and Hopkins was about ten feet
away from the goal. Well, Derraugh simply knocked him off the puck and
passed to a wide-open Joe Dragon, who was in front of the empty goal,
and Dragon tapped the puck home. I swear I saw a Northeastern player
laughing after this happened.
Cornell took a 7-1 lead in the third on a goal by the third line, which
saw plenty of action in this game. At 7:08 of the period, Crozier was
replaced by freshman Parris Duffus, having stopped 15 of 16 shots.
Duffus was almost immediately tested, as he made a save of a point-
blank slap shot. The game began to get a little rougher, and with
10:47 left, Kent Manderville and Paul Flanagan got into a fight. Both
received roughing minors and ten-minute misconducts -- however, both
were sent off the ice. I don't know why that happened, with 10:47
left. Duffus did not look too bad, although the Huskies scored twice
on him. At 11:10, Sebastian Laplante scored on a 2-on-1, and six
minutes later, Paul Sacco fired a shot that went under Duffus' leg.
Duffus wound up with six saves in thirteen minutes of work -- at times,
he looked good, but he definitely needs to improve if he's going to be
a quality backstop for Cornell next season.
Cornell scored the final goal of the game with 2:15 left, and this was
also a shorthanded one. Remember what I said about Dragon's goal in
the second period? Well, forget it. THIS was the easiest goal in
Cornell history. Once again, Hopkins came out of the net to play the
puck, this time attempting a long outlet pass to defenseman Will
Averill, who was near the blue line. However, the puck bounced off
Averill and caromed toward the empty Northeastern net. It hit the
post, but Karl Williams was there to scoop it up and push it in. And
that, mercifully, was it. Not surprisingly, there was almost a fight
at the benches after the game -- Cornell coach Brian McCutcheon
literally flew off the bench to restrain a Cornell player.
As Mike Zak mentioned, the ECAC will play a few midweek games on Tuesday
night. Here's the schedule:
Clarkson at St. Lawrence
Colgate at Cornell
Harvard at Dartmouth
Princeton at Army (7:00)
Again, the Clarkson-St. Lawrence and Colgate-Cornell matchups should
definitely be worth watching.
Bill Fenwick
Cornell '86
LET'S GO RED!!
"They came out with that survey in _Newsweek_ last year -- did you see this?
It said if you are a single woman over 30, there's a less than 20% chance
you'll ever get married. They should do another survey. They should find
out how many women over 30 ever bought _Newsweek_ again."
-- Rita Rudner
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