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Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 00:00:19 -0500
To: College Hockey Message Board <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: I: Danis Posts Another Shutout, This Time Against Clarkson

    Brown wrote a glorious, new page in its long hockey history tonight by
taking 4 ECAC points home from the North Country for the first time ever,
with sophomore goaltender Yann Danis stoning both St. Lawrence and Clarkson,
by identical scores, on the same weekend.

    Following up his 2-0 shutout over SLU last night, Danis produced his
second consecutive whitewash of the weekend by blanking the Clarkson Golden
Knights, 2-0, in Potsdam, NY.  The Bears' last win at Cheel Arena was a 4-3
verdict on February 29, 1992, and there had been five ties over the same
interval.

    Playing into the third period in a scoreless deadlock with the Golden
Knights, and with Clarkson on a power play, Bear sophomore forward Pascal
Denis stole the puck just inside the Clarkson blue line and fired on Golden
Knight goaler Mike Walsh.  The shot rolled up over his glove and into the
net for the lead, and as it turned out, game-winning (shorthanded) goal at
the 3:20 mark.  Nearly five minutes later, the Bears got an all-important
insurance tally when freshman forward Brent Robinson hit junior forward
Keith Kirley in full stride with a rink-wide pass, and Kirley fired a slap
shot right along the ice from the right wing to beat Walsh cleanly.  Junior
defenseman Owen Walter also picked up an assist on the goal.

    With the weekend sweep, the Bears advance into sole possession of 7th
place in the ECAC standings by evening their conference record at 8-8-2 and
improving their overall record to the winning side of the ledger at 12-11-2.

    POWER PLAYS:
        Brown      0/4
        Clarkson  0/5

    SHOTS ON GOAL:
        Brown      6-5-7 =18
        Clarkson  8-9-8 = 25

    Brown has won four conference games in a row and is in the midst of
making a strong run to secure a berth in the ECAC playoffs.  The Bears now
return to Meehan Auditorium to host Union (1 point behind in 8th place) and
Rensselaer (one point ahead in 6th place) next Fri./Sat. before the final
weekend pairings at Princeton and Yale to wind up the ECAC regular season.


Bill Corrigan

LET'S GO BRUNO!