2/9/92                 Hockey East                Overall
                       GP  W-L-T   Pts  GF-GA  || GP   W-L-T    GF-GA
                       ===============================================
 1  Maine              14 11-2-1   23   83-37  || 26  22-3-1   151-66
 2  New Hampshire      15  9-5-1   19   65-62  || 27  16-10-1  127-101
    Providence         15  9-5-1   19   81-58  || 28  18-9-1   147-108
 4  Boston University  15  8-5-2   18   71-69  || 26  19-5-2   129-94
 5  Boston College     15  6-7-2   14   50-58  || 26   9-14-3   85-108
 6  UMass-Lowell       16  5-8-3   13   62-71  || 28  10-15-3  114-128
 7  Northeastern       15  4-11-0   8   52-75  || 27  13-14-0  117-123
 8  Merrimack          15  3-12-0   6   38-72  || 27  12-15-0  106-112
 
2/3/92   Harvard             6 vs Boston College      4 NC    Beanpot (Boston
 Garden)
         Northeastern        4 vs Boston University   5 NC    Beanpot (Boston
 Garden)
2/7/92   Providence          2 at Boston University   6 HE
         Maine               6 at UMass-Lowell        5 HE
         Boston College      0 at New Hampshire       6 HE
         Merrimack           2 at Northeastern        5 HE
2/8/92   Maine               6 at UMass-Lowell        2 HE
         New Hampshire       3 at Providence          7 HE
2/10/92  Northeastern          vs Boston College        NC    Beanpot
 Consolation
         Boston University     vs Harvard               NC    Beanpot
 Championship
         Maine                 at Merrimack             HE
2/14/92  Boston College        at Maine                 HE    NESN
         Boston University     at UMass-Lowell          HE
         New Hampshire         at Northeastern          HE
         Merrimack             at Providence            HE
2/15/92  Northeastern          at Boston University     HE
         Boston College        at Maine                 HE
         Providence            at New Hampshire         HE
 
The Hockey East standings are starting to settle a little with Maine at
the top and PC, UNH and BU getting closer to nailing down the last three
home ice berths.  Those three teams are all separated by just a point.
BC is on the outside looking in at 5th place, four points back of BU,
and Lowell is just behind BC.  Northeastern and Merrimack each have six
games to play to decide who gets to go to Maine, with NU two points up
on the Warriors by virtue of their come-from-behind win Friday.
 
This report does not include boxes from the two Saturday games.
 
at BOSTON UNIVERSITY 6, PROVIDENCE 2 (Fri 2/7/92)
David Sacco sandwiched two goals in the third around one by teammate
Petteri Koskimaki to put away the impressive win for BU at home.  PC
got two goals from defenseman Chris Therien.  Freshman goalie Derek
Herlofsky stopped 32 shots for BU.  The Terriers finally got their GF-GA
ratio in the plus after having surrendered more goals than they scored
in HE games for most of the season, despite being near the top of the
standings.
 
Providence (17-9-1, 8-5-1 HE)              0     2     0  -  2
Boston University (19-5-2, 8-5-2 HE)       2     1     3  -  6
FIRST - BU, John Lilley (Kaj Linna, Mark Bavis) 5:12; BU, Adrian Aucoin
(Lilley) 18:23.
SECOND - PC, Chris Therien (Chad Quenneville) 1:47; PC, Therien (Craig
Darby, Rob Gaudreau) 12:48; BU, Mike Bavis (un) 14:45.
THIRD - BU, David Sacco (Mike Pomichter, Mike Prendergast) 6:13; BU,
Petteri Koskimaki (Aucoin, Steve Thornton) 12:36; BU, Sacco (Pomichter)
12:46.
SAVES - PC, Brad Mullahy 23, David Berard 3.  BU, Derek Herlofsky 32.
ATT - 3,067.
 
MAINE 6, at UMASS-LOWELL 5 (Fri 2/7/92)
The line of Jim Montgomery, Patrice Tardif and Brian Downey each had a
goal to stake Maine to a 6-2 lead early in the third before Lowell
scored three times in the third to almost tie it up.  Mark Richards had
36 saves for the host Chiefs.
 
Maine (21-3-1, 10-2-1 HE)             3     2     1  -  6
UMass-Lowell (10-14-3, 5-7-3 HE)      2     0     3  -  5
FIRST - M, Cal Ingraham (Tony Link) 1:13; L, Dave Stevens (Shane Henry)
2:36; M, Patrice Tardif (Jim Montgomery, Brian Downey) 4:20; M, Downey
(Montgomery, Tardif) 9:55; L, Normand Bazin (Ian Hebert, Aaron Kriss)
18:34.
SECOND - M, Eric Fenton (Scott Pellerin, Ingraham) 5:14; M, Montgomery
(Tardif, Downey) 16:35.
THIRD - M, Chris Imes (Tardif) 0:48; L, Dan O'Connell (Stevens, Henry)
6:49; L, Mark Carlson (Hebert, Bazin) 7:34; L, Don Parsons (Greg Carter,
Dave Gatti) 19:09.
SAVES - M, Garth Snow 19. L, Mark Richards 36.
 
at NEW HAMPSHIRE 6, BOSTON COLLEGE 0 (Fri 2/7/92)
Joe Flanagan had 2-1--3 and Scott Morrow had 1-2--3 to lead UNH to the
big win.  Jeff Levy earned his first career shutout with 27 saves.  The
Wildcats fired 44 shots on the BC net as Scott LaGrand made 33 saves and
reliever Mike Sparrow stopped 5.  Forwards Kevin Thomson and Eric Flinton
returned to the lineup for UNH and had a goal and an assist respectively.
Like BU, UNH also got its league GF-GA ratio back in the plus.
 
Boston College (9-14-3, 6-7-2 HE)      0     0     0  -  0
New Hampshire (16-9-1, 9-4-1 HE)       1     3     2  -  6
FIRST - NH, Scott Morrow (Joe Flanagan, Savo Mitrovic) 11:20.
SECOND - NH, Flanagan (Mitrovic, Morrow) 4:48; NH, Domenic Amodeo
(Morrow, Jim McGrath) 11:47; NH, Flanagan (Amodeo, McGrath) 15:18.
THIRD - NH, Kevin Thomson (Rob Donovan) 1:55; NH, Frank Messina (Eric
Flinton) 6:26.
SAVES - BC, Scott LaGrand 33, Mike Sparrow 5. NH, Jeff Levy 27.
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