Just as an aside - RPI completed this comeback minus the services
of Adam Oates as he had been ejected for viciously spearing/tomahawking a
Vermont player with a blow to the head. It's the only time in his career I've
ever seen Oates lose it like that. This made the comeback especially memorable
given the loss of their leading scorer.
 
Steve Czuba
RPI 86
 
> Ken Johnson stated:
>
> >I do remember an RPI comeback against Vermont from a 5-0 deficit.  If I
> >remember correctly, Darren Puppa was pulled from the net and replaced by
> >backup Brian Jopling and RPI won 8-5.  This may have even been during the
> >championship season (i.e. during the 30+ game unbeaten streak).
>
> I think that this game was a year earlier, in 83-84 when both Puppa and
> Jopling were Freshmen.  Then again, I wasn't at RPI at the time, and my
> sources for such info were much less in those days, so I could be wrong.
> I do remember reading about Jopling replacing Puppa with a big deficit
> to make up, but I don't recall the opponent.  In any case, RPI did beat
> UVM on 1/28/84 by 8-5.
>
> Ralph Baer
> RPI '68, '70, '74
>
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