When Mike Zak pointed out a week ago that Harvard's 8-2 league record (at
the time) wasn't as impressive as it seemed because of the Crimson's weak
schedule, I thought he was being maybe a bit picky, but it looks like he had
a good point. Although I wouldn't go so far as to count the Crimson out,
they have now lost four in a row and have dropped to fourth, as they head
into a three-week hiatus. Cornell has edged its way back into first, and
surprising Yale is currently tied for second with St. Lawrence. This
weekend, the Elis have a chance to move into first in the ECAC for the first
time in I don't know how many years.
Scores from last weekend involving ECAC teams:
Friday, 1/11:
BROWN 5, Harvard 3
Colgate 5, ARMY 2
PRINCETON 7, Cornell 6
YALE 5, Dartmouth 2
BOSTON COLLEGE 5, St. Lawrence 0
Clarkson 5, BOSTON UNIVERSITY 3
Vermont 5, AIR FORCE 2
Saturday, 1/12:
Colgate 2, PRINCETON 2 (OT)
Cornell 5, ARMY 3
Dartmouth 5, BROWN 5 (OT)
YALE 5, Harvard 2
BOSTON COLLEGE 8, Clarkson 5
BOSTON UNIVERSITY 5, St. Lawrence 3
Rpi 4, LOWELL 3 (OT)
Vermont 7, AIR FORCE 4
ECAC Standings as of 1/14/91:
League Overall
Team W L T Pts GF GA W L T Pts GF GA
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Cornell 8 2 2 18 59 43 9 4 2 20 72 53
Yale 8 3 1 17 53 40 9 4 1 19 61 51
St. Lawrence 8 2 1 17 50 42 11 7 1 23 78 71
Harvard 8 6 0 16 88 55 8 8 0 16 89 61
Clarkson 7 3 1 15 54 43 13 5 1 27 107 74
RPI 7 3 0 14 55 38 12 6 0 24 102 75
Vermont 5 4 1 11 36 37 9 8 1 19 71 74
Brown 4 6 2 10 41 56 4 9 3 11 56 82
Colgate 3 6 3 9 43 51 9 7 3 21 79 75
Princeton 4 8 1 9 54 60 5 11 1 11 65 78
Army 1 10 2 4 33 56 4 11 3 11 61 70
Dartmouth 0 10 2 2 26 71 1 13 2 4 39 95
Some scores from Division III:
Friday, 1/11:
Babson 3, Middlebury 1
Cortland State 6, Binghamton State 2
Notre Dame 4, Canisius 3
RIT 8, Plattsburgh State 4
Saturday, 1/12:
Elmira 4, Babson 3
Norwich 9, Potsdam State 1
RIT 11, Hobart 4
Notes on some of last weekend's games:
Elmira 4, Babson 3
Having defeated Middlebury, the ECAC-East leader, the night before,
Babson was looking for a clean sweep, hoping to knock off the number
one ranked and ECAC-West-leading Soaring Eagles. They almost pulled it
off, coming back to tie three times before Elmira finally put them
away. The Soaring Eagles struck first on Greg Moore's power-play goal
just 1:17 into the game, but Babson's Mark Allen tied the score at 6:49
of the first. Elmira made it 2-1 with 33 seconds gone in the second on
Pete Feola's first collegiate goal; however, Babson again drew even,
thanks to Mark Herlihy. The Eagles then struck quickly in the third
period when Bob McGee tallied just 31 seconds in. Babson's Herlihy
would tie it up for the third time a little over two minutes later.
Finally, at 5:50 of period three, Elmira's Gord Law stuffed in a loose
puck, and the Soaring Eagles hung on the rest of the way. Elmira
goaltender Tom O'Brien made 43 saves to run his record to 11-0, while
Babson's Joe Capprini stopped 30 shots. Elmira forward Joey Spinelli
ran his scoring streak to 35 straight games with his two assists.
Boston University 5, St. Lawrence 3
Petteri Koskimaki's goal at 6:27 of the first put BU up 1-0, but power-
play goals by Martin Lacroix and Lee Albert gave the Saints a 2-1 lead.
Shawn McEachern tied the score at 4:17 of the second period, but St.
Lawrence again took the lead on Eric Lacroix's goal less than two
minutes later. That was all for the Larries, however, as the Terriers
picked up the game's last three goals, all in the second period, off
the sticks of McEachern, Tony Amonte, and Mike Bavis. BU's John
Bradley finished with 23 saves, while the Saints' Les Kuntar had 37.
RPI 4, Lowell 3 (OT)
Allen Kummu intercepted a Lowell clearing pass and fired a bouncing
shot that eluded goalie Mark Richards for the game-winner at 2:12 of
overtime. Richards had 34 saves for the Chiefs, while RPI's Sean
Kennedy finished with 19.
Brown 5, Harvard 3
Just one note to add to Nate's summary of this game: this was Brown's
first victory over the Crimson in ten years.
Dartmouth 5, Brown 5 (OT)
Hey, move over, Cornell and Clarkson -- this is the third time in their
last four meetings that Brown and Dartmouth have skated to a tie. The
Bears built a 2-0 lead in the first period and were ahead 3-2 after two
periods, but Brad Kreick and Mike Ross scored early in the third for
the Big Green to give them a 4-3 lead. Brown later came back with two
goals of their own. Dartmouth pulled goalie Vern Guetens for the extra
attacker late in the game, and Bill Fitzgerald got the equalizer with
1:08 left.
Colgate 5, Army 2
The Red Raiders were led by two-goal efforts from Craig Woodcroft and
Jamie Cooke, while freshman goaltender Shawn Murray had an impressive
night between the pipes, turning away 36 shots.
Colgate 2, Princeton 2 (OT)
Princeton took a 1-0 lead 2:54 into the game on a goal by Andre Faust,
but Colgate's Marc Dupere tied the game in the second period off a feed
by Andrew Dickson. Dickson himself put the Red Raiders up 2-1 at the
5:57 mark of the third. Keith Merkler got the tying goal for the
Tigers with 8:15 left in regulation. Princeton's Mark Salsbury stopped
31 shots, while Colgate goalie Greg Menges recorded 27 saves.
Princeton 7, Cornell 6
After a couple of tough comeback wins the weekend before, Cornell may
have looked at this game as sort of a breather, but the Tigers' free-
wheeling attack gave the Big Red a rude awakening. Cornell's own
inconsistent play did not help them, either. This game marked the
return of Cornell's Kent Manderville from the World Junior Champion-
ships.
The game certainly looked to be going Cornell's way early, as Ryan
Hughes fed Trent Andison from behind the Princeton net and Andison
stuffed the puck past Mark Salsbury with just 20 seconds gone in the
first period. The Big Red seemed to be playing back on their heels
after this, however, and Princeton regrouped and started forechecking
aggressively. At 4:42 of the first period, Matt Zilinskas got the
first of what would be three straight goals by the Tigers, picking up a
loose puck in the crease and tapping it under goaltender Corrie
D'Alessio's arm and into the net. Cornell was playing flat on defense,
and a breakdown allowed Mike Cole and Tom Shimabukuro to set up a
2-on-0 opportunity, with Cole tallying at the 8:16 mark. The Big Red
went on the power play midway through the first period, but they spent
a long time standing around without taking any shots, and Princeton's
Andre Faust was able to gain control of the puck. He skated down the
ice, beat two Cornell defensemen, and came in alone on D'Alessio,
firing the puck between the goaltender's pads at 11:36 of the first for
his third short-handed goal of the season.
Cornell regrouped during the intermission, however, and a fired-up Big
Red team tied the score with two goals in the first 1:27 of the second
period. Doug Derraugh picked up a short-handed tally with 16 seconds
gone, and then Phil Nobel scored off a Stephane Gauvin rebound.
Princeton's Jeff Kampersal gave his team a 4-3 lead at the 10:39 mark,
as he took a long shot from the point that deflected off a Cornell
player's stick and floated over D'Alessio's shoulder into the corner of
the net. Less than four minutes later, the Big Red tied it up again.
Bruce Frauley passed to Ryan Hughes at the top of the faceoff circle,
and Hughes uncorked a blast which went into the net off Salsbury's
glove.
The Big Red finally looked to be in control of the game when they took
a 5-4 lead in the third period. Salsbury was knocked down while making
a save, and Bruce Frauley took a shot that hit the prone goalie. Kent
Manderville picked up the loose puck and flipped it into the open net.
This would turn out to be pretty much the last gasp for the Big Red, as
Princeton exploded for three goals in a 4:18 span. Tom Shimabukuro
evened it up for the Tigers at 8:28, stealing the puck from Karl
Williams and wristing a shot that D'Alessio got a piece of but could
not control. Three minutes later, Sean Murphy stuffed a shot between
D'Alessio's pads off a 3-on-2 break, and then Sean Gorman surprised
everybody at the 12:46 mark with a quick shot off a faceoff. That one
was the killer, as Cornell could not mount much of a threat on offense
for the rest of the game. Following a Princeton penalty with a minute
and a half left in regulation, McCutcheon pulled D'Alessio for the
extra attacker, and Trent Andison got his second goal of the game with
55 seconds left. D'Alessio went back in for the faceoff, but Princeton
kept the Big Red bottled up in their own end for the remainder of the
game to seal the victory. Salsbury finished with 32 saves on the
night, while D'Alessio had 23 stops in suffering his first league loss
of the season.
Cornell 5, Army 3
It looked like the same story again the next night, as the Cadets held
a 2-1 lead over the Big Red in the second period, but behind the hot
hand of Trent Andison (seven goal in the last four games, including two
against Army), Cornell pulled out the victory. There were a couple of
mild surprises in the lineup for the Big Red on Saturday night. First,
freshman forward Geoff Bumstead saw his first action in a Cornell
uniform, replacing Jim McPhee on the fourth line. The other change was
in goal, where Jim Crozier started after seeing a total of only two
periods of action in the previous seven games.
The game was rough and physical, as you would expect with Army
involved. Both teams came out slowly at the start, and Cornell was
having a great deal of trouble getting the puck out of its own zone.
Eventually the Big Red's offense recovered and began to click, and Dan
Ratushny scored the only goal of the first period on the power play at
12:31, blasting a shot from the point past Army goalie Brandon Hayes.
This was the first time all season that Cornell had scored on its first
power play opportunity, an important statistic for a contest that a
local business is running.
Army's Brad Hamacher tied the game at 3:20 of the second, beating
Crozier with a drive from near the left point. The Cadets' physical
play was starting to throw the Big Red off its game, and at the 12:11
mark, Army took the lead on Todd Tambourino's low blast that got by
Crozier on the stick side. Cornell scored two goals 69 seconds apart
to make it 3-2. At 13:05, Andison took a pass from Doug Derraugh and
jammed the puck between Hayes' legs; Ratushny then intercepted an Army
pass near the Cornell blue line, muscled his way into the Cadet zone,
and uncorked a slap shot. The puck hit the left post, but Derraugh was
there to poke home the rebound.
The Cadets refused to die, however, tying the game again at 4:20 of the
third period. Kevin Darby took a shot that was going wide of the net,
but Paul Haggerty dove in front of the crease and tipped the puck in.
Andison got the winning goal, his third in four games, with 8:55 to
play, firing a Ryan Hughes rebound over Hayes. Cornell was later faced
with a 5 on 3 Army power play for 1:36, but they killed it off. Hughes
iced the game for the Big Red with three minutes left, whacking at a
loose puck several times until it finally dribbled by Hayes into the
net.
This was not a pretty game for the Big Red, but the win did enable them
to grab the top spot in the ECAC for the first time since late Novem-
ber. The special teams did reasonably well this weekend, scoring six
power play goals in 15 opportunities while holding the opponents to a
1 x 15 performance. Army goalie Brandon Hayes played well against the
Big Red, making 36 saves, and Jim Crozier stopped 25 shots.
With Harvard on break, and Princeton soon to follow, this week's ECAC
schedule is somewhat abbreviated:
Jan. 15
Army at Princeton
Jan. 16
Mercyhurst at Colgate (NLG)
Jan. 18
Vermont at RPI
Jan. 19
RPI at Vermont
St. Lawrence at Clarkson
Yale at Brown
Dartmouth at Lowell (NLG)
Iona at Army (NLG)
Bill Fenwick
Cornell '86
LET'S GO RED!!
"To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up."
-- Ogden Nash, "A Word to Husbands"
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