Chris writes:
>Wow.
 
    I have to agree that the Wildcats are definitely making a name for
    themselves right now.  I was a little skeptical after they built up
    a good record vs. independents and non-Hockey East teams, then began
    league play by losing low-scoring games to Merrimack and Northeastern.
    But lately they have been playing some tremendous hockey.  I watched
    both games on tv this weekend, and I was very impressed with the
    solid team play they showed (also in last weekend's 6-3 win over
    Merrimack).
 
    This gives Hockey East five teams worthy of being ranked among the
    best in the nation right now - BU, BC, Maine, PC, UNH.  Not just
    by their records, either.
 
    Defense has been a key.  They almost completely shut down Juneau
    (although I had heard that he was sick all week with the flu,
    hadn't practiced and was questionable for Friday's game).  They
    are also very quick going from defense to offense and everybody's
    helping out in their own end.  Can't forget goalie, either - both
    Morrison and Levy are among the national leaders in GAA (Levy was just
    outside the top 10 that was posted).
 
>                                     BC came back to tie in the 1st with
>goals from Bill Guerin and (don't know the 1st name) Pascucci.
 
    Ron Pascucci; his dad coached my high school team to our first & only
    league championship in 1985.  That was his first collegiate goal
    although he played all last year as a freshman.  Not a bad player.
 
>Also from the BC game:  2 fights resulted in game disqualifications; Chebator
>and Thompson for UNH, but I don't remember the BC players involved.  Also
>referee B. Fowkes made some very interesting calls.  First, *two* BC players
>(Heinze and Pascucci) were given 10 minute misconducts at the same time,
>without any UNH player being penalized.  Obviously, they must have said the
>wrong thing to Fowkes.
 
    The BC players were Matt Glennon (sr. C) and Joe Cleary (jr. D); both
    missed the Merrimack game with the mandatory NCAA one-game suspension
    and will miss the Maine game with the additional game tacked on by
    Hockey East.
 
    As for the misconducts, Heinze got his for telling Fowkes to "get the
    f*** out of the way" while trying to clear the puck up the boards.
    I don't know about Pascucci, but he probably used some of the same
    language in arguing Heinze's 10.
 
 
    - mike