1/25/93 Hockey East Overall
GP W-L-T Pts GF-GA || GP W-L-T GF-GA
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1 Maine 12 11-0-1 23 87-28 || 26 24-0-2 175-58
2 Boston University 14 9-4-1 19 70-45 || 22 15-5-2 107-66
3 New Hampshire 13 7-5-1 15 71-61 || 23 12-9-2 109-94
4 UMass-Lowell 13 7-6-0 14 58-51 || 24 15-9-0 103-84
5 Northeastern 14 5-8-1 11 60-75 || 21 8-12-1 93-116
6 Providence 14 4-8-2 10 51-69 || 24 11-11-2 102-97
7 Boston College 13 3-8-2 8 41-63 || 23 6-13-4 70-107
8 Merrimack 13 3-10-0 6 46-92 || 23 9-12-2 91-121
RESULTS
01/22/93 Maine 8 at Boston College 1 HE
01/22/93 Northeastern 3 at UMass-Lowell 5 HE
01/22/93 Boston University 3 at New Hampshire 1 HE
01/22/93 Merrimack 4 at Providence 9 HE
01/23/93 New Hampshire 6 at Boston University 4 HE
01/23/93 Providence 2 at Merrimack 3 HE ot
01/23/93 UMass-Lowell 8 at Northeastern 5 HE
01/24/93 Maine 4 at Boston College 1 HE
UPCOMING
01/27/93 UMass-Lowell at Boston University HE
01/27/93 Boston College at Merrimack HE
01/27/93 Providence at Northeastern HE
01/29/93 Merrimack at Boston College HE
01/29/93 Boston University at UMass-Lowell HE
01/29/93 Maine at New Hampshire HE NESN
01/29/93 Northeastern at Providence HE
01/30/93 Maine at New Hampshire HE
02/01/93 Boston College vs Boston University NC Beanpot (Boston,
MA) 9:00
02/01/93 Northeastern vs Harvard NC Beanpot (Boston,
MA) 6:00
THIS PAST WEEKEND
MAINE SWEEPS BC
Maine returned to league action by continuing its winning ways, taking
a pair at BC by the combined score of 12-2, although the second game
(4-1) proved to be a lot tougher than the first. The Eagles employed a
defense using players spread out along the blue line, preventing the
quick-skating Maine forwards from carrying the puck into the zone.
Mike Sparrow was outstanding in net for the Eagles with 39 saves. On
Friday, Mike Dunham came about as close as you can get to posting a
shutout for the Black Bears, but Ian Moran scored with three seconds
left for BC to foil the bid. Paul Kariya led Maine with 2 goals and
5 assists on the weekend. See below for more on Kariya and his assault
on the record books.
TAKE TWO: CHIEFS BROOM HUSKIES
UMass-Lowell pulled off a sweep of Northeastern to vault over the
Huskies and into fourth place. After Friday's 5-3 win, the Chiefs roared
out to a 7-0 lead halfway through Saturday's game and held off a
ferocious comeback to win, 8-5. Shane Henry and Ian Hebert each had a
hat trick and two assists to spark the Chiefs. For the Huskies, of
note is that deaf goaltender Elijah Gold made what I believe was his
first-ever start and after the Chiefs went up 7-0, he allowed only one
goal the remaining 29:02 of the game and stopped a total of 26 shots.
The only other action I know of Gold seeing was when he played the final
few minutes of NU's 9-2 win over Merrimack earlier in the season.
CATS AND DOGS TANGLE; NOTHING DECIDED
In a showdown of the 2nd- and 3rd-place teams in HE, BU and UNH each
took a win at the other's rink. Friday, Scott Cashman stopped 37
shots as BU won, 3-1. Saturday, after falling behind 4-2 after two,
the Wildcats scored the game's final four goals and won, 6-4, to break
BU's 13-game unbeaten streak and hand the Terriers their first loss
since they fell to Princeton 3-2 on November 28th. BU had also been
unbeaten in its last 9 Hockey East games. UNH goalie Brett Abel stopped
36 of 40 shots, while teammates Kent Schmidtke (two goals), Jesse Cooper
(1-1--2, GWG) and Glenn Stewart (1-1--2) also played key roles in the
win. Steve Thornton (2-0--2), David Sacco (1-1--2), Jay Pandolfo
(0-2--2), and Doug Friedman (1-1--2) all had multiple-point nights for
the Terriers.
BATTLE OF CATHOLICS COMES OUT EVEN
Providence and Merrimack also split a home-and-home with each team
winning at home. Friday, the Friars belted Merrimack 9-4, with the
new line of Brian Ridolfi (3-2--5), Bob Cowan (4-2--6) and Craig Darby
(0-5--5, ties HE record for assists in a game) all having career nights
in combining for 7 goals and 9 assists. Saturday, Merrimack's Teal
Fowler unofficially had both the game-tying and game-winning goals as
he scored with 3 seconds left to force overtime and then deflected home
a shot by Dan Hodge with 23 seconds left in OT to give Merrimack a 3-2
win. Merrimack is 2-0-2 in overtime this year with both wins coming
against PC, and while PC is 4-2-2 in OT, both of their losses have come
to Merrimack.
WARRIORS TAKE ONLY THIRD SEASON SERIES EVER
With the win, Merrimack took the season series from Providence 2 games
to 1, the first time they have done that against the Friars since
joining HE in 1989. In fact, the only two series left that Merrimack
can win this year (they COULD tie with Maine, BU and NU) are against BC
and UMass-Lowell. Before this season, Merrimack had taken only two of
21 season series through three years, and both of those were with
Northeastern.
NO SISTER-KISSING ALLOWED IN NORTH ANDOVER
Merrimack also avoided tying its first HE game ever. Through 3 1/2
seasons, Merrimack has played 76 games in HE play, winning 17 and
losing 59 with no ties. The Warriors have gone to overtime four times
in those 76 games and won three of them. Other than the two wins this
season over PC, Merrimack has both won and lost single OT games against
Northeastern since entering the league.
NEXT WEEK: ACTION STARTS EARLY
Only a few days' rest before six of the eight teams get back into action
with three games coming at mid-week, this Wednesday. Providence is at
Northeastern (NESN), UMass-Lowell plays at BU, and Merrimack entertains
BC. The teams swap sites for rematches just two days later on Friday.
Maine and UNH will not be in action Wednesday, but the teams will play a
pair at UNH Fri-Sat with Friday's game on NESN.
BEANS, BOSTON GARDEN STYLE
The reason for the rare mid-week slate of games is the 41st annual
Beanpot Hockey Tournament, in which BC, BU and NU will all see action
next Monday, February 1st. All three will be off Saturday night and
will have three days' rest heading into that tournament's first round at
the Garden. NU will play ECAC leader Harvard in the opening game of the
Beanpot at 6 pm, and BC and BU will meet for the fourth time this season
(BU has won all 3) at about 9 pm. NESN will show both opening round
games with former NESN and current Red Sox/CBS/ESPN announcer Sean
McDonough calling the action, I believe. The championship game will be
live on WSBK-TV38 at 8 pm 2/8/93, and WSBK is available on basic cable
throughout much of the United States.
I'D LIKE TO GET TO KNOW YOU...
With the way the scheduling is this season, Merrimack and Providence
will each be playing their next opponent three straight times over a
span of 10 days. Merrimack has BC, twice at Merrimack, and Providence
has NU, twice at NU. The advantage could go to the non-Beanpot teams
who will have nothing but BC/NU to think about for the next week and a
half, although BC and NU will probably be less rusty with only four
days between the Beanpot and next Friday's games as opposed to MC/PC
which will have to sit around for a week. But what makes these games
interesting is the potential effect upon the standings that they
could have. NU is one point ahead of PC in 5th, and BC is two points
ahead of Merrimack in 7th.
THE MAINE THING
The Black Bears tied the HE record for longest regular season unbeaten
streak (12 games) with their 4-1 win at BC Sunday. The Black Bears are
11-0-1 this season in HE. They tied the record set by the 1991-92 Maine
squad, which went unbeaten in its last 12. Maine can set a new record
Friday night when it travels to UNH, a game that will be shown live on
NESN. Maine is unbeaten in its last 24 HE games.
Maine also tied the HE mark for most consecutive league wins (10) with
its win Sunday, and can also break THAT record with a win Friday at UNH.
The old record was set by the 1987-88 Maine team.
As far as Division I records go, at 24-0-2, the Black Bears are 7 games
away from tying the modern record for unbeaten streak in a season. RPI
went its last 33 games without a loss in 1984-85. Maine could equal
this on 2/19/93 against BU. That appears to be the next milestone other
than the HE records mentioned above.
KARIYA WATCH
Paul Kariya picked up a goal and two assists in Friday's 8-1 win by
Maine, and after his four points (1-3--4) led Maine to a 4-1 win on
Sunday afternoon, the freshman sensation had totals of 16-44--60 in 20
games for an even 3.00 points per game. He remains the leading scorer
in HE league games with 9-30--39 in 12 HE games. Kariya is still on
pace to break the HE season assist (51, Craig Janney, BC, 1986-87) and
point (74, Janney, 86-87) records. In the next couple of weeks, he
could break two HE records: assists by a freshman (36, Ken Hodge Jr.,
BC, 1984-85) and points by a freshman (49, Hodge, 84-85).
From last week's HE release dated Jan 18, the players of the week were:
HE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Chad Quenneville, So C, Providence: Quenneville notched three goals
and three assists against St Lawrence, including the game winning
goal in a 6-1 win on Friday.
Honor Roll: Michael Spalla, BC; Ken Rausch, BU; Cal Ingraham, Maine;
Mike Murray, UMass-Lowell; Eric Flinton, UNH.
HE ROOKIE OF THE WEEK (tie)
Jeff Daw, C, UMass-Lowell: Daw tallied one goal and four assists on
the weekend against Merrimack, including the game winning goal on
Friday night [this is incorrect since Merrimack won this game - mike]
and an assist on the game-winner Saturday.
Dan McGillis, D, Northeastern: McGillis exploded on the weekend against
UNH with two goals and three assists for five points. He scored two
goals and one assist in the Friday loss and contributed two assists
in the win on Saturday.
Honor Roll: Paul Kariya, Maine; Jay Kenney, Providence.
Two other boxes from this past weekend that haven't been posted:
Fri 1/22/93 at Conte Forum, Chestnut Hill, MA
Maine (23-0-2, 10-0-1 HE 1st) 0 5 3 - 8
Boston College (6-12-4, 3-7-2 HE 7th) 0 0 1 - 1
FIRST: No scoring.
SECOND: M, Paul Kariya (Lee Saunders) 6:13; M, Dave LaCouture (Martin
Mercier, Andy Silverman) 8:03; M, Cal Ingraham (Jim Montgomery, Dave
MacIsaac) 10:55; M, Ingraham (MacIsaac, Kariya) 15:06; M, Montgomery
(Kariya) 19:16.
THIRD: M, Chris Ferraro (Chris Imes) 4:58; M, Eric Fenton (Imes) 5:24;
M, C. Ferraro (Kent Salfi) 7:00; BC, Ian Moran (un) 19:57.
SAVES: M, Mike Dunham 28. BC, Mike Sparrow 29, Scott Caulfield 5.
Sat 1/23/93 at Matthews Arena, Boston, MA
UMass-Lowell (15-9-0, 7-6-0 HE 4th) 4 3 1 - 8
Northeastern (8-12-1, 5-8-1 HE 5th) 0 3 2 - 5
FIRST: ML, Shane Henry (un) 1:09; ML, Dan O'Connell (un) 8:00; ML,
Henry (Ian Hebert) 11:15; ML, Henry (Hebert, O'Connell) 16:18.
SECOND: ML, Hebert (Henry) 5:12; ML, Hebert (David Mayes) 7:02; ML,
Mike Murray (Keith Carney) 10:58; NU, Sebastien Laplante (Bob Kellogg,
Mike Taylor) 14:21; NU, Jay Schiavo (Tom O'Connor) 15:17; NU, Jordan
Shields (Kellogg, Schiavo) 17:43.
THIRD: NU, Tomas Persson (Mike Collett, Tommy Parlon) 5:38; NU, J.F.
Aube (Taylor, Shields) 9:35; ML, Hebert (Henry, Aaron Kriss) 15:47.
SAVES: ML, Dwayne Roloson 26. NU, Elijah Gold 26.
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Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Color Voice of the Merrimack Warriors
(Any opinions expressed above are strictly those of the poster.) *HMN*
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