* Unofficially, here are the totals for the players on Maine's first line:
GP G A PTS
Paul Kariya 39 25 75 100
Jim Montgomery 45 32 63 95
Cal Ingraham 45 46 39 85
TOTALS 103 177 280
* I believe these are correct; I had to go to the Milwaukee papers for
Montgomery and Ingraham's totals. Ingraham was listed at 46-39--85 before
Sat and had no points in that game; Montgomery was listed at 29-63--85 (?)
before Sat but I assumed they incorrectly stuck in Ingraham's point total.
* That means Montgomery actually finished with 103-198--301 in 170 career
games, since he had 206 pts before this year. He is the third all-time
NC$$ leading scorer, if we don't count Middlebury's Phil Latreille from the
late 50s who had a ton of points against weak competition before there was
a DivII. Of course, Kariya is already a third of the way there. :-)
* Montgomery's 198 career assists is #1 on the NC$$ all-time list.
* Kariya came within one assist of tying the record for assists in a
season. Western Michigan's Wayne Gagne had 13-76--89 in 1986-87.
* At worst, the line's total of 280 points is the third best single season
total by a line in NC$$ history. I looked back through the record manual
which lists the top 30 or so scorers for each season through 1989, and I
can only find two cases where a team had three players who totaled more
than 280 points:
1975-76 Michigan State 1980-81 Minnesota
GP G A PTS GP G A PTS
Tom Ross 41 51 54 105 Aaron Broten 45 47 59 106
Steve Colp 39 40 54 94 Steve Ulseth 45 41 52 93
Daryl Rice 41 31 51 82 Butsy Erickson 44 39 47 86
TOTALS 122 159 281 TOTALS 127 158 285
I thought I saw someone wrote earlier that the three from Minnesota were a
line. I don't know about the three from MSU.
* BTW, the runner-up for the Hobey was Greg Johnson from North Dakota. He
had 19-45--64. I think the fact that Johnson finished 2nd ahead of Plante
and Montgomery, among others, is partly due to a split between those voters
who saw the Hobey as a sort of lifetime achievement award (as shown by the
article that appeared in THN a couple of months ago) and those who voted on
single season accomplishments. That, and Johnson's having done what he did
for a team that wasn't too good.
* Maine set a new record for wins in a season with 42. I'm not sure if
this will be considered a new NC$$ record or if they will be listed as
tied with North Dakota, which won 40 in 1986-87, since two of Maine's wins
came against a non-NC$$ team. All of UND's wins came against NC$$ teams.
* Among the many team seasonal records broken by Maine were those for goals
(Ingraham 46; old Roy 39), assists (Kariya 75, old Montgomery 57), points
(Kariya 100, old David Capuano 85), and penalty minutes (Peter Ferraro
somewhere over 104 I think, old Scott Smith 102).
* Only 6 teams have lost one game or fewer in a season: Boston College
(21-1-0 in 1948-49), Clarkson (23-0-0 in 1955-56), Denver (22-1-0 in 1960-
61), Cornell (27-1-1 in 1966-67, 29-0-0 in 1969-70), and now Maine (42-1-2
in 1992-93). All but Clarkson won the NC$$ championship, since Clarkson
opted not to participate when they weren't allowed to use the four-year
players they had back.
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Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Color Voice of the Merrimack Warriors
alternate address days: [log in to unmask] *HMN* 11/13/93
(Any opinions expressed above are strictly those of the poster.)
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