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Date: | Sat, 29 Feb 1992 03:14:17 EDT |
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GOALS
St. Lawrence 1 0 2 = 3
Brown 0 0 2 = 2
SAVES
St. Lawrence 12 15 16 = 33 (Giroux)
Brown 2 8 13 = 23 (Finch)
SCORING
1st Period
19:06 SLU Verbeek (McCourt, Beattie)
3rd Period
9:47 SLU LaPerriere (Meany, M. Lappin)
10:38 Brown Brewer (unassisted)
13:36 SLU McGeough (Verbeek, Massoud)
18:14 Brown Chase (Chauvette, Hanley)
A tough win for St. Lawrence over a scrappy Brown team. Lots
of play back and forth in the neutral zone, without much sustained
offense by either team - particularly SLU in the first, although
just their third shot on net with under a minute to go in the period
was tipped into the upper net by Verbeek for the only goal.
SLU netminder Brady Giroux (giving Spagnoletti a rest) played
a solid game, and the SLU defense managed to sweep away anything
that bounced off him. Nothing much of note occurred until halfway
through the third period when Laperriere's blast from the point
found the net for SLU's second goal. Breathing room didn't last
for long as Brown's Brewer brought the puck in from the red line
less than a minute later and beat Giroux cleanly. This was starting
to be reminiscent of the earlier Brown-SLU match-up which featured
several goals in the last five minutes to give SLU a one goal
victory at Brown. McGeough scored at 13:36 to give SLU a two goal
cushion again on a nice 2-on-1 with Verbeek. Brown came back with
under two minutes to go with a 4-on-3 power play goal, but never
threatened much after that and survived several good SLU chances
at the empty net.
As an interesting sidelight, this game featured 4 of the top 6
ECAC point scorers: M. Lappin & LaPerriere for SLU, Chauvette & Brewer
for Brown. Each got just a single point for the night. Other
contenders are Yale's Kaufman and Colgate's Band (someone for the
tuba player's on the list to root for). SLU has never had an ECAC
scoring champion OR won the regular season league title. It's too
bad that the recent road losses prevented what otherwise would have
been a clear battle for first when Harvard comes in tomorrow night.
Harvard lost to Clarkson (4-2) tonight, so that puts the Clarkson
folks in the unusual position of rooting for SLU while they try
to take care of Brown. Harvard is going to be tough over here
unless the Saints show a little more scoring spark - particularly
on the power play which has been anemic since Martin Lacroix went
out with a broken wrist four weeks ago. He will still finish
as the Saints second leading goal scorer (behind M. Lappin) despite
missing 10 games and may be able to play in the playoffs with an
appropriate cast.
A final query for those with rule books on a strange play. M. Lappin
and two Brown players collided, all went down in a heap together, and
all dropped thier sticks. Lappin's stick was broken so he just picked
up on of the Brown sticks and went for the goal since play was in his
end. The Brown player naturally took offense and tried to wrestle the
stick away Lappin. Is it legal for Lappin to "borrow" the loose stick
and, if so, should the Brown player get a holding call for trying to
take it away? The ref (none other than Pierre Belanger) made no call
in this case, although I'm not sure he saw what was going on.
Speaking of Pierre, this was one of the more subdued games I've
seen him do. At one point he called a penalty on Brown and when play
stopped a Brown player sent the puck down the ice in frustration.
Pierre went over to talk with the player in his usual calm soothing
way and then made a pointing gesture which many of us interpreted
as a misconduct for the Brown player. No - Pierre was merely
instructing him that this was inappropriate behior and sending
the offending Brown player down to the other end of the rink to
bring back the puck so the game could continue. The puck had rolled
to the Saint goalie who had a nice conversation with the Brown
player (I think he made him say "please") before giving him the
puck. Way to go Pierre!
Robin Lock (St. LAwrence)
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