(I tried sending this yesterday, but don't think it got through....apologies
if it ends up showing up twice.)
 
From 10/15 Gazette-Telegraph:
 
 Tigers say they're ready to play
 Offense punctuates CC intrasquad game
 
    Peter Geronazzo says Colorado College is ready to get on with the
 hockey season.
    After the Colorado College right wing combined with center Colin
 Schmidt and left wing Jason Christopherson to total three goals and
 eight assists in Friday night's intrasquad game, it would appear
 the junior from Trail, British Columbia, is ready to roll.
    "This is a steppingstone to get the season going," Geronazzo said
 after scoring a hat trick and setting up a fourth goal as the White
 team posted a 7-4 victory before about 350 spectators at Honnen Ice
 Arena on the CC campus.
    Geronazzo scored the White squad's third, sixth and seventh goals.
 He worked well with his linemates, despite only four days of on-ice
 practice.
    Schmidt, a junior from Regina, Saskatchewan, set up five goals,
 including all three of Geronazzo's; Christopherson, a junior from
 Burnsville, Minn., added two assists.
    "Colin and I played together last year, too," said Geronazzo.
 "It's good to get back to playing, get in some game situations.
 We moved the puck around a little bit."
    The Tigers, defending champions of the Western Collegiate Hockey
 Association, open their season at defending Central Collegiate
 Hockey Association champ Michigan on Oct. 21-22.  CC, ousted in the
 first round of the WCHA playoffs, did not get a bid to the NCAA
 tournament.
    "We're anxious to get to Michigan, to get going with the season,"
 Geronazzo said.  "We've got something to prove after last year."
    Second-year coach Donn Lucia, noting a lack of icing and offside
 penalties, said the Tigers proved Friday they're fast learners.
    "I think they moved the puck well for four days of practice,"
 Lucia said.  "Schmitty (Schmidt) and Gerry (Geronazzo), and those guys,
 I expect to score goals."
    Eight players scored goals.  Geronazzo, seniors David Paxton and
 Ryan Reynard, and freshmen Stewart Bodtker and Calvin Elfring tallied
 for the White.  Senior R.J. Enga scored two goals and set up another for
 the Black, and junior Jay McNeill and  freshman Travis Cheyne each
 scored a goal.
    "The best thing is nobody got hurt," Lucia said.  "It was a good
 chance to get the guys in game situations with referees."
    All three goaltenders played two periods each, with senior Paul
 Frank splitting between the  Black team (21 first-period saves) and
 the White (seven third-period saves).  Redshirt sophomore Ryan Bach
 stopped 17 shots, and sophomore Judd Lambert recorded 15 saves.
 
 end of article
 
 I was able to go watch the scrimmage Friday night.  According to some
 spectators, this was the most people they'd ever seen show up.  The
 game started out with a goal for each team within the first two minutes,
 as the players got adjusted to the game situation.  There was a lot of
 movement from the players around the ice, perhaps in preparation to
 better use the bigger ice surface at Air Force.  The game was played
 clean, with no injuries and only three penalties called (interference,
 holding, and too many men on the ice).  It looks like the players to
 watch this year are Peter Geronazzo, R.J. Enga, and Jay McNeill to be
 the big scorers for CC.  Bach was looking pretty good in the net as well.
    Also this weekend I caught a special preview show by one of the
 local tv stations, KRDO.  It was a nice half hour piece, discussing
 the strengths of the team, the move to playing at the Air Force Academy,
 and interviews with coaches and some of the players.  There was also
 a quick preview of each team in the WCHA.  In response to the coaches
 poll, Jeff Thomas, announcer for all CC games, picked his top five
 in the WCHA:
 1. Northern Michigan
 2. Colorado College
 3. Minnesota
 4. St. Cloud State
 5. Denver
 Also in the broadcast they gave the extention number for CC on Teamline,
 which is 8475.
    It was good to see some hockey again, and I can't wait until Oct. 29,
when CC hosts North Dakota for the home opener!
 
 Karen Heasley
 Colorado College '95
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