Results from the Thanksgiving weekend action (almost all of which has been
already posted, but what the hell):
Thursday, 11/26:
Great Alaska Faceoff:
Maine 3, Yale 1
Bowling Green 3, Alaska-Fairbanks 2
Friday, 11/27:
St. Lawrence 6, BOSTON COLLEGE 6 (OT)
Duracell Challenge at Toronto:
Lake Superior 8, York 3
Colgate 1, Toronto 1 (OT)
Great Alaska Faceoff:
Maine 8, Bowling Green 1
Alaska-Fairbanks 5, Yale 3
Saturday, 11/28:
HARVARD 4, Brown 2
Vermont 2, DARTMOUTH 1
PRINCETON 3, Boston University 2
Providence 7, CORNELL 0
UMASS-LOWELL 5, Union 4
Duracell Challenge:
Colgate 7, York 3
Lake Superior 3, Toronto 1
Great Alaska Faceoff:
Bowling Green 5, Yale 3
Maine 6, Alaska-Fairbanks 4
Sunday, 11/29:
Clarkson 6, BOSTON COLLEGE 0
UMASS-LOWELL 5, Vermont 2
ECAC standings as of 11/30/92:
League Overall
Team W L T Pts GF GA W L T Pts GF GA
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Harvard 5 0 1 11 26 17 5 1 1 11 29 21
Vermont 4 2 0 8 20 15 5 4 1 11 29 29
Yale 3 0 1 7 25 17 3 3 1 7 32 30
St. Lawrence 3 1 0 6 16 9 6 1 1 13 41 24
Brown 3 3 0 6 26 22 3 3 0 6 26 22
RPI 2 2 0 4 13 11 3 2 2 8 23 19
Clarkson 1 2 1 3 17 11 4 3 1 9 44 17
Cornell 1 2 1 3 10 15 1 3 1 3 10 22
Union 1 2 0 2 5 11 1 4 0 2 14 22
Dartmouth 1 4 0 2 11 21 1 5 0 2 12 29
Princeton 1 3 0 2 16 20 3 3 0 6 27 22
Colgate 0 4 0 0 10 26 1 6 1 3 23 38
Notes on a couple games:
Colgate 7, York 3
One night after getting their first point of the season against To-
ronto, the Red Raiders finally entered the win column (the last
Division I team to do so) at the expense of the York University Yeomen.
Colgate opened the scoring at 6:13 of the first period when Sam Raffoul
took a pass from Andrew Dickson and beat York goalie Willie Popp to the
right side from 10 feet out. The Yeomen came right back at the 10:08
mark with Jim Dean's power-play marker, but Colgate proceeded to blow
the game open in the second period with four unanswered goals. Craig
deBlois got things started at 6:16 of the second when he tipped in a
blast by Dan Gardner. Just 1:02 later, Rob Haddock slapped home a Rod
Pamenter rebound to make it 3-1, and then freshman Earl Cronan scored
the first of his two goals at the 7:53 mark, wristing the puck in from
the right circle. Cronan closed out the second-period scoring at
16:46, as Alan Brown fed him with a cross-ice pass right in front of
the York goal and he poked the puck into the net.
Bruce Gardiner put the Red Raiders up 6-1 with 4:19 gone in the third.
York closed to 6-3 on goals by Shawn Betts and Pino Chiapetta, but
Gardiner gave Colgate a little more insurance, knocking the puck home
with 6:43 left in the game. Popp wound up with 34 saves, while Colgate
goalie Shawn Murray made 21.
Clarkson 6, Boston College 0
Chris Rogles was the star of the game, making 45 saves for the Golden
Knights. The first two goals of the game were scored by Todd Marchant,
who got Clarkson on the board with the only goal of the first period,
at the 4:08 mark. The Eagles outshot Clarkson by a 19-6 margin in the
second, but two of Clarkson's six shots (by Marchant and Martin
d'Orsennens) found the back of the net. Steve Palmer, Dave Green, and
Guy Sanderson rounded out the scoring for the Knights in the third
period. BC goalie Josh Singewald stopped 18 of 24 shots.
Providence 7, Cornell 0
With a score like that, it's no surprise that Providence looked a lot
better than Cornell did Saturday afternoon, and in fact, the score was
closer than the game. Several Cornell players did not suit up for the
game, including freshman wingers P.C. Drouin and Mark Scollan. For
Providence, freshman goalie Bob Bell got the call, and he responded
with a terrific game.
Cornell actually matched up well with a bigger Friar team in a fast-
paced, back-and-forth first period, but some sloppy play in their own
end cost the Big Red a pair of goals and should have cost them twice
that many. Providence's first shot of the game, by Bob Cowan, was
blocked by Cornell goalie Andy Bandurski, but he chose to tip the puck
away in front of the net rather than covering it up. Erik Peterson
made him pay for that decision, slapping the puck into the left side of
the net from between the circles with 2:36 gone in the first period.
About two minutes later, the Friars' Dennis Burke got control of the
puck and found himself on a breakaway after waltzing around Cornell
defenseman Christian Felli, but in trying to backhand a shot past a
helpless Bandurski, he bounced the puck off the left post instead.
Providence had another golden opportunity midway through the first
period during a Big Red power play, when a Cornell defenseman tried to
send the puck up the ice and wound up putting it on Cowan's stick.
Cowan skated in on a shorthanded break, but Bandurski made a beautiful
save, sprawling across the goalmouth and sweeping the shot away. How-
ever, the Friars quickly made up for that missed opportunity when Scott
Balboni drew virtually the whole Cornell team over to the right side of
the zone, then fired the puck to a wide-open Brady Kramer near the left
circle. Kramer's shot went between Bandurski's legs and gave the
Friars a 2-0 lead at the 10:47 mark.
When Cornell was successful at getting the puck out of their own end,
they were able to create a number of scoring opportunities, but they
were unable to get off many good shots, and Bell had no trouble with
the ones that did get through. The Big Red's defensive woes continued
into the second period, and Providence boosted their lead to three at
the 6:19 mark. Off a pileup in front of the Cornell net, Craig Darby
corraled a rebound and fired the puck over Bandurski's shoulder. With
about eight and a half minutes gone in the second, Cornell had a couple
of golden opportunities to light the lamp but came up empty both times.
Geoff Bumstead, in an excellent individual effort, worked his way
around two Providence defensemen but shot the puck into Bell's chest.
Seconds later, after a faceoff, Geoff Lopatka got to a loose puck, but
he waited too long before shooting it, and Bell was able to knock it
aside. Bumstead figured in another big chance for the Big Red with
about six minutes left in the second, when he and Shaun Hannah combined
on a 2-on-1 break. Hannah's shot bounced off Bell, and Bumstead got to
the rebound, sending a floater toward the net. However, this was not
to be Cornell's night -- the shot bounced off the left post and dropped
to the ice, where Bell sat on it.
A scramble in front of the Cornell net set the Friars up for their
fourth goal late in the second period. During the shoving, a Cornell
player wound up on top of a Providence guy who himself was on top of
Bandurski, and after they all untangled, a shot from Gary Socha deep to
the left side found the corner of the net with 1:02 to go. Largely due
to poor defensive play by Cornell, Bandurski saw a lot of action in the
middle stanza; the rather astonishing second-period total of 26 saves
was announced for the Big Red netminder. Not only was this just two
shy of John Detwiler's Cornell record for saves in a single period (and
one shy of his second-period record), but it also meant that Providence
had more shots in that period (28) than the Big Red did in the entire
game (27).
Already down by four, it was not likely that Cornell was going to come
out fired up for the third period, but except for Bandurski and Hannah,
the team pretty much went through the motions for the final 20 minutes.
(I hope the team was fighting the flu or something) The Friars, mean-
while, kept pouring it on. Three minutes in, Darby skated untouched
through the Big Red defense and fired toward the net, but the puck
floated over the crossbar. Providence didn't waste their next oppor-
tunity, which came with Cornell on the power play. Chad Quenneville
and Ian Paskowski combined to force the puck out of the Providence
zone, and Brian Ridolfi picked up the loose puck at center ice, raced
in on a breakaway, and flipped a shot into the right corner of the net
at the 6:22 mark. The Friars found themselves with another 2-on-1
chance a minute later, but George Breen muffed the shot. It made
little difference though, because at the 10:50 mark, Darby's second
goal, through a clump of players from the right point, put Providence
up 6-0. Quenneville closed out the scoring with 3:04 to go, back-
handing a shot into the right side of the net.
The only positive note for the Big Red in this game was the perfor-
mance by Bandurski, who, although he let in seven goals, continued to
show a lot of improvement as well as confidence. He finished the game
with 44 saves. As for Bell, he stopped all 27 shots in recording his
first career shutout. There was a nice gesture by Providence after the
game ended, when Breen picked up the puck, had the rest of the Friars
touch it, then gave it to Bell, presumably as a memento.
A note on the officiating: the referees for this game were Tim Mac-
Conaghy and John Gallagher, which may look like the ECAC's worst
possible pairing, but the officiating was really quite good. There
were a couple of bad calls, but on the whole, the refs let the players
play and did not mess up the game with needless penalties. There also
was far less confusion among the officials than there was in previous
games -- perhaps the new system is starting to take.
Dartmouth takes the week off (for finals, presumably), but the rest of the
ECAC teams will see some action -- including a rare home-and-home series
between travel partners (in this case, Princeton and Yale). Here's this
week's schedule:
Monday, 11/30:
Providence at Brown
Friday, 12/4:
Cornell at Brown
Colgate at Harvard
St Lawrence at RPI
Clarkson at Union
Princeton at Yale
Saturday, 12/5:
Colgate at Brown
Cornell at Harvard
Yale at Princeton
Clarkson at RPI
St Lawrence at Union
Middlebury at Vermont (NC)
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messages on records and you could hear them if you played the records back-
wards? Of course, these days we have CDs -- you just know they're down in
Hell going, 'Damn! NOW what do we do?'"
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