Hockey East Overall Non-league
GP W-L-T Pts GF-GA || GP W-L-T GF-GA W-L-T
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1 Boston College 9 7-2-0 14 46-36 || 18 13-5-0 82-58 | 6-3-0
Boston University 9 6-1-2 14 46-23 || 18 12-4-2 108-60 | 6-3-0
3 New Hampshire 8 4-3-1 9 31-25 || 20 15-4-1 97-64 | 11-1-0
4 Maine 7 4-3-0 8 33-26 || 23 17-5-1 126-69 | 13-2-1
Merrimack 8 4-4-0 8 34-42 || 17 8-8-1 84-87 | 4-4-1
6 Providence 8 3-4-1 7 39-37 || 18 13-4-1 105-65 | 10-0-0
7 Lowell 10 2-7-1 5 32-53 || 19 5-13-1 68-102 | 3-6-0
8 Northeastern 9 1-7-1 3 37-56 || 19 4-14-1 80-111 | 3-7-0
1/4/91 Northeastern 11 at Air Force 3 NC
Notre Dame 1 at Boston College 8 NC
1/5/91 Northeastern 5 at Air Force 4 NC ot
Lowell 4 at Alaska-Anchorage 5 NC
Miami 4 at Maine 11 NC
Boston College 3 at Merrimack 2 HE
Boston University 3 at New Hampshire 3 HE ot
Alaska-Fairbanks 2 at Providence 8 NC
1/6/91 Lowell 1 at Alaska-Anchorage 6 NC
Miami 1 at Maine 10 NC
Alaska-Fairbanks 3 at Providence 6 NC
1/8/91 New Hampshire at Boston College HE
Merrimack at Boston University HE
1/11/91 Merrimack at Alabama-Huntsville NC
St Lawrence at Boston College NC
Clarkson at Boston University NC NESN
Northeastern at Maine HE
1/12/91 Merrimack at Alabama-Huntsville NC
Clarkson at Boston College NC
St Lawrence at Boston University NC NESN - 1/13 (delayed)
RPI at Lowell NC
Northeastern at Maine HE
Providence at New Hampshire HE
at BOSTON COLLEGE 8, NOTRE DAME 1
Notre Dame had come off three close games against conference teams on
this Eastern road swing, losing to Princeton, Army, and UNH, but now
they ran into one of the very best in the nation and it showed. BC
scored three goals in each of the first two periods and led 6-0 after
two enroute to the win before 6,523 at Conte Forum.
In the first period, Marty McInnis led off the scoring when he sneaked
behind two defensemen, took a pass from David Franzosa and beat Irish
goalie Greg Louder (a freshman from nearby Acton, Mass.) at 1:56. David
Emma notched a power play goal at 11:20 when his wrist shot from the right
faceoff dot found the net. Then, Marc Beran scored his first of the year
at 15:49 when he picked up a rebound far to the left of Louder and flipped
it in.
It was more of the same in the second period. Bill Guerin's centering pass
from behind Louder went in off a defender at 6:55, and a phantom assist was
awarded to BC goalie Sandy Galuppo. Eagle defenseman Joe Cleary stole a
centering pass at the blue line, walked in and scored on a backhander at
9:57, at which point Scott LaGrand replaced Galuppo in the BC net with BC
up 5-0. Emma added a power play goal, his 12th goal of the year, at 19:57.
In the third period, Ted Crowley, rumored to be leaving BC after this season
for the Olympic Team and the pros afterward, made it 7-0 at 6:08. LaGrand
was replaced by Mike Silva halfway through the period as the third BC
goalie. McInnis made it 8-0 at 17:48 before Matt Osiecki broke the shutout
for Notre Dame with a shot from the right point at 18:09. Louder finished
with 26 saves for the Irish while Galuppo had 10, LaGrand had 11, and
Silva had 5 for BC.
Notre Dame is a young team that should only get better as time goes on
(only one senior dressed). I was very happy to meet Coach Ric Schafer
after the game (of course, he is a member of this list) and I doubt that
ND could have picked a better person to lead its charge back to hockey
supremacy. Despite the lopsided loss, I believe that playing teams that
are better than you can only serve to make your team a better one, and
Coach Schafer seemed to agree. (We've had enough experience with that
over just the past two years at Merrimack!) Louder played well in net
and he should prove to be a worthy successor to Lance Madson. The rest
of the young team showed promise; of their 27 shots, they had quite a few
quality scoring opportunities, many by sophomore right wing Sterling
Black, the player I was most impressed with.
The ND game notes state that the Irish will be hosting Wisconsin next
year on 12/7/91 and playing a home-and-home with Michigan in January 1992,
so it's good to see that ND continues to upgrade its schedule. I think
it will pay off. Good luck to them the remainder of this year.
NORTHEASTERN 11, at AIR FORCE 3
NORTHEASTERN 5, at AIR FORCE 4 ot
Thanks to Charlie Shub for his postings on this series. He mentioned that
two NU players had hat tricks in the first game; they were Brian Sullivan
and defenseman Rob Cowie, who had a pure hat trick with the last goal of
the second period to make it 8-1 and the first two of the third. Cowie
and Sullivan each also added an assist. I saw no details on game two
other than what Charlie posted.
BOSTON COLLEGE 3, at MERRIMACK 2
Boy, this is really developing into a rivalry in a hurry. 7 of the last 8
games have been nailbiters, including the last five. And don't you think
the area fans don't know it. For this game, Merrimack drew 3,408, which
might not sound like much to fans in the West - but it is the largest crowd
to see a game at Merrimack in over three years, and that's with the
students on vacation. The average has been around 1300 this season. I'm
sure that last month's 6-5 Merrimack win had a lot to do with the crowd.
The rink holds 3,600.
The score really is reflective of the game. It was too close to call;
both teams had their chances, including Merrimack which went 0 for 8 on
the power play (BC went 1 for 3). Shots were even at 35-35 and both
goalies were outstanding. Kevin Yetman referred to Steve D'Amore playing
over the Goose, who is returning from an injury suffered the day before
Thanksgiving. Coach Ron Anderson is hoping for a less stressful, so to
speak, opportunity to get the Goose back in goal. D'Amore figured to
play Saturday night and at BU tomorrow unless he played terrible, which
he didn't. We may see Goose this coming weekend at Alabama-Huntsville,
although I think it would be nice to see Mike Doneghey get a start as
well.
There was no scoring until 15:08 of the second period, when David Emma
gave BC the lead with a shot from the left circle. Marty McInnis made
it 2-0 just 1:34 later when he jammed in a rebound on the power play,
and that's how the period ended. BTW, the HEM line has been broken up;
in both the Notre Dame and Merrimack games, BC's top line has been
Marc Beran-Emma-Heinze ("HEB" line?) and McInnis has centered David
Franzosa and Bill Guerin on the second line. I don't know that this
has improved the Eagles' offense any; don't be surprised to see McInnis
return to the first line soon.
It seemed that Merrimack had had their chances and that down 2-0, maybe
they would allow BC to open the lead up in the third. But that's not
what happened. Merrimack outplayed BC until late in the period. First,
Agostino Casale took a pass from Dan Gravelle and blasted a shot by
Sandy Galuppo at 3:58 to finally get his team on the board. The goal was
Casale's 15th on the year; he leads Merrimack with 15-10--25 while Gravelle
is right behind at 10-14--24. Just 1:33 later, Jeff Massey knocked in his
own rebound to tie the game and the place went crazy. The rest of the
period was dominated by the Warriors, who late in the period had outshot
BC 11-7, with all of BC's shots coming from the blue line and nine of 11
Merrimack shots coming from point-blank range.
Yet, the great teams know how to win, and BC found a way. A 2-on-1 with
Guerin and Franzosa resulted in Guerin's beating D'Amore at 19:09, and
BC went home to Chestnut Hill with a real squeaker of a win, having
regained first place in Hockey East due to BU's tie with UNH (see Chris
Craig's posting for details).
at PROVIDENCE 8, ALASKA-FAIRBANKS 2
at PROVIDENCE 6, ALASKA-FAIRBANKS 3
PC got two goals and an assist from 4th-liner Bob Creamer enroute to the
8-2 win. The Friars outshot the Nanooks 11-1 in the first and led 3-0.
Dean Fedorchuk got the visitors on the board in the second after Gary
Socha had made it 4-0, and Brian McCarthy (PC) and Shawn Ulrich (UA-F)
swapped goals before the end of the period to make it 5-2. Creamer,
Mike Boback, and Rob Gaudreau all scored for PC in the third period.
No details on game two.
at ALASKA-ANCHORAGE 5, LOWELL 4
at ALASKA-ANCHORAGE 6, LOWELL 1
Last Wednesday night, WCCM, which covers Merrimack games, had its
broadcast of Alaska-Fairbanks at Merrimack picked up by a station in
Fairbanks since they couldn't send a crew all the way out here, which
means I'm now known in Alaska since I went on during one intermission
of that game :-). Similarly, WLLH (Lowell) picked up KBYR's coverage
of this series, so I got to hear much of the first game (both ended
about 2 am our time). I think this is great and I'd like to see
more stations work together in this manner.
Lowell got on the board just 55 seconds in when Dave Gatti's pass
deflected in off an Anchorage player. Rob Conn tied it at 6:23,
assisted from Jim Tobin. There were only two penalties in the period,
both to Lowell - and there was to be only one more the rest of the game.
Each team scored twice in the second. Lowell went up 3-1 on goals
from Dan O'Connell at 7:02 and Gatti at 9:41. Dean Larson made it 3-2
when Lowell's Mike Erickson coughed up the puck and Larson came in
alone, beating Lowell goalie Dwayne Roloson with a backhander at 11:52.
Derek Donald tied it with 56 seconds left in the period.
In the third, play was even until Conn finally put Anchorage ahead at
14:50 on an assist from Larson. The goal was Conn's 16th. Steve Ablitt
tied it for Lowell at 16:32, but just 46 seconds later Larson got the
last goal and game-winner. Roloson was pulled with a minute left and
UA-A was penalized with 37 seconds left - their first of the game and
third penalty overall in the game - but Lowell couldn't capitalize.
The game ended with what the announcers described as a brawl after
O'Connell ran at Seawolves' goalie Paul Krake, but I heard no word on
possible DQs or suspensions. Also, no word on last night's 6-1 score.
- mike
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