Saturday night, in the finals of the National Capital Tournament, Merrimack
beat Ottawa U. 2-1. As the score indicates, it was a defensive struggle. The
player of the game was Merrimack's freshman goalie, Martin Legault, who had 41
saves for the Warriors. Legault is from Gloucester, a suburb of Ottawa, so his
coming home may have contributed to his performance. Ottawa's goalie, J-F
Rivard, their normal backup, was the MVP for the Gee-Gees in the game, he had
19 saves. Jim Gibson scored in the first for Merrimack, Matt Adams scored in
the second to make it 2-0 for Merrimack, and Alain Tardif scored a power-play
goal in the third for Ottawa to break Legault's shutout. I'm wondering how
much PT Legault gets normally, he seemed to play quite well on Saturday. I
didn't get to see any of the other games, so I didn't see Merrimack's other
goalie. I was also impressed by the two huge freshman defensemen that
Merrimack has, 6'5" John Jakopin and 6'8" Steve McKenna. They could be forces
in a couple of years. BTW, the ref left quite a bit to be desired, especially
in the late stages of the game, but the university refs here usually do.
 
Here are the other scores, for those who are interested (and those who aren't)
:)
 
Friday:
Merrimack 5 (Jim Gibson 2, Chris Ross, Cooper Naylor, Rob Atkinson);
Western Ontario 3 (Steve Rucchin, Dave Matsos, Brian Grieve)
MVP: Merrimack: Dave Capuano, Western Ontario: Matsos
 
Ottawa 5 (Jason Corrigan 3, Dave Whittom 2);
Colgate 2 (Bruce Gardiner, Steve Dubarry)
MVP: Ottawa: Corrigan, Colgate: Scott Steeves
 
Saturday (Consolation Final):
Colgate 8 (Chris Deprofio 2, Mike Harder, Jason Craig, Matt Garzone, Sam
Raffoul, Bruce Gardiner, Rob Metzadded)
Western Ontario 3 (James Naylor, Steve Rucchin, Joel Palmer)
MVP: Colgate: Mike Harder, Western Ontario: ???
 
Tournament all-star team
G: Matt Weder (Colgate)
D: John Jakopin (Merrimack) [Also Tournament MVP]
   C.C. Sauriol (Ottawa)
C: Steve Rucchin (Western Ontario)
W: Jason Corrigan (Ottawa)
   Cooper Naylor (Merrimack)
 
See you later,
John
 
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