Local news reports indicate that former U.Maine goaltender
        Jim Tortorella has been appointed at a new assistant ice
        hockey coach for the University of New Hampshire, to replace
        Chris Serino.  (Serino was made head baseball coach a few
        weeks ago.)  Among the highlights from Tortorella's college
        career mentioned in the paper were the facts that he was
        a four year starter at Maine, was a member of the very first
        U. Maine teams under Jack Semler, and was the only collegiate
        goaltender ever to score a goal into a defended net (it happened
        at RPI against international competition during a tournament).
 
        While I'm glad to see Tortorella coming to UNH (I saw him play
        at Maine while I was a graduate student there from 1979-1981),
        I think he may not be the only goaltender to have scored a goal.
        Joe Diorio, a friend of mine, and former head coach for the
        Division III Nathanial Hawthorne College program (the University
        went bankrupt a few years ago) often tells a story about a
        goaltender at Bridgewater State College (Mass.--when they still
        had a program) who scored a goal on a delayed penalty call against
        the other team.  Rather than go to the bench the goaltender for
        BSC (I think his name was Deacon Peroda) positioned himself in
        front of the opposing net and deflected a slapshot past the other
        goalie with his own goalie stick.  Diorio, who also played goalie
        for Bridgewater at the time, indicates that no rule then prevented
        goalies from skating into the offensive zone.  But, following the
        incident in question, a rule was instituted the following season.
 
        If the Bridgewater story is accurate, then it was likely to have
        occured around the same time as the Tortorella goal (1978-1981, or
        so).  Does any one have any more stories of goalies scoring?  Or,
        can anybody verify the account given by my sometimes hyperbolic
        friend?  Any way, welcome to Durham, Jim Tortorella!