Presumably, a lot of fans left the ECAC rinks in a good mood this weekend,
as the home teams won all but one of the games. The Yale fans must have
been especially pleased after the Elis' shocking sweep of St. Lawrence and
Clarkson.
ECAC scores from last weekend:
Friday, 11/30:
BROWN 5, Clarkson 2
HARVARD 8, Cornell 3
RPI 7, Princeton 4
VERMONT 5, Army 3
YALE 9, St. Lawrence 5
Saturday, 12/1:
RPI 5, Army 3
St. Lawrence 7, BROWN 3
VERMONT 3, Princeton 1
YALE 7, Clarkson 4
Sunday, 12/2:
HARVARD 9, Colgate 8 (OT)
ECAC Standings as of 12/3/90:
League Overall
Team W L T Pts GF GA W L T Pts GF GA
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Harvard 6 1 0 12 51 21 6 3 0 12 52 27
St. Lawrence 5 2 0 10 33 30 7 4 0 14 52 43
Vermont 4 2 1 9 26 20 5 5 1 11 39 41
Cornell 3 1 2 8 26 22 4 1 2 10 34 25
RPI 4 2 0 8 28 23 6 4 0 12 51 45
Yale 3 2 1 7 27 26 4 3 1 9 35 37
Clarkson 3 3 1 7 31 31 7 3 1 15 63 43
Princeton 3 4 0 6 32 26 3 5 0 6 34 33
Colgate 1 3 2 4 26 31 6 3 2 14 55 48
Brown 1 4 1 3 16 33 1 5 2 4 23 46
Army 1 5 1 3 20 32 3 6 2 8 44 44
Dartmouth 0 5 1 1 13 34 0 5 1 1 13 34
Some scores from Division III:
Friday, 11/30:
American International 4, Hamilton 3
Geneseo State 8, Brockport State 2
Plattsburgh State 7, Oswego State 4
Saturday, 12/1:
Fitchburg State 4, Nichols 1
Hamilton 5, Norwich 2
Jim Teresco posted some notes about the two games in the Union College
Achilles Invitational that involved Union, and I managed to find some
tidbits on the other two games:
Elmira 8, St. Anselm 4
St. Anselm came out on fire early in this game, and had a 1-0 lead at
the 6:28 mark on Ron Norton's goal. Elmira took over the rest of the
game, however, as they scored the next five goals. Greg Moore tallied
his first two scores of the year, and Joey Spinelli, the Soaring
Eagles' leading scorer, notched his 15th goal of the season. A little
sloppiness in the third period allowed St. Anselm to get three more
goals, as Erik Long tallied twice, but it was a case of too little too
late. Elmira had only 19 shots on goal. Soaring Eagles goalie Tom
O'Brien improved to 5-0 on the season, making 29 saves.
Tournament championship:
Elmira 10, Williams 0
Freshman goaltender Dave Laudato stopped 22 shots as he recorded
Elmira's first shutout of the year. He had plenty of help from the
Soaring Eagles' first line, as center Joey Spinelli scored four goals
and assisted on three others while right wing Bernie Cassell picked up
three goals and three assists of his own. A weary Williams team was
playing its third road game in four nights and could not keep up with
the fast-skating Eagles. Over the two games, the Elmira power play
scored in eight of its 14 chances.
Other notes:
Hamilton 5, Norwich 2
Hamilton's Eric Roberts and Ken Entlinger each had a pair of goals, and
goalie Kyle Hublitz made 34 saves as the Continentals won their first
game of the season.
Yale 9, St. Lawrence 5
Yale scored almost as many goals in this game as they had in their
previous four ECAC games combined (11), and Craig Ferguson was the
story for the Elis with four goals and two assists. Yale built a 6-1
lead in the second period and then pretty much coasted the rest of the
way for the victory.
St. Lawrence 7, Brown 3
Seven different players had goals for the Saints, and Dan LaPerriere
led the way with a goal and four assists. Les Kuntar made 29 saves for
St. Lawrence.
Vermont 5, Army 3
Vermont 3, Princeton 1
Mike Millham stopped 47 of the 51 shots he faced during the weekend as
this sweep propelled Vermont into third place in the ECAC -- the
highest the team has placed in a few seasons. John LeClair had two
goals against Army and picked up a goal and two assists against
Princeton.
RPI 7, Princeton 4
RPI 5, Army 3
Joe Juneau returned for the Engineers this weekend after being out for
most of RPI's games with a back injury, and he picked up two goals and
an assist against the Tigers. Juneau also posted four assists against
Army, while linemate Derek DeCosty had a hat trick against the Cadets.
Harvard 9, Colgate 8 (OT)
The teams traded the lead five times in this shootout. Harvard had a
2-0 lead with less than three minutes gone in the first period, but
Colgate exploded for four straight goals. The Crimson made it 4-3 late
in the first, and tied the score just 36 seconds into the second
period. Colgate again took the lead with two power plays in the
second, but then it was Harvard's turn to put up four unanswered goals,
building up an 8-6 advantage in the third period.
Harvard looked to have the win with an 8-7 lead late in the game, but
Colgate freshman Chris Ladner tied it up with 44 seconds remaining in
regulation. The overtime lasted all of nine seconds, as the Crimson's
Peter Ciavaglia took a pass from Ted Donato and poked it into the net.
It was Ciavaglia's fourth goal of the game. Mike Vukonich also had a
pair of goals and three assists, and Donato, the ECAC Player of the
Week, had three assists of his own. Ciavaglia (10-11-21) and Donato
(5-16-21) are tied for the scoring lead in the ECAC. For the Red
Raiders, Marc Dupere led the way with four assists, Andrew Dickson had
a hat trick, and Jamie Cooke also scored twice. Harvard goalie Chuckie
Hughes played the entire game and ended up with 24 saves, while Greg
Menges and Ken Baker split time in the Colgate net and stopped a total
of 25 shots.
Harvard 8, Cornell 3
Well, as you can guess from a score like this, Harvard played extremely
well and Cornell played its worst game of the season. The Crimson
skated rings around the Big Red players and dominated every phase of
the game -- offense, defense, goaltending, special teams, you name it.
Cornell was unable to get a good forechecking game going and made
several mistakes in their own end, which led to Harvard goals. The
Crimson were led by team captain Ted Donato's five assists, and Ted
Drury, who was runner-up to Cornell's Kent Manderville in the ECAC
Rookie of the Year voting last season, posted two unassisted goals as
well.
It took Harvard a little while to get started in this one -- until
11:40 of the first period. With Cornell on the power play, defenseman
Tim Vanini tried a pass from behind his own net, but Drury stole the
puck, skated in alone on Cornell goalie Jim Crozier, and beat him with
a low backhand shot. Less than three minutes later, Harvard went up 2-
0 on a nice play by Donato and Peter Ciavaglia. Donato took the puck
deep into the Cornell zone and faked a shot which drew the defense and
Jim Crozier to the left side of the net. Donato then slid the puck to
a wide-open Ciavaglia, who was alone on the right side and had an empty
net to shoot at. Scott Barringer scored the Crimson's third goal at
2:34 of the second period, when he let fly with a slap shot from the
right faceoff circle.
A minute later, Cornell made it 3-1 on a power play goal, as Trent
Andison picked up the puck in front of Harvard goalie Allain Roy and
backhanded it in. Cornell was able to mount some pressure on offense
for the next ten minutes, but it was to no avail, as Roy repeatedly
denied the Big Red. At 13:54 of the second, Derek Maguire scored his
first goal and the first of five straight by the Crimson when he
blasted a high shot from just over the blue line that ricocheted off
the right goalpost and into the net. Cornell seemed to have a chance
later in the period when they wound up with a 57-second 5-on-3 power
play, but the Crimson killed it off -- in fact, they did not even allow
a shot on goal.
With 59 seconds left in the second, referee Tim MacConaghy (who made
more calls than were really necessary in this relatively tranquil game)
hit Cornell's Dave Burke with a major penalty for hitting from behind,
after the Crimson's Steve Flomenhoft skated full steam toward the
crease and Burke knocked him into the net. With Burke in the box,
Harvard proceeded to put the game out of reach. Ted Drury again stole
the puck in the Cornell end, this time taking it away from Tim Vanini
at the blue line while the Big Red was on a line change, and Drury shot
the puck between Crozier's legs just 58 seconds into the third period.
A minute and a half later, Mike Vukonich put Harvard up 6-1 when he
one-timed the puck past a screened Crozier. After this goal, Corrie
D'Alessio replaced Crozier between the pipes, but it didn't make much
difference to the Harvard players. D'Alessio make a save on a Ted
Donato shot, but he lost the rebound, and Harvard freshman Michel
Breistroff tipped it in for the score midway through the final period.
Then Vukonich rounded out the scoring for the Crimson when he took the
puck between two Cornell defensemen and skated in alone on D'Alessio,
beating him low.
Cornell's Dave Burke made the score 8-2 with 4:14 left in the game, as
he picked up his first career goal by shooting the puck from the left
circle past a screened Roy. This happened apparently just after Arthur
"The Psychic" Mintz mentioned to the Cornell radio announcers that he
hoped Burke's first score would not come in a blowout loss like this
one. (Jinx!) Burke himself later described the moment in terms you
usually don't hear associated with the first goal of one's career,
saying, "I don't know if I've ever been involved in something so
totally meaningless in my entire life." Well, that's the kind of game
it was. Ryan Hughes tallied the final score of the game, as Kent Man-
derville shot the puck off the crossbar and Hughes shoveled the loose
puck into the net. A few minutes after that, the game finally ended.
Crozier had 23 saves and D'Alessio had six, while Roy, who is virtually
unbeatable against Cornell (in five regular-season games against the
Big Red, he has allowed only eight goals), turned aside 24 shots.
Basically, this was one of those affairs where the losing coach tries
desperately to find a bright spot and winds up saying, "At least we got
this one over with early in the season." Well, they did, and it
remains to be seen if the Big Red can address some of the sloppy play
that has been present for the last few games. As for Harvard, they
were lightly regarded during the preseason, but they all of a sudden
find themselves alone in first place in the ECAC, with their usual
high-powered offense pretty much intact. Barring a total collapse
(like last year's), they'll be a strong force in the league.
Aside to Nate: Maybe you and Steve would have been better off watching the
Brown-Clarkson game, hmm?
Next weekend's games:
Dec. 7
Brown at Colgate
Clarkson at Princeton
St. Lawrence at Army
Vermont at Harvard
Yale at Cornell
RPI at New Hampshire (NLG)
Dec. 8
Brown at Cornell
Clarkson at Army
RPI at Harvard
St. Lawrence at Princeton
Yale at Colgate
Bill Fenwick
Cornell '86
LET'S GO RED!!
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