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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!
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