Bill Fenwick writes:
 
>After a stoppage in play,
>Cornell's Dan Dufresne and Yale's Ray Giroux got into a shoving match near
>the Eli net, both earning high-sticking minors.  While they were being
>ushered to the net, Yale's John Emmons caught up to Auger in front of the
>Cornell bench, grabbed Auger's facemask, and tried to rip his helmet (and
>perhaps head) off.  Not only was this an unwise thing to do, but the loca-
>tion was particularly bad, as most of the Cornell bench proceeded to grab
>Emmons.  When it was all finally sorted out (and it took a while), Emmons
>was handed a major, a misconduct, and a game misconduct, while Jamie Papp,
>who was the first to pounce on Emmons after he had accosted Auger, got a
>minor and a misconduct.
 
In five Ivy League games this year (I don't have Yale's overall
stats), Emmons has 5 goals, 2 assists and 37 penalty minutes (ECAC
counts the game misconduct as 10 minutes). Yale has 10 goals in
those five games. After two periods against Harvard, Emmons was the
only Yale player on the scoresheet - two goals, four penalties. In
the tradition of Steve Martins, I suspect that many of Emmons penalties
are of the retaliatory nature because he attracts a fair amount of
attention (although he never scored more than 5 goals in a season
prior to this year). He is also a big, strong young man who hits a little
bit harder than ECAC refs prefer (see Ryan Mulhern at Brown or even
Mike Grier at BU for a similar situation). I guess the upshot is that you
can be sure something will happen when Emmons is on the ice.
 
Geoff Howell
Drop the Puck Magazine
 
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