This is a long one, so, for your browsing/deleting convenience:
Contents: Around the WCHA
(includes MSC to carry WCHA/CCHA Showcase
& YET ANOTHER mention of ESPN2 showing UMD-UW)
Around the country
Quote of the week
Gophers Notebook: Recruiting notes (Minn & St. Cloud)
Jason Godbout Injury Update
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Items from Gregg Wong's "College Hockey Report" in today's (11/1/94) St. Paul
Pioneer Press have a mostly-Minnesota slant, but a few notes (mostly things
we've heard before on the list) from elsewhere. All reprinted without
permission, as usual.
Around the WCHA
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* Alaska-Anchorage, 13-0 last season when it led after two periods, wasted a 3-1
lead entering the third period Friday at Minnesota-Duluth and lost 4-3 in
overtime. The Seawolves never have had much luck in Duluth (1-10-1). They were
swept by UMD despite the work of goalie Lee Schill, who stopped 94 of 100 shots.
* Colorado college center R. J. Enga, son of 1962 Gophers football captain Dick
Enga, scored his 100th career point over the weekend (40 goals and 60 assists).
* Denver's defensive corps was decimated by injuries last season and is off to a
bad start this season. Sophomore Mike Corbett suffered a torn knee ligament and
is out for the season, reducing the Pioneers to five defensemen.
* Gophers junior defenseman Dan Trebil leads the WCHA in scoring with 10 points
on one goal and nine assists. Senior Jeff Callinan leads league goalies with a
2.24 goals-against average.
* Senior goalie Jerome Butler from Roseau and sophomore wing Aaron Novak of
Cloquet have quit the Minnesota-Duluth team because of a lack of playing time.
Meanwhile, Mike Sertich will coach his 500th game Saturday.
* St. Cloud State senior wing Marc Gagnon broke his ankle last Friday and is
expected to be out until the end of January. Huskies sophomore wing Dave
Paradise of Mounds View has scored two short-handed goals.
* On the tube: Saturday night's Wisconsin-UMD game from Madison will be
televised on ESPN2.
And Midwest Sports Channel will telecast all four games in the WCHA/CCHA
College Hockey Showcase from the Civic Center on Thanksgiving weekend. The
matchups: Friday, Nov. 25, Wisconsin vs. Michigan State at 5 p.m. and Minnesota
vs. Michigan at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 26, Wisconsin vs. Michigan at 5 p.m. and
Minnesota vs. Michigan State at 8 p.m.
[I had heard that one of these games was a candidate to be aired on ESPN(2).
But I guess this ends that talk. According to the Gopher Media Guide, MSC was
planning to broadcast all Gopher hockey games EXCEPT these, the Mariucci
Classic, and the Alaska-Anchorage games (and the Swedish team exhibition game).
So this puts the number at 32 of the Gophers' 36 games (+ 2 other WCHA/CCHA
tourney games). -PJS]
* Through the first three weekends of play, league teams have played to 90.8
percent of capacity, with Minnesota, Alaska Anchorage and Wisconsin playing to
full houses at home.
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* Two of the leading scorers at Notre Dame of the CCHA are Wayzata products,
sophomore wing Tim Harberts (6-2-8) and sophomore defenseman Ben Nelsen (3-3-6).
Irish junior goalie Wade Salzman from Duluth East is 1-1 and has a 4.50 GAA.
* At home on the road: Between getting the boot from their old arena and the
time their new 6,000-seat arena opens next year, New Hampshire's Wildcats of
Hockey East are playing their home games at Manchester, 45 minutes away from the
Durham campus, and at Portland, Maine, an hour away.
Quote of the Week
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First-year Miami of Ohio coach Mark Mazzoleni, a former Gophers assistant,
commenting on his team: "My biggest concern is how we're going to score. You
can work your butt off, but you still have to score."
{end of "College Hockey Report"}
I liked last week's "Quote of the Week" better; it was from Gopher coach Doug
Woog: "Can you believe we've got three goalies and none of them's a flake?"
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Wong also had some items in the "Gophers Notebook":
{start more quoted stuff}
Bloomington Jefferson senior wing Mike Anderson, a 6-foot, 180-pounder, has made
an oral commitment to attend Minnesota next year.
He is the second player who has said he will join the Gophers next year, joining
defenseman Billy Kohn from Roseville and the St. Paul Vulcans.
St. Louis Park center Erik Rasmussen and Warroad center Wyatt Smith will make
recruiting visits to Minnesota this week.
Two Metro-area players also have committed to St. Cloud State, which plays the
Gophers this weekend. Orally committing to the Huskies are wing George Awada
from Henry Sibley and the Vulcans, and center Matt Bailey of Elk River High
School.
The early signing date is Nov. 9.
* Freshman defenseman Jason Godbout from Hill-Murray returned to practice Monday
after missing last week with a minor shoulder separation. He is expected to be
ready to play this weekend.
{end quoted stuff}
Pam Sweeney Go Gophers!!!
[log in to unmask] 1993 & 1994 WCHA Playoff Champions
1994 NC$$ PHinal PHour
Ski-U-Mah!!!
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