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Scores and updated standings from Hockey East: Hockey East Overall Non-league GP W-L-T Pts GF-GA || GP W-L-T GF-GA W-L-T ======================================================== 1 Providence 2 1-0-1 3 7-5 || 6 5-0-1 32-18 | 4-0-0 2 Merrimack 1 1-0-0 2 8-4 || 4 2-1-1 27-22 | 1-1-1 3 Boston College 1 1-0-0 2 3-2 || 2 2-0-0 8-3 | 1-0-0 4 Boston University 2 0-1-1 1 5-6 || 4 1-2-1 20-22 | 1-1-0 5 Lowell 2 0-1-1 1 10-12 || 6 1-4-1 31-37 | 1-3-0 6 Northeastern 2 0-1-1 1 12-16 || 5 0-4-1 21-38 | 0-3-0 7 Maine 0 0-0-0 0 0-0 || 6 5-1-0 34-15 | 5-1-0 8 New Hampshire 0 0-0-0 0 0-0 || 5 5-0-0 33-14 | 5-0-0 ======================================================== 11/9/90 Air Force 1 at Maine 7 NC Alabama-Huntsville 3 at New Hampshire 6 NC at JFK Coliseum (Manchester, NH) Lowell 8 at Northeastern 8 HE ot Boston University 3 at Providence 3 HE ot 11/10/90 Providence 4 at Lowell 2 HE Air Force 1 at Maine 5 NC Alabama-Huntsville 2 at New Hampshire 8 NC Merrimack 8 at Northeastern 4 HE 11/11/90 Boston University 2 at Boston College 3 HE 11/13/90 New Hampshire at Merrimack HE NESN-TV Boston College at Northeastern HE 11/16/90 Denver at Boston University NC Kent State at Lowell NC Alaska-Anchorage at Maine NC Boston College at Michigan State NC New Hampshire at Northeastern HE Merrimack at Providence HE 11/17/90 Denver at Boston University NC Alaska-Anchorage at Maine NC Kent State at Merrimack NC Boston College at Michigan State NC 11/18/90 Northeastern at Lowell HE 4:00 11/20/90 Northeastern at Boston College HE Providence at Brown NC Boston University at Harvard NC Alaska-Anchorage at New Hampshire NC 11/21/90 Lowell at Merrimack HE NESN-TV By the way, my standings program, which I will release soon to anyone interested (send me mail), currently outputs teams according to the following criteria (move on down the list if ties occur): 1. League points 2. League wins 3. Fewest league losses 4. Goal differential in league games (more is better) 5. Alphabetical order If anyone has any comments on this, please send mail. I'm not sure if it is good to go this far, or if I should just list them in alphabetical order if points are equal, or pts & wins, etc. Now, onto league highlights. PLAYER OF THE WEEK ...is Providence's Rob Gaudreau, who scored the game-tying goal at 10:27 of the third period as the Friars earned a point against visiting BU, 3-3. On Saturday, Gaudreau scored two power play goals with under two minutes left to break a 2-2 tie and give PC a 4-2 win at Lowell. He has a five game scoring streak alive with 6-6--12 overall. Other nominees: David Emma, Boston College; Jim Montgomery, Maine; Dan Gravelle, Merrimack; Scott Morrow, New Hampshire. ROOKIE OF THE WEEK ...is a tie this week between Maine goalie Mike Dunham and Providence goalie Mike Heinke. This is the third consecutive week Heinke has earned Rookie of the Week as he stopped 23 shots to help PC to a 3-3 tie against BU. Dunham had 17 saves in Maine's 7-1 win over Air Force Friday. He has given up just one goal in each of his last two starts after allowing 7 against Lake Superior. Ironically, both goalies were selected by New Jersey in the NHL draft (Dunham - 1990/ 3rd round, Heinke - 1989/5th round). GOALTENDING LEADERS HOCKEY EAST OVERALL Name, class, school W-L-T GP Min Svs Pct GA GAA W-L-T Pct GAA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott LaGrand, so, BC 1-0-0 1 60 21 .913 2 2.00 1-0-0 .913 2.00 Brad Mullahy, so, Prov 1-0-0 1 60 27 .931 2 2.00 3-0-0 .889 2.67 Mike Heinke, fr, Prov 0-0-1 1 65 23 .885 3 2.77 2-0-1 .911 2.88 Scott Cashman, so, BU 0-1-0 1 60 25 .893 3 3.00 1-1-0 .914 5.00 Dwayne Roloson, fr, UL 0-1-0 1 59 32 .914 3 3.02 0-1-0 .914 3.02 Yannick Gosselin, so, Merr 1-0-0 1 60 27 .871 4 4.00 2-0-0 .879 3.50 Garth Snow, jr, Maine 0-0-0 0 0 0 .000 0 0.00 3-0-0 .867 1.97 Pat Morrison, sr, UNH 0-0-0 0 0 0 .000 0 0.00 3-0-0 .902 2.67 Mike Dunham, fr, Maine 0-0-0 0 0 0 .000 0 0.00 2-1-0 .886 3.11 SCORING LEADERS HOCKEY EAST OVERALL Name, class, pos, school GP G A Pts Pen/Min GP G A Pts Pen/Min ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sebastien LaPlante, so, lw, NU 2 2 3 5 1/2 4 3 4 7 2/4 Dan Gravelle, so, c, Merr 1 3 1 4 0/0 4 6 7 13 1/2 Lyle Wildgoose, sr, lw, PC 2 2 2 4 1/2 6 7 2 9 7/14 Mike Taylor, fr, c, NU 2 2 2 4 1/2 5 2 4 6 2/4 Scott Wenham, so, d, UL 2 1 3 4 0/0 6 1 5 6 3/6 Rob Gaudreau, jr, rw, PC 2 3 0 3 1/2 6 6 6 12 2/4 Shawn McEachern, jr, lw, BU 2 2 1 3 0/0 4 3 3 6 2/4 Dave Pensa, so, lw, UL 2 2 1 3 3/7 (?) 6 4 2 6 7/15 Rob Cowie, sr, d, NU 2 2 1 3 1/2 5 2 3 5 3/6 David Sacco, so, c, BU 2 1 2 3 0/0 4 3 5 8 2/4 Howie Rosenblatt, sr, rw, Merr 1 1 2 3 2/4 4 6 4 10 7/14 David Emma, sr, c, BC 1 1 2 3 1/2 2 1 2 3 1/2 Dave Stevens, so, c, UL 2 0 3 3 0/0 6 1 5 6 4/8 Jim Montgomery, so, rw, Maine 0 0 0 0 0/0 6 3 10 13 2/4 Jean-Yves Roy, jr, rw, Maine 0 0 0 0 0/0 6 5 7 12 2/4 HUSKIES OFF TO ROUGH START, MCKENNEY SHAKES UP GOALTENDING The early story around Hockey East is the sudden collapse of the Northeastern Huskies. The veteran defense that was supposed to anchor NU's chances in 90-91 has yet to show up. The Huskies have surrendered an incredible 34 goals in their last four games, a GAA of nearly 8.50 (one game was tied in overtime). The joke was that NU had at least improved over last week, when St Lawrence & Clarkson each scored 9 goals - this week they allowed "only" 8 each to Lowell and Merrimack, supposedly the two worst teams in the league. Junior goalie Tom Cole, who played nearly all of last weekend's series after sub Scott Hopkins was injured, allowed six goals in the first half of Friday's game with Lowell as the Chiefs opened up a 6-4 lead. Cole was relieved by rookie Seth Rudolph, not even on the Huskies' varsity roster, and the change seemed to fire up the Hounds. After Dave Pensa put Lowell up 7-4 early in the third, the Huskies roared back to score four of the next five goals, including the last two from Keith Cyr at 13:12 and Will Averill at 15:38, Averill's goal knotting it up at 8 and forcing the OT. The injury report has the following Huskies on the sidelines: sophomore D Bob Kellogg (mononucleosis, out for season); senior C Jay Schiavo (broken ankle, out six weeks); and sophomore G Scott Hopkins (cervical cord concussion, out until at least Thanksgiving). MERRIMACK LEADS LEAGUE IN SCORING, YANNICK GOSSELIN EMERGES AS TOP GOALIE With Rudolph holding Lowell to only two goals in nearly thirty minutes of play, Coach Don McKenney opted to send Cole to the JV team and start the rookie Saturday night against Merrimack. The Warriors came in having won 7 of the last ten meetings between the two teams. For the fifth straight game, Merrimack's high-octane offense was rolling, rolling, rolling, and the visitors overcame a 2-0 first period deficit to crush Rudolph and NU, 8-4. The Warriors have now lit the lamp 27 times in four games, a Hockey East-leading 6.75 goals/game. Last year, it took them 10 games to score their 27th goal. But, the biggest news for the Warriors is that after an entire season + 4 games of 90-91, a new goaltending leader has apparently emerged for Ron Anderson. After Mike Doneghey and Steve D'Amore struggled in pre- season and the first two games of this year, junior Yannick Gosselin stepped in to end the Paul Westhead style of hockey the Warriors were playing and stabilize the netminding position. The "Goose" has allowed only 7 goals in his last two games, a remarkable accomplishment for a team that felt shell-shocked after giving up over 6 per game last season. Although the team has improved somewhat in their own end, Goose has stopped what should be stopped and then some, something Merrimack sorely needed a goalie to do. In fact, the four goals he allowed to Northeastern were all power play goals. The Huskies dominated play early on and took advantage of Merrimack penalties as Mike Taylor and Sebastien LaPlante scored power play goals to make it 2-0 by the 11:21 mark. But Dan Gravelle, Hockey East's overall scoring leader, scored his first of three with 2:17 left to cut the lead to one by the break. Merrimack stormed out for the second period and scored four goals to roar in front, 5-2, as Rob Atkinson, Matt Crowley, and Gravelle (two to complete his trick) all beat Rudolph. After Dino Grossi tried to get NU back in it early in the third (5-3), Agostino Casale and Howie Rosenblatt put the game out of reach with PPG's. Defenseman Rob Cowie got one back during a long string of Merrimack penalties, but fourth-liner John Barron scored the last goal at 17:46 for the 8-4 final. If the Warriors can get by their first-period blues, they may pull quite a few surprises this year. Opponents have outscored them 10-5 in the first, but Merrimack owns the last two periods by 11-4 and 11-8 margins. ELSEWHERE: PROVIDENCE HOLDS DOWN FIRST, UNH REMAINS UNBEATEN The Friars fought back to tie BU Friday and then came from behind to win at Lowell, 4-2. I saw BU-PC on NESN and truth be told, the Terriers are not a dominating team right now, at least. The Commonwealth Line had some bright moments, but more often than not, PC's defense was able to contain them. John Bradley played a spectacular game in the BU net with Cashman serving an "academic suspension" (no elaboration was forthcoming from Jack Parker), and I hope folks haven't awarded the job to Cashman already, because Bradley will have something to say about that. Look out for the Friars - they are playing excellent two-way hockey right now and their freshman class, the best I have seen so far, is playing like a group of seasoned veterans. All this without Mike Boback, too. New Hampshire is off to its best start in 64 years at 5-0 after sweeping Huntsville, 6-3 and 8-2. Maine, also playing nonleague tilts, is 5-1 after sweeping Air Force. The Black Bears will not open league play until December 1st when they visit Lowell. They will have opened the season with 10 straight non-Hockey East games. Congratulations to Coach Shawn Walsh who got his 150th collegiate victory with Saturday's win. Lowell is not off to a bad start despite the 1-4-1 mark. They came within minutes of being 2-0 in HE and have had no trouble scoring. While Mark Richards has had troubles in net, freshman Dwayne Roloson (Simcoe, Ontario) finally got the call after serving an NCAA-imposed five-game penalty (I'm not sure what for). He played well in losing to Providence, 4-2. Roloson allowed three goals as the fourth came with the net empty. He made 32 saves, including 17 of 18 in the third period. Finally, BU and BC opened up at Conte Forum in front of 7,000 fans, and BC squeezed out a 3-2 win. The Commonwealth Line was shut out as Dave Tomlinson scored both Terrier goals, but BC's HEM Line was in on all three Eagle goals off of Cashman. The fans opened the season strong - BC fans shouted "Silber, Silber" at the Terrier fans (John Silber, BU president, lost the Massachusetts gubernatorial election last week to Republican Bill Weld). BU fans answered back with "Beanpot, Beanpot"; BC fans responded with "Curfew, Curfew", and so on. No dead gophers, but it's still a sign of life. - mike