In response to Jay H.'s comment about Clarkson's game winning goal. IT WAS OBVIOUSLY IN THE NET! I watched the game on NESN and they showed a replay from a camera above the net. The puck rolled up Kuntar's chest, down his arm and across the goal line. It went a good 5 inches across the line before Kuntar swept it out of the net. He had to reach BACK into the goal to get the puck. I do not understand the tantrum that he threw, except to get the winning goal waved off. He damn well knew where the puck was and he never had control of it. It was very childish of him to go and start banging on the glass to make the goal judge look bad. If that had been the referee, he most likely would have been called for a misconduct. Just because the final wasn't a flashy high speed, offensive game, how can you call it a weak win? I'll admit that the BU-UMO game was that, but Clarkson chose to play more of a defensive game. Clarkson had to do this to keep tabs on SLU's speedy forwards. Clarkson is not known for its speed either. I just think that your impression of the game was colored by what you saw in the HE final. That was a game with a lot more end to end rushes and offensive flair. Some more details on the ECAC final. Clarkson really did storm out strong and took the play right to SLU. SLU wasn't able to get anything together until their pp late in the period after Clarkson had jumped out 3-0. Clarkson got their pp going last night and had three pp goals. SLU did get back into the game on a pp goal. However, Clarkson really had some good chances while killing an SLU pp in the second period. Dave Trombley and Jeff Torey both came close. Clarkson did relax their fore-checking and tried to plain containment defense, not being very aggressive, to allow SLU to get three goals. Clarkson has had trouble in games where they get out to an early lead. At SLU in December, they went up by 4, only to allow the explosive SLU offense to eventually win the game, 6-5 in OT. As Walt from Yale had flatterringly put it, Clarkson will go the way Hugo Belanger goes, which was the case last night. Hugo played a great game and well deserved the MVP, with 3 goals and an assist. Hat's off to Hugo (pun intended). Hugo is the third sophomore at Clarkson to score 100 points, the other two being Kevin Zappia and Colin Patterson. Now for the NCAAs: The seeding in the east will be real interesting, since BC lost early, Maine lost to BU, BU beat Maine and Clarkson was league champs. I feel that all four teams should be the top four seeds, that's easy, but as far as who gets the byes, I don't know. Before the tournaments it was 1. BC, 2. UMO, 3. Clarkson, 4. BU. Now with BU winning HE, the NCAA commis- sion will have trouble justifying making BU third and Clarkson fourth. I think that either Maine or BC will lose a bye. I'm only guessing. Enough from my biased view point. Mike Zak Clarkson '87, '90,... (Fall '91 ?!?)