Boston College 2-1-0 3 St. Lawrence 1-0-1 2 Shots: BC 7-10-8 25 SLU 8-11-19 38 Power Play BC: 0 for 4 SLU: 1 for 7 SLU came out skating and hitting well. Keeping the play mostly in the BC zone, SLU tallied first when Kappeller shot a low wrist shot by BC goalie Singewald's stick side. The goal was at 5:33 and assisted by M. Lappin and Meany. I had noticed that Singewald had missed a few low stick side shots during warm-ups. SLU was to keep control of the play for the first half of the period. They were forechecking well and making BC turn the puck over in their defensive zone. However BC was the next to score. BC scored at 10:25 when McCarthy shot on Spagnoletti. Spagnoletti must have thought the puck was going else where becaused he seemed off-balance as the puck went off of his skate abd into the goal. Krayer and Rathbone received assists on the goal. BC went ahead at the 12:09 mark when Haggerty intercepted an SLU clearing pass and slid it across to Hall who sent a low shot in through a well screened Spagnoletti. Joyce of BC was also credited with an assist. SLU would miss fire on a couple of plays during the period, and for the rest of the game. Being their first game, their timing wasn't on. SLU did seem a little tired in the end of the period. A period when BC did not play or control the game that well, but got all of the bounces. Again in the second period, 70% of the play was in BC's defensive zone while BC got the only goal. It was a short handed goal. Beran intercepted a pass out to an SLU point, brought it down and got around the SLU defense- man covering him for a back handed shot from behind the end line. The puck went under the new SLU goalie, Giroux, and trickled in during some shoving and digging for the puck. There were no assists. Spagnoletti and Giroux split the goal tending duty evenly. They blocked all of the shots they should have (except one) and looked consistant, but they weren't tested too hard. SLU tested Singewald heavily in the third period. He was perfect minus one. On the power play, McCourt shot from the point. Meany, half way to the goal redirected the puck past Singewald at 3:05, with an assist to Dent. This gave SLU plenty of time to tie the game up. They sure did try. BC coughed the puck up a couple of times in their own zone, leaving Singewald to make a big save. Singewald must be much improved since the Team USA and Canada games. SLU also miss-fired and hit the post on other tries. BC was able to keep SLU out of their zone during the last three minutes of play. Edwards was the referee for the game. He called a good game. However, I thought that there were some cases when some excess holding and interference should have been called in light of the new emphasis on these points. It wasn't a clutch and grab game and some of the extended holding and wrestling to the ice was called. As for the red line and icing, there were some dump ins which I thought should have gone for icing. They were clearly behind the red line. However, they were usually during equal rushes and the call would have disrupted the flow of the game. SLU looked pretty good for their first game, lacking a little timing and making some errant passes. They cleared their zone well and were hitting in the first period. One thing I did notice is that they lacked their trade mark offensive speed. It was probbaly because it was still early in the season and the lungs weren't all there. BC played the same solid, but unexciting, hockey all night. Not too much offensive flare and some defensive mistakes. However, they did make good on their chances. Both teams looked piss poor during their power plays. Mike Zak Clarkson '87, '91,... "Maui no ka oi!"