Eric writes: >Many thanks to Bill Fenwick, I stand corrected. The first tie for RPI >was in the quarter finals of the NC$$ tourney and I believe it was to >Lake Superior. It was the second night of play in the best of 3 ( I >think - please correct me if I am wrong). After winning thirty straight, including a 7-3 win in the first night of the NC$$ Quarterfinal series against Lake Superior (two games, total goals - best of three was not instituted until the 1989 NC$$'s) in 1985, RPI went on to beat Minnesota-Duluth in 3 ots in the semifinal, 6-5 (John Carter's winner), and Providence, 2-1, in the championship game. They carried a 32-0-1 streak into the 1985-86 season. The Engineers began the 1985-86 season in the following way: Toronto 2 at RPI 12 (banner-raising night) RPI 9 at Merrimack 5 (trailed 4-3 late in the 2nd) Union 3 at RPI 6 RPI 4 at St Lawrence 3 (ot) RPI 1 at Clarkson 1 (ot, somehow I ended up with the official RPI game tape for this game which is in my archives) for a 36-0-2 mark, then they had the streak broken by losing to Yale, 8-5, in Houston Field House. They went on to win their next six, BTW, before bowing to Michigan State, 8-3, in the final of the GLI. So they ended up losing only one of 45 games during that stretch. --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]