Results from the Thanksgiving weekend action (almost all of which has been already posted, but what the hell): Thursday, 11/26: Great Alaska Faceoff: Maine 3, Yale 1 Bowling Green 3, Alaska-Fairbanks 2 Friday, 11/27: St. Lawrence 6, BOSTON COLLEGE 6 (OT) Duracell Challenge at Toronto: Lake Superior 8, York 3 Colgate 1, Toronto 1 (OT) Great Alaska Faceoff: Maine 8, Bowling Green 1 Alaska-Fairbanks 5, Yale 3 Saturday, 11/28: HARVARD 4, Brown 2 Vermont 2, DARTMOUTH 1 PRINCETON 3, Boston University 2 Providence 7, CORNELL 0 UMASS-LOWELL 5, Union 4 Duracell Challenge: Colgate 7, York 3 Lake Superior 3, Toronto 1 Great Alaska Faceoff: Bowling Green 5, Yale 3 Maine 6, Alaska-Fairbanks 4 Sunday, 11/29: Clarkson 6, BOSTON COLLEGE 0 UMASS-LOWELL 5, Vermont 2 ECAC standings as of 11/30/92: League Overall Team W L T Pts GF GA W L T Pts GF GA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Harvard 5 0 1 11 26 17 5 1 1 11 29 21 Vermont 4 2 0 8 20 15 5 4 1 11 29 29 Yale 3 0 1 7 25 17 3 3 1 7 32 30 St. Lawrence 3 1 0 6 16 9 6 1 1 13 41 24 Brown 3 3 0 6 26 22 3 3 0 6 26 22 RPI 2 2 0 4 13 11 3 2 2 8 23 19 Clarkson 1 2 1 3 17 11 4 3 1 9 44 17 Cornell 1 2 1 3 10 15 1 3 1 3 10 22 Union 1 2 0 2 5 11 1 4 0 2 14 22 Dartmouth 1 4 0 2 11 21 1 5 0 2 12 29 Princeton 1 3 0 2 16 20 3 3 0 6 27 22 Colgate 0 4 0 0 10 26 1 6 1 3 23 38 Notes on a couple games: Colgate 7, York 3 One night after getting their first point of the season against To- ronto, the Red Raiders finally entered the win column (the last Division I team to do so) at the expense of the York University Yeomen. Colgate opened the scoring at 6:13 of the first period when Sam Raffoul took a pass from Andrew Dickson and beat York goalie Willie Popp to the right side from 10 feet out. The Yeomen came right back at the 10:08 mark with Jim Dean's power-play marker, but Colgate proceeded to blow the game open in the second period with four unanswered goals. Craig deBlois got things started at 6:16 of the second when he tipped in a blast by Dan Gardner. Just 1:02 later, Rob Haddock slapped home a Rod Pamenter rebound to make it 3-1, and then freshman Earl Cronan scored the first of his two goals at the 7:53 mark, wristing the puck in from the right circle. Cronan closed out the second-period scoring at 16:46, as Alan Brown fed him with a cross-ice pass right in front of the York goal and he poked the puck into the net. Bruce Gardiner put the Red Raiders up 6-1 with 4:19 gone in the third. York closed to 6-3 on goals by Shawn Betts and Pino Chiapetta, but Gardiner gave Colgate a little more insurance, knocking the puck home with 6:43 left in the game. Popp wound up with 34 saves, while Colgate goalie Shawn Murray made 21. Clarkson 6, Boston College 0 Chris Rogles was the star of the game, making 45 saves for the Golden Knights. The first two goals of the game were scored by Todd Marchant, who got Clarkson on the board with the only goal of the first period, at the 4:08 mark. The Eagles outshot Clarkson by a 19-6 margin in the second, but two of Clarkson's six shots (by Marchant and Martin d'Orsennens) found the back of the net. Steve Palmer, Dave Green, and Guy Sanderson rounded out the scoring for the Knights in the third period. BC goalie Josh Singewald stopped 18 of 24 shots. Providence 7, Cornell 0 With a score like that, it's no surprise that Providence looked a lot better than Cornell did Saturday afternoon, and in fact, the score was closer than the game. Several Cornell players did not suit up for the game, including freshman wingers P.C. Drouin and Mark Scollan. For Providence, freshman goalie Bob Bell got the call, and he responded with a terrific game. Cornell actually matched up well with a bigger Friar team in a fast- paced, back-and-forth first period, but some sloppy play in their own end cost the Big Red a pair of goals and should have cost them twice that many. Providence's first shot of the game, by Bob Cowan, was blocked by Cornell goalie Andy Bandurski, but he chose to tip the puck away in front of the net rather than covering it up. Erik Peterson made him pay for that decision, slapping the puck into the left side of the net from between the circles with 2:36 gone in the first period. About two minutes later, the Friars' Dennis Burke got control of the puck and found himself on a breakaway after waltzing around Cornell defenseman Christian Felli, but in trying to backhand a shot past a helpless Bandurski, he bounced the puck off the left post instead. Providence had another golden opportunity midway through the first period during a Big Red power play, when a Cornell defenseman tried to send the puck up the ice and wound up putting it on Cowan's stick. Cowan skated in on a shorthanded break, but Bandurski made a beautiful save, sprawling across the goalmouth and sweeping the shot away. How- ever, the Friars quickly made up for that missed opportunity when Scott Balboni drew virtually the whole Cornell team over to the right side of the zone, then fired the puck to a wide-open Brady Kramer near the left circle. Kramer's shot went between Bandurski's legs and gave the Friars a 2-0 lead at the 10:47 mark. When Cornell was successful at getting the puck out of their own end, they were able to create a number of scoring opportunities, but they were unable to get off many good shots, and Bell had no trouble with the ones that did get through. The Big Red's defensive woes continued into the second period, and Providence boosted their lead to three at the 6:19 mark. Off a pileup in front of the Cornell net, Craig Darby corraled a rebound and fired the puck over Bandurski's shoulder. With about eight and a half minutes gone in the second, Cornell had a couple of golden opportunities to light the lamp but came up empty both times. Geoff Bumstead, in an excellent individual effort, worked his way around two Providence defensemen but shot the puck into Bell's chest. Seconds later, after a faceoff, Geoff Lopatka got to a loose puck, but he waited too long before shooting it, and Bell was able to knock it aside. Bumstead figured in another big chance for the Big Red with about six minutes left in the second, when he and Shaun Hannah combined on a 2-on-1 break. Hannah's shot bounced off Bell, and Bumstead got to the rebound, sending a floater toward the net. However, this was not to be Cornell's night -- the shot bounced off the left post and dropped to the ice, where Bell sat on it. A scramble in front of the Cornell net set the Friars up for their fourth goal late in the second period. During the shoving, a Cornell player wound up on top of a Providence guy who himself was on top of Bandurski, and after they all untangled, a shot from Gary Socha deep to the left side found the corner of the net with 1:02 to go. Largely due to poor defensive play by Cornell, Bandurski saw a lot of action in the middle stanza; the rather astonishing second-period total of 26 saves was announced for the Big Red netminder. Not only was this just two shy of John Detwiler's Cornell record for saves in a single period (and one shy of his second-period record), but it also meant that Providence had more shots in that period (28) than the Big Red did in the entire game (27). Already down by four, it was not likely that Cornell was going to come out fired up for the third period, but except for Bandurski and Hannah, the team pretty much went through the motions for the final 20 minutes. (I hope the team was fighting the flu or something) The Friars, mean- while, kept pouring it on. Three minutes in, Darby skated untouched through the Big Red defense and fired toward the net, but the puck floated over the crossbar. Providence didn't waste their next oppor- tunity, which came with Cornell on the power play. Chad Quenneville and Ian Paskowski combined to force the puck out of the Providence zone, and Brian Ridolfi picked up the loose puck at center ice, raced in on a breakaway, and flipped a shot into the right corner of the net at the 6:22 mark. The Friars found themselves with another 2-on-1 chance a minute later, but George Breen muffed the shot. It made little difference though, because at the 10:50 mark, Darby's second goal, through a clump of players from the right point, put Providence up 6-0. Quenneville closed out the scoring with 3:04 to go, back- handing a shot into the right side of the net. The only positive note for the Big Red in this game was the perfor- mance by Bandurski, who, although he let in seven goals, continued to show a lot of improvement as well as confidence. He finished the game with 44 saves. As for Bell, he stopped all 27 shots in recording his first career shutout. There was a nice gesture by Providence after the game ended, when Breen picked up the puck, had the rest of the Friars touch it, then gave it to Bell, presumably as a memento. A note on the officiating: the referees for this game were Tim Mac- Conaghy and John Gallagher, which may look like the ECAC's worst possible pairing, but the officiating was really quite good. There were a couple of bad calls, but on the whole, the refs let the players play and did not mess up the game with needless penalties. There also was far less confusion among the officials than there was in previous games -- perhaps the new system is starting to take. Dartmouth takes the week off (for finals, presumably), but the rest of the ECAC teams will see some action -- including a rare home-and-home series between travel partners (in this case, Princeton and Yale). Here's this week's schedule: Monday, 11/30: Providence at Brown Friday, 12/4: Cornell at Brown Colgate at Harvard St Lawrence at RPI Clarkson at Union Princeton at Yale Saturday, 12/5: Colgate at Brown Cornell at Harvard Yale at Princeton Clarkson at RPI St Lawrence at Union Middlebury at Vermont (NC) -- Bill Fenwick | Send your HOCKEY-L poll responses to: Cornell '86 and probably '94 | [log in to unmask] LET'S GO RED!! "Remember back in the '70s, when everyone was saying that there were Satanic messages on records and you could hear them if you played the records back- wards? Of course, these days we have CDs -- you just know they're down in Hell going, 'Damn! NOW what do we do?'" -- Brad Stine