Results of games over the holidays that involved ECAC teams (my last report was three weeks ago, so most of this is old news... oh, well): Friday, December 18 HARVARD 6, Dartmouth 4 Saturday, December 19 Great Western Freezeout (Los Angeles, CA): Lake Superior 3, Princeton 1 Sunday, December 20 Great Western Freezeout: Consolation: Western Michigan 6, Princeton 3 Monday, December 28 Moscow Spartak 10, PRINCETON 3 (exhibition) Tuesday, December 29 Cleveland Hockey Classic (Cleveland, OH): Bowling Green 8, Cornell 7 (OT) RPI Invitational (Troy, NY): Providence 4, Clarkson 3 (OT) RPI 5, UMass-Lowell 3 UNH Holiday Tournament (Durham, NH): Dartmouth 4, NEW HAMPSHIRE 3 Northeastern 7, Vermont 3 Wednesday, December 30 Cleveland Hockey Classic: Consolation: Ohio State 3, Cornell 0 RPI Invitational: Consolation: Clarkson 3, UMass-Lowell 1 Final: Providence 5, RPI 4 (OT) UNH Holiday Tournament: Consolation: NEW HAMPSHIRE 4, Vermont 1 Final: Dartmouth 5, Northeastern 4 Friday, January 1, 1993 MERRIMACK 2, Union 0 Saturday, January 2 Kent 5, COLGATE 5 (OT) NEW HAMPSHIRE 4, Rpi 3 Yale 8, NORTHEASTERN 7 (OT) Dexter Classic (Orono, ME): Brown 6, Lake Superior 4 Mariucci Classic (Minneapolis, MN): St. Lawrence 7, Illinois-Chicago 1 Sunday, January 3 HARVARD 5, Boston College 2 Kent 5, COLGATE 5 (OT) Vermont 3, MERRIMACK 3 (OT) Dexter Classic: Final: MAINE 12, Brown 4 Mariucci Classic: Final: Ferris State 4, St. Lawrence 1 Also, a non-ECAC exhibition score from Saturday: Alabama Huntsville 4, Royal Military College 2. ECAC standings as of 1/4/93: League Overall Team W L T Pts GF GA W L T Pts GF GA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Harvard 9 0 1 19 47 26 10 1 1 21 55 32 Yale 5 1 2 12 40 27 6 4 2 14 55 47 RPI 5 2 0 10 29 18 7 4 2 16 51 38 St. Lawrence 5 3 0 10 30 18 9 4 1 19 63 38 Vermont 4 3 0 8 20 19 6 7 2 14 43 50 Brown 4 4 0 8 35 31 5 7 0 10 52 59 Princeton 3 5 0 6 28 39 5 7 0 10 43 50 Clarkson 2 4 2 6 33 26 6 6 2 14 66 37 Cornell 2 3 1 5 16 24 2 6 1 5 23 42 Dartmouth 1 5 0 2 15 27 3 7 0 6 28 48 Union 1 5 0 2 12 31 1 8 0 2 21 44 Colgate 0 6 0 0 18 37 2 8 3 7 55 62 A few notes on the second Kent-Colgate game: Kent 5, Colgate 5 (OT) Right wing Andrew Dickson's two goals helped the Red Raiders salvage their second straight 5-5 tie with the Golden Flashes. Kent raced out to a 2-0 lead on first-period goals by Dean Sylvester and Roger Mischke, but Clayton Fahey cut the deficit in half with 16 seconds to go in the first. Claude Morin restored the Golden Flashes' two-goal lead with a controversial tally at the end of the period, when it was ruled that the puck had crossed the line before the buzzer had sounded. Morin struck again with a power-play marker 1:48 into the middle period to put his team up 4-1, but then the Colgate offense came alive, scoring four straight times to put the Red Raiders in the lead. Brent Wilde beat Kent goalie Paul Dixon at the 4:34 mark, and then Dickson got one with Colgate a man up four minutes later. Bruce Gardiner tied the score at 9:05 of the third, and Dickson's second goal of the night, coming at 13:33, put the Red Raiders ahead. But Colgate couldn't savor their lead for long, as on the ensuing faceoff, David Dartsch raced up the ice and beat Colgate goalie (and Ithaca NY product) Jason Gates to tie the game again 12 seconds later. Gates, a sophomore who was starting only his second collegiate game, finished with 21 saves, while Dixon recorded 29. The Syracuse _Post-Standard_ points to a couple of possible reasons for Col- gate's sluggish 0-6 start in league play. Marcel Richard, who was the leading goal-scorer last season for the Red Raiders, has been out with mono, and the top two goaltenders, Shawn Murray and Matt Weder, have been wretched, with GAA's of 4.19 and 6.44 respectively. In addition, Colgate has played a tough early schedule (as has travel partner Cornell), with trips to the North Country and Harvard among their first six games. One other problem, according to the _Post-Standard_, may be the different style prefered by new head coach Don Vaughan. The defense that Vaughan implemented is somewhat more complex than what the team was used to under the late Terry Slater, and that has caused trouble on the offensive side, where Vaughan is trying to install an aggressive style of play. With one-third of the season gone (44 of 132 league games), here are the ECAC's statistical leaders (league games only): Individual: Goals - 11, Matt Mallgrave, Harvard Assists - 12, Ted Drury, Harvard and Mark Kaufmann, Yale Points - 21, Drury Power-play goals - 5, Kaufmann Penalty minutes - 45, Spencer Meany, St. Lawrence Saves - 219, Christian Soucy, Vermont Save percentage - 0.933, Brady Giroux, St. Lawrence Shutouts - 2, Tripp Tracy, Harvard GAA - 1.80, Giroux Team: Offense (goals per game) - 4.90, Yale Defense (goals allowed per game) - 2.25, St. Lawrence Penalty minutes per game - 29.5, Princeton Penalty killing - 92.3%, RPI Power play - 41.5%, Yale The second weekend of the new year finds the ECAC with a full slate of games for the first time in a month or so. This weekend's schedule: Friday, January 8 Brown at Clarkson Colgate at Dartmouth Cornell at Vermont Harvard at St. Lawrence Princeton at RPI Yale at Union Saturday, January 9 Brown at St. Lawrence Colgate at Vermont Cornell at Dartmouth Harvard at Clarkson Princeton at Union Yale at RPI -- Bill Fenwick | Send your HOCKEY-L poll responses to: Cornell '86 and probably '94 | [log in to unmask] LET'S GO RED!! "February 2... The troubled airline industry announces that fares will hence- forth be based on a complex formula involving the outcomes of collegiate hockey games." -- Dave Barry, "1992 in Review"