2/2/93 Hockey East Overall GP W-L-T Pts GF-GA || GP W-L-T GF-GA =============================================== 1 Maine 14 13-0-1 27 100-33 || 28 26-0-2 188-63 2 Boston University 16 11-4-1 23 82-54 || 25 18-5-2 127-77 3 New Hampshire 15 7-7-1 15 76-74 || 25 12-11-2 114-107 4 UMass-Lowell 15 7-8-0 14 67-63 || 26 15-11-0 112-96 Providence 16 6-8-2 14 61-76 || 26 13-11-2 112-104 6 Northeastern 16 5-10-1 11 67-85 || 24 8-15-1 105-133 7 Boston College 15 4-9-2 10 51-71 || 26 7-15-4 82-123 8 Merrimack 15 4-11-0 8 54-102 || 25 10-13-2 99-131 RESULTS 01/27/93 UMass-Lowell 4 at Boston University 6 HE 01/27/93 Boston College 3 at Merrimack 5 HE 01/27/93 Providence 3 at Northeastern 2 HE 01/29/93 Merrimack 3 at Boston College 7 HE 01/29/93 Boston University 6 at UMass-Lowell 5 HE ot 01/29/93 Maine 5 at New Hampshire 2 HE 01/29/93 Northeastern 5 at Providence 7 HE 01/30/93 Maine 8 at New Hampshire 3 HE 02/01/93 Boston University 8 vs Boston College 2 NC Beanpot (Boston, MA) 02/01/93 Harvard 7 vs Northeastern 5 NC Beanpot (Boston, MA) UPCOMING 02/05/93 New Hampshire at Boston University HE NESN 02/05/93 UMass-Lowell at Maine HE 02/05/93 Boston College at Merrimack HE 02/05/93 Providence at Northeastern HE 02/06/93 UMass-Lowell at Maine HE 02/06/93 New Hampshire at Merrimack HE 02/08/93 Northeastern vs Boston College NC Beanpot Consolation 5:00 02/08/93 Boston University vs Harvard NC Beanpot Championship 8:00 WSBK-TV38 After its loss to UNH, BU got back into its winning ways with three wins: a hard-fought sweep of UMass-Lowell and a first-round Beanpot win over BC. The Terriers are four points behind first-place Maine, but the Black Bears have two games in hand. Maine remained unbeaten by sweeping two games at UNH. The Black Bears are five games away from tying the NC$$ record for unbeaten streak in a season. Maine sets new HE records for unbeaten streak and consecutive wins each game; currently the streaks are: unbeaten, 14 games (13-0-1) and winning, 12 games. Providence swept Northeastern to move into a tie with UML for 4th, and Merrimack & BC split a Wed-Fri series with each team winning at home. NEXT WEEKEND Merrimack-BC and PC-NU will complete their season series with games Friday. BU hosts UNH in the completion of their season set on Friday in a game on NESN. UMass-Lowell, the last team to beat Maine at home, will try for an upset this weekend as the Chiefs go up to Orono for a pair. Saturday, the Beanpot teams and Providence are off and other than the second UML-Maine game, the only other action will find Merrimack hosting UNH in the third and final game of those two teams' season set. Monday night, BU will battle ECAC leader Harvard for the bragging rights to Boston in the Beanpot Championship. BU handed Harvard its only loss of the season, 4-3 at BU back in late November. The consolation has BC playing Northeastern; the two teams have played twice thus far, playing to a 2-2 tie at NU while BC pulled out a 4-1 win at home. They will also play in the season finale on March 5th. OFF WEEKEND? Paul Kariya was nearly held scoreless for the first time in his college career Friday night in Maine's 5-2 win over UNH, but he tallied his 17th goal with 9:41 left in the game. He added two more assists Saturday in Maine's 8-3 win for 1-2--3 on the weekend - a pair of off nights for a player averaging 3.00 pts per game coming in. Kariya now has 17-46--63 in 22 games for 2.86 pts per game. In HE, he has 10-32--42, four assists away from tying the HE record for assists by a freshman and seven points shy of the freshman point record. Maine's top line of Kariya-Ingraham-Montgomery overall had an off night on Friday, as Ingraham was kept off the board and Montgomery had one assist. They rebounded the next night as Ingraham had four goals and Montgomery contributed two assists, to go along with Kariya's two assists. Here is how the line has performed thus far. The line occupies the top three overall scoring spots in Hockey East. Ingraham moved ahead of Montgomery into the 2nd spot behind Kariya with his 4 pts on the weekend to Montgomery's 3. PLAYER, CLASS/POS/SCHOOL GP G--A-PTS 1 Paul Kariya, Fr/LW/UM 22 17-46--63 2 Cal Ingraham, Jr/RW/UM 28 33-23--56 3 Jim Montgomery, Sr/C/UM 28 12-43--55 Thanks to Wayne for posting the left wings, uh, players of the week. :-) --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Color Voice of the Merrimack Warriors (Any opinions expressed above are strictly those of the poster.) *HMN*