Local news reports indicate that former U.Maine goaltender Jim Tortorella has been appointed at a new assistant ice hockey coach for the University of New Hampshire, to replace Chris Serino. (Serino was made head baseball coach a few weeks ago.) Among the highlights from Tortorella's college career mentioned in the paper were the facts that he was a four year starter at Maine, was a member of the very first U. Maine teams under Jack Semler, and was the only collegiate goaltender ever to score a goal into a defended net (it happened at RPI against international competition during a tournament). While I'm glad to see Tortorella coming to UNH (I saw him play at Maine while I was a graduate student there from 1979-1981), I think he may not be the only goaltender to have scored a goal. Joe Diorio, a friend of mine, and former head coach for the Division III Nathanial Hawthorne College program (the University went bankrupt a few years ago) often tells a story about a goaltender at Bridgewater State College (Mass.--when they still had a program) who scored a goal on a delayed penalty call against the other team. Rather than go to the bench the goaltender for BSC (I think his name was Deacon Peroda) positioned himself in front of the opposing net and deflected a slapshot past the other goalie with his own goalie stick. Diorio, who also played goalie for Bridgewater at the time, indicates that no rule then prevented goalies from skating into the offensive zone. But, following the incident in question, a rule was instituted the following season. If the Bridgewater story is accurate, then it was likely to have occured around the same time as the Tortorella goal (1978-1981, or so). Does any one have any more stories of goalies scoring? Or, can anybody verify the account given by my sometimes hyperbolic friend? Any way, welcome to Durham, Jim Tortorella!