Sean Pickett writes: >Question: Who did Merrimack beat for their first HE win? (Mike?) In 1989-90, Merrimack dropped its first three HE games and then defeated Northeastern on the road, 6-5, in overtime. The teams met again at Merrimack a few weeks later in MC's 7th HE game and MC won again, 8-4 - the famous brawl game that was called with about 3 minutes left and resulted in a myriad of suspensions. Merrimack would lose its next 13 HE games, coming within one of tying the 1985-86 UNH team for the league record, before beating Lowell in OT in the last game of the season, 10-9 (OT). After going 3-18-0 in HE that first year and finishing 8th, the Warriors shocked 1st-place BC with a 6-3 win in the second game of the HE quarterfinals to knot the series at 1-1 before BC won the third game and the series. Oddly enough, after winning 2 of 3 against NU that first year, Merrimack came back to sweep the Huskies 3-0-0 in 1990-91. Combine that with MC's incredible come-from-behind win in the 1988 NC$$ First Round over NU and their regular season triumphs over the Huskies in 1987-88 and 1988-89, and the Warriors were an amazing 7-2-0 vs NU from 1987-91. (The 1988 NC$$ series was a split but went to MC on total goals, 10-8, after NU held a lead of 8-3 late in the second period of the second game.) Many who are here know the story of how I suffered tremendously through that NU loss to Merrimack in the 1988 NC$$s while I was a mgr of the NU team, and then transferred to enemy Merrimack nine months later as fate would have it. It is almost 7 years later, and to this day, the MC staff and MC trainer Scott Abbey in particular will not stop reminding me about that game. Of course, after suffering through the Mother of All Losses, nothing again could ever be that bad. For me, it was worse than the 1986 World Series. A good friend of mine, who was an usher in our wedding, played on that NU team and to this day we have never discussed that game. Needless to say, after having switched sides, I was mildly schizophrenic the first few years when NU and MC met. :-) --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93