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RE>Boston Garden memories? As usual, Mike has suggested an excellent topic. Two college hockey Boston Garden events stand out in my mind, in each case featuring an improbable comeback. 1. If your team is ahead by two goals with less than a minute to go, you probably feel pretty comfortable, right? Clarkson fans who were at the Garden for the ECAC semifinal with Providence in 1981 will probably never feel that way again. The Knights led by two when future NHL defenseman Scot Kleinendorst scored from the blue line with, as memory serves, around 42 seconds to go to cut the lead to 4-3. With under 20 seconds left, rookie forward Gates Orlando hit Dan Miele with a cross-ice pass in the neutral zone to send Miele in on a breakway, which he converted to tie the game. The over time was all Providence until Steve Anderson ended it to put the Friars in the final. 2. Maine fans will point to varying events as "turning points" for the program on its rise to national prominence, but it's hard for any of them to ignore the first game the Black Bears ever played in the Garden when discussing that subject. It was 1987 and the Hockey East semifinal opponent was Lowell, which had finished the regular season in second place, three points ahead of third-place Maine. The Black Bears trailed 4-2 in that game when they began a comeback ignited by a goal scored by Bob Corkum, who clearly knocked the puck in with his hand, a detail that was missed by the referees. The heart and soul of those Maine teams, Mike McHugh, scored the game-winner late in the third period as Maine won 5-4. It would be their last win of the season as they lost to BC in the championship game and then got swamped by Michigan State in the NCAA quarterfinals, but the win got Maine into the NCAA tournament for the first time, beginning a streak of tournament appearances that would last seven years, culminating in the 1993 national title. An aside on Normand Leveille: Bruce Crowder, the current UMass-Lowell coach and former Bruin teammate of Leveille's, was sitting next to Levielle in the B's locker room when the budding superstar collapsed from that aneurysm in Vancouver. HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.