This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------18701995413199 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii http://www.usa.net/gtwork/today/spt011.html -- charlie shub University of Colorado at Colorado Springs [log in to unmask] -or- [log in to unmask] (719) 593 3492 (fax) 593-3369 ---------------------------------18701995413199 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Lucia's goal: CC to score more ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Steve Page With no scheduled games last weekend, Colorado College hockey coach Don Lucia had time to tinker. He took advantage of it, redesigning the Tigers in an attempt to get more scoring out of all four forward lines. This from a coach whose team averages nearly seven goals per game. "If I had a choice in the matter, we would have played last weekend," Lucia said. "At least now we have four lines that are capable of scoring." Changes were made to the second and third lines, and Lucia won't have to wait long to see how it works. The Tigers play at Michigan Tech tonight and Saturday. Freshman Darren Clark (two goals-one assist-three points) moves from right wing on the fourth line to the third line, where he'll center wings Jason Christopherson (1-1-2), a senior, and sophomore Stewart Bodtker (1-1-2). Bodtker had been centering Christopherson and sophomore Jason Gudmundson (3-1-4) on that line. The other line remains mostly intact, with freshman Jon Austin (2-1-3), a sometimes starter, again centering left wing T.J. Tanberg (2-0-2). Gudmundson joins them at right wing. The first two lines remain the same -- Colin Schmidt (6-5-11) centering Travis Cheyne (1-4-5) and Peter Geronazzo (8-6-14), and Brian Swanson (4-8-12) centering Jay McNeill (6-5-11) and Chad Hartnell (2-4-6). "We think Stewie's natural position is right wing," Lucia said of Bodtker. "Jon Austin has played awfully well. We wanted to get him in our lineup this weekend. "Even with the extra week, we couldn't do some of the things we wanted (because of injuries)." Lucia said his defensive pairings remain the same -- sophomore Calvin Elfring (0-6-6) with junior Eric Rud (0-5-5), junior Bobby Needham (1-2-3) with freshman Scott Swanson (2-11-13), and freshman Brian Waldo (0-1-1) with Geoff Herzog (0-0-0). "Needham's shoulder is not at 100 percent, so we'll take seven defensemen instead of 13 forwards," Lucia said. He'll use two extra freshman defensemen, Lee Groom (0-0-0) and Paul Johnson (0-2-2), who will each play in one of this weekend's games. Now that he's done tinkering, Lucia says the Tigers shouldn't suffer any adverse affects from the layoff. "I think the guys will be hungry to play this weekend," he said. "We're 4-0 there the last two years." ---------------------------------18701995413199-- HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.