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Arthur Berman writes on INFO-HOCKEY-L: >I guess Mike's access doesn't like him tonight either:-) No, actually we were out late with some of the BU people and the Guest of the Weekend, Keith Instone (in town for business). More later, but a few comments here first. >For Margie and everyone else interested in this game: BU beat Merrimack >8-6 tonight at the Walter Brown Arena in another chippy performance by >Merrimack (as described by the admittedly biased BU radio people). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I guess so! The game was chippy on both sides (ask Keith, as unbiased an observer as you will get tonight), so BU radio was half right. :-) (penalties were about even, with BU called for 16 minors and Merrimack for 15...but the officiating, ah, left something to be desired - it was consistently and equally bad.) >The >game was close for two periods, then BU opened up an 8-4 lead in the >third after which Merrimack scored a couple of too little too late goals >to produce the final score. I don't know if this was what BU radio reported, but if so, they were the only people who probably felt this way...first it was close, then it was "over", then it was close. A short synopsis... It was a strange game. Power play decided it, as BU notched 4 PPGs to Merrimack's 1...throw in MC's SHG, and the score at even strength was 4-4. As with Friday's game, this one was tied after two, 3-3. BU went ahead for good 38 seconds into the third, but the replay everyone saw in the press box seemed to show that the puck did not cross the goal line. Drury completed a hat trick 13 seconds later, and the Terriers exploded for three more by the 8:14 mark to seemingly put the game away at 8-3. BU's 8th goal came on Merrimack's third string netminder, Jim McNiff. But Merrimack showed some heart, scoring three unanswered goals on starting BU goalie Michel Larocque to make it 8-6, the last goal coming on the shorthand with 3:47 left. This made things quite interesting when a series of penalties put Merrimack up 5x3 with 1:41 left, and when McNiff was pulled for a sixth attacker, they were up 6x3 - but that was it. Most interesting was that McNiff, who has only appeared a handful of times in his career in games that seemed to be over, wound up being pulled for another man during the attempted comeback. I don't know if he ever expected to be in a close game where he'd have to be pulled for a sixth man. Despite what BU radio might have had you believe :-), this was a game that really was as close as the score indicates. In the deciding third, BU dominated the first half (5 goals) and Merrimack the second half (3 goals). Drury wound up with four goals and Lachance had four assists. Laroche had two goals for Merrimack as the Warriors scored 1) more goals on BU this year than anyone else has (except for UNH's six in BU's only loss), and 2) more goals on BU than ever before in the series between the two teams. BU probably slacked off once they got up 8-3, but they almost slacked off enough to blow the game. As it turned out, although the game seemed over once BU went ahead 6-3, the two goals that followed and appeared to be icing on the cake wound up being the ones that decided it. The moral: "garbage goals" may not be that unimportant after all. :-) >Mike will, I'm sure, provide his usual >unbiased and thorough report. Thanks for the support...and more will come tomorrow including box. It's late. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] *HMM* 11/13/93 >> Co-owner of the College Hockey Lists at University of Maine System << ***** Unofficial Merrimack Hockey home page located at: ***** ***** http://www.tiac.net/users/machnik/MChockey/MChockey.html ***** HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.