At 4:27 PM -0500 10/28/96, Jeffrey Votteler wrote: > I haven't seen any results for the Mich St. Northeastern games on Sunday. >Does > anybody have any information??? Northeastern 6, Michigan State 5. Brian Morris wrote: > Mike Machnik, esteemed hockey observor, writer and critic writes: > > >...Northeastern (is) going to be better than expected. Northeastern >showed me > a lot against Michigan State. > > Was the Huskie team at the Fieldhouse one of those dimensional replicas a la > "Sliders"? I can't say I have much to recommend about the Northeastern team, > other than there dependable, but not flashy, goalie Robitaille. I didn't see > any vestiges of offensive pressure exerted by the Huskies. ... overall, I > would have to say that RPI outclassed Northeastern. This in spite of my > assumption that Bruce Crowder's head coaching ascendancy would reap immediate > dividends for the Huskies. Well, it is hard to say since I did not see Northeastern play RPI. Maybe I should have thought to ask some of the NU people how their effort against MSU compared to that vs RPI. I can say that the effort against the Spartans was a good one - they made some mistakes, but I expected that. They did work hard to create some good chances and pretty plays, they played aggressively, etc. - all things I would expect from a Crowder-coached team. Robitaille didn't look too bad. Many of the goals he allowed were as a result of defensive mistakes - as in the one where a teammate cross-checked a Spartan into him just before MSU's pointman blasted the puck past him. Huskie fans wanted an interference call on MSU, but it looked like Robitaille had his own D to blame. He was tied up and could not move to try to stop the puck. Dave Hendrickson has a good writeup of the game with some player and coach quotes on USCHO. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] *HMM* 11/13/93 ***** (Part-Time) Color Voice of Merrimack Hockey WCAP 980 AM ***** ***** Unofficial Merrimack Hockey home page located at: ***** ***** http://www.tiac.net/users/machnik/MChockey/MChockey.html ***** >>> U.S. College Hockey Online http://www.uscollegehockey.com/ <<< HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.