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The Hockey Notebook
Scott Fusco smashed the all-time Harvard goal-scoring record at Cornell Sunday--and did it with a flourish.
His two scores were the 91st and 92nd of his his career, which tied and then broke the record that Olympian Bobby Cleary '58 established 27 years ago.
On top of the two tallies, Fusco dished out four assists. To reach 193 career points, you've obviously had some seven and eight point nights to help you along.
Not Fusco.
The six-point night was the best of his career.
And the Captain's six point effort came against a strong team in Lynah Rink, where hating Harvard is like loving your mother.
Fusco also reached the century mark in assists with his third helpout in Ithaca, N.Y. He needs 26 more to tie Joe Cavanagh '71, who holds the all-time record of 127.
Fusco, who slipped into second place on the all-time scoring list--past Cavanagh--with his 10-point weekend, is now just two points from tying and three from breaking Cleary's record of 195 points.
One hundred goals and two hundred points are just around the corner for the Burlington sensation.
And he did it all against Cornell. And he paced the Crimson to an 11-3 victory over the used-to-be Big Red.
In Lynah.
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Fusco garnered Ivy Player of the Week honors for his two goal, eight assist weekend. He was also named ECAC Co-Player of the Week, along with Yale's Mike Schwalb.
The Elis' junior goalie racked up 45 saves against Clarkson and then 46 stops--21 in the final period--against St. Lawrence.
While Cambridge and New Haven split the award, the Belmont Hill School garnered a clean sweep, as both Fusco and Schwalb are graduates and veterans of Coach Ken Martin's outstanding boys' hockey program.
Fusco did claim undivided Ivy Player of the Week honors.
He leads the ECAC in scoring with 21 points and the Ivy League in scoring with 14.
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The huge triumph over Cornell had Harvard hockey watchers flipping through the record book to find the last time the Crimson has flown so high.
* The last time the icemen had a seven-goal period, before Sunday's second period, was March 6, 1971, when the Crimson scored seven times in the first period of an 11-2 victory over Yale.
* The last time the icemen scored more in a period was in the first 20 minutes of a 12-0 victory over Penn on January 14, 1969. The Penn hockey program eventually folded. Despite the seven-goal outburst, expect the Cornell program to survive.
* The last time the icemen scored 11 goals was December 14, 1984, when they blasted the Green, 11-1, in Hanover.
* The last time the icemen scored 25 goals in three games--as they have in victories over Cornell (11-3), Colgate (7-2) and Dartmouth (7-2)--was in December 1982, when the Crimson took Princeton (9-2), Northern Michigan (7-0) and Northern Arizona (12-1) in three straight.
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While Captain Fusco was soaring above the rest of the league last weekend, the Killer B's were having quite a buzzy road trip as well.
Sophomore Allen Bourbeau, who had a 2-5--7 weekend, and junior Tim Barakett, who had five goals on the Crimson road trip, were named to the Ivy Honor Roll.
Bourbeau shares the Ivy League scoring lead with the Captain and is second in the ECAC with 18 points.
Barakett, who is one point away from equalling his 1984-'85 output with 17 points, is third in both the Ivy League (11) and the ECAC (15) behind the Crimson's top two centers.
Both were excellent additions to the Crimson power play, which went nine-for-18 in New York. The extraman unit had been connecting at a respectable 21 percent pace, but the 50 percent weekend pushed Harvard's potent power play up to the 30 percent mark for the year.
Last season, the Crimson hit on 32.2 percent of its chances.
And the power play did its outstanding work with a different combination than last season. In 1984-'85, it was Fusco, Tim Smith, Lane MacDonald, Mark Benning and Randy Taylor.
Bourbeau had replaced Taylor at the point, and with MacDonald disqualified at Colgate because of a spearing penalty, Cleary inserted Barakett and found success.
Barakett replaced MacDonald in his position right in front of the opposition net, where the sophomore had been pounded on by opposition defensemen. Barakett, who at 190 has 20 pounds on MacDonald, may be a permanent feature on the extraman unit.
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The Crimson, which sits on top of the ECAC by a half game at 6-1, faces Dartmouth (1-4 ECAC) at Bright Center Saturday night.
The last three times Harvard has faced the Green the scores have been 11-1, 7-1 and 9-2.
The Green has not played since November 29, which is also the last time it faced the Crimson.
Dartmouth is rumored to have an outstanding crop of freshmen but didn't show much, particularly on the blue line, against the icemen.
The biggest danger is not that the Green can ambush the Crimson, but rather that the lowly squad can knock Harvard out of the rhythm it's found of late.
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Vermont and Yale (both 5-1) are nipping at the Crimson's heels in the ECAC.
A careful look at the Catamounts shows that Coach Mike Gilligan must be using mirrors. UVM has scored only 19 goals in its six league games. Harvard, in contrast, has 49 in seven games. And Fusco alone has 21 points so far.
Sunday, the Cats took Army, 1-0, on Kyle McDonough's goal with 21 seconds left in regulation.
Army is 1-16 over the last two years in Division I. How does Vermont scrape by the Cadets, 1-0?
The answer lies with UVM goalie Tom Draper, who has to be the early favorite for ECAC Player of the Year honors. The junior has allowed just 12 goals in ECAC play, has a goals-against average of 1.98 and a save percentage of .932.
Draper's heroics aside, UVM has to prove that it can score a few goals, at least a quarter of the Crimson's total, if it is going to remain in contention for one of the four home playoff spots.
Nonetheless, UVM's 8-1 overall start is its best ever.
Yale, on the other hand, must be taken very seriously. Although the Crimson has improved since the Elis earned a 7-4 victory over the icemen at Ingalls Rink in the season opener, Yale has found itself a goalie.
Schwalb has shined in the net with a .904 save percentage, despite a 4.25 g.a.a. Those two figures indicate how many shots Yale has been giving up, however.
The Eli blue line is suspect, although its large and mobile for wards have to be respected.
And it was Yale that finally broke the RPI winning streak, no mean feat.
THE NOTEBOOK'S NOTEBOOK: Cornell had gone into overtime in its first four home games (2-0-2) and was hoping to avoid the extra 10 minutes against the Crimson. The Red did manage to do that, at least...RPI continues to do an astonishing job of penalty killing, killing 14 of 15 over the weekend. The Engineers, incidentally, are 41-1-2 since Nov. 24, 1984. The NCAA Division I poll, as selected by a four-member coaches poll. As voted by coaches and conducted by radio station WMPI, with first-place votes and records followed by total points. The WMEB, College Hockey Statistics Bureau poll, with first-place votes and records in parentheses followed total points. Harvard power play: 17-56 (30.4%) Harvard penalty killing: 30-46 (65.2%)
The NCAA Division I poll, as selected by a four-member coaches poll. As voted by coaches and conducted by radio station WMPI, with first-place votes and records followed by total points. The WMEB, College Hockey Statistics Bureau poll, with first-place votes and records in parentheses followed total points. Harvard power play: 17-56 (30.4%) Harvard penalty killing: 30-46 (65.2%)
The NCAA Division I poll, as selected by a four-member coaches poll. As voted by coaches and conducted by radio station WMPI, with first-place votes and records followed by total points. The WMEB, College Hockey Statistics Bureau poll, with first-place votes and records in parentheses followed total points. Harvard power play: 17-56 (30.4%) Harvard penalty killing: 30-46 (65.2%)
The NCAA Division I poll, as selected by a four-member coaches poll. As voted by coaches and conducted by radio station WMPI, with first-place votes and records followed by total points. The WMEB, College Hockey Statistics Bureau poll, with first-place votes and records in parentheses followed total points. Harvard power play: 17-56 (30.4%) Harvard penalty killing: 30-46 (65.2%)
As voted by coaches and conducted by radio station WMPI, with first-place votes and records followed by total points. The WMEB, College Hockey Statistics Bureau poll, with first-place votes and records in parentheses followed total points. Harvard power play: 17-56 (30.4%) Harvard penalty killing: 30-46 (65.2%)
The WMEB, College Hockey Statistics Bureau poll, with first-place votes and records in parentheses followed total points. Harvard power play: 17-56 (30.4%) Harvard penalty killing: 30-46 (65.2%)
Harvard power play: 17-56 (30.4%)
Harvard penalty killing: 30-46 (65.2%)
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