Two Icemen Are Hobey Finalists

Harvard men's hockey Captain Lane MacDonald and senior center Allen Bourbeau are two of 10 collegiate hockey players chosen as finalists for the Hobey Baker award, the selection committee announced yesterday.

MacDonald--who was also named ECAC Player of the Year yesterday--is a second-time finalist, having qualified in 1987, his junior season. Both MacDonald and Bourbeau took last season off to play with the U.S. Olympic Team.

The two seniors were the only players selected from the ECAC. Hockey East had three players named: Boston College's Greg Brown and Tim Sweeney, and Maine's David Capuano, a repeat finalist. Brown, the only defenseman on the list, also played for Team USA in Calgary last winter.

Minnesota junior goaltender Robb Stauber, last year's winner, was the lone nominee out of the WCHA.

The winner will be announced on April 2, the day after the NCAA Tournament finals in St. Paul, Minn. Harvard has had two Hobey Baker winners in brothers Mark (1984) and Scott Fusco (1986)--the only two Eastern selections in the award's history.