RFI - Shutout streaks

[Richard Beeler]

Heading into toKnights ECAC final, the Brick Wall from British Columbia currently tending the nets for Cornell has gone 129 minutes, 10 seconds, without allowing a goal. (RPI at 10:50 of the 3rd in the first quarterfinal game was the last.)

Can any of you point me towards a list of college hockey shutout streaks?


BTW It was great to hear Bob Ahfeld's voice on the Harvard - Brown broadcast last Knight.

[vicb]

My ECAC Guide from 1998-99 lists Brian Cropper of Cornell (1969-70) as the ECAC record holder at 189:48. I think however that Laing of RPI may have beaten that record.

[Richard Beeler]

I just checked on one of the more obvious candidates for the all-time record holder, Ryan Miller at MSU. I figured the last goalie (and one of only two) to win the Hobey might be the man. 2000-2001 was quite a year. He had FIVE streaks of over 130 minutes of shutout hockey and the SCHOOL record at 229 and change. If that is the school record, one can but marvel at what the NATIONAL record must be. He also set the all-time save percentage mark, .950, had 10 shutouts for the year and 17 for a career, both NCAA records. It turns out that ONE of the goalies whose mark he eclipsed with those 17 was Wally Easton -- who played hockey at Clarkson so long ago that even I am too young to have seen him.:)

I now know why I seem to be the only fan really impressed with 129 minutes of shutout hockey going at Cornell. LeNeveu would need to shut out Harvard toKnight and get pretty well into the first NCAA game unblemished to start having people check the record book. He has a MUCH better chance of setting the all-time goals/game against mark.


Do Ivy leaguer's jump ship before they graduate? Let us hope so. :)

[Stemmer]

The brick wall at cornell is really the entire team. Yes Leneveu is excellent, but the red play that suffocating style to a tee! They limit quality scoring chances to a very few...and that contributes mightily to the gaudy goalie stats.

Will be interesting to see how they fare against stronger offenses in the big dance...personally, I think they'll do quite well.

Kudos to Cropper for that record but Tech's Bulldog Bullock was the best in the East for '69-70 and '70-'71...and quite possibly, best in the nation...best college goalie I have ever watched in person...and no, I never saw Dryden live.

[Richard Beeler]

Stemmer,

Good points. The kid probably ought to be given credit for about 45 minutes of shutout time if his blue liners are so good that he only has to face 11 shots. It was the Cornell radio annoucer, last night, who gave us the line about a duffle bag being all that was needed in goal. This, of course would give the wise guys in Lynah a new cheer: "Duffle -- Dufus, Duffle -- Dufus, Duffle -- Dufus" :)

I, too, am a big fan of Bruce Bullock. He was, simply, about as good as they come. Those two final games in 1970 (ECAC in the Gahden and NCAA in Lake Placid) featuring Bullock vs. Cropper were classics. We lost them both -- what are you going to do when Cornell goes 29-0? -- but, as I recall, Bullock was the MVP in Beantown. I have only two secure spots on my all-time Clarskon team: Taylor is at RW, Bullock between the pipes.

[oldtimehockey]

I saw Dryden, and I was at Placid in '70. Bullock is indeed one of the all-time best; but Dryden is #1.

Secure on Clarkson's all-time team would have to be Eddie Rowe. Even in goal, Yurkewitz and Bullock are at least equal.

[Richard Beeler]

Oldtime,

Ain't this fun? The longer you and I are fans of Clarkson Hockey, the tougher it gets to pick our all-time team.

No statement in praise of Bullock should be taken as anything negative about Yurkewitz -- or Eddie McDonald from the undefeated team of 55-56. Clarkson has been blessed with talent in the nets over the years. I still agree with you, however, that the All-time, All-team goal keeper was a 6'4" pre-law student who use to lean on his stick as if he were bored whenever the puck was on the other side of center ice. I saw him break a stick in anger when Clarkson scored to make the score 6-3, Cornell. Why? Because it was the first time all year he had let in more than 2 goals. I once saw him tip a slap shot over the crossbar with the toe of his skate while lying on his back with A HARVARD FORWARD SITTING ON HIS CHEST. How he do that???

Center is probably my toughest choice. Eddie Rowe had skills that outdid even his stats, which were amazing. About 90 seconds of each man down situation would feature Eddie driving opponents on the power play crazy because they couldn't score if they couldn't get the puck away from him, and they couldn't get the puck away from him if they couldn't catch him. Lord, but it was fun to watch. But how do you keep White, Marchant, Meeker et. al., off the team? Or even Bill Munroe -- scored at least one point in every game he played. This must be an easier game if you are, oh, let's say a Colgate fan. :)

[vicb]

Off topic for a shameless plug: Look sometime between 6PM and 7PM on Sunday in the Div 1 Forum of USCHO for my NC$$ Pick the Playoffs Contest. I plan on having Individual, Team and League Contests made up of the fans picks.

[oldtimehockey]

Originally posted by Richard Beeler
Or even Bill Munroe -- scored at least one point in every game he played. This must be an easier game if you are, oh, let's say a Colgate fan.

Munro's numbers are frightening -- highest career pts/game by far. The man's career was only about 36 games, and he was in the all-time top 10 for about 30 years.

Black Jack Porter and Corby Adams are all-time finalists. I knew Marchant and White -- truly great, but not quite there. Didn't know T Meeker, but did meet Howie.

Colgate's all-time team only has 2 guys -- Milbury and Woodcock, or whatever his name was.

[Richard Beeler]

Munro's numbers are frightening -- highest career pts/game by far. The man's career was only about 36 games, and he was in the all-time top 10 for about 30 years.

Bill Munro was the first great Clarkson player I ever saw. We moved to Potsdam in '48 and my father taught at Tech, so I got into the old Clarkson, later Walker, Arena for free. I think that Stan Moore and Mac White were his line mates. Bill would have played more games for the Green and Gold, but our friends in Canton finally came up with a way to keep him from scoring. They discovered that he had played semi-pro baseball -- which made him ineligible -- and ratted on him to the NCAA. As I recall, we found some similar transgression on the part of one of the Saints, and got even.

Mac had a neat trick. About every third or fourth game, when he received a particularly hard cross check or trip, he would crumple to the ice and whack himslelf in the nose. He could create quite a nosebleed this way and turn a 2 minute penalty into 5 -- for drawing blood. It was a great team to watch. Defenseman Murray Beach used to skate with his head tilted to the right. This allowed him to keep his left eye -- the only one that worked -- on the puck. Defensemen could keep their heads down in those days -- it was illegal to check in the offensive zone. This was one of the reasons that so few college players made it in the pros -- they had to learn a whole new game.

If memory serves me, Meehan, McFarlan and Zifcack was the great line at SLU at the time, but I may be off by a year or two.