From: carrie@wpi.WPI.EDU (Carrie A Ayers)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: AHL: Indians vs Providence Exhibition games
Summary: summaries, rosters
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:45:58 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

Well, first I want to say, THANK YOU BRIAN BURKE.....NOT!!!!!!!

Ok, now that I have that off my chest...

Well, the Indians and Bruins played a home and home exhibition series on Fri/
Sat.  The Bruins won both games.

On Friday, the Bruins won 12-4, netting 8 goals in the first period (a few of
them within a short amount of time).  5 of these were power plays.  Springfield
had only 4 shots on goal in the first period, netting 2 goals.  Providence 
scored 3 more goals in the 2nd, all power plays, while Springfield scored only
one (also pp).  Eugene Pavlov (Prov) scored a hattrick, so did Tim Sweeney 
(Prov).  Defenseman Peter Laviolette (Prov) sored 2 goals and 3 assists.  
Also scoring for Prov were Bill Huard, Girgori Panteleyev, Jim Vesey and Andrew
McKim, who also had 4 assists.
Kelly Ens had 2 goals and an assist for Spfld, Leonid Toropchenko has 2 
assists.  Can't remember who scored the other 2 goals...by that point, wasn't
much hope...
Mike Lenarduzzi, who was scheduled to play the whole game for the Indians was
pulled after the first period in favor of Allain Morissette.  Lenaduzzi made
3 of 11 saves, Morissette made 18 of 22 saves.  
The Indians who have yet to receive the remainder of their team from Hartford,
played 4 defenseman up front.  (Cam Brauer, Martin Hamrlik, Scott Humeniuk,
and Karl Johnston)  Cam Brauer has yet to score a goal in 2 seasons, and has 
only 2 assists.  So you see how the offense was hurting, but how in the world
they had no defense with 4 defenseman on the ice at a time is beyond me.  
Lenarduzzi came out of the net more often than not also, allowing many easy
goals.  Matt Delguidice played the entire game for Providence.
There were 116 minutes in penalties, 73 for Spfld, and 44 for Providence.

I didn't see Saturday's game, but will give you a few highlights out of the
newspaper.  Bruins won 7-3.

Scoring for the Bruins were: Tim Sweeney (4 on 4 - Lenarduzzi once again out
of the crease), Eugene Pavlov (PP), Grigori Panteleyev(PP),
Sergei Zholtok, Christian Lariviere (PP), Sean Gorman and Bill Huard.

Scoring for the Indians were:  Leonid Toropchenko and Dennis Chalifoux (2)

The Indians only trailed 3-2 and 4-2 after the first 2 periods, but let the
game go after Chailfoux scored his 2nd goal at 4:40 of the 3rd period.  

John Blue made 43 saves for Providence, Lenarduzzi played the entire game for
Springfield.  

Barry Nieckar suffered a severly lacerated right hand as a result of Ricciardi
jumping on his back in a 3rd-man-in situation.  Nieckar was fighting Glen
Featherstone when Ricciardi's skate from behind badly slashed his hand.
The 2nd period was filled with penalties, 142 were called the whole game.



So all in all, the Indians were horrible when short handed as the Bruins
converted 10 of 14 power plays over the weekend.  However, I wouldn't
expect this to carry over to the regular season as many of the players on
the Indians roster now, will probably not be there in a couple of weeks, and
many more players will be cut from Hartford soon (I hope).  The Indians
presently have 10 defenseman, atleast 2 of them will be sent to Louisville.

A couple more comments:  Indians goalie Mario Gosselin has a bad back, 
Corrie D'allesio is the goalie Hartford traded Kay Whitmore for.

Here are the Rosters as of Friday night's game:

Springfield Indians                     Providence Bruins

NO    PLAYER            POS             NO    PLAYER             POS

1    Allain Morissette   G              1   Scott Bailey          G
30   Mario Gosselin      G              31  Matt Delguidice       G
35   Mike Lenarduzzi     G              39  John Blue             G
3    Corey Beaulieu      D              2   Christian Lariviere   D
4    Cam Brauer          D              3   Steve Jaques          D
5    Karl Johnston       D              4   Sean Gorman           D
6    Juri Krivokhizha    D              5   Chris Winnes          RW
7    Paul Guy            RW             6   Darryl Olsen          D
8    Steve Yule          D              9   Mark Kumpel           RW
10   Paul Cyr            RW             11  Andrew McKim          C
11   Trevor Stienburg    RW             12  Grigori Panteleyev    LW
12   Kelly Ens           C              14  Chris Crombie         LW
14   Leonid Toropchenko  C              15  Tim Sweeney           LW
17   Jim Powers          C              16  Jim Vesey             RW
18   Denis Chalifoux     C              17  Sergei Zholtok        C
19   Michel Picard       LW             18  Daniel Larin          RW
20   Joe Flanagan        C              20  Bill Huard            LW
21   John Stevens        D              24  Glen Featherstone     D
22   Brian Chapman       D              25  Jamie Huscroft        D
23   Bryan Krygier       C              27  Eugene Pavlov         RW
26   Barry Nieckar       LW             28  Peter Laviolette      D
28   Scott Matusovich    D              29  Jeff Ricciardi        D
29   Scott Humeniuk      D              32  Matt Robbins          RW
34   Martin Hamrlik      D              34  Clark Donatelli       LW
                                        35  Paul Ohman            D

Oh...the Bruins uniforms were similar to the Boston Bruins uniforms, instead
a B, there was a P in the middle of the wheel.

Carrie
carrie@wpi.wpi.edu
GO INDIANS!!!!!!!!
GO ISLANDERS!!!!!!