Midget

[lmm9 _97]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/recap?gameId=230420023

I realize I should celebrate the ECAC-spawn success, but argh.  Midget.  Does not compute!

Midget.

[adamw]

The most enjoyable player to watch in 15 years of covering college hockey, and, as a result, my favorite NHL player (along with Todd White and Jeff Halpern).

[rhovorka]

With St. Louis, John LeClair, Todd White, Willie Mitchell, Joe Nieuwendyk, and Adam Oates all notching at least one goal in the first round (White and St. Louis both had OT winners), it's been a nice showcase for fans of ECAC alumni.  I think that only Jeff Halpern and Todd Marchant went without a goal (of those who made the playoffs).

Edit: Just noticed that Steve Martins is on the Blues' roster, and has 1 assist.



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[Rich Stamboulian]

I think the TB-Devils match up will provide more enjoyment and if Ottawa and the devils win their series, we'll see a White-Neuiwendyk matchup though their lines may not play against each other too often.

Don't forget that Ottawa coach Jacques Martin is a Slu grad...and former sieve of the early 70s.   :-D

[ursusminor]

RPI's Brian Pothier played in at least one playoff game for Ottawa.

[jtwcornell91]

I thought St. Louis was an elf/munchkin.  Zancanaro is the midget.

[Hillel]

As a devastated Caps fan, it was hard to watch Martin St. Louis shred my team. He scored three game-winning goals in the series, and his line accounted (I think) for nearly every single goal scored against the Caps in all six games.

But the man is a joy to watch. We all knew he could score goals. But who knew he such a tough, gritty, hard-working little nut? I agree with Adam. He is, without a doubt, my favorite ECAC alumnus in the NHL after the Cornellians and Halpern.

[adamw]

Hillel J. Hoffmann '85 wrote:

But the man is a joy to watch. We all knew he could score goals. But who knew he such a tough, gritty, hard-working little nut?

You could see signs of it back at Vermont - which is why many believed he could play in the NHL, while Eric Perrin would struggle - among other reasons.

[Richard Stott \'70]

That line of St. Louis-Perrin and whoever else was with them was clearly one of the best lines in ECAC history.

[jbeaber1998]

It was St. Louis, Perrin and then any big guy to just take feeds from the midgets.  Anyone big with a modicum of talent would have had a ton of goals centering that line...

-J

[CUlater]

It was J.C. Ruid, I believe.



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[ugarte]

Adam Wodon wrote:

The most enjoyable player to watch in 15 years of covering college hockey, and, as a result, my favorite NHL player (along with Todd White and Jeff Halpern).

St. Louis was just a name on the radio to me.  My "favorite" player to watch was Joe Juneau.  It was torture, but very fast and graceful torture. (Skating alongside a hammer named Coles.)

[CUlater]

Juneau was great to watch, but even more so in the '92 Olympics when he ended up being the star of the Canadian team, even outshining the more heralded Eric Lindros (although Lindros had the play of the tourney; in one game, he was skating up ice coming out of his own end, with a stickless Juneau trailing him, when he came across Juneau's stick on the ice and used his own to flip the stick up so Juneau could grab it in stride and join the play in the offensive end).  I was also in Boston when he joined the Bruins and became, for a while, a fan favorite.

[Greg Berge]

It was Ruid, who was a hulk who turned like a battleship in bad weather.  He was born one year too late -- he came back the year after the dwarves had left and went from about 50 points as their linemate to about 20 without them.  I'd look it up in the IHDB http://hockeydb.com/ but it's incredibly slow right now.

[rhovorka]

We often joked that many of our grandmothers could put up the numbers Ruid did if put on that line.

Boy that Vermont team was a fun team to hate, with the Keebler Elves and Tim Thomas in net.  They were into the stick-twirling celebrations that would really stick in opposing fans' craws.  If they had a little more depth, they would've been unstoppable.  I always took a little pride that in the '96 ECAC championship year, we didn't lose to them (two 2-2 ties).  Had we only gotten past Lake St., we would've set up a rematch in the NCAAs.  In the elves' Soph-Senior years, Cornell went 3-1-2 against them.  The loss was the game in Burlington in '97 that Schafer pulled the stick-check trick.  The Gutterson crowd was about ready to ride him out of town after that.  We scored late in that PP to get within 6-4.  CU made it 6-5 with the goalie pulled.  The UVM lead had been 6-1 with 9 minutes left in the 2nd.  http://www.hockey.cornell.edu/news/PastYears/Box97/verm.0208