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SAINTS NAME CAPTAINS,
AWARD WINNERS Carruthers will be the Saint captain, while Daniels, Bartlett and DiLauro will be assistant captains. The announcement came as part of the annual Saints Hockey Boosters Banquet held last weekend. All America, ECAC Player of the Year and Hobey Baker Award finalist Erik Anderson and linemate Mike Gellard, who was first-team All ECAC, the first-ever Saint to win the ECAC scoring title and the first player in ECAC to be scoring champion and the winner of the Outstanding Defensive Forward Award shared the 2001 Most Valuable Player Award. Other awards included the presentation of the Jinx Doyle Award to Gellard; the Brian McFarlane Award for academic excellence to defenseman Kevin Veneruzzo; the Peter McGeough Award as the outstanding Saint defenseman to Matt Desrosiers and the Rookie of the Year Award to freshman defenseman Ryan Glenn. Defenseman Josh LeRoy and goalie Sean Coakley were the winners of the Boosters' Seventh Player Award; Russ Bartlett and Blair Clarance were awarded the new Terry Slater Perseverance Award; the Paul Flanagan Most Improved Player Award went to Clarance and defenseman Allie Skelley and senior wing Alan Fyfe was presented the Bernie McKinnon Coaches' Award. ANDERSON, DESROSIERS EARN ALL AMERICA HONORS April 4: St. Lawrence University's men's hockey team has produced two All Americas in the same year for the second straight time and the fifth time in the tenure of Saint head coach Joe Marsh. Senior captain Erik Anderson, a Hobey Baker Award finalist, earned a first-team All America spot while senior defenseman Matt Desrosiers was named to the second team by the American Hockey Coaches Association. Anderson was joined on the first team by Clarkson defenseman Kent Huskins and Yale forward Jeff Hamilton as the Eastern College Athletic Conference and Hockey East split the six first team spots on the East team. Ty Conklin of New Hampshire was the golatender while Bobby Allen of Boston College was named on defense and Brian Gionta of Boston College was named at forward. Desrosiers was the only ECAC player on the second team which included Providence goaltender Nolan Schaefer, UMass.-Lowell defenseman Ron Haisey, Boston University forward Carl Corazzini, BC forward Krys Kolanos and Providence forward Devin Rask. All ten Hobey Baker Award finalists were voted to the first team in either the east or west teams by the coaches. Anderson and Desrosiers helped the Saints to their third straight NCAA tournament appearance and second straight ECAC championship. Anderson was the ECAC Player of the Year and finished his senior season with 17 goals, 34 assists and 51 points, all career highs. He finishes his Saint career with 46 goals, 102 assists and 148 points with his assist total ranking fifth on the all time Saint list and his point total 11th. Desrosiers had career highs in assists with 25 and points with 32 as he scored seven goals and 25 assists during his senior season in addition to anchoring a young Saint defense which showed steady improvement throughout the season. He finished his Saint career with 19 goals and 58 assists for 77 points which ranks among the top career point totals for Saint defenders. Desrosiers was a first-team All ECAC choice on defense. Saint senior Mike Gellard, who was the first player to win both the ECAC scoring title and the Outstanding Defensive Forward award, was not included on the All America team despite a 57 point season on 19 goals and 38 assists which was the highest point total for any Division I player in the East. "Obviously I am elated for Erik and Matt, but at the same time you have to feel sorry for Mike. He got caught in a numbers game when you are trying to pick the top six among all the forwards in Division I in the East. We certainly feel he belongs among the top six along with Erik," said Saint coach Joe Marsh. "Our whole senior class was really something special and accomplished a great deal in their four years. They made three straight ECAC championship games and won the last two, and that is something not a lot of classes can boast about."
SAINTS END SEASON
IN OVERTIME LOSS St. Lawrence University's men's hockey
team learned the joy of a greulling overtime victory in last year's
NCAA quarterfinals when it beat Boston University 3-2 in the fourth
overtime to advance to the NCAA Frozen Four. The Saints now know how
the Terriers felt as they sustained their first overtime loss of the
year when Paul Manning scored 3:30 into the second overtime to lift
Colorado College to a 3-2 win over the Saints and into Saturday's
quarterfinal game against second seeded North Dakota. The Saints, now 4-1-4 in overtime games
finish their season at 20-13-4 overall while Colorado College lost
to North Dakota 4-1 in Saturday's semifinals. While the Saints received outstanding
performances from its senior class as it has throughout the ECAC playoff
run, Colorado College got the bounce that decided it. Goaltender Jeremy Symington had a 46-save
night to continue his outstanding string of post-season performances
and Erik Anderson scored his 17th goal of the year and junior Russ
Bartlett his 18th to set up another overtime extravaganza. "It wasn't the best time for our
first overtime loss of the year," said Saint coach Joe Marsh
after the game. "It was a great effort by both teams. I am very
proud of the effort the guys gave tonight and all throughout the playoffs.
I am just real proud of the way the team stuck together." The Saints, who marched through the
ECAC playoffs with a 4-0 record, gave third-seeded Colorado College
all it could handle in a game which is seventh longest in NCAA history.
The Tigers scored the only goal of the
first period when Saint defenseman Kevin Veneruzzo was hauled down
at the side of his own net and the puck popped free. Joe Cullen pounced
on the loose puck and fed freshman Peter Sejna, who was all alone
in front of Symington and snapped his 29th of the year under the crossbar
on a backhand. "I thought the guys tapped into
their experience as much as possible and the senior class did as much
as possible to allow us to advance. We played the type of game we
had to play to win. We showed a lot of character," said Marsh. "I give St. Lawrence a lot of credit,"
said Tiger coach Scott Owens. "For the majority of the game we
weren't allowed to get into our up-tempo style of play. We tried do,
but they did a great job. We had trouble getting going." The Saints knotted the score on their
third power play chance of the game at 7:36 as senior captain Erik
Anderson finished off a pretty passing play, hitting the wide open
net with his 17th goal of the year. Russ Bartlett and Mike Gellard
set up the tying goal, but the Tigers got that back on a power play
goal of their own as Noah Clarke scored off a St. Lawrence came back to tie the game
at 2-2 7:26 into the third period when Bartlett skated to the side
of the net and redirected a pass out of the corner by Kevin Veneruzzo
past Sanger with Blair Clarance also assisting. The play was reviewed
by video replay to see if Bartlett was in the crease when the goal
went in, but the score stood and set up another Saint NCAA tournament
marathon. Symington had a dozen saves in the third
period and made 13 in the first overtime, including a point blank
save on Mark Cullen from the short slot with 5:30 to go in the overtime.
The Saints did have a power play chance in the first extra period,
but Sanger and the Tiger penalty kill kept the Saints off the board
and set up the second overtime. Symington had three saves early in the
second overtime and the
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