The Scott Fusco, Tim Smith and Lane MacDonald unit has accounted for 47 of the Crimson's 75 total goals.

Twenty-four of those 47 first line scores have come on the power play, where the icemen are still connecting at 41 percent, despite going 0-for-7 against Clarkson and St. Lawrence.

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Fusco, who all year had been trailing RPI's Adam Oates in the national scoring face, has finally passed the Engineer Oates, who led the nation most of the year, now has a 2.84 points a game average.

Fusco boasts a 2.86 points per-game average, so he's in first place right?

Wrong.

So somebody farther down on the scoring chart passed both Fusco and Oates.'

No, in fact, Minnesota Duluth's Bill Watson is way back there with a 2 58 average.

What happened is that the College Hockey Statistics Bureau decided to start including players from independent Division I schools on the chart this week.

And one of those players, Steve Moria, who plays for the University of Alaska at Fairbanks just happens to be averaging 3.00 points-a-game.

Anyone know who's on ole UAF's schedule?

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Meanwhile, goalie Grant Blair is now third in the nation in save percentage. The junior has stopped 90.5 percent of the shots he's faced and trails only Michigan State's Bob Essenza (92.4) and RPI's Darren Puppa (90.6) in that category.

Blair's sixth in the nation in goals-against-average with a 2.96 mark.

With a shutout Monday against Dartmouth, Blair would tie the Harvard mark for career shutouts at six.