For Brown, just getting off a shot has been a mammoth task. This year, the Bruins are outshot something like 40-20 each game.

Look for the Bruins' upcoming rap video. We Didn't Shoot the Sheriff, and We Can Prove It.

In last Tuesday's Bad Bowl, Yale smacked Brown, 4-0, to earn its second straight victory. Two straight wins in New Haven and the town throws a parade.

The outlook, however, remains bleak for a team which has made the ECAC semifinals two years in a row.

"We've dug ourselves quite a hole," Taylor said. "We've had some tough losses. We lost our cool in one game against Dartmouth. We lost a game in overtime up at Clarkson. It's going to be an uphill battle."

Murphy has been bugged by the Cutone syndrome all year, and no one--not U.H.S., not Coach and cure-all Bill Cleary--has been able to concoct a cure. Murphy, a sophomore from Toronto who scored three goals last year, isn't used to having his pucks fly around like frenzied birds afraid to alight in their nests.

"I've obviously been frustrated that I haven't scored," Murphy said. "The coaches and the other players help out a lot. I have to keep working hard. I hope when that first one comes, they'll come in buckets."

Unlike Brown and Yale, Murphy has all the right moves. It's just that he's been about as lucky as a cockroach in a Raid factory.

If Murphy has the shots, the goalies have the saves.

This weekend, however, Murphy may find the right medicine for his ailment.

Rx care of Brown and Yale.