Word: stornik
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little indigestion, the Ithaca battle between Cornell and Providence left Big Red supporters with a bleeding ulcer. The Friars had jumped out to a seemingly unbeatable 5-1, third period lead before a horrified sell-out crowd at Walker Arena before the Big Red caught fire, as John Stornik, Steve Hennessy and John Olds left Providence with only a one-goal lead. Randy Wilson could have clinched the game with a minute left, but he missed an empty net and Cornell's Lance Nethery came back to blast the puck past John Milner to knot the game...
...first eight minutes of the third period the two teams played a wide open, offensive brand of hockey. The Crimson continued to frustrate Cornell with its tight checking. Then Cornell junior John Stornik lit the Big Red fuse...
...Stornik caught goalie Hynes out of the cage and smacked the puck into the net. The Cornell fans, who seemed to outnumber the Harvard contingent, cheered with more frantic zeal and went wild. They had seen it before, the explosive Cornell offense, and the Cornell crowd tasted victory...
While Napier struggled to repulse the sorties of Cochrane, Garrity, and center Randy Millen, Brian Petrovek came out showing his midseason from as he robbed John Stornik in front of the crease and kicked aside Carl English's semi-breakaway...
None of these distractions proved as disheartening as Stornik's bang-bang goal from Jim Vaughan and Lance Nethery, who make up the Ivy League's highest scoring line. Stornik's tally, only 35 seconds into the period, was a harbinger of the Crimson's shifting fortunes, as the best the skaters could display the rest of the way was a distraught shuffle...