Brian SullivanThe most consistently successful team in ECAC Hockey finished the regular season in the top four for the 11th consecutive time, and despite losing top-flight talent year in and year out, Cornell played in the league’s final four for the fourth year in a row. Coach Mike Schafer’s boys had a tough go of it … Read more
When you have two seven-game losing streaks separated only by a win over Army, you’re probably having a bad year. That was the case for Harvard as last January came to a close: losers of 14 of 15, ultimately to become 17 of 19 following yet another first-round Beanpot defeat. The Crimson had mustered fewer … Read more
Dartmouth is like the Nashville Predators of ECAC Hockey: it doesn’t generate a whole lot of attention most of the time, yet every time you turn around, there it is, hanging around the top of the hill. It’s a credit to veteran coach Bob Gaudet and his staff that he can regularly draw the talent … Read more
It appears that the Joneses may be the ones trying to keep up this year. With the commencement of the Casey Jones era in Clarkson hockey comes a season of long odds and immediate challenges. The Golden Knights lost more than just their seniors last spring, as top-tandem blueliner Mark Borowiecki also bid adieu to … Read more
What’s to be said about the 2011-12 Colgate Raiders? How about that there’s nowhere to go but up? That backhanded compliment is all but literal, as the last iteration of Raiders hockey set program records for futility with eight- and 14-game winless slides, no league wins until the first week of February, and no wins … Read more
Yale crashes out after allowing three power-play goals.
I never used to believe in pulling for another team just because they are from your team’s conference. As a Boston University grad, I could never have imagined rooting for New Hampshire or Boston College once the Terriers’ season ended… that was tantamount to treachery, like cheering on the Yankees if the Red Sox’s summer … Read more
I never used to believe in pulling for another team just because they are from your team’s conference. As a Boston University grad, I could never have imagined rooting for New Hampshire or Boston College once the Terriers’ season ended… that was tantamount to treachery, like cheering on the Yankees if the Red Sox’s summer … Read more
And then there were two… Rensselaer has out-lived cross-Capital rival Union, as the Engineers hope to give North Dakota their best shot later this afternoon. Nothing new on that front, but here’s hoping RPI can give the powerhouse Sioux a run for their money. Union falls to Minnesota-Duluth The Dutchmen did almost everything but bury … Read more
And then there were two… Rensselaer has out-lived cross-Capital rival Union, as the Engineers hope to give North Dakota their best shot later this afternoon. Nothing new on that front, but here’s hoping RPI can give the powerhouse Sioux a run for their money. Union falls to Minnesota-Duluth The Dutchmen did almost everything but bury … Read more
The Yale goaltender allowed a goal against Air Force, but he continued his strong postseason play.
Quick thoughts Rensselaer: nothing to lose Nobody is giving RPI much of a chance against North Dakota, in the Engineers’ first NCAA appearance in 16 years… but really, why would they? The Engineers were the last team into the field and the Sioux are widely considered to be the best team in college hockey (even … Read more
Quick thoughts Rensselaer: nothing to lose Nobody is giving RPI much of a chance against North Dakota, in the Engineers’ first NCAA appearance in 16 years… but really, why would they? The Engineers were the last team into the field and the Sioux are widely considered to be the best team in college hockey (even … Read more
Here are the compulsory “few quick thoughts” on this year’s championship weekend, now that Atlantic City is in the rear-view. Three (thousand)’s a crowd? Looking for attendance figures from the weekend? Me too. Cynical speculations aside, the 9,800 seats were perhaps one-third full each night, with announced figures of 3,357 and 4,126 on Friday and … Read more
Here are the compulsory “few quick thoughts” on this year’s championship weekend, now that Atlantic City is in the rear-view. Three (thousand)’s a crowd? Looking for attendance figures from the weekend? Me too. Cynical speculations aside, the 9,800 seats were perhaps one-third full each night, with announced figures of 3,357 and 4,126 on Friday and … Read more
The Yale Bulldogs have been boosted and belittled since August. Pundits and punters alike have bestowed reverence and ridicule, loving or loathing the team for its gaudy success in an oft-marginalized league. Call them flash-sans-substance. Call them juggernauts. Call them paper tigers, call them world-beaters. Call them what you will, but everyone will have to … Read more
Well this is it, people: Cornell vs. Yale for the title game. The Big Red wore the crown last year, while the Bulldogs won it two years ago – over Cornell, to boot. Here they meet again, but under quite different circumstances. That is because these teams have quite different motivations tonight. Yale is already … Read more
Well this is it, people: Cornell vs. Yale for the title game. The Big Red wore the crown last year, while the Bulldogs won it two years ago – over Cornell, to boot. Here they meet again, but under quite different circumstances. That is because these teams have quite different motivations tonight. Yale is already … Read more
In a most un-Cornell kind of season, it was a most Cornell kind of game in the second ECAC Hockey semifinal as the fourth-seeded Big Red rode exceptional goaltending and timely goals to a 3-0 whitewash of third-seeded Dartmouth on Friday. Junior Mike Garman recalled Big Red recent goalkeepers in stopping a career-high 37 shots … Read more
The goaltender’s shutout of Colgate in the ECAC Hockey semifinals was his fifth of the season.