Tim Costello
Having been to the last four consecutive Frozen Fours, Norwich is familiar with the challenges that lie ahead in the upcoming NCAA tournament. That said, this new and younger version from Norwich finds itself with not only an at-large invite, but also a first-round game on Wednesday night against the MASCAC champions from Salem State. … Read more
Back in January as the season’s second half got underway, Bowdoin coach Terry Meagher said that “they had the league right where they wanted them,” sitting in sixth place in the NESCAC and looking at a lot of teams ahead of them. So it should come as no surprise that from the fifth-seeded position in … Read more
Following Saturday night’s scintillating win over rival Norwich for the ECAC East title, Babson awaited the release of the NCAA tournament bracket and now know they will host the winner of the Oswego-Bowdoin game in a quarterfinal matchup on home ice this coming Saturday. So what does it all mean to the team in green … Read more
The NESCAC quarterfinals went mostly to form as the top three seeds moved on to this week’s conference championship final rounds hosted by Trinity. Trinity, the top offensive team in the conference, will be equally challenged by the top defensive teams in Amherst and Williams and no one should dare underestimate the balance and overall … Read more
Naturally following the Oscars© weekend, the theme for the ECAC East championship preview seemed obvious as the third in the trilogy of the games between these two rivals bears great expectations for terrific hockey with, like the awards ceremony on Sunday, much riding on the outcome in terms of hardware and participation in the NCAA … Read more
The elite teams are rising to the top as the number of participants continues to dwindle down through advanced rounds of the conference playoffs. There are conference championship games on the horizon along with the highly-coveted NCAA tournament auto-bids that come with the titles. Here is a recap of the great action across the country … Read more
The elite teams are rising to the top as the number of participants continues to dwindle down through advanced rounds of the conference playoffs. There are conference championship games on the horizon along with the highly-coveted NCAA tournament auto-bids that come with the titles. Here is a recap of the great action across the country … Read more
It’s the semifinals this weekend in the ECAC East and the top three teams in the conference are not surprise attendees. Norwich, Babson and Massachusetts-Boston all won handily in their quarterfinal matchups to advance to Saturday’s semifinal round. Joining the three nationally-ranked squads is Castleton that “upset” the fourth-seeded Pilgrims from New England College by … Read more
The final weekend of the regular season went a long way in determining the matchups in the quarterfinal round of the NESCAC tournament scheduled for this coming Saturday. Trinity leveraged a pair of wins over travel partner Wesleyan to lock up first place and the top seed, but at the expense of seeing Wesleyan again … Read more
As if last weekend wasn’t crazy enough for the teams in the ECAC East. The playoffs start on Saturday with four quarterfinal matchups that may not be as clear-cut as the seeding may indicate. Norwich again finds itself the top seed, and had to work the extra mile in beating Babson and Massachusetts-Boston for a … Read more
Every year, the last weekend of NESCAC play brings so many scenarios to what the seeding will look like once the final two games of the regular season are completed. So what do we know heading into the final two games? Not much. The only confirmed position is Tufts not qualifying for the conference tournament … Read more
With just two weekends left in the regular-season schedule, the sense of urgency for points is not lost on teams that are truly already in playoff mode. Case in point finds Hamilton as the Continentals are currently in ninth place in the NESCAC conference standings. In the NESCAC, being ninth or worse is a problem … Read more
Following a 1-13-1 start to the season, some teams might have considered mailing it in for the remainder of the schedule believing there was nothing left to play for. Not so for the Purple Knights of St. Michael’s, who have won five of their last eight games and qualified to play in the Division II … Read more
Many consider the NESCAC among the most competitive athletic conferences at the Division III level and certainly, no one can question the academic quality and integrity the 11-school conference represents to it thousands of students. So it should come as no surprise that many legacies and sibling combinations have appeared over the years competing both … Read more
For St. Anselm in 2014, the battle has been to find some level of consistency in the Hawks’ level of play not only from one weekend to the next, but from one night to the next. Case in point is this past weekend where some critical third-period mistakes accounted for a loss against ECAC East … Read more
One may look at the overall record at 7-7-6 and think that is about the true definition of a .500 hockey team. But a look a little deeper into the Skidmore schedule and results shows that 40 percent of their games played have gone to overtime. In those overtime games, the Thoroughbreds are 1-1-6. A … Read more
“It’s not about how you start – it’s about how you finish.” The above quote represents the mantra that is the focus and commitment Connecticut College has adopted forthe second half of the season and the Camels’ final regular-season games over the next four weekends. An 0-7-0 start, including a 6-0 shellacking by Manahattanville, was … Read more
The weeks are dwindling towards the end of the regular season and the battles for playoff position are intensifying everywhere. Some teams are getting hot at the right time of the year, but can they knock off the teams that have been playing well all year long? Here are some of the highlights from some … Read more
The weeks are dwindling towards the end of the regular season and the battles for playoff position are intensifying everywhere. Some teams are getting hot at the right time of the year, but can they knock off the teams that have been playing well all year long? Here are some of the highlights from some … Read more
With seven games remaining on the schedule, the University of New England has already surpassed its win total from last season and sits just three points out of fifth place in the conference following only their second-ever conference weekend sweep since their inception as a varsity program in the ECAC East conference for the 2009-10 … Read more