Dan HicklingFirst Round – Wednesday, March 6 (Campus sites) Wentworth at Babson Babson pulled off a stunner by upending top-ranked Norwich in the ECAC East title game. The Beavers’ postseason run will continue, for one more game, anyway. Babson 5-3 Massachusetts-Dartmouth at Bowdoin Bowdoin is a serious national title contender, and although the Corsairs barreled down … Read more
First Round – Wednesday, March 6 (Campus sites) Wentworth at Babson Babson pulled off a stunner by upending top-ranked Norwich in the ECAC East title game. The Beavers’ postseason run will continue, for one more game, anyway. Babson 5-3 Massachusetts-Dartmouth at Bowdoin Bowdoin is a serious national title contender, and although the Corsairs barreled down … Read more
Most coaches can push buttons. The best coaches know when to keep their hands to themselves. Count Oswego bench boss Ed Gosek among the latter. Gosek, who has one Frozen Four championship ring on his finger, realized late in the season that whatever emotional tweaks his No. 3 Lakers might have needed could be applied … Read more
This is the last regularly-scheduled SUNYAC column of the season, and, of course, there is a wide-open stretch of ice to cover, not the least of which is Saturday’s league championship tilt pitting No. 1 Oswego and No. 2 Plattsburgh. How fitting. Those two old foes are about to meet for the SUNYAC title for … Read more
Playoff prognostications can be positively perilous. After all, who would have thought last summer that the Los Angeles Kings would win the Stanley Cup as a lowly No. 8 seed. Yet that turn of events did happen, with the subsequent message being that if high seeds are going to take lesser ones lightly, they do … Read more
Playoff prognostications can be positively perilous. After all, who would have thought last summer that the Los Angeles Kings would win the Stanley Cup as a lowly No. 8 seed. Yet that turn of events did happen, with the subsequent message being that if high seeds are going to take lesser ones lightly, they do … Read more
We’re coming down to the home stretch, now that the two SUNYAC quarterfinal tilts are in the books, and semifinal match-ups — No. 4 Buffalo State at No. 1 Oswego and No. 3 Geneseo at No. 2 Plattsburgh — are set for Saturday. It’s unusual to some degree to see the top four seeds holding … Read more
We’re heading into the final weekend of the SUNYAC regular season, which for three disappointed squads will be their last action, period. There are few givens as the rinks open their doors in four SUNYAC centers on Friday night. One is that Geneseo will finish in third place and will host an as-yet-to-be-determined sixth seed … Read more
We’re heading into the final weekend of the SUNYAC regular season, which for three disappointed squads will be their last action, period. There are few givens as the rinks open their doors in four SUNYAC centers on Friday night. One is that Geneseo will finish in third place and will host an as-yet-to-be-determined sixth seed … Read more
Hands up: who had Oswego’s Bobby Gertsakis in your SUNYAC Fantasy League last weekend? (Still looking — still looking — crickets chirping…). Nobody, not even the sophomore defenseman himself, could have foreseen his three-goal eruption last weekend that helped the league-leading (and nation’s No. 2 squad) to road wins at Buffalo State and Fredonia. Why … Read more
What’s a little snow in the forecast? The threat of a foot or four hasn’t put a damper on what should be white hot action in the SUNYAC this weekend. Jammed at the top, in the middle, all over. This penultimate weekend could be what determiness the post-season fates of each of the nine squads … Read more
What’s a little snow in the forecast? The threat of a foot or four hasn’t put a damper on what should be white hot action in the SUNYAC this weekend. Jammed at the top, in the middle, all over. This penultimate weekend could be what determiness the post-season fates of each of the nine squads … Read more
A cruel bit of irony, perhaps. Potsdam, a team that has known nothing but the road this year, may have run out of road, or at least as it concerns the Bears’ playoff chances. With just four games remaining in the regular season, Potsdam finds itself in a really tough spot. Namely, the SUNYAC cellar. … Read more
Must games. Everybody in the SUNYAC has got ’em, for this weekend and the final two of the regular season. The next two days could see the winnowing of the post-season pack, with a team or two in the nine-team league falling away from the top (playoff bound) sextet. What we’re likely to see is … Read more
Must games. Everybody in the SUNYAC has got ’em, for this weekend and the final two of the regular season. The next two days could see the winnowing of the post-season pack, with a team or two in the nine-team league falling away from the top (playoff bound) sextet. What we’re likely to see is … Read more
David Titanic majors in Wellness Management at SUNY-Oswego, but he might want to consider a minor in something like home economics. After all, he’s shown a distinct talent for tailoring. That was especially true over the weekend, when the junior winger threaded the needle twice in a Lakers win over Brockport (5-1) followed by their rousing … Read more
How do you like your hockey action? Piping hot? If so, you should probably head to a SUNYAC rink, where on almost all fronts, heated contests with playoff implications will be staged. Who doesn’t love it when the top two teams in the conference hook up? Or when a pair of desperately playoff-hungry squads collide? … Read more
How do you like your hockey action? Piping hot? If so, you should probably head to a SUNYAC rink, where on almost all fronts, heated contests with playoff implications will be staged. Who doesn’t love it when the top two teams in the conference hook up? Or when a pair of desperately playoff-hungry squads collide? … Read more
It’s why we love hockey players so much: Guys like Fredonia’s Mat Hehr. Informed that he was wanted outside for media duty, Hehr hopped on one leg through the dressing room door, bare foot planted on the freezy Tuttle Arena floor and greeted a lone reporter with a smile, one that never left his face … Read more
Most teams returned to conference play over the weekend, signaling a race to the playoff finish line. As always, there were some developments that were, shall we say, very interesting. SUNYAC No. 5 Oswego held onto the top spot after notching a solid 5-2 win at Cortland, while Geneseo eased ahead of No. 9 Plattsburgh … Read more