Dan Rubin
With the departure of Connecticut to Hockey East, pod-based scheduling is no more, replaced by unbalanced draws. Programs will play four league opponents four times, the rest twice.
The Pioneers return their top eight forwards and four defensemen from a year ago.
The Crusaders return a solid defense but have questions to answer on offense.
The Golden Griffins open the HarborCenter this season but lost three key players from last year’s team.
The Falcons scored 341 goals over the past three seasons, but they know play in their own end is the final hurdle to the top of Atlantic Hockey.
The Yellow Jackets finished 11th last season and are picked for the bottom in 2014-15.
The Black Knights were able to split their final two weekends with Connecticut and Holy Cross, then took a game from Robert Morris before bowing out to the eventual league champion in three games.
Ben Kaplan helped develop mobile app WiGo to connect students, but he had to make the tough decision to leave the Crusaders team.
At Boston University, the rallying cry after a 10-21-4 finish in David Quinn’s first season is simple: “Never again.”
The Crusaders have a recognizable brand to attract a coach, Dan Rubin writes.
Top-seed Mercyhurst was the only home team to advance in last week’s quarterfinal round.
All home seeds moved on (more on that in a bit), but it wasn’t as easy as just saying it. A look at three things (okay, four) that made this weekend as insane as I’ll try to make it out to be: Holy Cross Gets Divine Intervention If I had to guess, some late night … Read more
All home seeds moved on (more on that in a bit), but it wasn’t as easy as just saying it. A look at three things (okay, four) that made this weekend as insane as I’ll try to make it out to be: Holy Cross Gets Divine Intervention If I had to guess, some late night … Read more
Over the past couple of seasons, Atlantic Hockey’s grown a reputation of having a rough and tumble, unpredictable playoff series where anything is possible. In the true spirit, thereof, two playoff series will go to three games this year in the first round, including the 5-vs-12 matchup reserved for the best team not to get … Read more
Over the past couple of seasons, Atlantic Hockey’s grown a reputation of having a rough and tumble, unpredictable playoff series where anything is possible. In the true spirit, thereof, two playoff series will go to three games this year in the first round, including the 5-vs-12 matchup reserved for the best team not to get … Read more
The Pioneers play at Canisius to open the postseason.
A weekend’s worth of observations set us up for a great final weekend stretch run with all kinds of playoff implications in Atlantic Hockey: Sacred sweep Bentley entered this weekend needing just four points to seal up a first-round bye and continue pace with first-place Mercyhurst. The Falcons also stood as one of three AHA … Read more
A weekend’s worth of observations set us up for a great final weekend stretch run with all kinds of playoff implications in Atlantic Hockey: Sacred sweep Bentley entered this weekend needing just four points to seal up a first-round bye and continue pace with first-place Mercyhurst. The Falcons also stood as one of three AHA … Read more
If there’s one thing not to talk about when it comes to these Black Knights, it’s adversity.
A look back at the weekend that was in Atlantic Hockey: Best 3-24 Team in the Nation Because of the overall struggles this year by the AHA, Army ranks as the 59th team in the nation according to statistical rankings. But anyone who’s watched the Black Knights over the course of their current 13-game losing … Read more