Site AdministratorNotre Dame’s class of 2007 played in the NCAA tournament as freshmen, but the program’s true rise would have to wait for a couple more years. Tim Rooney traces the evolution of the Fighting Irish in an USCHO Extra exclusive now available to everyone.
Niagara’s Sean Bentivoglio, Ted Cook and Les Reaney were honored for the second straight year as College Hockey America announced its all-league teams Tuesday. Four members of the First Team were unanimous selections, including Bentivoglio, Cook, Shaun Arvai of Alabama-Huntsville and Matt Climie of Bemidji State. Head coaches and assistant coaches from the five schools … Read more
Men’s ice hockey will be added to the athletic programs at the University of New England, with the team reaching varsity status as an NCAA D-III program in 2010. The school will field a club team until then. The announcement was made Monday by University of New England president Danielle Ripich, and director of athletics … Read more
A week off was just the tonic for Notre Dame to re-establish its dominance in the USCHO.com/CSTV Division I men’s poll. The CCHA regular-season champion, which earned a bye through the first round of the conference playoffs, took 36 of 40 first-place votes in Monday’s release to remain No. 1 for the fifth straight week. … Read more
USA Hockey today announced Mercyhurst freshman forward Meghan Agosta, Wisconsin senior forward Sara Bauer and Harvard senior forward Julie Chu are the three finalists for the 2007 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the award is presented annually by The USA Hockey Foundation to the top player in NCAA Division I women’s ice … Read more
Trinity coach John Dunham today announced his retirement after 33 seasons, the longest tenure of any Trinity head coach in any sport. Trinity has hired associate head coach David Cataruzolo, who had served as an assistant to Dunham since 1998, to replace Dunham. The Bantam men’s ice hockey squad posted an 8-13-4 record this season … Read more
The 2007 NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey tournament bracket was announced Sunday night. The No. 1 team in the country, Plattsburgh State, will host the Division III Women’s Championships on March 16 and 17. The Cardinals also received the bye into the semifinal round that begins on March 16. Joining Plattsburgh in the tournament … Read more
The NCAA has announced seedings are pairings for the 2007 Division III Men’s Hockey Tournament. First round games will be held on Wednesday, March 7 and feature: * Fredonia, the SUNYAC champions at Middlebury, the NESCAC winners * Bethel, the MIAC champions, at Wisconsin-River Falls Quarterfinals will be held on Saturday, March 10th: * Fredonia/Middlebury … Read more
So the pairings are up: Harvard at (1) Wisconsin St. Lawrence at (4) New Hampshire Boston College at (3) Dartmouth Minnesota-Duluth at (2) Mercyhurst As mentioned in previous editions, this was the best bracket in terms of avoiding intraconference matchups, but not the best in terms of bracket integrity. This is the first time the NCAA had to … Read more
A senior forward playing in his final home game made it a memorable finale for himself and eight classmates as Princeton defeated Brown, 4-3, in the deciding contest of their best-of-three ECACHL first-round playoff series before 1,002 fans at Hobey Baker Rink on Sunday evening. Princeton senior wing Grant Goeckner-Zoeller both set up the game-tying … Read more
In the end, all the drama between the BC-UMD selection turned out to be irrelevant, as all the top seeds won their conference tournaments. As discussed in earlier posts, given the closeness of BC-UMD and Wisconsin-Mercyhurst, I see no reason why the NCAA committee would not swap the two teams, leaving a bracket as follows: … Read more
Wisconsin swept all of the WCHA individual awards announced this past week. The Badgers have the top player on offense, defense, and in goal, the top rookie, and the top coach. Eight Badgers were named to the All-WCHA teams. With that type of talent, it is almost unfair for their opponents when their lesser-known players … Read more
Lake Superior State’s six seniors, who predicted that they will be defined by their performance in this year’s CCHA playoffs, took a much-deserved victory lap around Taffy Abel Arena after the Lakers beat Ferris State 3-2 Sunday in the final game of their best-of-three series. The Lakers (19-17-3) won a CCHA playoff series for the … Read more
It was the Danielle Blanchard Show at the Stafford Ice Arena today as the Plattsburgh State Cardinals wrapped up their second consecutive ECAC West Championship with a 3-2 win over arch-rival Elmira. The win gives the Cardinals an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament and improves their record to 25-0-2 on the season. Blanchard led … Read more
Alaska netminder Wylie Rogers stopped 32 of 33 shots as the Nanooks ended Western Michigan’s season with a 3-1 win in the decisive third game of the schools’ CCHA first-round playoff series Sunday night. The Nanooks drew first blood in when Curtis Fraser netted his 19th goal of the season and first of the series … Read more
For anyone looking for recaps of the Hockey East Semifinals and CHA Final: From Foster’s: UNH 2, UConn 0 Providence 3, BC 2 From Erie Times-News: Mercyhurst 4, Wayne State 1 USCHO will have writers at the Hockey East and WCHA finals on Sunday.
Everyone expected Minnesota to play better than two weeks ago in Duluth, when UMD swept the two-game series by a combined score of 12-2. The question was whether Minnesota could play well enough to get past the Bulldogs in the WCHA semifinals. The answer was “yes”, but just barely. The Gophers (23-11-1, 17-10-1 WCHA) needed … Read more
In the first period of Saturday’s regular-season-closing contest, it could have been hard to tell which team was battling for playoff position and which was just playing out the string, having been eliminated from contention. Massachusetts-Lowell built a 2-0 lead in the opening period, only to have it wiped away in the second by No. … Read more
Facing elimination a week after posting a .500 regular season, Princeton will live to play at least one more night. The Tigers recorded a dramatic 2-1 win in overtime over visiting Brown on Saturday night before 1,074 onlookers at Hobey Baker Rink, on a goal just 1:50 into the extra session by sophomore center Brett … Read more
A two-period scoring binge and tough defense down the stretch proved to be the winning formula for No. 5 St. Lawrence against No. 6 Harvard in the semifinals of the ECAC tournament on Saturday. The Saints (28-6-3, 17-4-1 ECAC) beat the Crimson (23-7-2, 17-4-1 ECAC) for the third time this season by a score of … Read more