Site AdministratorIt may have been only an exhibition, but Alberta goalie Blake Grenier wasn’t about to let Minnesota State start the season with goal-scoring confidence. Grenier stopped 36 shots to beat the Mavericks 5-0 in front of a crowd of 2,723 at the Midwest Wireless Civic Center. “Obviously we’ve got some things we’ve got to clean … Read more
Despite outplaying heavily-favored and No. 11 Maine for most of the contest, Air Force committed two major penalties, resulting in three unanswered goals by its opponent, as the Black Bears knocked off the Falcons 3-1 in the first game of the Ice Breaker Invitational on Friday night. With his team nursing a 1-0 lead midway … Read more
In a clash of the old guard against the new, defending NCAA champion Minnesota hosts preseason No. 1 St. Lawrence in Saturday night’s 8 p.m. ET broadcast.
Three-time NCAA champion No. 4 UMD visits WCHA rival co-No. 1 Wisconsin in Sunday’s 3 p.m. ET broadcast.
The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is not necessarily the strongest conference in women’s hockey, but it is definitely the most successful. The first six years of the league’s existence have resulted in six national championships, three apiece for members Minnesota-Duluth and Minnesota. Beginning its seventh season and second as an eight-team conference, the WCHA has … Read more
Colgate finished in third place in both the ECACHL regular season and in the conference tournament; the Raiders made the NCAA tournament for the first time since the 1999-2000 season, and lost 6-5 to Colorado College in the semifinals of the NCAA Midwest Regional. Much of the team’s success was attributable to the stellar play … Read more
A year after winning the ECACHL regular-season and tournament championships and then losing in overtime at the NCAA West Regional to Minnesota, Cornell returns the two best players from last year’s squad — senior forward Matt Moulson and junior netminder David McKee — to take another shot at a national title. McKee was a Hat … Read more
The common theme sounded by coaches from around the ECAC at the league’s media day was the parity that exists among its teams. The coaches’ poll and the media poll both had four teams — Colgate, Dartmouth, Harvard, and St. Lawrence — predicted to finish from second to fifth and separated by only a handful … Read more
The Dutchmen have been making incremental improvements under coach Nate Leaman, but despite having home ice in the opening round of the ECAC tournament three years in a row, they’ve been unable to advance beyond the opening round. Last year was the closest that Union has ever come to moving on to the second round; … Read more
In coach Guy Gadowsky’s first season behind the Princeton bench after making the transition from Alaska-Fairbanks, he brought to the ECACHL some of the up-tempo offense perhaps more common in the West. The Princeton players — who had attempted to use the trap under former coach Len Quesnelle — and fans identified with the exciting, … Read more
Transitioning to a new league can be tough, but imagine trying to make that transition having just lost 10 seniors to graduation. That’s the challenge that awaits Rand Pecknold and the Quinnipiac Bobcats in their inaugural run in the ECAC. “We don’t know how we’re going to do in the league, and we’re going to … Read more
A disappointing fifth-place regular-season finish and a loss to Vermont in the quarterfinals of the ECAC tournament ensured that Dartmouth would again miss the NCAA tournament. Despite having some of the best forwards in the league over the last three seasons — in the forms of Hugh Jessiman, who departed after the 2003-2004 season, and … Read more
Last season’s WCHA runner-up Wisconsin has been selected as the 2005-06 favorite in the league’s coaches poll. Sara Bauer, Wisconsin’s leading scorer for the last two seasons, was named the 2005-06 WCHA Preseason Player of the Year. The Badgers received the maximum number of first place votes, since coaches could not vote their own teams, … Read more
The 2004-2005 season was one of nail-biting frustration for the fans of Houston Field House, who saw their Engineers lose 10 games by one goal and struggle mightily all season long en route to a 11th-place finish. Coach Dan Fridgen is optimistic, though, that the tough losses last season will help in the growth and … Read more
Balance is the defining trait of the 2005-06 Preseason All-USCHO teams, released today. While last season’s teams were dominated by WCHA players, Minnesota in particular, this year’s three teams were split more uniformly across the conferences and top contenders. Preseason No. 1 St. Lawrence, No. 4 Minnesota-Duluth, and No. 5 Mercyhurst led the way with … Read more
The 2003-2004 season saw the Golden Knights finish in the middle of the pack during the regular season but make a surprising sprint through the ECAC tournament only to fall to Harvard in the last minute of the ECAC championship. Hopes were high, then, in Potsdam at the start of the 2004-2005 season, a season … Read more
In coach Ted Donato’s first season in Cambridge, he inherited a talented senior class that included an All-American defenseman in captain Noah Welch, a Hobey Baker finalist in goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris, defenseman Ryan Lannon — USCHO.com’s Unsung Hero for 2004-2005 — and Tom Cavanagh, the best defensive forward in the ECAC. “We’ll miss those guys,” … Read more
It has been almost 20 years since a graduating class of Brown hockey players went their entire collegiate careers without experiencing a losing season. Not since 1978, in fact, but the graduating class of 2006 could join the Bears’ exclusive company of consistent four-year winners. The prime factor weighing against the Bears is the loss … Read more
St. Lawrence coach Joe Marsh always books a challenging out-of-conference schedule, but last season it was a stretch of league games in January and February that hurt the Saints’ playoff hopes. Starting with a January 21 matchup against Rensselaer in Appleton Arena, the Saints flatlined against league foes, going 2-8-1 over an 11-game span. That … Read more
While the 2004-2005 season may be one that fans of the Yale Bulldogs would just as soon forget, this coming year they will see a team take the ice at Ingalls Rink that is almost exactly the same as last year’s model. Only one starter — forward Nick Shalek — and two role players — … Read more