The championship finals are upon us this weekend, which will go a long way in filling out the field for the NCAA tournament, but first things first. Every team’s goal is to be champion of their conference, and to realize that goal, the ultimate victors are going to have to push their game to the … Read more
Last season saw the Hamilton Continentals playing some of their best hockey of the season in the month of January, where they went 8-1-1 and had an 11-game unbeaten streak stretching back into December. February was not that successful, as the team finished 1-4-2 over their final seven games and saw a first-round exit from … Read more
What an entrance the NESCAC teams make to the season. As always, the late arrivals but with the most dramatic entrances and battles for playoff positioning amongst any of the other conferences in the D-III ranks. This year will likely be no exception according to last year’s championship coach from Williams, Bill Kangas. “We start … Read more
Williams earned all three individual awards from the NESCAC as the conference announced the winners on Tuesday. The league’s Player of the Year is Williams senior defenseman and captain Zander Masucci, who tallied seven goals and 18 points to lead all NESCAC blueliners this season. Co-Rookies of the Year are Williams goalie Michael Pinios and … Read more
Graham Johnson has joined the Massachusetts hockey staff as the program’s director of hockey operations. Johnson comes to the Minutemen after most recently serving as the head coach and general manager of the junior-level Connecticut Nighthawks (EHL/MJHL) in Simsbury, Conn. “The director of operations is a complicated position that requires array of skills, including organization, … Read more
What a spring and offseason for the hockey teams of NESCAC. First, Trinity shakes off a quarterfinal loss in the conference tournament to go on a four-game run as an at-large entrant in the NCAA tournament and wins its first-ever national title. Secondly, Middlebury and D-III coaching legend Bill Beaney announces his retirement from coaching … Read more
Union has added two staffers for the upcoming 2015-16 season as Kris Horn will serve as a volunteer assistant coach and Ian Greenwald has been hired as the hockey operations coordinator. Horn spent last season as an assistant coach at Hamilton and prior to joining the Continentals, was as an assistant coach for ACHA teams … Read more
Stevenson announced Tuesday that former Neumann coach and Norwich standout Dominick Dawes has been named as the first head men’s coach at Stevenson when the team begins NCAA play with the 2016-17 season. “We are excited to have our first men’s ice hockey coach with the experience, knowledge and talent that Dominick Dawes brings to … Read more
The NESCAC handed out its year-end awards and named its two All-Conference Teams recently. Trinity’s Ryan Cole was named Player of the Year after leading the league with 35 points in 14 goals and 21 assists. David White, a first-year forward from Amherst, was named Rookie of the Year after leading the NESCAC with 18 … Read more
Jackson Brewer – and his NESCAC-leading 33 assists – is coming back. So, too, are John Hawkrigg and Sean Orlando, with their 17 goals apiece in tow. And who can forget Ryan Cole, a freshman like Orlando, and his 16 league tallies. All of that is great news for Trinity, not so great for the … Read more
Last, but certainly not least every season, the NESCAC conference gets into the fray and starts playing regular-season hockey starting in the middle of November. The conference is playing catch-up with many of their league brethren in New England, but no worries, these teams come up to speed quickly. They will have to do just … Read more
NCAA Men’s Hockey D-III Championship finalists Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Oswego lead the way with three selections each to the All-USCHO teams.
Always the last conference to kick off its regular season, the NESCAC comes together this year as maybe the most balanced conference in the nation. Last season saw two new coaches join the conference and add to its illustrious group of hockey minds. This season sees the addition of former Mass.-Lowell coach Blaise MacDonald to … Read more
Expect Williams to take first in the ever-competitive NESCAC this season.
Former Clarkson star Ken Scuderi has been hired as an assistant coach with Hamilton College. Scuderi was a four-year letter winner for Clarkson from 2001 to 2005 and played professional hockey for four seasons in the ECHL and American Hockey League from 2005 to 2009. Scuderi collected 24 points in 133 career games as a … Read more
Hamilton College has named Rob Haberbusch, associate head coach at Army since 2008, its new head coach. Haberbusch succeeds Norm Bazin, who was named head coach at Massachusetts-Lowell in late April. “I am honored to accept the position of head hockey coach at Hamilton College,” Haberbusch said in a statement. “Hamilton’s excellent academic reputation, coupled … Read more
St. Norbert leads the way with three players on the 2010-2011 All-USCHO D-III teams
The Massachusetts-Lowell River Hawks announced their sixth head coach in school history on Thursday, and for the first time they are turning to an alum to lead the program. Norm Bazin, who played for the River Hawks from 1990 through 1994 and was a part of the senior class that led Lowell within a goal … Read more
Cammi Granato, three-time ECAC Player of the Year, two-time Olympian and 15-year member of the U.S. Women’s National Team, was today announced as one of the first two female members in the 65-year history of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Granato will be formally inducted into the Hall on Nov. 8 as part of the … Read more
The NCAA men’s and women’s ice hockey rules committee gets this chance only once every two years, so there’s a little more emphasis to get it right. In the next month, leading up to and through the committee’s meeting June 8-11 in Indianapolis, the dialogue about potential rules changes will lead to debate and then … Read more