Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Brandon Jaeger and Oswego’s Matt Zawadzki led their respective squads into the D-III semifinals Friday night and it was a shame one goaltender had to lose.
The Geneseo-St. Norbert Division III semifinal game turned on one play.
LEWISTON, Maine — On the eve of the Division III Frozen Four, some hardware was handed out Thursday night at the Ramada Inn at Frozen Four banquet. For the entire season in goal, David Jacobson has been a stonewall for St. Nobert as he has led them to the Frozen Four with a 22-1-1 record, … Read more
Hercules. Atlas. Samson. All of them broad shouldered guys of legend – two mythical, one Biblical – who came through in the crunch. You can add to that list the likes of Tyler Brickler and Matt Galati. It’s likely that without them, neither of the two bitter SUNYAC foes, Geneseo and Oswego, would be two … Read more
Oswego’s Ed Gosek and St. Norbert’s Tim Coghlin are previous winners of the Edward Jeremiah Award for Division III national coach of the year and both are nominees again this year. Gosek last won the award in 2007, with Coghlin winning a year later. The 2014 nominees include any coach who won or shared conference … Read more
The eight finalists for the 2014 Sid Watson Award as the top men’s player in Division III hockey were announced Monday. All eight players were their respective conference’s players of the year. There are no finalists from the MASCAC or ECAC West. Three players are taking part in the D-III Frozen Four this weekend in … Read more
The NCAA has moved the two Division III men’s quarterfinal games involving Eastern schools to Sunday because first-round games were postponed on Wednesday. Babson will host the Oswego-Bowdoin winner, while Norwich will play the Nichols-Geneseo winner. Both quarterfinal games have been rescheduled for 3 p.m. EDT Sunday. The Oswego-Bowdoin and Nichols-Geneseo games were postponed Wednesday … Read more
Wednesday night’s originally scheduled NCAA D-III first-round game with Geneseo hosting Nichols has been postponed due to inclement weather. The game will now be played Thursday, March 13, at Geneseo at 5 p.m. EST.
Wednesday night’s originally scheduled NCAA D-III first-round game with Oswego hosting Bowdoin has been postponed due to inclement weather. The game will now be played Thursday, March 13, at Oswego at 3 p.m. EDT.
Vulcan? Who’s that? Can he unleash a blazing slapper from the point on the power play? Perhaps not. Nor can he prevent the SUNYAC’s two entries in the NCAA tournament – No. 8 Oswego and No. 9 Geneseo – from firing up their Frozen Four hopes. Despite the threat of the winter storm named for … Read more
Halley’s Comet? No, it’s Oswego as an underdog. Having been cast as perennial favorites in the SUNYAC – with the last four (and six of the last eight) league regular-season crowns locked in the trophy case – the No. 3 Lakers (19-6-2, 10-5-1) come into Saturday’s championship game at No. 1 Geneseo (21-5-0, 14-2-0) as … Read more
Hockey can be a crazy game at times, but it’s rarely tinged with insanity. That is if you were to apply the common notion that insanity is defined by repetition followed by an entirely different result. That said, Buffalo State’s hefty 7-2 thumping of Brockport in Wednesday’s SUNYAC quarterfinal did not defy any logic, even … Read more
Just one weekend of regular season play remains on the SUNYAC schedule. However, the docket will feature at least three distinct story lines, each of which will stir the stew of the upcoming playoff picture. Because of the way the SUNYAC standing have stratified over the course of the season, three key questions have yet … Read more
Two weeks ago, one wouldn’t have liked Potsdam’s playoff chances very much. Or not at all. At that point, the Bears were hibernating in the SUNYAC cellar, with just two standings points to their name, and with three conference foes to jump over just to land in the sixth and final playoff spot. It’s funny … Read more
Life with those Ice Knights from Geneseo has been something of an elevator ride in recent weeks. Up and down. You need look no further than last weekend when the Knights, themselves SUNYAC title contenders, dispatched league leaders Plattsburgh one night, then were drubbed by last-place Potsdam the next. Yet even with those waves and … Read more
The Gridiron Club of Greater Boston announced Thursday the 18 semifinalists for the 14th annual Joe Concannon Award, presented each year to the best American-born college hockey player in New England playing at the Division II/III level. This year’s list consists of 12 forwards, two defensemen and four goaltenders. The candidates include eight players from … Read more
They consider the number 13 to be unlucky, but for roughly half the teams in the SUNYAC, to see that figure in the points column at season’s end would suit them just fine. Six teams make the SUNYAC tournament each season and for the past seven years (such was the sample size we settled upon), … Read more
Despite the respective and disparate records, Friday’s matchup between those two North Country rivals, No. 4 Plattsburgh (14-2-2, 7-0-2) and Potsdam (6-10-0, 1-6-0), looks to be something memorable. If not because there is no love lost between the two schools, who have battled 101 times before, then because the game has been earmarked as “Military … Read more
Let’s name hockey animals that start with the letter ‘B.’ There are Bulls, such as you might find in the big horn country of Billings. There are Bison, which roam across rinks in Boulder. And there are even Brown Bears, the likes of which prowl in chilly Kenai River. The common thread between all those … Read more
Like that of Mark Twain, the demise of SUNYAC power Oswego may have been greatly exaggerated. Such a prediction may have been understandable, of course. The Lakers came into this season having lost 14 members to graduation, stalwarts that had carried the club to four consecutive league titles, as well as the past two national … Read more