Call it a style statement, if you like. Or winter wear fit for the occasion. The solid white worn by Geneseo’s Tyler Brickler and his linemates during the Ice Knights’ outdoor clash with Nazareth last Sunday proved to be both fashionable and functional. Brickler, a junior and a key cog in the Knights’ attack, cut … Read more
It usually doesn’t take a rookie too long before he receives his “initiation” – his “Welcome to the SUNYAC” moment. It’s been 10 games now as a Geneseo Ice Knight and freshman Stephen Collins has yet to receive his. No dressing room pranks played on him by the upperclassmen. Nor any “love taps” applied not … Read more
Four years and a shade more besides. That’s how long since it’s been since Plattsburgh had occupied the top spot in USCHO’s Division III Men’s Poll. Not that the Cardinals, perennial national championship contenders, hadn’t come close a few times since their last top ranking, the Oct. 26, 2009 preseason poll. But it wasn’t until … Read more
What’s that old chestnut about half a loaf being better than nothing? You wouldn’t have known it by the reaction from either side of Friday’s 4-4 draw between Fredonia and Buffalo State. Judging by the respective reactions, neither side found the result to be particularly tasty, even though each came away with a precious SUNYAC … Read more
The question was as logical as it was simple. “What did you have for breakfast on Saturday, Stephen?” You’d have asked it, too, if you had seen the sort of unexpected offensive eruption that Cortland senior defenseman Stephen Nardi put out against visiting Morrisville. Known more as a body-banging defenseman who is adept at keeping … Read more
They weren’t mad and they aren’t trying to get even. Even so, the Mustangs of Morrisville brought burrs beneath their saddle blankets with them into the still-new 2013-14 season. No one likes to be pegged for last place in a pre-season poll and the ‘Stangs, who were consigned [with Cortland] for the cellar by the … Read more
Optimism runs amok at the beginning of every hockey season, with each team insisting that its conference is wide-open and that a league title is there for the taking. This time, they mean it. Really. It’s been a while – four years, to be precise – since anyone other than Oswego has captured the SUNYAC … Read more
Cortland head coach Joe Baldarotta has announced his retirement and associate director of athletics Tom Cranfield will coach the Red Dragons in 2013-14 while still assuming his administrative duties. Cranfield previously coached the team from 2001-07. Baldarotta coached six seasons at Cortland from 2007-13 and led the squad to the 2008 SUNYAC playoffs. His overall … Read more
Castleton announced Monday that longtime Plattsburgh assistant coach Steve Moffat has been named the Spartans’ new head coach. Moffa, who has been a member of the Plattsburgh staff for the last 13 years, including the past 10 as head coach Bob Emery’s top assistant, replaces Alex Todd, who resigned to become an assistant at Nebraska-Omaha … Read more
Canton has named former Oswego player Trevor Gilligan as the Kangaroos’ new head coach. Gilligan takes over for assistant athletic director Pat Martin, who served as interim coach for the second half of the 2012-13 season. “Trevor was a national champion as a player and he’s a proven winner as a coach,” said Canton athletic … Read more
Morrisville announced Wednesday that interim coach Kevin Krogol has been named head coach for the 2013-14 season. Krogol spent the previous five seasons with the program, serving as an assistant coach for a majority of that time and most recently fulfilling the interim head coach role for the 2012-13 season. “I’m very excited to be … Read more
The Rochester Americans players’ wives and girlfriends will be having a fundraising raffle to benefit the family of Nazareth coach George Roll, whose wife has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, during the Amerks’ game versus the Hamilton Bulldogs on Saturday, April 20 at the Blue Cross Arena. The efforts are being spearheaded by Amerks’ … 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.
Oswego’s Paul Rodrigues, who finished second in the nation in scoring, has been named the USCHO D-III Player of the Year by the D-III columnists.
Going Out On Top After today, the NCHA men’s hockey will be no more. What better way to close out the conference than with a national championship. “We talked about that the first day of practice,” Wisconsin-Eau Claire coach Matt Loen said. “It would be really cool winning it for the NCHA for the last … Read more
Russell Jaslow takes a look at the matchup in the 2013 NCAA men’s Division III championship game.
Talented offensively, Oswego has added grit and grind to its game, and hopes that trends to toward success in the NCAA title.
Oswego forward Paul Rodrigues has been named the winner of the Sid Watson Award as the nation’s top Division III player, while Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s Matt Loen is the Edward Jeremiah Award recipient as the D-III coach of the year. Rodrigues led the nation in scoring for most of the season and enters this weekend with … Read more
You can’t really automatically pencil Oswego into an annual trip to the Division-III Frozen Four. It just seems that way. Four FroFour appearances in the last four years — including this one — is reason enough to think that. Stretch it to five FFs since 2007, all of them coming under coach Ed Gosek, if … Read more
Most coaches can push buttons. The best coaches know when to keep their hands to themselves. Count Oswego bench boss Ed Gosek among the latter. Gosek, who has one Frozen Four championship ring on his finger, realized late in the season that whatever emotional tweaks his No. 3 Lakers might have needed could be applied … Read more