Kevin Margarucci has been named USA Hockey’s manager of player safety. Since 2001, Margarucci has served as head athletic trainer and teacher at Lewis-Palmer High School in Monument, Colo., and has also worked as an athletic trainer at Colorado College and for the United States Olympic Committee. he holds a master’s degree in athletic training … Read more
The Dubuque Fighting Saints of the United States Hockey League announced Thursday the hiring of Jason Lammers as the team’s new head coach and general manager. Lammers leaves Massachusetts-Lowell, where he served as associate coach the past three seasons. He came in as an assistant in 2011. “I’m elated to be a part of the … Read more
The Montreal Canadiens announced Monday that they have hired Nick Carriere as an assistant coach for their AHL affiliate, the St. John’s IceCaps. The former Niagara player just completed his tenth year as head coach at Buffalo State in 2014-15, leading the Bengals to their fourth consecutive trip to the SUNYAC semifinals. He led his … Read more
Fielding was also the 2015 Sid Watson Award winner.
Eleven coaches have been named finalists for the Edward Jeremiah Award, given annually to the NCAA Division III men’s coach of the year. Named in honor of the former Dartmouth head coach, the award will be presented during the AHCA Convention on Saturday, May 2, in Naples, Fla., after being announced March 26 at the … Read more
The SUNYAC has announced its individual year-end awards, in addition to three All-Conference Teams. All the awards were voted on by the head coaches in the conference. The MVP Herb Hammond Award as Player of the Year was given to Oswego’s Shawn Hulshof, while Rookie of the Year went to Cortland’s Dan Broderick and Plattsburgh’s … Read more
The NCAA Division III field of 11 teams for the 2015 national tournament was announced Monday morning. Seven conferences have been awarded an automatic bid, while the remaining four teams were selected as at-large teams. Teams that received an auto-bid by winning the conference playoff tournaments are Norwich (ECAC East), Nichols (ECAC Northeast), Plymouth State … Read more
Once again, USCHO.com helped administer the SUNYAC All Rookie and defensive awards, this time for the 2014-15 season. The purpose is to bring some publicity to players who are not recognized by the traditional end-of-season awards. Since the SUNYAC chose to not expand its year-end awards, USCHO.com agreed to help the coaches. USCHO does not … Read more
The Gridiron Club of Greater Boston announced Sunday the 18 semifinalists for the fifteenth Joe Concannon Award, presented annually to the best American-born college player in New England at the NCAA Division II/III level. This year’s list is made up of nine forwards, five defensemen and four goaltenders. The candidates include eight players from the … Read more
It takes more than mere wishing and hoping, but just about anything else, even something caustic like two coats of shellac can help turn around a season going in the wrong direction. Such is what it took to put a better sheen on Buffalo State’s lackluster campaign. The Bengals have won four of its last … Read more
For a team trying to fight its way upward through a tough league (think SUNYAC), progress can often be measured thusly. Two steps forward, one step back. So it is with Cortland (2-5-1, 2-4-1) under first-year coach Joe Cardarelli. Winless in their first five starts, the Red Dragons presented Cardarelli with his first two wins … Read more
Buffalo State’s men’s game scheduled for Friday night at Fredonia has been postponed due to continued travel restrictions related to the severe snowstorm that pounded Western New York this week. The game has been rescheduled for Saturday, Feb. 14 at 7 p.m.
Somebody’s bound to say it. “Ours is the toughest conference in Division III hockey.” The thing is, the SUNYAC can make the claim as well as anybody, at least if the gauge is Frozen Four appearances. Last year’s Frozen Four featured two SUNYAC schools, Geneseo and Oswego, and although they both bowed out in the … Read more
Providence coach Nate Leaman will be inducted into the Cortland C-Club Hall of Fame during its 46th annual banquet and ceremonies on Saturday, Sept. 13. Leaman is a 1997 graduate of Cortland, where he served as a captain his junior and senior years. He currently ranks 11th at the school in career assists and 18th … Read more
The Democrat & Chronicle has reported that with Nazareth assistant coach Jared DeMichiel getting hired at St. Lawrence, Phil Rose will move volunteer assistant to full-time assistant at Nazareth. Former St. Cloud State head coach Craig Dahl is the new volunteer assistant at Nazareth after filling the same role at Geneseo.
Michael Lysyj has been named assistant coach at Fredonia, replacing Bill Silengo, who left to become an assistant coach at Manhattanville. Lysyj scored 39 goals and had 38 assists in four seasons with Cortland, graduating in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology, with a concentration in coaching, and a minor in communications. Following college, … Read more
Oswego will play Utica as one of three games at the Frozen Dome Classic at Syracuse University’s Carrier Dome on Saturday, Nov. 22. The event will be hosted by the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL. The Crunch are scheduled to play the Utica Comets and the third game will be law enforcement agencies from both … Read more
Joe Cardarelli has been named Cortland’s head coach, taking over for interim head coach Tom Cranfield, who will continue as the school’s associate director of athletics. Cardarelli was an assistant coach last season for the Red Dragons. Prior to the 2013-14 season, Cardarelli spent the previous two years as head coach of two Junior … Read more
A game between Utica and Oswego and another involving the Syracuse women’s team are part of a proposed event next season at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.
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.