At this point of the Atlantic Hockey season, I’d normally report that four teams are going to the championship in Rochester, N.Y., and that only one would move on. But this year may be different. [scg_html_aha2013]Niagara is tied for ninth in the PairWise Rankings entering the conference championship weekend. The Purple Eagles would just assume … Read more
Atlantic Hockey named three All-Conference teams Tuesday, with two Niagara and Air Force players getting First Team nods. Overall, Niagara, the regular-season conference champion, had four players on the three teams, while American International and Mercyhurst each placed three. 2013 AHA All-Conference First Team 2013 AHA All-Conference Second Team 2013 AHA All-Conference Third Team
Each of the five Division I men’s conferences is in playoff mode this week, and national columnist Dave Starman takes a look at a key series in each.
The past two weekends have been a microcosm of the up-and-down 2012-13 season for the Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers. The final series of the regular season saw any momentum Wayne Wilson’s team had established come to a screeching halt in a pair of losses to I-90 rival Canisius. Those losses dropped RIT into eighth … Read more
The Atlantic Hockey All-Rookie Team was announced Wednesday with five skaters being named (one a unanimous selection) and no goaltenders making the cut. Bentley forward Andrew Gladiuk was the unanimous pick in the vote. 2013 Atlantic Hockey All-Rookie Team
In the second period of American International’s game at Bentley on Saturday, Yellow Jackets coach Gary Wright caught a puck to the head and had to be attended to by the team’s trainer. “It was a deflection from about 15 feet away,” Wright said. “It came at me so fast. I guess I’m getting old. … Read more
The final weekend of Atlantic Hockey regular season play this season won’t be as frantic as it was a year ago. How could it be? During the third period on the last night of the 2011-12 regular season, there were still three teams in contention for the top seed. This season, Niagara locked up first … Read more
Former Major League Baseball player and manager Bobby Valentine has been named executive director of intercollegiate athletics at Sacred Heart. Valentine, who managed the Boston Red Sox in 2012, will take over in his new position July 1, replacing C. Donald Cook, who is retiring June 30. The Connecticut Post first reported the transaction on … Read more
According to the Connecticut Post, former Major League Baseball player and manager Bobby Valentine will be named the next athletic director at Sacred Heart. Current AD Don Cook is retiring, effective July 1. “An intriguing opportunity has been presented to me and it’s something I really feel I can enjoy doing and I feel could … Read more
Air Force junior forward George Michalke, on medical leave for the rest of the season, has joined the USHL’s Tri-City Storm as an assistant coach.
Niagara has been at the top of the Atlantic Hockey standings for virtually the entire season. With few exceptions, the Purple Eagles have been the lone AHA representative in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll, holding down one of the top 20 spots for a school-record 13 weeks in a row. Coach Dave Burkholder’s team … Read more
This year’s five BNY Mellon Wealth Management Hockey Humanitarian Award finalists all have unique stories to tell and come from four different conferences, including a pair of players from the CCHA. All five players have contributed significantly through off-ice causes and foundations, some even created from scratch. Western Michigan senior forward Brett Beebe established his … Read more
Quinnipiac got the No. 1 spot and promptly lost its first game afterward. Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski discuss that and more in this week’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
Five days after a monstrous blizzard buried Milford, Conn., the Sacred Heart Pioneers finally got to practice on Tuesday. The Milford Ice Pavilion had been inaccessible since last Friday due to the snow. ABC News reported on Saturday that Milford had the dubious distinction of receiving the most snow in the record-setting storm: officially 38 … Read more
Former Connecticut head coach Bruce Marshall confirmed to the Hartford Courant that the reasons he stepped down as the Huskies’ coach this season revolved around a divorce from his wife and a trip to alcohol rehabilitation. According to the story, Marshall’s wife, Kathy, filed divorce papers last July 11. Marshall then entered rehab, but said … Read more
American International senior goaltender Ben Meisner has been proving his critics wrong for years and would like nothing more than to do it one final time as Atlantic Hockey speeds toward the postseason, his last in college hockey. Meisner and the Yellow Jackets gained some confidence by taking three points last weekend at Air Force. … Read more
Even in Atlantic Hockey and ECAC Hockey where the leader is running away, the next nine spots are tightly bunched. Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski have more in this week’s edition of Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
Connecticut interim coach Dave Berard is getting his first taste of leading a college hockey program, and it’s been an eventful season so far for the former longtime Providence assistant coach who joined Bruce Marshall’s staff two years ago. What started as Marshall’s 25th season behind the Huskies bench soon saw him take a medical … Read more
The second annual CCM/USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game will be held Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013 at the CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh. The first such game was Sept. 29, 2012 at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, N.Y.
The first game in this weekend’s Canisius-Mercyhurst home-and-home series scheduled to start Friday at Mercyhurst has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 7:05 p.m. due to a water main break in the city of Erie. The incident has also caused the Mercyhurst campus to be closed through the weekend. The two schools will still … Read more