Quinnipiac cruises past Merrimack, will face Ohio State in Sunday’s Bridgeport Regional final
Jacob Quillan scored two and Yaniv Perets made 15 saves in Quinnipiac’s win over Merrimack.
Men’s D-I: Colgate
Previewing the 2023 NCAA hockey tournament, Allentown Regional: Michigan, Penn State, Michigan Tech, Colgate
ALLENTOWN REGIONAL When: Friday, March 24 & Sunday, March 26 Where: PPL Center, Allentown, Penn. Matchups (all times Eastern): Penn State vs. Michigan Tech, March 24, 5 p.m., ESPNU; Michigan vs. Colgate, March 24, 8:30 p.m., ESPNU; championship, March 26, 6:30 p.m., ESPN2 1. MICHIGAN How they got here: Won the Big Ten tournament Overall … Read more
How to watch games in the 2023 NCAA men’s hockey tournament
All 15 games in the tournament are broadcast on ESPN networks and streamed through ESPN+.
For first time in more than 30 years, Colgate crowned ECAC Hockey champs, downing Harvard 3-2 in title game
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – It took 33 grueling years, but Colgate finally returned to the peak of ECAC Hockey Saturday night, stopping Harvard 3-2 to claim its first Whitelaw Cup since 1990 and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Raiders got out to a quick 2-0 lead thanks to brothers Colton and … Read more
Who’s in? Who needs help? Here’s what we know about NCAA men’s hockey tournament selections on Saturday
Eleven teams have clinched spots in the NCAA tournament. The last five will be decided by results of Saturday’s conference championship games.
Mitton scores dagger as Colgate tops Quinnipiac in double overtime, will play for ECAC Hockey championship
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – An up-and-down regular season left questions for Colgate as it entered the ECAC Hockey tournament as the No. 5 seed, but any misnomers were put to bed Friday night as the Raiders sunk top-seeded Quinnipiac 2-1 in double overtime at the Herb Brooks Arena. Ross Mitton played hero for Colgate in … Read more
Harvard’s Farrell bags ECAC Hockey player of year laurels, Quinnipiac’s Pecknold again top coach, Bobcats’ Perets best goaltender
ECAC Hockey announced Thursday recipients of the league’s major individual award men’s winners for the 2022-23 season ahead of crowning the ECAC Hockey tournament champion this weekend in Lake Placid, N.Y. Harvard forward Sean Farrell as the 2023 ECAC Hockey player of the year. For the third consecutive season, Rand Pecknold has been named the … Read more
This Week in ECAC Hockey: Down to final four teams as conference playoffs wrap this weekend in Lake Placid
Well, we made it. Months of meetings, interviews, practices, film sessions, refinements, power plays, penalty kills, shots, scores, saves, blocks, games, broadcasts, and anything else that anyone can think of. Five-plus months after the first puck dropped on St. Lawrence’s game at UMass Lowell, the final skate to award the Whitelaw Cup, occurs this weekend … Read more
This Week in ECAC Hockey: Last week of regular season here, teams looking to put their ‘best foot forward to make noise come playoff time’
As ECAC Hockey began the final descent into its postseason tournament last weekend, the element of surprise didn’t totally exist like other conferences. Quinnipiac cruised past Yale and Brown with its second and third consecutive five-goal games, and with Saturday’s 5-2 win over the Bears, the Bobcats clinched the Cleary Cup as the regular-season champions … Read more
This Week in ECAC Hockey: Retiring commissioner Hagwell reflects on changes to college hockey landscape, helping ECAC move forward
ECAC Hockey was a very different league in the mid-2000s. It was, for starters, an actual part of the ECAC, the sports federation that was founded in the early 1930s. It was initially like its parent organization, but college hockey’s realignment in the 1980s saw a division of teams break away to form Hockey East. … Read more
Longtime ECAC Hockey commissioner Hagwell to retire at end of 2022-23 season
Longtime ECAC Hockey commissioner Steve Hagwell has announced his retirement, effective at the conclusion of the 2022-23 fiscal year. Hagwell is the longest-serving commissioner of ECAC Hockey, having seen the storied league through its evolution to a single-sport conference and into one of the most competitive leagues in the sport. “Having had the honor, privilege … Read more
This Week in ECAC Hockey: Taking a look at each conference team’s Christmas wish list
Ah yes, the holidays. It’s a time for family and friends to celebrate a jolly fat man in a red suit as he squeezes his way down chimneys with a reckless abandon for the possibility of getting roasted by the embers of burning winter yule log. It’s a time to sit around the table and … Read more
This Week in ECAC Hockey: After wins over Dartmouth, Harvard, rejuvenated Colgate squad ‘very dialed in and focused on our league games’
Every conference has that one team that sets the bar for the rest of its league. It isn’t the best team in the standings – those teams are usually the ones who exceed the bar – but it’s the one team that can compete with anyone on any given night. It can play any style, … Read more
This Week in ECAC Hockey: Running down the list of 10 things worth being thankful for this holiday season
A little under a decade ago, old friend and former colleague Dave Hendrickson created a list of 20 things that made him thankful about covering Hockey East. It was a departure from the usual format of how we do our weekly columns, but it struck a chord with me at a time when I was … Read more
This Week in ECAC Hockey: Lengthy review, discussion period leads conference to revamp postseason format for 2023 games
My most memorable college hockey game occurred when Brown hosted Princeton during the 2019 ECAC Hockey tournament’s first round. It was the second game of a best-of-three series, but it was the third consecutive game between the two teams after they played the last game of the season and managed to land in a playoff … Read more
ECAC Hockey adjusts format for men’s, women’s postseason tournaments with men starting change in 2023, women in 2024
ECAC Hockey has announced changes to the postseason tournament format for its men’s and women’s conferences. Effective March 2023, the men’s tournament will feature a single-game first-round format the weekend of March 4-6 with seed Nos. 5-8 hosting seed Nos. 9-12. The four winners of the first-round games will advance to the league quarterfinals March … Read more
ECAC Hockey 2022-23 Season Preview: Parity abounds with teams rebuilding, refocusing efforts after pandemic years
The past two years offered some of the most shape-shifting and chaotic times in college hockey. Conferences realigned, teams expanded and contracted, and new leagues formed. Future changes were thrust into a white-hot spotlight, and the bedrock emotional culture of the sport ranged from anxiety and fear to excitement and anticipation. Through it all, ECAC … Read more
Quinnipiac garners eight first-place votes, finishes first in ’22-23 men’s ECAC Hockey preseason coaches poll
Defending Cleary Cup champion Quinnipiac has finished atop the preseason coaches poll with eight of 12 first-place votes. Harvard, who won the 2022 Whitelaw Cup with an overtime victory over Quinnipiac, received four first-place votes and finishes in second place. In addition, a preseason all-ECAC Hockey team was announced. ECAC HOCKEY PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL (First-place … Read more
After four years playing at Trine, Krumpschmid joins Colgate men’s hockey staff as director of hockey operations
Brandon Krumpschmid has the joined the Colgate men’s hockey staff as the director of hockey operations. Krumpschmid graduated from Trine this past May with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Sports Management. While at Trine, Krumpschmid was a four-year member of the school’s NCAA Division III hockey program. He finished his career with 26 … Read more
After two seasons, Colgate promotes volunteer assistant Azzano to assistant coach for Raiders’ men’s hockey team
Colgate has announced the hiring of Chris Azzano as an assistant coach for the men’s hockey team. Azzano has been working with the Raiders for the last two years after joining the staff as a volunteer assistant prior to the 2020-21 season. “We are very excited to be adding Chris to our staff,” said Colgate … Read more