Numbers can be powerful, but not all-telling. Colorado College returns 91 percent of its goal-scoring from a year ago, most of it in the forms of Hobey Baker Award winner Marty Sertich and award finalist Brett Sterling. It has 21 players returning from the team that tied Denver for the WCHA regular-season championship and made … Read more
Colorado College lost another defenseman as junior Brady Greco signed a contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Greco was an 8th round draft pick of the Lightning in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. Greco came to CC from Michigan Tech and in two seasons with the Tigers he had amassed 18 points (11-7–18). Last season … Read more
Mark Stuart, who captained Colorado College to the Frozen Four last season, will forgo his senior season after signing a three-year contract with the NHL’s Boston Bruins. The move was expected after the NHL resumed operations after the lockout that canceled the 2004-05 season. Stuart, a 6-foot-1, 210-pound defenseman, was the first CC player ever … Read more
Patty Sertich, the mother of Mike and Hobey Baker Award Winner Marty Sertich, passed away on Saturday morning. Patty was diagnosed with brain cancer, and after two surgeries, two rounds of chemotherapy and two rounds of radiation in February, decided to live the last days of her life watching her sons play hockey for Colorado … Read more
It’s one of those wonderful contradictions of life that, sometimes, when time is at its most bleak, the human spirit shines the most. This is the case for Patty Sertich and her family. Just another loving American family — a family that happens to be one of the most famous college hockey families in the … Read more
Colorado College junior forward Marty Sertich is the winner of the 25th Hobey Baker Memorial Award, presented annually to college hockey’s top player. Sertich, the nation’s leading scorer this season with 64 points on 27 goals and 37 assists in 43 games, led the Tigers to a share of the MacNaughton Cup as the WCHA’s … Read more
Sometimes, someone just has your number. For the 2004-2005 Colorado College Tigers, the team that held all the right numbers at the right times was the Denver Pioneers. Thursday’s 6-2 Pioneers win was the third straight decision in Denver’s favor against CC, and that streak represented three of the biggest games of the season for … Read more
What happened? Colorado College imploded. The Tigers took too many penalties, their team defense was shoddy at times, and their goaltender, who should be the best player on the penalty-kill unit, wasn’t. Because of that, Colorado College went home empty-handed from Columbus after a great season in 2004-2005. “We shot ourselves in the foot,” said … Read more
When the chips were down in the regional final, Mark Stuart led Colorado College out of the wilderness.
Colorado College players wanted to celebrate early. Scott Owens waited until he heard the horn. After the Tigers sent the puck out of the zone one last time to seal a 4-3 victory over Michigan Saturday and a trip to the Frozen Four, the CC players started jumping up and down on the bench. Some … Read more
The distance between Rochester, Minn., and Colorado Springs, Colo., is 729 miles as the crow flies, but to get from the one city to the other, ice is a more convenient medium than air. Colorado College’s captain, junior Mark Stuart, and sophomores John Brunkhorst and Scott Thauwald are all Rochester natives, and are among seven … Read more
It was a Rocky Mountain-dominated WCHA awards ceremony Thursday. Co-MacNaughton Cup champions Denver and Colorado College claimed five of the six spots on the All-WCHA first team as well as awards for the coach of the year, defensive player of the year and rookie of the year. Colorado College forward Marty Sertich was named the … Read more
No NHL? No problem in Colorado, where hockey fans have two marquee teams to cheer on in Denver and Colorado College.
One of the worst feelings a WCHA coach can have has to be knowing that a season goes bad because of things out of his control. That’s a feeling Scott Owens probably knows well by now. More often than not, when his Colorado College Tigers have fallen short in his first five years in Colorado … Read more
Minnesota-Duluth is the coaches’ preseason pick to win the WCHA, while Wisconsin goaltender Bernd Brückler topped voting for preseason player of the year honors. The coaches poll, conducted by the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald, put the Bulldogs atop the rankings for the first time. UMD, which returns 73.5 percent of its scoring from last year’s … Read more
Colorado College assistant coach Norm Bazin will not return to his duties this season in order to focus on his continued recovery and physical rehabilitation from injuries following his automobile accident last November. The college has hired former Tigers defenseman Eric Rud on a one-year interim temporary basis to replace Bazin as he recovers. “We … Read more
After months of handwringing and lobbying, 12 athletic programs at eight schools, including four in men’s ice hockey, received grandfather protection Monday, allowing them to continue granting athletic scholarships. The vote on the amendment to Proposal 65 was passed at the NCAA Convention in Nashville, 296-107. Proposal 65 itself, which prevents any future schools from … Read more
Was a masterful, coordinated effort by eight schools enough to change the course of Monday’s D-III vote on scholarships?
Colorado College assistant coach Norm Bazin has improved from critical to serious at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., where he has been in the intensive care unit since an automobile accident on Nov. 20. Bazin’s condition was officially upgraded as of Saturday morning, Dec. 6, according to hospital spokesman Tracy Ellig. No further details … Read more
With the Division III scholarship legislation entering its final phase, the schools negatively affected by the proposal are gearing up for a showdown.