ECAC Hockey has announced the selection of six student-athletes to its 2023-24 men’s hockey all-rookie team. ECAC All-Rookie Team Mason Marcellus,* F, Quinnipiac, Fr. Jonathan Castagna, F, Cornell, Fr. Jake Schneider, F, Colgate, Fr. CJ Foley,* D, Dartmouth, Fr. Ben Robertson, D, Cornell, Fr. Jack Stark, G, Yale, Fr. *Denotes unanimous selection
The Hockey Humanitarian Award Foundation announced five finalists for the 2024 Hockey Humanitarian Award, presented annually to college hockey’s “finest citizen” for leadership in community service. Hank Kempf, Junior, Defense, Cornell Kempf founded the “Big Red Blocks for Healing” campaign that is raising funds for Kesem, a national charitable organization that supports children who are … Read more
Last year was a perfect capstone for the ECAC Hockey’s previous era. The league, once taunted, for its inability to win a national championship since 1989, dominated the national headlines and tied the Big Ten for most teams sent to the NCAA tournament. Four teams in total qualified, of which two won their first-round matchups, … Read more
Providence has announced the addition of Joe Palmer to the men’s hockey staff as an assistant coach. Palmer spent the previous four seasons (2019-23) as a goaltending and video coach with the AHL’s Syracuse Crunch. Prior to Syracuse, Palmer spent 2015-19 as the director of hockey operations for the Cornell men’s hockey program and also … Read more
The Kelley-Harkness Cup will be up for grabs this fall as Red Hot Hockey returns to New York City’s Madison Square Garden for the ninth time on Saturday, Nov. 25. Boston University and Cornell will play Thanksgiving weekend in one of college hockey’s premier events since debuting in 2007. “This game at Madison Square Garden … Read more
This past season reinforced the two different ways of looking at ECAC Hockey. In a positive sense, its top team won the national championship as part of a four-bid postseason in the NCAA tournament, and ECAC matched a more heralded conference when it equaled the Big Ten with a quarter of the national tournament’s teams. … Read more
Following an expansive national search, ECAC Hockey announced Tuesday the hiring of Doug Christiansen as the league’s new commissioner. The announcement comes with the retirement of longtime ECAC Hockey commissioner Steve Hagwell at the end of the month. Christiansen is a seasoned hockey professional, serving in a range of roles over the past two decades, … Read more
Devon Levi and Aidan McDonagh were first-team picks for the second straight season.
Wilmer Skoog and Ethan Phillips score in tight game that sends the Terriers to their 23rd Frozen Four appearance.
William Skoog and Ethan Phillips score in tight game that sends the Terriers to their 23rd Frozen Four appearance.
All 15 games in the tournament are broadcast on ESPN networks and streamed through ESPN+.
MANCHESTER REGIONAL When: Thursday, March 23 & Saturday, March 25 Where: SNHU Arena, Manchester, N.H. Matchups (all times Eastern): Boston University vs. Western Michigan, March 23, 2 p.m., ESPN2; Denver vs. Cornell, March 23, 5:30 p.m., ESPNews; championship, March 25, 4 p.m., ESPNU 1. DENVER How they got here: At-large bid Overall season record: 30-9-0 … Read more
Eleven teams have clinched spots in the NCAA tournament. The last five will be decided by results of Saturday’s conference championship games.
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – It took over 64 minutes of game action to put a goal on the board, but No. 2 Harvard punched its ticket to the ECAC Hockey title game with a hard-fought 1-0 overtime victory over No. 3 Cornell Friday. Crimson’s Alex Laferriere struck early in the OT period on a pass … Read more
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
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
Most of the national chatter surrounding ECAC Hockey this season has centered around Quinnipiac and Harvard, and for good reason. Both have spent plenty of time at or near the top of both the ECAC standings and the USCHO.com men’s D-I poll and are two of the favorites heading into the quarterfinals of the conference … Read more
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
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
With the calendar month turning to October, conversation around college hockey is bound to center on the national tournament, the contenders, the pretenders, the bubble teams, possible Cinderellas and spoilers, and anything in between. Dark horse discussions are more prevalent than ever as teams ramp their best hockey into form, and the idea among the … Read more