When Seth Appert coaches his first Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute men’s hockey game in October, he will have new assistant coaches helping him. Appert announced Tuesday that he won’t retain assistant coaches Frank Bretti and Jeff Matthews. Appert, who was hired by RPI April 21 to replace Dan Fridgen, cited the need for the program to … Read more
The site of the ECACHL playoffs and NCAA East Regionals in 2008 and 2010 is getting a new name. Albany, N.Y., County Executive Mike Breslin and Mark Aldam, Publisher of the Albany Times Union, announced Thursday that the newspaper has purchased the naming rights to the Pepsi Arena, effective Jan. 1, 2007. The agreement for … Read more
The late Ralph “Cooney” Weiland, the coach of the Harvard men’s hockey team for 21 seasons, has been announced as the 2006 recipient of the Hobey Baker Legend of College Hockey Award and will be honored Thursday, May 11, at the Hobey Baker Award Banquet in St. Paul, Minn. A 1971 inductee to the Hockey … Read more
Despite a published report to the contrary, USA Hockey’s Junior Officiating Development Program (JODP) is not taking over Hockey East or the ECAC Hockey League any time soon. Last week, the website HockeyRefs.com reported that the two conferences are looking for someone new to head their respective officiating staffs after recent shakeups, and that the … Read more
The Rensselaer Engineers have reached out west in naming their new head coach. On Wednesday, Rensselaer named Seth Appert, a former Ferris State goaltender and assistant at Denver, as the 12th head man in Engineer history. Appert takes over for Dan Fridgen, who resigned on March 21, 2006. Fridgen had been the winningest coach in … Read more
Keith Allain, the goaltending coach for the NHL’s St. Louis Blues, will be Tim Taylor’s successor as Yale head coach. The 47-year-old Allain, a 1980 Yale graduate, ranks third all-time among Bulldog goaltenders in victories and saves. He began his coaching career as an assistant at Yale under Taylor, who was removed as head coach … Read more
At times we forget about an important principle in sports: sportsmanship. Mike Volonnino tells us about the great displays this weekend at the Frozen Four.
TSN of Canada is reporting that Cornell junior goaltender David McKee has signed with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, giving up his final year of collegiate eligibility. McKee had a 2.08 GAA and a .910 save percentage this season. This followed a year in which he was named to the Hobey Hat Trick, with a 1.24 … Read more
The roster for the 2006 NCAA Skills Challenge is now finalized. Below is the list of student-athletes that will be participating in the Challenge. The Challenge takes place at 8:00ET at the Bradley Center on Friday, April 7. It will be preceded by the Hobey Baker and Humanitarian Award ceremonies. Tickets to the event can … Read more
Yale’s long-time head coach Tim Taylor has been removed from that position and will be offered reassignment within the athletic department. The announcement was made today by Tom Beckett, Yale athletics director. TAYLOR “Tim Taylor has been an exceptional coach, mentor and ambassador of Yale Hockey as well as all of amateur hockey for 30 … Read more
Penalties were Cornell’s undoing in the ECACHL title game, and Saturday looked like more of the same — until a sudden reversal. Eric Schmoldt reports.
What’s a college hockey nut to do when he moves to a non-college hockey hotbed? DirecTV, of course! Or maybe not … Read Nicholas Jon Wood’s Tale of Joy and Woe and see how it’s all about Karma, Nicholas and DirecTV.
USCHO.com has learned that Butch Bellemore, the ECACHL Supervisor of Officials, and Brewster Earle, the Director of Officiating Development for the ECACHL, will resign their positions once their contracts expire in a few months. Bellemore and Earle sent their intentions to members of the ECACHL Officiating Staff in an email and letter. When reached, ECACHL … Read more
After 12 years at the helm of the Rensselaer Engineers, Dan Fridgen has resigned as the head coach. In his 12 years he had compiled a record of 211-193-38, the most wins of any head coach in Rensselaer history. Before taking over in 1994 for Buddy Powers, Fridgen was an assistant coach for the Engineers. … Read more
With Dartmouth’s season all but over, the Big Green got together to give a shot to one particular freshman, says Jayson Moy.
Whitt White Out New Hampshire filled most of the longer edges of the Whittemore Center with a 2,061-strong crowd — a new NCAA quarterfinal record, surpassing the 1,619 at Dartmouth a year ago. Jennifer Hitchcock, who scored the goal, looked at the crowd as a source of momentum. “We really fed off the energy of … Read more
2005 Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner Marty Sertich of Colorado College officially has a chance to repeat, as his name was among the 10 finalists for the 2006 award announced Thursday by the Hobey Baker Foundation. Sertich was once again joined by teammate Brett Sterling as a finalist; those two comprised two-thirds of last year’s … Read more
The ECACHL Awards were awarded to many different honorees on different teams. St. Lawrence senior forward T.J. Trevelyan was named the Player of the Year. Trevelyan led the ECACHL in points scored. He was also named to the All-ECACHL First Team for the second consecutive year. Dartmouth’s Bob Gaudet was named the Coach of the … Read more
The ECACHL tournament is down to its final four teams, and unsurprisingly the survivors were the four teams which secured first-round byes. That fact speaks to the importance of getting the bye, according to Colgate coach Don Vaughan. Two of the remaining teams, Dartmouth and Cornell, swept their opponents last week — although Cornell’s pair … Read more
After 22 league games, Colgate and Cornell were separated by just a point in the ECACHL standings. On the season, the Red (20-7-4) has scored 2.97 goals per game, while the Raiders (20-11-6) have netted 3.00 per contest. Despite the fact that Cornell scores at a slightly less frequent pace than Colgate, the Red edges … Read more