Dartmouth forward Hugh Jessiman, a first-round draft pick of the New York Rangers in 2003, will have surgery on his injured ankle Friday, and is out until at least March and probably for the remainder of the season. Jessiman was examined by Rangers team doctors, and the results of the MRI showed a displacement and … Read more
Brian Schulz previews Sunday’s inaugural USCHO women’s hockey broadcast, featuring two-time defending Hockey East champion Providence and defending ECAC regular season champion St. Lawrence.
The ECACHL is born, and several teams — including surprising St. Lawrence and Vermont — seem to have taken a liking to it already, Juan Martinez notes. Also: Cornell explodes on offense, and Quinnipiac serves notice to its new league a year in advance.
Two decades ago, a lad from Weston, Ont., led Rensselaer to a 30-game win streak and an NCAA championship, then went on to a record-breaking pro career. This weekend, NHL great Adam Oates returns to Troy, N.Y.
The traditional tussle between Harvard and Brown kicks off the ECACHL season, and the Crimson have a new bench boss to boot; Mike McKenna backstops St. Lawrence’s early-season wins; and all 12 teams hit the ice. Juan Martinez reports.
Random hockey musings from a writer still coming to grips with the Evil Empire’s massive collapse … Off and Running Yes, it is still October. Yes, half of the ECACHL has yet to play a game. But the Colgate Raiders are 4-0-0 after conquering two Western opponents and you’ll have to forgive them if they … Read more
Veteran National Hockey League coach Ken Hitchcock will be joining the staff of the Princeton men’s hockey team as a volunteer assistant coach over the next few weeks as the Tigers prepare for their regular-season opener on Oct. 29 vs. St. Cloud State. During the NHL lockout, Hitchcock has traveled around the nation, working with … Read more
Welcome to the penalty box. The sin bin, if you will. After attending a couple of weeks’ worth of games, I figured it would make sense to write this column from the confines of this small box. After all, this is where all the action is these days. If you’ve had the benefit of catching … Read more
Plans for Quinnipiac’s new athletic complex, which will house a new on-campus hockey facility, are well under way after Thursday’s announcement that Hudson United Bank has agreed to a $5 million sponsorship of the project. The building will be known as the Hudson United Bank Center. “Over the last 30 years, Hudson United Bank has … Read more
Uno mas. One more. That should be the war cry of Quinnipiac as it embarks on its final season in Atlantic Hockey before moving on to the seemingly greener pastures of the ECAC Hockey League. This is the last chance for the Bobcats to show their value in a league in which, at least for … Read more
Rarely does a team a mere 30 seconds away from entering this season as three-time defending tournament champion have a change in leadership, but that’s exactly the kind of adjustment before the Harvard Crimson. Mark Mazzoleni’s return to Green Bay opened the door for the Crimson to bring former player Ted Donato back into the … Read more
The good news about the 2003-04 Princeton Tigers is that the club improved upon its win total over the previous campaign. The bad news is the Tigers won just five games. Recent history has not been kind to the sextet from New Jersey. They have not had a winning season since 1998-99 and are coming … Read more
The Brown Bears began last season on a torrid pace, only to flame out in the ECAC quarterfinals, falling to travel partner and eventual tournament winner Harvard. After rising quickly to the top of the league with a 6-1-1 start, head coach Roger Grillo’s club managed only one victory in its final eight contests. “Last … Read more
For the fourth straight season the Dartmouth Big Green came up short late in the ECAC tournament. Since the 2001-02 season, Dartmouth has finished fourth, fifth, third and fourth in the final stages of the league tournament despite having some squads that were capable of winning it all. And while there’s something to be said … Read more
With a strangling defense and an offense with the potential to put up big numbers, the 2003-04 Cornell Big Red looked to be one of the teams to beat in the ECAC. Decimated by injuries throughout the season, most notably to offensive threat Ryan Vesce, the team found itself clawing its way back from the … Read more
It isn’t often that one game defines a team’s season. It is even more unusual when that game is the season opener. When the Yale Bulldogs lost 8-4 to North Dakota last October, and repeated it with a 10-0 defeat the next night, it signaled the start of a season of defensive woes for a … Read more
In the North Country, St. Lawrence will look to rebound from an inconsistent season to try and regain a slice of its former identity. “The big thing for this team over the last couple of years,” explained Saints coach Joe Marsh, “has been trying to get back into it. It is not done overnight. Often … Read more
When George Roll returned to Potsdam last season after six years at Oswego, the former Clarkson assistant realized that life had changed a bit since the mid-1990s. “Last year,” explained the Knights’ head coach, “I learned that the league had changed a lot and Clarkson had changed a lot since I was here. We had … Read more
It was a tough inaugural season for Union coach Nate Leaman in 2003-04. He saw his team jump out to one of the best records in the country only to go on an extended losing streak that sucked the life out of its early momentum. And while the Dutchmen did win seven of their last … Read more
One coach who ended the regular season with a grin was Colgate’s Stan Moore, who took over on an interim basis for Don Vaughan and guided the Raiders to the top spot. But after a Coach of the Year performance — his second such accolade in just three seasons as a head coach — Moore … Read more