After Kyler Kovich scored short-handed at 18:21 of the third period to bring Cornell into a 2-2 tie with Quinnipiac, Tim Rego won it for Cornell on a power play at 14:39 of overtime at Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, N.Y. Cornell will now play the winner of Dartmouth and Clarkson Saturday night for … Read more
The NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs announced Thursday that the team has signed Union junior defenseman John Prokop to a one-year contract beginning in the 2025-26 season. He will join the AHL’s Toronto Marlies for the remainder of the 2024-25 season on an amateur tryout. Prokop posted 27 points (eight goals, 19 assists) in 36 games … Read more
The ECAC Hockey championship weekend returned to Lake Placid in 2014 after spending three years at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. The ancestral home of the post-breakup league was loaded with history when the banners returned to the rafters atop Herb Brooks Arena, but the years since the conference’s return equaled the memories of … Read more
The NHL’s Vancouver Canucks have announced that the club has agreed to terms with Harvard junior goaltender Aku Koskenvuo on a two-year, entry-level contract. This past season with the Crimson, Koskenvuo posted a record of 8-9-1 with a 2.81 goals-against average, a .902 save percentage, and one shutout in 20 games. His eight wins set … Read more
ECAC Hockey has announced Clarkson’s Ethan Langenegger as the recipient of the Ken Dryden Goaltender of the Year for the 2024-25 season. The additional finalists for this award were Kyle Chauvette (Union) and Lawton Zacher (Brown). Langenegger joined the Golden Knights this year as a graduate student transfer and played a critical role in Clarkson … Read more
ECAC Hockey has announced its all-rookie team and three all-conference teams for the 2024-25 season. ECAC Hockey First Team Ayrton Martino,* F, Clarkson, Jr. Ellis Rickwood, F, Clarkson, Sr. Brett Chorske, F, Colgate, Sr. Trey Taylor, D, Clarkson, Jr. CJ Foley,* D, Dartmouth, So. Ethan Langenegger, G, Clarkson, Gr. *Denotes unanimous selection ECAC Hockey Second … Read more
Last week’s first round came and went with few of the ripples associated with a hockey postseason. All four home teams from ECAC Hockey’s single-elimination series advanced to create the first chalk-based quarterfinal since 2022, but beyond the higher-seeded victories sat games devoid of the normal drama associated with winner-take-all scenarios. The lone exception came … Read more
Rensselaer has announced Dave Smith will not return as head coach of the men’s hockey team. “Dave has dedicated himself to putting our team in a position to compete in the ECAC each year and we appreciate his leadership. As we move forward, we are determined to have our team compete at the highest level … Read more
The Hockey Commissioners Association has announced its men’s players of the month for February. Clarkson senior forward Ayrton Martino is player of the month, while co-rookies of the month are Harvard forward Mick Thompson and Boston University defenseman Cole Hutson and Minnesota State junior goalie Alex Tracy is goaltender of the month. Martino averaged 2.25 … Read more
St. Lawrence men’s hockey senior captain Mason Waite has been named the 2025 ECAC Hockey Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The award is presented annually to an ECAC Hockey student-athlete who best embodies excellence and leadership on the ice, in the classroom, and throughout their community. Waite, a three-time member of the ECAC All-Academic team as … Read more
For all the parity, all the times that teams leapfrogged one another and stumbled into each other over the course of a six-month season, the 2024-25 ECAC Hockey season ended without a single team tied with one another. A clean Cleary Cup championship race produced minimal drama on the season’s last day, and Quinnipiac added … Read more
Arriving at the last weekend of the regular season is an enjoyable process for me. No, it’s not because I’m finally close to enjoying time off after spending the last five months in full blown college hockey mode (shoutout: the earlier start for half of ECAC Hockey’s teams). It’s not because I’ve spent close to … Read more
My brother and I used to travel a lot for college hockey. This was way back in the mid-2000s, an era identified by its lack of available video streaming services. Internet broadcasting was still in its infancy, and Brown, his alma mater and the school for which he’d started broadcasting at the turn of the … Read more
The Hockey Commissioners Association has announced the semifinalists for this year’s Mike Richter Award, given annually to the top goalie in men’s NCAA Division I hockey since 2014. Ten goaltenders have been chosen by a panel of voters from across the hockey community. The panel includes coaches from each conference as well as members of … Read more
The Hockey Humanitarian Award Foundation announced the five finalists for the 2025 Hockey Humanitarian Award, presented annually to college hockey’s “finest citizen” for leadership in community service. For the first time ever, four of the five finalists are female student-athletes. Keri Clougherty, Boston College (Sr., D, Lynn, Mass.) Throughout her four years at Boston College, … Read more
The ride between Clarkson and Princeton is one of the longest bus trips in college hockey’s eastern conferences. It covers more than 300 miles between its North Country and Southern New Jersey locations, and the distance from Potsdam, N.Y., to the Canadian border crossing in Ogdensburg is nearly equal to a Princetonian’s trip to Philadelphia. … Read more
The Gridiron Club of Greater Boston has announced that 26 players are semifinalists for the 72nd Walter Brown Award, presented annually to the best American-born Division I college hockey player in New England. The nation’s oldest nationally-recognized college hockey honor, the Walter Brown Award was established in 1953 by the members of the 1933 Massachusetts … Read more
February is usually a month wrought with hand-wringing within the college hockey community. Teams and programs need points more than ever to advance their postseason dreams into optimal positions while teams hanging around the national Pairwise Rankings bubble can’t let their own clutch results slip through fingertips. One or two missed opportunities is the difference … Read more
The dog days of college hockey’s regular season usually hit around January’s latter weeks. Conference tournament races are well-shaped for teams facing postseason contention, and even the national picture within the Pairwise Rankings won’t shift frequently after results between its highest contenders. Everything is starting to fall into place for February’s mad dash to the … Read more
The 2023 NCAA tournament returned ECAC Hockey to one of its highest watermarks in college hockey’s storied history. Alongside the Big Ten, the conference claimed four of the tournament’s 16 spots and represented a full quarter of the teams entered into the competition for the national championship. Two teams – Quinnipiac and Cornell – advanced … Read more