2008-09 Clarkson Season Preview

Offense The Knights lost some serious mojo in Zalewski (21-12-33), Dodge (12-14-26) and Cayer (10-12-22), not to mention Clitsome’s offensive bent (5-17-22). When Leggio is thrown in the mix, perhaps you can understand why this correspondent has referred to them as George Roll’s “Miracle Class.” And yet, while Clarkson finished second in the league in … Read more

2008-09 St. Lawrence Season Preview

Offense McBride (12-22-36) and classmate Casey Parenteau (11-8-19) were the only double-digit goal scorers on the Saints last year, so it’s a good thing they’re coming back to Canton for a final round. The team scored 2.78 goals per game overall last time around, but finished in a three-way tie for eighth with only 58 … Read more

2008-09 Dartmouth Season Preview

Offense For such a rough season, the Green had a surprisingly robust offense. The Hanover hotshots put up over three goals a game overall, and finished third in ECAC Hockey with 64 in ’06-07. Johnson (10-25-35), Wyman (15-15-30) and Grecu (7-14-21) were certainly talented players, holding spots 1, 2 and 4 in the Dartmouth scoring … Read more

2008-09 Rensselaer Season Preview

Offense Off-what? The ‘Tute finished last in the league with 2.08 goals per game overall, and a league-low 45 in conference play. Helfrich (9-20-29) and Polacek (7-21-28) were the only 20-point scorers, and nobody mustered 10 goals despite a healthy 38-game schedule. Ornelas (9-8-17), Lord (6-10-16) and Jake Morissette (6-8-14) are the big producers who … Read more

2008-09 Colgate Season Preview

Offense Colgate hasn’t bullied anyone in a while, and doesn’t look especially belligerent this year either. Burton (23-18-41) and Winchester (8-29-37) finished one-two on the team scoring chart last season, and accounted for a quarter of the team’s total points. That’s the mark of an unbalanced offense right there. “It is what it is. We … Read more

2008-09 Princeton Season Preview

Offense The Tigers were merciless with the puck last year, scoring nearly three and a half goals per game against league opponents and leading ECAC Hockey in that category. They led their colleagues in overall scoring as well, burying 112 goals in 35 contests for a 3.2 average, and shot with a better than 10 … Read more

Princeton Tabbed As Team To Beat In ECAC Hockey

According to this year’s preseason coaches and media polls, defending tournament champion Princeton is the team to beat in ECAC Hockey this season. The Tigers, who return 21 players from last season’s roster, claimed the top spot in both preseason men’s polls this year, but according to the poll results, it will be another tight … Read more

NCAA Rounds Out Championships Until 2011

The NCAA Ice Hockey Committee has set the sites for the NCAA Championships all the way through 2011 with the announcement of the West and Midwest Regionals for 2010 and 2011. In 2010, Notre Dame will host the Midwest regional from March 27-28 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind. and … Read more

Stankievech Wins 2008 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award

Princeton’s Landis Stankievech has won the 2008 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award in the men’s ice hockey division. The award is chosen by a nationwide panel of coaches, media and fans and is presented annually to college hockey’s outstanding NCAA Division I senior student athlete. Landis Stankievech accepts the Lowe’s Senior CLASS award (photo: Melissa Wade.) … Read more

Clarkson Names Shannon and Matt Desrosiers Co-Head Coaches

Clarkson has named Shannon and Matt Desrosiers as the new co-head coaches of the Golden Knights Women’s Hockey team as Rick Seeley announced his departure for Quinnipiac on Tuesday. Shannon Desrosiers completed her fifth season as an assistant coach at Clarkson, while Matt Desrosiers has been on the Knights’ coaching staff the past two seasons. … Read more

Seeley Named Head Coach For Quinnpiac Women

Quinnipiac named Rick Seeley as the third head coach in the history of its women’s ice hockey program. Seeley joins Quinnipiac while continuing a stellar coaching career in women’s collegiate ice hockey, most recently as head coach of fellow ECAC Hockey member Clarkson. Last season Clarkson advanced to the ECAC Hockey Tournament Semifinals and finished … Read more

Skills Challenge Rosters Announced

The NCAA announced Friday the final rosters for the 2008 Frozen Four Skills Challenge, which will be held April 11 at the Pepsi Center in Denver. For the East team, Will Engasser, Yale, Brad Flaishans, New Hampshire and David Leaderer, Massachusetts were all added to the roster. Meanwhile, Eric Ehn, Air Force, Nino Musitelli, Miami … Read more

Vaillancourt Wins 2008 Kazmaier Award

Harvard junior Sarah Vaillancourt became the 11th winner of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award Saturday night at the Radisson Hotel Duluth Harborview. Vaillancourt beat out sophomore forward Meghan Agosta of Mercyhurst and sophomore goalie Kim Martin of Minnesota-Duluth to claim the honor. Six of the 11 Kazmaier Awards have gone to five Harvard players. Former … Read more

This Week in ECAC Hockey: March 20, 2008

So here we are. The final ECAC Hockey weekend of the year, and it appears that only one of these teams will join Clarkson in representing the league in the NCAA tournament. Where it once seemed as though Harvard or maybe even Princeton could sneak in without winning the whole shebang, resident PairWise swami Jayson … Read more

Jubinville, Princeton Lead ECAC Awards

Princeton junior forward Lee Jubinville was named ECAC Hockey’s Player of the Year at the League’s annual banquet. The junior was one of several individuals to earn recognition at the annual event, which marks the start of the 2008 Bank of America ECAC Hockey Championship weekend. Harvard sophomore Kyle Richter won the the league’s Ken … Read more

This Week in ECAC Hockey: March 13, 2008

Welcome to the second round … the quarterfinals, if you will. By this time Monday morning, we’ll have our Albany brackets, and I’ll have my hotel room. A couple of strange things happened while writing this week’s column. For starters, I was a perfect eight-for-eight on contacting coaches. This never happens. Second, each and every … Read more

Right Around The Corner

Princeton’s surge has put the Tigers in a lofty position not seen in a decade. Local boy Zane Kalemba has been a big part of that, Roman J. Uschak finds.

This Week in ECAC Hockey: March 6, 2008

The ECAC Hockey first-round playoff series sat down at their respective computers the other day, and — following a rather protracted visit to addictinggames.com — proceeded to update their Facebook* pages, as intangible collegiate sporting events are known to do. After signing up for Scrabulous, leaving the “Back in my day, Pluto was still a … Read more

Learning The Ropes

Courtney Olson didn’t expect to end up playing college hockey. Then again, the Clarkson freshman probably didn’t anticipate roping cattle in Alberta, either. Mike Scandura reports.