Site: Kohl Center, Madison, Wis. Friday-Saturday, Dec. 28-29, 2007 Participants: Bowling Green, Northeastern, Colgate, Wisconsin Game 1: Bowling Green vs. Northeastern, 4:05 p.m. CT Bowling Green Falcons (8-6-0, 5-5-0 CCHA) Head coach: Scott Paluch Leading scorers: Sr. Derek Whitmore (13-5 — 18), Jr. Kevin Schmidt (3-11 — 14) Leading netminders: Fr. Nick Eno (5-2-0, 2.29 … Read more
Gettin’ Blased Billy Blase has played some pretty frustrating hockey for Yale so far. Frustrating, if you’re in Alec Richards’ position. Now I’m not insinuating that there’s anything but the finest camaraderie between the two netminders. But with the way Blase has been playing, it’s suddenly up to the former incumbent Richards to earn starting … Read more
So long, unbeaten streak. The St. Cloud State Huskies finally vanquished the Clarkson Golden Knights on their home ice, after 19 games and a year and two weeks without a defeat. The longest current home unbeaten streak in the ECAC now belongs to…you’ll never believe this…Union, who have played four straight at the Achilles Center … Read more
Being the last undefeated team in the ECACHL women’s standings is nothing new for Harvard, but this Crimson edition is unique in its speed and balance. David De Remer reports.
Princeton senior Landis Stankievech has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Stankievech, a senior on the men’s hockey team from Trochu, Alb., is a mechanical and aerospace engineering major at Princeton, wants to study philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, after which he hopes to work on environmental issues. “As an engineer I know how to … Read more
To catch up on the big stories around the league: Clarkson is now up to 376 days without a home loss, Harvard is pretty good, Colgate finally won, Quinnipiac is scoring, St. Lawrence isn’t, the league might actually be earning some respect, and it’s time for Non-Conference Weekend! Whew. On to the minutiae. It’s What … Read more
Clarkson: No, of course I don’t want to break up! It’s just … Colgate: Then what is it? Why are you pulling away so much, so soon? I don’t understand! Clarkson: I’m sorry, I’m not trying to be mean here … Colgate: It’s too early for this! We are destined to be so much more … Read more
Let’s play word-association. Albany … tournament. Daylight savings … glorious. Season … winter. Harvard … Crimson. ECAC Hockey … parity. Talk to any coach in the league for more than two minutes, and I’d bet you top dollar (Canadian now, please) that he would say that word. To put it simply, out of 13 league … Read more
Head coach Seth Appert came to Rensselaer with a simple objective: return the Engineers to national prominence. And so far, his methods are producing results, Tom Reale reports.
Welcome, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another season of chair-kicking, trash-talking, ego-deflating, weekend-ruining, zebra-hating ECAC Hockey action! Everyone’s mum before the games, so the controversy is pretty minimal so far. We’ll be sure to catch up with the most loquacious personalities afterwards, though. Big Greenhorns Dartmouth is a little wet behind the ears this season … Read more
There’s a shocker; Clarkson is on top of the standings. But for a real surprise, Quinnipiac scored twice as many goals — 10 — in its shutout exhibition win than it has in three games of NCAA competition since. The Big Red hope the same affliction doesn’t hit their squad, after an 8-0 win over … Read more
You’ve seen the games; you may even know some of the players and coaches. But what’s it really like to be part of a college hockey team? Former high school star Ruben Leavitt found out — at least for one day — with the Colgate women’s squad.
Well it’s about darned time. The 2007-2008 college hockey season is back in full swing, and there are more than a couple teams in ECAC Hockey who are eyeing big returns on the heels of last season’s successes … or failures. Early Risers The non-Ivy programs have all played their season openers, and while the … Read more
Offense: Can Kirk MacDonald come back for another season, perhaps? Between Captain Kirk, Oren Eizenman and Jake Luthi, the ‘Tute bid a fearful farewell to last season’s top three scorers. With 77 points and 25 goals between them, the Engineers lost 28 percent of their offense on graduation day last spring. RPI was ninth in … Read more
Offense: Simply put, the Big Green parted ways with five of its seven leading scorers from 2006-07. There’s no way to sugar-coat it, no way to minimize the effect that will have on Dartmouth’s capacity to put pucks in the net in 2007-08. David Jones, the leading scorer with 44 points in 33 games, is … Read more
Offense: When you can score nearly three and a half goals a game in league and overall, you’ve got yourself a pretty good chance of winning any given night. The media agrees. “It’s an honor to be ranked in the top 20 in both polls and we are very excited for the 2007-08 season,” said … Read more
Offense: Clarkson tied Quinnipiac for the most goals scored in the league last year with 74. Seven of that team’s top eight scorers are back for another year in the green and gold. So, things are looking good for the Knights. With the acid of the first-round NCAA loss to Massachusetts still on their tongues, … Read more
Offense: Fortunately for the Brown Bears, Brian McNary was the only top-four scorer lost from last season, as the six-goal, 18-assist junior elected to focus entirely on academics in his final year in school. Senior Jeff Prough led the squad with 33 points last year, while Sean Hurley was one of the league’s best offensive … Read more
Offense: True, true, the Raiders practically couldn’t win a game in which they didn’t pitch a shutout last season, going 7-21-3 when allowing more than a single goal. That record fell to a disastrous 0-16-1 when the team surrendered three or more. With figures like that, Colgate didn’t stand a chance against top competition, going … Read more
Offense: The Tigers tied for fourth in league scoring last season with 69 goals, just over three a game, and hit that 3.00 mark right on the nose in 34 games overall. The forward lines will be missing last season’s second-, third- and fourth-leading scorers, who combined for 29 goals and 78 points in 100 … Read more