Frank Cole, the NCAA’s National Coordinator of Officals, along with Col. James Knowlton, the chair of the NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee and Ty Halpin, the NCAA’s liasion to the Ice Hockey Rules Committee recently sent a memorandum to the Conference Commissioners and Hockey Coaches in regards to the Officiating Directive. Below is the text … Read more
In many ways, athletic teams are like families. They play together, they pray together, they sleep together, they eat together. They support each other. So when some members of the family splinter off — for whatever reason — it could be uncomfortable when they return to the fold. It wasn’t uncomfortable when three Olympians, senior … Read more
Somebody get me a bottle of your finest Andre; the home teams have won! That’s right; for the first time all season, the Hosts claimed a weekend of league play with a 5-3-1 record over those upstart Visitors. Ohh, how we hate those Visitors. Colgate went 2-0-0 at Starr to lead the pack with wins … Read more
For anyone who’s read any of my past columns, you know what’s leading off. That’s right, it’s time for my weekly rant about the crazy road wins in the ECACHL this year. Only four teams in action this weekend, but once again, home-ice advantage proved meaningless in a 1-1-2 weekend where Princeton and Quinnipiac visited … Read more
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody; here’s hoping it’s the tryptophan that’s putting you to sleep, and not the hockey. Or the hockey coverage. Home %&#@ Home… Let me know when you begin to see a pattern emerging here. Last weekend, the host teams went 3-5-0 in league play for the second consecutive week. The visitors, as a … Read more
I think I might just start deciding my weekly predictions with coin flips. That quarter can’t be any worse at it than I am. Once more, the home teams did me in. The host schools again failed to hold serve last weekend in what is traditionally a very home-friendly league. The visitors, as a collective, … Read more
Wow, talk about a wild weekend. The home teams went 3-7-2 in league play, with no sweeps. RPI was the only home team to take three points this weekend, while traditional powers Dartmouth and Harvard shockingly dropped all four home games between them. Brown went blow-for-blow with visiting Colgate, and nearly doubled up the favored … Read more
Get ready for the thunder; league play is under way. The ECACHL schedule features a full slate of games this weekend, each team playing two games with league points at stake. Dartmouth and RPI are rolling, Cornell is heating up, Yale is on an upset-high. Colgate, Union and St. Lawrence are hungry for decisive, streak-starting … Read more
As though it weren’t enough that only half of the league has commenced the regular season, this past week only four of those six active teams played NCAA games. Time to stretch for material and lean heavy on the quotes! Oh, wait, that was supposed to be strictly internal monologue. Mile High in the Rear … Read more
Hi, everybody. But enough about me, there’s hockey afoot! The State Of The League Two weeks into the season, the usual suspects are off and running. The non-foliage-affilated sextet of Clarkson, Colgate, Quinnipiac, RPI, St. Lawrence and Union tumbled — and in some cases stumbled — out of the gate to a collective 10-6-3 record. … Read more
New Hampshire men’s hockey coach Dick Umile has announced that former Yale head coach Tim Taylor has joined the men’s hockey coaching staff as a volunteer assistant coach. “We are very excited to have someone with his background and experience involved with our hockey program and at our University. Tim is not only a well … Read more
Yale hockey players Ben Mills, Matt Nelson and Alec Richards will not face criminal charges in the wake of an Oct. 1 brawl outside a New Haven, Conn., store, the New Haven Register reported. Mills, Nelson and Richards, along with members of the Yale football team, appeared in court Friday and had criminal mischief and … Read more
Kirk MacDonald completed his trek back from cancer to the ice Saturday, when the Rensselaer captain suited up to lead the Engineers against Boston University. Jayson Moy chronicles the evening’s excitement.
Each year on the night that the men’s hockey team hosts Harvard in Lynah Rink, denizens of the Lynah Faithful smuggle contraband into the rink in order to break the rules and continue the tradition of covering the ice with fish before the game. Oct. 28 will be different.
The Golden Knights of Clarkson have shown some promise over the last few years since George Roll has taken over, but it never really has materialized. This season, there is hope that it just may. Nick Dodge leads the forward attack of the Golden Knights this season, and many have said that he is the … Read more
When we last saw Yale, the Bulldogs had been beaten by Dartmouth in the ECACHL quarterfinals after a thrilling two-game win over Union in the first round. When we last saw Yale, we also saw Tim Taylor behind the Bulldog bench for the last time. The Bulldogs decided to make a change, naming Yale alum … Read more
The last time the Union Dutchmen were on the ice, they had just been defeated by Yale in five overtimes. For the second year in a row, the Dutchmen had earned home ice in the ECACHL playoffs, but could not advance to the next round. This year, the Dutchmen hope things will be different. The … Read more
The team that everyone had pegged as the one to beat the last few years in the ECACHL is not that team this year — or at least not according to the prognosticators. Cornell has been a favorite in the ECACHL the last few years, and with good reason, as the Big Red have become … Read more
To say that last year’s Princeton Tiger squad was a little young would be accurate. Only two regular forwards, two regular defensemen and one goaltender were seniors. But this year, there is a lot of experience coming back, so perhaps head coach Guy Gadowsky has started to put his team together in New Jersey. Grant … Read more
The Rensselaer Engineers will go into the new season with a new coach and a new attitude. Dan Fridgen’s contract was not renewed after last season and new bench boss Seth Appert hopes to bring his style to a team that has not advanced very far in the last few years. What is there for … Read more