Alaska-Anchorage defenseman Lee Green has been stripped of his captaincy and will miss an exhibition game and three regular-season games as a result of his involvement in a locker-room fight with teammate Brett Arcand-Kootenay. The punishment, released by the school on Monday at the completion of an internal investigation, means Green will miss the Oct. … Read more
Alaska-Anchorage captain Lee Green has been suspended indefinitely by the team after being arrested on a second-degree assault charge Sunday for allegedy punching teammate Brett Arcand-Kootenay in the team’s locker room. Arcand-Kootenay had surgery Monday to repair a broken jaw after the incident, which, according to police reports cited by the Anchorage Daily News was … Read more
Chris Fournier, who would have been Alaska-Anchorage’s leading returning scorer, has had his scholarship revoked and will not be back with the Seawolves this fall, according to the Anchorage Daily News. Fournier lost his academic eligibility last spring, but could’ve made it up had he taken summer classes. Fournier decided not to take the courses, … Read more
Gadowsky’s departure stuns UAF players, but they welcome Tavis MacMillan with open arms.
Alaska-Fairbanks wasted no time filling its head coach opening, tabbing former assistant and UAF alum Tavis MacMillan. He succeeds Guy Gadowsky, who was named the new coach at Princeton earlier today. “I have such mixed emotions about this opportunity,” said MacMillan. “Guy has been an instrumental part of my coaching career and I have been … Read more
Alaska-Anchorage sophomore Curtis Glencross has left the team to sign a free agent deal with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. The deal is for three years, terms were not disclosed. Glencross, 21, finished the 2003-2004 regular season ranked first in goals and points for the Seawolves, earning 21-13=34 points with 79 penalty minutes in 37 … Read more
The lights are shining bright for these underdog Seawolves.
Alaska-Anchorage assistant captain John Hopson has quit the team and returned home, and sophomore defenseman Matt Hanson was ruled academically ineligible, according to the Anchorage Daily News. Hopson told the coaches he was leaving after everyone returned from the holiday break. “He basically said he wasn’t happy with his ice time and was leaving the … Read more
Two seasons ago, Alaska-Fairbanks head coach Guy Gadowsky publicly thanked two beat writers for being the only members of the media not to pick the Nanooks last in the CCHA preseason media poll. This year, UAF is picked ninth by the press, eighth by the coaches, and Gadowsky knows that this represents real progress. “We … Read more
Amid the ruin that was the 2002-03 season for Alaska-Anchorage, John Hill offered a bit of perspective. The second-year coach mentioned last year that he thinks the 2004-05 season is when the Seawolves finally will be able to pull it all together. It might have been hard to see that through the destruction of a … Read more
Alaska-Fairbanks coach Guy Gadowsky has dismissed two players from the team for unspecified violations of team rules during the 2002-03 season. The players are both freshmen, forwards Doug Auchenberg and Russell Spence. “They were dismissed for rules violations,” Gadowsky told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. “I don’t feel good about it. We lost two very talented … Read more
UAA handed down suspensions to 13 players after discovering a secondary NCAA violation.
Alaska-Fairbanks sophomore forward Aaron Voros has returned home to Vancouver after he was diagnosed with a bone tumor in his leg. According to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Voros will soon have a biopsy to determine whether the tumor is benign or malignant. “It’s a shocker. My knee had been bothering me, but we thought it … Read more
There is nothing like a little recognition to make you feel good. So for that, my sincere thanks to Guy Gadowsky. “This is the first time ever that UAF has not been picked by the media to finish dead-last,” said Gadowsky at CCHA media day. “So with the exception of Paula Weston and Eric Olsen, … Read more
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither, surely, was Anchorage. But today, immediate results are a desire, if not a demand, especially in the sports world. The long, slow rebuilding process is about as popular as a toll booth. So, as first impressions go, John Hill’s was seemingly right on target. In his debut … Read more
Four days after a postgame brawl that resulted in six game disqualifications, the WCHA issued a reprimand to both Wisconsin and Alaska-Anchorage’s coaches and players for the incident. “The Association takes incidents of this nature very seriously,” said WCHA commissioner Bruce McLeod, “and we are aware that they cast a dark shadow on the teams … Read more
After years as a second-tier member of the CCHA, Alaska-Fairbanks has come into its own this season. Under the tutelage of third-year coach Guy Gadowsky, the Nanooks have caught opponents off guard with depth, hard work and a mix of skill and character.
VII O speculative fans of the CCHA,Why do you imagine a last-place finish?Do you not see how the NanooksPersevere among the playersIn the rink where you worship? The Nanooks were picked last by the media in the CCHA preseason poll — by everyone but me, that is. The third of the league’s teams that fielded … Read more
There’s a new coach in Anchorage, and if he has his way, you’ll hardly recognize the Seawolves. John Hill looks to install an up-tempo game at UAA as he tries to instill a winning tradition.
In a question-and-answer session with USCHO, John Hill says under his watch, Alaska-Anchorage will shed its conservative image. WCHA Correspondent Todd D. Milewski reports.