This Week in ECAC Hockey: Conference playoffs down to four teams as champion to be crowned this weekend in Lake Placid

Three years ago, Clarkson’s Chris Klack scored in overtime to win the ECAC Hockey championship at the 1980 Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid. It’s been a long wait since then. For the first time since 2019, ECAC Hockey is heading back to Lake Placid for the league’s championship weekend. The 2020 tournament was cancelled … Read more

Harvard’s Laferriere takes home top ECAC Hockey rookie honor, Quinnipiac’s Pecknold tabbed best coach for second straight season

ECAC Hockey has announced that the 2022 Tim Taylor Coach of the Year is Quinnipiac’s Rand Pecknold and the rookie of the year is Harvard forward Alex Laferriere. This is the second straight season that Pecknold has claimed this honor, and the fourth time in his career. Pecknold coached the Bobcats to their second consecutive … Read more

ECAC Hockey names Quinnipiac’s Metsa best defensive defenseman, Clarkson’s Tsekos best defensive forward for 2021-22 season

ECAC Hockey has announced that Quinnipiac senior Zach Metsa is the winner of the 2022 best defensive defenseman award and Clarkson graduate student Zach Tsekos has won the best defensive forward award. Metsa is just the second Bobcat in program history to earn this award, and the first since 2013, while Tsekos has won his … Read more

ECAC Hockey recognizes 18 players on three all-league teams for 2021-22 season

ECAC Hockey has announced its three all-league teams for the 2021-22 season. FIRST TEAM ALL-LEAGUE Forward: Alex Campbell, So., Clarkson Forward: Mathieu Gosselin, Jr., Clarkson Forward: Nick Abruzzese, Jr., Harvard Defenseman: Zach Metsa, Sr., Quinnipiac Defenseman: Sam Malinski, Jr., Cornell Goaltender: Yaniv Perets, So., Quinnipiac SECOND TEAM ALL-LEAGUE Forward: Zach Tsekos, Gr., Clarkson Forward: Ture … Read more

This Week in ECAC Hockey: Previewing the four best-of-three playoff series set to go this weekend across the conference

All four home teams won their playoff series in the opening round of the ECAC Hockey postseason. Now, they’ll head on the road to try and repeat that success. Colgate and Union swept their respective opponents, while St. Lawrence and Rensselaer won in three games. The Saints beat Brown 4-3 in overtime on Sunday, while … Read more

Notre Dame, Ohio State each have two hockey players named as finalists for 2021-22 Senior CLASS Award

Ten NCAA men’s hockey student-athletes who excel both on and off the ice were selected as finalists today for the 2021-22 Senior CLASS Award. To be eligible for the award, student-athletes must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior or graduate student and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character, … Read more

This Week in ECAC Hockey: Conference playoffs kick into high gear with four series this coming weekend

In the end, there was relatively little change in the standings during the final regular-season weekend in ECAC Hockey. Three of the top four teams – Quinnipiac, Clarkson, and Harvard – entered the weekend having already clinched a first-round bye. The fourth team, Cornell, blanked Princeton 4-0 Saturday to hold on to the final top-four … Read more

This Week in ECAC Hockey: Surging Quinnipiac netminder Perets credits Bobcats teammates for ‘making my life easier’

Last weekend marked pair of impressive milestones for Quinnipiac. Bobcats coach Rand Pecknold coached in his 1,000th career game Saturday, a 1-0 win against Rensselaer. That game was also Quinnipiac’s 13th shutout of the season, an NCAA men’s hockey Division I record. Now the Bobcats head on the road this weekend looking for another milestone: … Read more

Michigan’s Beniers, St. Cloud’s Perbix, Yale’s Carpentier, Quinnipiac’s Perets, Ohio State’s Dobeš named HCA national men’s college hockey players of the month for Jan. 2022

The Hockey Commissioners Association has announced its men’s players of the month for January 2022. Michigan sophomore forward Matty Beniers and St. Cloud State senior defenseman Nick Perbix are the co-players of the month, while Quinnipiac freshman Yaniv Perets and Ohio State freshman Jakub Dobeš are co-goaltender of the months and Yale sophonore forward Ian … Read more

This Week in ECAC Hockey: With just two losses this season, Quinnipiac doing ‘all the little things that we need to be successful when you’re tired’

With the exception of Harvard and the Beanpot, it’s not often that ECAC Hockey teams get the chance to compete in a late-season multigame tournament. But that’s what Quinnipiac and Yale will take part in this weekend, when the two schools join UConn and Sacred Heart in the second annual Connecticut Ice Collegiate Hockey tournament … Read more

Penn State adds men’s hockey game Jan. 1 at Army West Point; postponed Princeton-Quinnipiac series rescheduled for Jan. 18, Jan. 26

Penn State has announced the addition of a single game against Army West Point this Saturday, Jan. 1, at Tate Rink in West Point, N.Y. The game comes as a result of the Nittany Lions’ New Year’s series with Maine being canceled earlier this week due to positive COVID-19 results within the Black Bears program. … Read more

Penn State-Maine, Princeton-Quinnipiac college hockey games being canceled, postponed due to health, safety protocols

Several men’s college hockey series this weekend have been canceled due to health and safety protocols. Penn State announced its series vs. Maine scheduled for Friday, December 31 and Saturday, January 1 has been canceled due to positive COVID-19 results within the Black Bears program. The series will not be rescheduled. “The health and safety … Read more

ECAC Hockey championship tournament to be played at Lake Placid’s 1980 Herb Brooks Arena through 2023-24 season

ECAC Hockey and the New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority announced Friday a three-year agreement for the ECAC Hockey men’s championship, which will take place at the newly modernized 1980 Herb Brooks Arena in the Olympic Center. This season’s tournament will be held March 18-19, 2022, with the event remaining in Lake Placid through … Read more

Friendship Four tournament returning to Belfast in 2022, with UMass, UMass Lowell, Quinnipiac, Dartmouth slated to play

The Friendship Four hockey tournament will return to Belfast, Northern Ireland in November 2022 after what will be a three-year absence due to COVID restrictions. Joining UMass and UMass Lowell will be Quinnipiac and Dartmouth. Taking place at The SSE Arena, Belfast on November 25-26, 2022, the tournament, organized by the Odyssey Trust, will bring … Read more

This Week in ECAC Hockey: Boosted by upperclassmen, transfers, Quinnipiac fast piling up notches in win column

When Quinnipiac takes the ices for its next game on Dec. 3, it will have been nearly a month and a half since the Bobcats lost a game. The Bobcats (10-1-3) will end November on a nine-game unbeaten streak after tying Clarkson Friday and rolling over St. Lawrence on Saturday. Quinnipiac’s only loss this season … Read more

This Week in ECAC Hockey: Offseason renovations to Brown’s Meehan Auditorium ‘the outward appearance of the excellence that we preach’

With 13 new players this season, Brown’s roster has gone through plenty of turnover since the Bears last took the ice in March 2020. But there’s been plenty of changes behind the scenes of the program as well. Meehan Auditorium, home to the Brown’s men’s and women’s hockey teams, underwent a $7.5 million dollar renovation … Read more