Bob Prier has been named the new head coach at Princeton and will be formally introduced at a press conference on Tuesday. Prier had been an assistant coach and associate head coach at St. Lawrence since 2002. “It is my pleasure to announce the appointment of Bob Prier as Princeton’s new head coach of ice … Read more
The ECAC today announced that St. Lawrence senior forward Sean Flanagan has been assessed a one-game suspension, in accordance with the league’s supplemental discipline process, as the result of his actions in the St. Lawrence at Yale contest last Saturday. The action was taken after review of an incident that occurred with six seconds … Read more
Last year St. Lawrence was looking pretty good as the calendars flipped over to February, sitting at 14-9-5 with four home games and three on the road to close out the regular season. Whoops. SLU fell face first with a first-round bye in sight, going 1-4-2 down the stretch and effectively — albeit coincidentally — … Read more
Two-time defending ECAC Hockey champion Yale is the pick of both league coaches and media to finish atop the standings in 2010-11. The Bulldogs got 11 of the 12 first-place votes from coaches and 25 of the 30 votes in the media poll, conducted through the ECAC Hockey Writers and Broadcasters Association. Cornell, Union and … Read more
Cammi Granato, three-time ECAC Player of the Year, two-time Olympian and 15-year member of the U.S. Women’s National Team, was today announced as one of the first two female members in the 65-year history of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Granato will be formally inducted into the Hall on Nov. 8 as part of the … Read more
The NCAA men’s and women’s ice hockey rules committee gets this chance only once every two years, so there’s a little more emphasis to get it right. In the next month, leading up to and through the committee’s meeting June 8-11 in Indianapolis, the dialogue about potential rules changes will lead to debate and then … Read more
Forward Brandon Bollig has signed a contract with the AHL’s Rockford IceHogs, forgoing his final two years of eligibility at St. Lawrence. Bollig, 23, was fourth on the St. Lawrence roster this season with 25 goals (seven goals, 18 assists) in 42 games. Related link: Early departures in 2010 offseason In 78 career games, Bollig … Read more
No. 1 Mercyhurst has three forwards among the 10 finalists for the 2010 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. Juniors Vicki Bendus and Jesse Scanzano and sophomore Bailey Bram were voted among the top 10 by Division I women’s hockey coaches. The other finalists: Minnesota-Duluth senior forward Emmanuelle Blais, St. Cloud State senior forward Felicia Nelson, Dartmouth … Read more
The Details Who: No. 5 Boston College (10-3-2), No. 2 Denver (11-5-2), Nebraska-Omaha (9-7-4), St. Lawrence (8-7-2) When: Friday, Jan. 1 and Saturday, Jan. 2 Where: Magness Arena, Denver Tickets: Click here (new window) Friday’s games: Boston College vs. St. Lawrence, 4:30 p.m. Mountain; Denver vs. Nebraska-Omaha, 7:30 p.m. Saturday’s games: Nebraska-Omaha vs. St. Lawrence, … Read more
Last Year The Saints finished one goal away from an NCAA at-large bid, but instead settled for a season-ending tie in the ECAC Hockey consolation game against Princeton. The team finished fourth in the league on the strength of an 8-1-2 finish to league play, and derived much of its success from its dynamic transition … Read more
The coaches and media agree: Yale is the team to beat in ECAC Hockey this season. The Bulldogs, who won the league’s regular season and playoff titles last season, picked up seven of 12 first-place votes from the coaches and 15 of 25 top spots in balloting by the ECAC Hockey Writers and Broadcasters Association. … Read more
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
Offense: In what seems to be a bit of a league-wide pattern, the Saints graduated three of their top six scorers from last season in Kyle Rank, Max Taylor and Drew Bagnall. As a team, SLU was third in the league with 73 goals scored, nearly three and a third per game. The drop in … Read more
Playing It Close The Saints may have been accustomed to playing close games — 16 of 34 results this year were of the one-goal or goal-plus-empty-netter variety — but BC opened things up as the game wore on, and on defense eliminated St. Lawrence’s ability to get Schneider moving laterally. Wicked Hot The Boston College … Read more
After losing a season with injuries in both knees, St. Lawrence co-captain Chelsea Grills is leading the Saints to their fourth straight Women’s Frozen Four.
What do you do when four of your top five point-producers, accounting for 129 points, from last season graduate? You retool and hope that some players step it up. That is exactly the scenario for St. Lawrence and head coach Joe Marsh this year. With the graduations of T.J. Trevelyan, Mike Madill, Mike Zbriger and … Read more
One was a surprise, the other expected to be there, but now the question facing both the Minnesota and St. Lawrence hockey programs is can they get back to the Frozen Four again. Both teams have been among the sport’s elite since the first NCAA-sponsored national championship in 2001. The Saints have made four of … Read more
First Round, First Times It’s been three years since Wisconsin-Superior has played in the NCAA Tournament. It’s the first time St. Olaf has ever played in the NCAA Tournament. Fittingly, those two teams will square off in the first round of the 2006 NCAA Tournament. The Yellowjackets stunned St. Norbert in the NCHA Playoffs to … Read more
NCAA Tournament Bids on the Line March Madness is upon us. No, not the men’s basketball NCAA Tournament, but the MIAC and NCHA championship games. If anyone from the MIAC wants to be playing in the NCAA Tournament, they will have to win the conference tournament. It doesn’t look as if any team has played … Read more
Coming Down to the Wire After one round of the NCHA playoffs, three teams made it through as expected, but one did not. I’ll give you a preview of the semifinals and what you can expect from the four teams vying for the Peters Cup. The MIAC has one weekend of play remaining and while … Read more