The NCAA Division III Women’s Championship field was announced on Sunday with three teams chosen from the West Region and four from the East Region. The four automatic bids were given to: ECAC East: Manhattanville (23-3-1) ECAC West: Plattsburgh (24-2-1) NESCAC: Middlebury (24-2-0) MIAC: Gustavus Adolphus (22-3-2) The lone Pool B bid was given to … Read more
Bids were announced Sunday night for the 2006 NCAA Division III men’s ice hockey championship. This season marks the expansion of the tournament to a 10-team field. For the first time, three at-large bids were awarded to teams from the ECAC West. The Pool B berth was awarded to Manhattanville, which lost in the ECAC … Read more
Repeating an awards hat trick from Hockey East’s inaugural season, the University of New Hampshire swept the three major individual awards, acknowledging the season’s top player, rookie and coach. UNH’s Sadie Wright-Ward, Sam Faber, and Brian McCloskey pose with their trophies. Sophomore Sadie Wright-Ward put on a scoring display in the final week of the … Read more
The Massachusetts hockey team (13-18-1, 10-14-1 Hockey East) has already locked up its postseason bid, and in terms of its own destiny, UMass can only finish in one of two positions in the final standings heading into next week’s conference quarterfinals. The Minutemen — who play Maine (23-10-1, 16-8-1 HEA) Friday and Saturday night in … Read more
This road trip has had a little more to offer Alaska-Fairbanks than its typical 3,500 mile treks. In all the Nanooks will have dealt with two consecutive weekends of cutthroat hockey, nearly two weeks in a South Bend hotel, a majority of the team falling ill and even the supernatural. Hunkering down After splitting last … Read more
Back to the basics, back to square one. That was the message during a 20-minute players-only meeting following Wisconsin’s Feb. 25’s 7-3 loss to Minnesota State. And that was the message through all of this week’s practices. And despite a mediocre Wednesday practice, the Badgers finished a refreshing week Thursday — one that harkened back … Read more
Both men’s and women’s ice hockey program are academically performing up to expectations, according to the Academic Progress Rate (APR) data released by the NCAA on Wednesday. The APR initiative was implemented by the NCAA as a means of tracking academic performance in athletics at member schools, and to penalize programs which fail to meet … Read more
If a player struggled to live up to considerable hype, watched as the job he was competing for was claimed by someone else and went through off-ice troubles, you would say he’s had a heck of a rough career, right? But, if all these things happened in just one season — let alone that player’s … Read more
Union coach Nate Leaman had been hoping that two of his top freshmen, defenseman Lane Caffaro and forward T.J. Fox, would be reinstated to the team after they appealed their school-imposed season-ending suspensions. But that won’t be happening. Caffaro and Fox recently had their appeals denied by interim school president Dr. James Underwood. No other … Read more
ANNIE GREENWOOD League champion Princeton was the big winner in the Ivy postseason awards, released Wednesday, as junior Kim Pearce won Player of the Year, Annie Greenwood won Rookie of the Year, and Pearce, senior goalie Roxanne Gaudiel and junior defenseman Laura Watt earned First Team honors. The quartet led Princeton to its first Ivy … Read more
Dartmouth senior forward Mike Ouellette, who helped the Big Green to its first-ever ECACHL regular-season championship, was named Ivy League Player of the Year Wednesday. Ouellette accumulated 31 points this season on 11 goals and 20 assists. A second-team All-Ivy selection last season, he finished the season third in the Ivy League in points per … Read more
Women’s ice hockey scored sixth-highest among all NCAA Division I women’s sports in the first set of Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores based on a two-year cohort. The NCAA’s new academic measurement, known as APR, is based on the academic eligibility, retention and graduation of student-athletes. An APR score of 925 is equivalent to an … Read more
When Ferris State junior forward Zac Pearson beat Michigan goalie Billy Sauer 42 seconds into overtime for a 4-3 win on Saturday night in Ann Arbor, Mich., he not only scored the game-winning goal — he also saved his team a 3,500 mile road trip. Pearson’s goal launched the Bulldogs into sole position of seventh … Read more
Jonathan Deptula, head men’s hockey coach at Wentworth, has announced his resignation effective June 16 to pursue other opportunities outside of coaching. Deptula completed his second full season behind the Leopards’ bench on Saturday, when Wentworth was defeated by Nichols 6-5 in overtime in the ECAC Northeast Quarterfinals. Deptula “I feel as though I am … Read more
Minnesota maintained its stranglehold on the USCHO.com/CSTV Networks Division I men’s poll Monday, earning 38 of 40 first-place votes to claim the No. 1 spot in the nation for the fourth straight week. With a week still to go in the WCHA regular season, the Gophers won the MacNaughton Cup with a road sweep of … Read more
Northern Michigan University will host the Wisconsin Badgers for a two-game series on Oct. 6-7 at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wis. Tickets for Northern Michigan fans will go on sale Monday, NMU athletic director Ken Godfrey said, if the system can be finalized by TicketStar in Green Bay. Tickets will be $15 for … Read more
The USA Hockey Foundation Friday announced 10 candidates for the 2006 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, presented annually to the most outstanding player in women’s college hockey. The 10 candidates represent seven different schools, as St. Lawrence, Minnesota-Duluth and Wisconsin each boast two candidates. For the first time since the inaugural award in 1998, each of … Read more
John Mayasich, considered by many to be the greatest American-born hockey player of all time, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2006 Lou Lamoriello Award. The award, named after the former Providence College player and coach — and current New Jersey Devils president and coach — honors a former member of the college … Read more
Plymouth State University has announced that its women’s ice hockey program will be elevated to varsity status beginning with the 2006-07 season. PSU added cheerleading in addition to women’s hockey. Plymouth State now has 19 varsity sports, eight men’s and 11 women’s. The two sports are the first added at Plymouth State since women’s volleyball … Read more
As the Princeton men’s hockey team gears up for the last weekend of the season, very little remains to be determined. Having lost both games last weekend, the Tigers have no chance at getting home ice in any of their playoff games. Since every team goes to the playoffs, however, they are still guaranteed a … Read more