Game of the Week For the third consecutive week, it just so happens another one of my season preview’s mark-your-calendar games takes place. This time, it’s Plattsburgh at Buffalo State on Saturday. The Bengals beat the Cardinals twice last year. Can they make it three in a row? Buffalo State has certainly been on an … Read more
My picks for last week started out bad, missing both games on Friday night. But I was perfect on Saturday and Sunday to earn a respectable weekend performance. This week’s games are even harder to pick, as three of the games are within the league and could easily go either way. Time to flip a … Read more
Four of the five teams started league play this past weekend. With a pair of big road wins over Uitca and Manhattanville, Elmira jumped right to the top of the standings. The Soaring Eagles weekend started out at Utica, and the Pioneers got their 3,800 fans into the game early when Steve Zappia scored just … Read more
Oswego prevailed on Friday in its big match up against Geneseo, 4-2. It wasn’t easy. “It was what we expected, a tight, checking battle,” Oswego coach Ed Gosek said. “Geneseo works extremely hard. They had opportunities, and our goalie played very well. We had opportunities, and their goalie played very well.” “I think we did … Read more
First, the MASCAC and ECAC Northeast opened the season nearly two weeks after their national counterparts. Then, there was little uniformity in the start of the season for each team. In a three-day stretch of Friday through Sunday, two MASCAC teams and six ECAC Northeast teams opened the season, but Sunday afternoon brought one of … Read more
The ECAC Northeast schedule kicked off Wednesday with Johnson and Wales’s 3-2 win over Stonehill, as Jeremiah Ketts and Justin Decowski scored a pair of second-period goals to help the Wildcats rally to win their season opener. The MASCAC season opens with five games from Friday to Tuesday, all nonconference games, but among the season … Read more
Game of the Week For the second week in a row, a mark-your-calendar game from the preview takes place. This time, it is Geneseo’s key game, traveling up to Oswego on Friday. I picked this game because it was the first big test for Geneseo to see if they can leapfrog to the front. An … Read more
Lots of “firsts” this year for the ECAC East! First, there are games that mean something the first weekend in November. That’s about two weeks ahead of the schedule defined by the previous interlocking schedule with the NESCAC conference. While the travel partner arrangements remain intact, these games will be the first leg in what … Read more
Friday, November 04 Hobart at Manhattanville Manhattanville jumps right into the deep end with its first NCAA game against a tough ECAC West opponent, hosting Hobart. The Valiants scored a big comeback victory against the Under-18 team last weekend, while Hobart failed to do the same against Cortland. That gives Manhattanville the edge heading into … Read more
Every team in the ECAC West is now in action and the season is under way. Three teams were in action this past weekend, all with games on Saturday. The biggest of them all was No. 13 Utica handing No. 2 Oswego its first loss of the year. The Pioneers scored a pair of goals … Read more
The young season has already produced emergency calls to the cardiologists. Buffalo State was cruising along in Geneseo, leading the Ice Knights, 3-1. Geneseo scored first on a Corbin Rosmarin goal at 1:18 of the first. The Bengals tied it at 5:07 with a Dave Lansdowne tally. Drew Klin scored a power-play goal in the … Read more
Game of the Week Since I picked the first game of the season as Morrisville’s mark your calendar game, naturally I have to select it as this opening game of the week. It is, of course, the dawn of the post-Caylin Relkoff era. How Morrisville performs early could set the stage for the season. “He’s … Read more
Yes, we are in the midst of yet another great D-III men’s ice hockey national championship tournament with this year’s Frozen Four in Minnesota next weekend. The action all year has been great, and unfortunately for some teams and their fans, the season ended prematurely at the end of the conference tournaments last week. Just … Read more
With the rat-tat-tat of a three-goal second period Saturday, Adrian gunned its way past Elmira to earn its first-ever trip to the NCAA D-III Final Four. Seniors Sam Kuzyk, Brad Houston and Shawn Skelly scored three unanswered goals within an eight-minute span as the host Bulldogs knocked off the Soaring Eagles, 5-3, before a sold-out … Read more
We’ve turned to some of our D-III columnists to give their picks for the winner. Larry O’Connor – MIAC, MCHA, and NCHA columnist Hamline’s stunning 3-2 overtime win over Wisconsin-Superior Wednesday set the stage for an enthralling quarterfinal weekend for the remaining D-III West teams. The quarterfinal field is stacked with excellent teams, each one … Read more
Curry Last Meeting: January 1, 2010 (Norwich, 4-0) League: ECAC Northeast Record: 16-8-3 (10-2-2 ECAC NE) NCAA History: Fourth Appearance Scoring Offense: 3.92 goals per game Scoring Defense: 3.09 goals per game Power Play: 21.6 percent Penalty Kill: 80.6 percent Team Leaders Goals: Payden Benning,16 Assists: Ryan Warsofsky,18 Points: Warsofky,27 Power play Goals: Benning,7 … Read more
Welcome to the final edition of Division III Bracketology for 2011. You can see the bracket here. Surprises: UWS over Castleton – A major surprise as I had Castleton in for sure. UWS had 12 losses, but it looks like the Western Committee did a stellar job of selling the Yellowjackets’ tough schedule. Plattsburgh and … Read more
Hail to the Norwich Cadets and Bowdoin Polar Bears winners of the ECAC East and NESCAC conference tournaments over this past weekend. Both teams enter NCAA play this upcoming Wednesday when the Cadets host ECAC Northeast champion Curry and the Polar Bears entertain Neumann in first round action. But that is this week and stuff … Read more
Congrats to all the conference champions – and to those yet unnamed teams that get a second chance. Here’s the pre-NCAA announcement edition of Division III Bracketology. To recap: eleven teams will get their tickets punched: seven Pool A teams, one Pool B Team, and three Pool C teams. Pool A consists of the seven … Read more
In collecting its fourth-straight Harris Cup, Adrian made a statement about the next step in its journey as an NCAA tournament-bound team. The fifth-ranked Bulldogs skated to a 5-0 victory over Marian on Sunday in the Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association title game at Arrington Ice Arena. Seniors Shawn Skelly and Zach Graham led the Bulldogs … Read more