A win tonight by Oswego would set up the third meeting this season between the Lakers and Elmira. The tournament hosts took the first two games, 2-1 at the Murray Athletic Center and 5-2 at home. A championship game between these two interstate rivals would be a barnburner — and despite Oswego’s two earlier wins, … Read more
Last season, Elmira went on a second-half tear that propelled the Soaring Eagles to an NCAA berth and a goal away from the championship game. The team is off to a slow start again this year. Could the comeback in this game and a convincing win over St. Thomas be the spark that sets things … Read more
7-3 Elmira. All Soaring Eagles after the first 15 minutes or so. I’m going down to talk to the coaches and will post a recap shortly.
St. Thomas got one back on a breakway by Kevin Rollwagon at 6:44, but a minute later, a giveaway in the Tommies’ zone results in a goal by Dave McKenna, who strips a defenseman of the puck and beats goaltender Treye Kettwick low glove. 7-3.
Two quick goals to open the third period, and it’s 6-2 Elmira. Stefan Schoen scored off a tip on a pass from Darcy Pettie to make it 5-2 57 seconds in, and at 1:37, Andrew Bedford made it 6-2.
It’s a little disappointing to see the small turnout of Elmira fans here for the early semifinal. Soaring Eagle fans used to be some of the best traveling faithful in D-III. There is a smattering of purple-clad Eagle enthusiasts here, but few than 100. In their heyday, you’d probably see 400 or 500 fans traveling … Read more
Early in tonight’s contest, I wondered what had happened to the Elmira squad that had skated so well with Middlebury last spring. St. Thomas was blowing right past them up the ice and it was looking like a long night for the Soaring Eagles. That late power-play goal by Ryan Arnone seemed to stem the … Read more
Two more goals for the Soaring Eagles and it’s now 4-2. Derrick Ryan beat Maida glove side with a backhand at 4:22, and Russel Smith’s power play goal from the slot has made it 4-2 at 6:20.
Elmira looked awful in the opening minutes of this one, but has rallied back from an early 2-0 deficit. St. Thomas opened the scoring at 2:20 when Ryan Hoehn got his second of the season off a feed from Alex Coles. Just 1:22 later, Hoehn struck again, blowing down the left wing shorthanded, and beating … Read more
I’m in the pressbox at the new Campus Center Ice Arena on the campus of Oswego. I’ll get to the action between Elmira and St. Thomas in the opening game of the Pathfinder Bank Oswego Classic in a few minutes, but for now, I’m taking in this gorgeous facility: 1. It’s big, bright and open. … Read more
You can read my recap here. A great gameplan by Curry. Coach Rob Davies still doesn’t like all the penalties his team is taking. “We’ll be running again at 6 a.m. Monday morning,” he told me. But he has to be happy with his team’s performance. Geneseo looked out of sync for most of the … Read more
7:00: I’m in the pressbox in Geneseo, looking forward to seeing my first D-III action of the season. I passed on broadcasting RIT-Mercyhurst tonight to catch this one. I’ll make the trip to Erie tomorrow, with a stop in Jamestown, NY with my son for his Bantam game. First Period 0:00 Let’s play hockey! 0:15: … Read more
In the just plain weird department – St. Olaf and Augsburg tied twice this past weekend. That’s kind of unusual, but not unprecedented. But these were the seventh and eighth consecutive ties between the two schools, dating back over the last four seasons! Is there a stat geek that can help me compute the odds … Read more
Every college team has its ups and downs, but we’re at the point in this season where some trends are beginning to emerge. Over the past few seasons we’ve seen some teams that had previously been doormats ride up and have breakout seasons. This year is no exception. You have to wonder which team will … Read more
It’s tournament time. Here’s an outlook on this week’s action. In many cases, one of the semifinals features the two best teams in the tournament, IMHO. Augsburg Tournament When: November 22 & 23 Who: Augsburg (host), UW-Superior, Finlandia, Bethel Outlook: It’s rare that a Thanksgiving Tournament is actually played on Thanksgiving. The winner of the … Read more
Fans like to argue about which conference is the strongest, top to bottom. A case can be made for three leagues, and I’ll make them now: NESCAC – The key here is Middlebury, which has won eight of the last 11 national titles, including the last three. One powerful team doesn’t make for a powerful … Read more
Thoughts on the week that was: More domination for the NCHA. The league went 13-3 against the neighboring MIAC to improve to 25-6-1 so far this season in interconference play. MIAC teams dropped in the poll as a result, while upstarts like UW-Stout are ranked on the basis of their success the past two weekends. … Read more
Another Monday, and another weekend passed with no hockey for the the ECAC East and NESCAC. Hang in there – games start this weekend! Here at USCHO, we’re happy about that. The Division III Men’s Poll will be more meaningful once all the teams have actually played games. It’s a fine line for us here … Read more
Well, maybe I jinxed a few teams this week. In my 10/30 blog entry, I had Plattsburgh and Fredonia as teams off to good starts…and looked what happened. Platty goes 0-2 in Western New York and Fredonia loses on home ice in the regular season for the first time in two years – 26 games. … Read more
Tomorrow (November 6) USCHO will be publishing the first Division III poll of the 2006-2007 season. The preseason poll has been out for a few weeks, but now with the MIAC and NCHA fully underway, we’ve got enough games in to do a regular season poll. Look for a new poll every Monday (with a … Read more