Playoff preview: ECAC women
Arlan takes a look at the four ECAC playoff series, and what each team needs to do to advance.
Women’s D-I: Dartmouth
Wednesday Women: Playoff possibilities
The regular season is over, and the road to a national championship begins. Candace and Arlan take a look at results from the final weekend in the regular season, and ponder what said results mean for the first round of the conference tournaments.
Wednesday Women: One final push
It’s the final weekend of the regular season, and a lot of teams are battling for playoff position in their conference tournaments, as well as positioning for possible NCAA berths. How it all plays out is anyone’s guess, but Candace and Arlan take a look.
Wednesday Women: Dancing in the standings
Harvard held first place for a night, North Dakota is moving on up in the WCHA, several teams, including Colgate and Penn State, have great freshmen, and Minnesota and Boston College have looked a little vulnerable.
Wednesday Women: Middle of the pack
Candace and Arlan look at the middle teams in the conferences, where the teams are jockeying fiercely for playoff positioning, debate the state of the CHA, and look at Chelsea Laden’s chances of challenging the NCAA shutout mark.
Wednesday Women: Finding form
Candace and Arlan review what they learned from the big series between Minnesota and Wisconsin and the first battle between Boston College and Boston University, debate finish orders in the ECAC, Hockey East, and the WCHA, look at players having good and bad seasons, and pick the 10 finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award.
Illikainen sisters take different courses after high school
Having sisters in college at the same time attending different schools at the same time, but Molly and Morgan Illikainen wanted to forge different paths.
Wednesday Women: Wrap it up
In their final discussion of the first half, Candace and Arlan look at whether Harvard and Cornell are back to being threats, ponder Minnesota’s shellacking of St. Cloud, and look at which teams are in contention and what games are the ones to watch in the second half.
Wednesday Women: Trends and turns
Candace and Arlan ponder whether newly ranked Bemidji State is an NCAA contender, whether anyone can stop Boston College in Hockey East, and debate the explosive volatility in the ECAC and CHA.
The top looks Crimson once more
ECAC Hockey is the oldest league, and of late, it has been the most stable. Greg Fargo has the least tenure at his current job, and he starts his third season at Colgate. This could well be the best that the league has been from top to bottom, as several contenders feature Olympians and those … Read more
ECAC announces preseason all-conference women’s team, coaches’ poll
Harvard has been selected as the top team in the ECAC women’s coaches’ poll released Monday. With nine first-place votes, this marks the first time since 2008 the Crimson has earned the top spot in the poll. In addition, the league also announced its preseason all-conference team.
Rattray, Maschmeyer, Staenz big winners at ECAC Hockey women’s awards banquet
Eight individual awards, three all-league teams and an all-rookie team highlighted the ECAC Hockey women’s awards banquet on Friday at Clarkson. Clarkson forward Jamie Lee Rattray was tabbed player of the year, while Harvard’s Emerance Maschmeyer was named top goaltender and Yale forward and Swiss Olympian Phoebe Staenz earned rookie of the year laurels. Clarkson’s … Read more
Clarkson favored to break Harvard, Cornell stranglehold on ECAC
Unlike the three other conferences, where the league tournament is all-inclusive, ECAC Hockey leaves four teams on the outside looking in when the playoffs commence. It becomes a mad scramble to get into the field, and last season’s final week saw no fewer than four teams alive for the final berth. That makes it competitive … Read more
Dartmouth Season Preview
If you believe that a 60-minute hockey game is a few minutes too short, then Dartmouth may be the team for you. The Big Green went to overtime eight times in the last campaign. When asked how to convert more of those games into victories, coach Mark Hudak laughed and said, “Score more goals.” “I … Read more
Former Dartmouth standout Trunzo named St. Norbert women’s assistant
Amanda Trunzo has been named assistant women’s coach at St. Norbert. Trunzo, a 2011 Dartmouth graduate, played in 124 career games with the Big Green, scoring 68 goals and 59 assists for 127 points. She was a Patty Kazmaier Award nominee during her sophomore season when she scored a career-high 22 goals and 42 points. … Read more
Dartmouth presents danger in the ECAC playoffs
Had Harvard managed to score one more goal versus St. Lawrence on Friday and won, rather than tying the Saints, the Crimson would have won a share of the ECAC title, been the top seed for the tournament, and would be heading into a first-round match with a Colgate team where only the seniors have … Read more
Women’s ECAC preview: Picking an old champ over the new power
The ECAC season title has been Cornell’s to lose over the last couple of years. Now, the pack at the top figures to be more closely bunched. Cornell, while still formidable, graduated Olympian Rebecca Johnston among others, and may be a smidgen below its apogee. The teams that finished second through sixth all show … Read more
Liegl named to Dartmouth women’s coaching staff
Dartmouth announced on Tuesday the addition of Josh Liegl to the coaching staff. Liegl was a volunteer assistant with the Big Green last season and previously was an assistant at Ohio State from 2008-11. “We are very excited to have Josh Liegl join Dartmouth and our women’s hockey team,” Dartmouth head coach Mark Hudak said … Read more
Providence to host Dartmouth in outdoor women’s game at Fenway
Providence will host Dartmouth in a women’s game at Fenway Park on Jan. 10 at 3 p.m. as part of Sun Life Frozen Fenway 2012. The game was originally scheduled for Dec. 31 at Providence. “The team is very excited about getting to play at Fenway,” Dartmouth head coach Mark Hudak said in a news … Read more
Wednesday Women: Looking at the challengers
Reading into the ECAC games during the Four Nations Cup, possible D-III teams going D-I, and whether Bemidji is as good as their current place in the standings indicates.