Boston College’s undefeated season came to an end, North Dakota beat Minnesota, Quinnipiac suffered another conference loss, and Mercyhurst took another step toward the CHA regular season title. Candace and Arlan look at that and more.
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.
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.
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.
Minnesota-Duluth’s announcement that it won’t renew Shannon Miller’s contract has sent shock waves through Women’s D-I hockey.
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.
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.
A lot of teams enter this season missing key cogs from previous years, but the top teams, such as Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Boston College, seem to be off to a great start regardless, while teams in the rung below, such as Vermont and Bemidji State, made some noise in the first weekend of full action. Candace and Arlan take a look in their first Wednesday Women column.
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
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.
Women’s D-I columnist Arlan Marttila previews the NCAA tournament field before Saturday’s quarterfinals.
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
Olympic seasons tend to be a little strange. It’s like removing the aces from the deck after sitting down to play poker. Eventually, everybody adjusts to the fact that the aces are gone, but in the hockey world, it can be tough on a team that was originally dealt a couple of aces. The 2014 … Read more
Katey Stone, a 1989 graduate of New Hampshire and current coach of the 2014 U.S. women’s Olympic team, is one of six individuals to earn the NCAA’s 2014 Silver Anniversary Award. The Silver Anniversary Award annually recognizes distinguished individuals on the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of their college athletics careers. The Honors Committee, comprised … Read more
Harvard is another team that will have a slightly different look this season due to it being an Olympic year. Coach Katey Stone is on a sabbatical while she coaches the United States team. In her absence, Maura Crowell will serve as interim head coach. “I’ve been working with coach Stone for three years, and … Read more
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
Former Harvard goaltender Laura Bellamy, who just graduated from the university in May, has been named an assistant coach for the Crimson for the upcoming 2013-14 season. Bellamy will join interim head coach Maura Crowell’s staff during the absence of Katey Stone, who will coach the United States women’s team at the 2014 Winter Olympics … Read more
Jeremy Gibson, former senior associate athletic director at Harvard, is the new director of athletics at Merrimack and will begin in his new position July 1. At Harvard, Gibson had oversight of many varsity programs, including men’s and women’s hockey.
Maura Crowell has been named interim head coach of the Harvard women’s team while Katey Stone serves as head coach of the 2014 United States women’s Olympic Team in Sochi, Russia. “I am thrilled that Maura will be leading the Harvard hockey program in my absence,” said Stone in a statement. “She has certainly earned … Read more
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