Quinnipiac finished 26-10-2, its most wins in a season since 2015-16 when they advanced to the NCAA title game. (Tom Horak/NEHJ)For the second consecutive season, the ECAC Hockey League will not have a representative in the men’s NCAA Frozen Four. Hours after Cornell was eliminated by Providence in … [Read more...]
Former New Jersey Rocket Alec Marsh wraps up Penn State career
Alec Marsh won a Big Ten Conference championship as a Penn State sophomore. (Getty Images)Alec Marsh soon will be an alumnus for the Penn State University hockey program. The senior left wing was due to complete his college career in the next several weeks, and then graduate this spring with a … [Read more...]
Germany native Nico Sturm has given Clarkson Frozen Four aspirations
Nico Sturm had registered 94 points and was a plus-38 through his first 109 NCAA appearances. (Clarkson Athletics)It’s pretty difficult to not notice Nico Sturm. Besides the fact he checks in at 6-foot-3 and 211 pounds, the Clarkson University junior forward from Augsburg, Germany, also is one of … [Read more...]
Kaldis and Cornell teammates flourish as they chase ECAC, national goals
Yanni Kaldis led all Big Red blueliners in scoring . (Cornell Athletics)You can forgive Yanni Kaldis if he spent a little bit more time at home in Canada around Christmas than usual. After all, he and his Cornell teammates didn’t have an actual game scheduled for an entire month. “I did get to go … [Read more...]
Yale senior Joe Snively looking to close out ECAC Hockey career in style
Joe Snively has led Yale in scoring each of the last three seasons. (Yale Athletics)The road from Virginia to New Haven, Conn., isn’t necessarily as circuitous as one might believe, even if you take a three-year side trip to the Midwest. Yale University senior forward Joe Snively would know. The … [Read more...]
Princeton’s Ryan Kuffner is the front-runner for ECAC Hockey Player of the Year
Ryan Kuffner is posting a Hobey Baker caliber season for Princeton. (Princeton Athletics)Ryan Kuffner picked up this fall almost exactly where he left off last spring — scoring goals. The senior left wing from Ottawa set a Princeton University record with 29 goals last season, which ranked him … [Read more...]
Max Gottlieb, Brown captain, gears up for ECAC push
It's the last go-around for Brown University senior defenseman Max Gottlieb. Now in his fourth and final season of manning Brown’s blue line, he will do so with the added demands of wearing a captain’s "C" on his game jerseys. "It was a huge honor," said Gottlieb, 23, an Old Bridge, N.J., native who … [Read more...]
ECAC Hockey 2018-19 Season Preview
Brown welcomes back second leading scorer Tommy Marchin, whose 12 goals paced the Bears. Also returning up front is senior Alex Brink (Hamilton, N.Y.), along with juniors Nolan Aibel (Brookville, N.Y.) and Chris Berger (Buffalo, N.Y.). Zach Giuttari and Max Gottlieb (Old Bridge, N.J.) are back on … [Read more...]
Mark Dennehy tabbed as new Binghamton Devils’ head coach
Mark Dennehy is going from Massachusetts to upstate New York — with a brief sojourn to West Virginia thrown in for good measure. Dennehy, a career college coach who guided Merrimack College for 13 years until he was released from that position in March, joined the ECHL’s Wheeling Nailers as head … [Read more...]
William Paterson continues its Pioneering ACHA Division 1 ascent
William Paterson University hockey is moving up to the big stage. The Pioneers, a perennial American Collegiate Hockey Association Division 2 power for the past decade, will be ascending to ACHA Division 1 this fall. That’s the same level that the likes of Penn State and Arizona State ruled as club … [Read more...]
Michigan State’s Jake Smith plays in front of home crowd at MSG
OCTOBER 14, 2017: Michigan State Hockey vs. Bowling Green (Photo: Adam Ruff Photography)Jake Smith hit the big time in just his first year at Michigan State University. The freshman fourth-line left wing from East Amherst, N.Y., skated a regular shift for the Spartans and assisted on their lone goal … [Read more...]
Cole Maier and the Dutchmen stay the course
Union College’s Cole Maier took the circuitous route to college, to say the least. The junior forward from Pequannock, N.J., Union’s team captain this season, chose to play junior hockey with the Nanaimo Clippers of the British Columbia Hockey League just before enrolling at school in Schenectady. … [Read more...]
