Tough to Practice Without Lights!

A campus-wide power outage forced the cancellation of practice today. With the nice weather, the men’s team was able to workout outside, but tough to skate in the dark!

posted 3 hours ago

Union Moves Up in Rankings

After picking up two wins this past weekend, Union jumped up three spots to No.11 in the lastest USCHO.com poll (click here) and moved up one spot to No. 12 in the lastest USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll (click here).

Union is up to No. 4 in the latest Inside College Hockey Power Rankings (click here) and in a tie for 14th (with Denver) in the all-important PairWise Rankings (click here). With wins against PairWise teams at a premium, games against Colgate and Cornell this weekend are very important, as is the continued success of Harvard, RIT, Michigan, and Merrimack, which have helped boost Union’s RPI.

Corey Milan ‘11 is playing in the Southern Professional Hockey League and was recently picked up by the Pensacola Ice Flyers. (click here) An early adapter to Twitter - he’s pretty funny when it comes to tweets. Follow him at @Kidplaysgoal37.

Ken Schott of the Daily Gazette assessed “The expected, the surprises, and the shockers” in ECAC Hockey play as we head into the final month of the regular season. (click here)

To get a sense of the prevailing mood of both Colgate and Cornell, check out these articles:

The first, a post-game recap from the Syracuse Post-Standard after Colgate’s come-from-behind 5-3 win over Cornell at Starr Rink (click here).

The second, a column from the Cornell student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, which rips the performance of the hockey team this past weekend. (click here).

posted 1 day ago

1.28 Union Line Chart vs. St. Lawrence

posted 4 days ago

1.27 Union Line Chart vs. Clarkson

posted 5 days ago

Union men and women set for key ECAC stretch run

Today, the Union men’s and women’s ice hockey teams both have key games as they head into the stretch run of ECAC Hockey play. Let’s face it, every game this time of the year is important, as the men’s team chases the Cleary Cup, and the women’s team its first ECAC Hockey playoff berth in program history.

Here are game notes for Union’s game today against RPI at 3:00 p.m. (click here). You can listen to a radio broadcast of both games courtesy of WRPI (click here)

On the men’s side, junior forward Wayne Simpson appeared on the weekly Inside ECAC Hockey radio show (click here)

Daily Gazette beat writer Ken Schott discussed the weekend games with Clarkson play-by-play announcer Bob Ahlfeld on College Hockey Slap Schotts with Rodger Wyland (click here)

Schott had an in-depth interview with sophomore goaltender Troy Grosenick on video (click here) and also wrote his game preview on Grosenick (click here)

Grosenick is mentioned as a Hobey Hopeful in this College Hockey News article (click here)

The Times Union focused on the lessons that Union has learned from losses this season (click here)

St. Lawrence is in town tomorrow night, but will be without the services of head coach Joe Marsh, who has been on medical leave for most of the season. Marsh announced he will not coach the remainder of the year, and discussed his medical situation with Schott (click here) and the Watertown Daily Times (click here).

posted 5 days ago

Nice Weekend for Women’s Hockey/Union in Polls

After a number of agonizing ties and overtime losses, the women’s ice hockey team recorded its second ECAC Hockey win of the season by earning a 2-0 win over Yale on Pink at the Rink day at Messa Rink. Senior goaltender Kate Gallagher was outstanding, stopping all 34 shots, and Stefanie Thomson and Lauren Hoffman each scored to help the Dutchwomen earn the victory. (click here) In addition, fans that attended the game helped raise over $3,000 for the American Cancer Society.

The women’s team nearly had the program’s first two-win weekend in league play, but on Friday night, Brown scored at 18:03 with an extra attacker on the ice to earn a 2-2 tie. (click here) Still, for the Dutchwomen, it was their second unbeaten ECAC Hockey weekend of the season, and second in program history. Union is now in shouting distance of a playoff berth in ECAC Hockey, with two games against rival RPI this weekend.

The men’s team slid a couple spots down in the latest USCHO.com poll (click here), and fell one spot in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll (click here) and INCH Power Rankings (click here) Union is tied for 20th in the Pairwise Rankings (click here).

posted 1 week ago

1.21 Union Line Chart vs. Brown

posted 1 week ago