Team Notes: Bulldogs Host St. Lawrence in Quarterfinals Series
NEW HAVEN, Conn. –The Yale men's hockey team (23-5-1, 17-4-1 ECAC), which earned a bye in the first round of the ECAC Hockey Playoffs as the No. 2 seed, hosts No. 11 St. Lawrence (12-20-5, 6-15-1) this weekend in a best-of-three quarterfinal series. Game one is Friday, March 11 followed by Saturday night's second contest. The third game, if necessary, is Sunday. All opening faceoffs are 7:00 at Ingalls Rink. The Bulldogs are ranked No. 1 in the PairWise System and No. 3 in the USA Today/American Hockey Magazine and uscho.com polls.
TICKETS
Quarterfinals tickets are available online at
yalebulldogs.com or by calling 203.432.1400. Yale students will be
admitted free when presenting valid Yale student identification at
Ingalls Rink on game nights.
WATCHING THE SERIES
All of the series can be seen live on America One (formerly
B2TV.com), a pay-per-view stream that uses the home school's
broadcast team to provide audio. Season subscriptions to Yale's All
Access on yalebulldogs.com do not apply to the post season. Ron
Vaccaro '04 and Evan Ellis '11 will call the action.
FORMAT NOTES
The winner of two games advances to the semifinals at
Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City for the ECAC Hockey Championship
weekend. There are no ties; all games even after regulation include
20-minute overtime periods until there is a winner.
YALE IN ECAC PLAYOFFS
The Blue has played 66 ECAC Playoff contests since the
first in 1967 and are 18-43-5 overall. Yale, winners of five of its
last seven conference playoff games, lost two of three to Brown a
year ago in the quarterfinals. The Elis entered that series with a
school-record four-game win streak in ECAC post-season play, which
included their only ECAC Tournament Championship in 2008-09. Yale
has hosted the ECAC Quarterfinals eight times (last 3 years
straight) and are 8-6-3 in those games while advancing to the
conference championship weekend four times. The Blue played in two
ECAC championship weekends at the Boston Garden in the 1980s,
skated at Lake Placid in 1998 and won the title at Albany in
2009.
VS. ST. LAWRENCE
Yale and St. Lawrence split the last two regular-season
series and are 3-3-1 over the last seven. The Saints have a 54-26-8
overall lead and a 6-4-2 lead on Yale in ECAC playoff games, though
the Elis are 3-2-2 in quarterfinal series.
THIS YEAR VS. SAINTS
GAME 1: Kenny
Agostino had two goals as Yale beat St. Lawrence 4-1on
Jan. 22 at the Whale. Ryan
Rondeau stopped 28 of 29 shots and his defensive mates
blanked a solid Saints' offense for just over 58 minutes. Rondeau,
who made a dozen saves in the first, stopped all four SLU
advantages and knocked aside numerous grade-A chances to prevent
the visitors from taking the game's first goal. The Blue outshot
SLU 36-29 and kept freshman goalie Matt Weninger (32 saves) very
busy. He prevented the Elis from hitting the net on six of seven
power plays and picked a number of pucks headed for the corners out
of the air. In addition to Agostino, Mike
Matczak and Brian
O'Neill tallied while Chris
Cahill and Brendan
Mason each had two assists.
GAME 2: Yale fell out of first place in the ECAC standings for good after falling 3-2 at Canton on Feb. 11 despite outshooting the Saints 33-24. Andrew Miller and Antoine Laganiere found the net for the Bulldogs while Ryan Rondeau made 21 saves. St. Lawrence got 31 saves from Robby Moss, who helped the Saints kill off all four Yale advantages.
OTHER ECAC MATCHUPS
It came down to overtime at Houston Field House in Troy where RPI
was hosting Colgate in game three on Sunday night. If RPI had
scored, Harvard would head to New Haven for the quarterfinal
series. Instead, the Raiders pulled out the 2-1 double OT win and
sent SLU to the Whale. Here are the other matchups:
No. 12 Colgate at No. 1 Union
No. 10 Harvard at No. 3 Dartmouth
No. 8 Quinnipiac at No. 4 Cornell
LAST TIME IN ACTION
The Elis grabbed three points on the last weekend of the
regular season by skating to a 1-1 tie with Colgate before beating
Cornell 4-1. Yale outshot the two 82-51 while scoring four of its
five goals in the second period. Andrew Miller had three of those
goals, but he has his teammates went 1-for-11 with the
man-advantage. The Blue did manage an amazing 19 shots on goal
during those power plays, while its penalty kill was perfect on
seven attempts. Ryan Rondeau stopped 49 of 51 shots including a
variety of grade-A chances that could have changed the games.
BLUE BEAKS THROUGH RED
Yale broke open a scoreless game with three second-period
goals en route to a 4-1 win over Cornell before a packed Whale on
Feb. 26. Andrew Miller scored twice, Clinton
Bourbonais and Broc
Little also hit the net and Kenny Agostino added two
assists as the Blue outshot the Red 42-19. "I thought we controlled
the play for most of the game," said Little, one of nine seniors
playing his final regular season home game. "It's been a while
since we put a full 60 minutes together. We knew we were playing
our game and knew the goals would come." The Yale power play was
clicking, and producing plenty of shots (8 on goal), but the Elis
only converted one of seven. Fortunately for the home team, its
penalty-kill was very effective in killing off all four Big Red
attempts. Ryan Rondeau made only 18 saves, but he needed to come up
with a number of quality stops to get Yale its
23rd win of the year. At the
other end, Michael Garman (38 saves) stood on his head for the
first half of the game until the Blue finally blasted through.
Without his solid play, this could have been a blowout.
BULLDOGS KISS RAIDERS
Yale outshot Colgate 40-32 but had to settle for a 1-1 tie before
a sold-out Ingalls Rink on Feb. 25. This was a classic battle of
veteran vs. newcomer in the nets. Yale senior Ryan
Rondeau stopped 31 shots and stood on his head at times
to keep the Elis unbeaten at home. Eric Mihalik, a freshman, turned
aside 39 shots, including 22 over the third period and overtime
combined. "The defense played especially well. They blocked a lot
of shots and nobody panicked. They played solid in front of the
net," said Rondeau, who had 13 saves in the third, including a few
heart-stoppers. Both goals came in the second off the sticks of
Yale's Andrew
Miller and Austin Mayer of Colgate. The teams were
blanked on a combined seven power plays.
SAINTS STUN TIGERS
St. Lawrence entered last weekend's best-of-three
first round playoff series at Princeton with three straight losses
to finish off the regular season. The Saints dropped the first to
the Tigers and then won two straight one-goal contests to end the
Princeton season at Baker Rink. The Tigers outshot the visitors
49-17 in the finale but Matt Weninger (2.51, .916, 6-13-3) made 48
saves while freshman scoring sensation Greg Carey (21-16-37) and
Kyle Essery (6-2-8) scored goals. Kyle Flanagan (11-22-33) and
Aaron Bogosian (13-12-25) are the other top scorers for the North
Country squad led by Joe Marsh, in his
26th season at
Canton.
POINTS
Yale's 35 ECAC points tie the school record established by the
1997-98 Bulldogs, who won the regular season title, lost in the
conference semifinals at Lake Placid and then fell to Ohio State in
the NCAA West Regional at Ann Arbor.
WINS
The 23 wins are one shy of the school record set by the
2008-09 Elis who went 24-8-3 while winning the ECAC regular season
and tournament titles before falling to Vermont at the NCAA East
Regional at Bridgeport. Yale's 17 ECAC wins equal the record
reached by the 1997-98 team with an identical 17-4-1
mark.
PAIRWISE
The NCAA's power ranking system used to compare teams for
tournament time is called Pairwise. It uses four criteria: record
against common opponents, head-to-head competition, record against
other teams under consideration and the RPI ranking. Yale is
currently first with 29 points followed by Boston College (28) and
North Dakota (27).
FIRST OT, TIE
The Elis almost went the entire regular season without
seeing overtime or a tie. The 1-1 decision with Colgate on Feb. 25
was the first OT game and tie of the 2010-11 season. The last time
Yale went without a tie was the 2003-04 campaign; the Blue last
went a season without OT in 1967-68.
MINNESOTA
The Bulldogs are not looking past the conference playoffs,
but the governor of Minnesota might be. Mark Dayton '69, former
Yale hockey goalie and two-year letterman, would love to see his
alma mater in the St. Paul's Xcel Engergy Center… assuming
one of the home state schools also advances.
LEAGUE WITHIN A CONFERENCE
Six members of ECAC Hockey compete for the Ivy League's
Hobey Baker Trophy, which is all that is on the line in this race.
Yale won its third straight Ivy title by going 9-1 and having 18
points. Dartmouth was second with 13 points.
MILLER TIME
Sophomore F Andrew Miller (63 gp, 16-56-72), voted "best
passer" by his teammates, is No. 5 in the nation with .93 assists
per game (tops in ECAC). More impressive is that 17 of his 27
assists are primary ones. He is also hitting the net when it counts
this season; four of his eight goals have been winners, which ranks
12th in Division I. He probably had his best offensive weekend as a
collegian on Feb. 25-26 when he hit the net three times against
Colgate/Cornell combined. Miller (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), who is
13th in the nation with 1.31 points per contest, registered the
most (34 last year) points by a Yale rookie since Tom Walsh set the
bar with 41 in 1984-85. The speedy forward was the 2008-09 USA
Junior Player of the Year and 2007 Michigan High School Mr. Hockey.
Last winter, he was second among conference rookies with one point
per game, which also put him fourth in the country for newcomers.
He ranked eighth in Division I last year with .85 assists per
outing.
CAPTAIN AHAB BEWARE
The Whale (Ingalls Rink) has been a tough place for
visitors this season, Moby Dick would be proud. Yale, 15-0-1 at
Ingalls and the only Division I team undefeated at home, has never
won that many games in a season at New Haven. Yale, which has never
been undefeated at Ingalls in a year, last went unbeaten at New
Haven in 1928-29. The Bulldogs aren't biting any legs off, but they
are 38-9-3 over the last three seasons at the Whale. Yale, 10-9-3
in home ECAC playoff games, has sold out its last 12 straight home
games.
ENGINE NO. 9
Junior F Brian O'Neill (96gp, 45-63-109), who has points in
seven straight games, leads the Blue with 17 goals. That includes a
career-high three goals at Clarkson on Feb. 12. He ranks 13th
nationally with .59 goals per game and is 20th with 1.28 points
(3rd in ECAC in both categories). O'Neill began 2010-11 with a
3-2-5 weekend in the two wins including 2-1-3 and the GWG against
Dartmouth on Oct. 30. Last winter he led the Elis with 29 assists
and 45 points while ranking seventh in the country with 1.32 PPG.
O'Neill (Yardley, Pa.), who was voted "most humorous" by his
teammates, made the 2008-09 CHN (national) and ECAC Hockey
All-Rookie teams after going 12-14-26 in 2008-09.
NET GAIN
A year after four goalies shared the Yale net, Ryan Rondeau
(Carvel, AB) has started 27 of the 29 games and has been named ECAC
Hockey MLX Skates Goalie of the Week three times this year. He has
three shutouts this season (and career): vs. Harvard (season-high
34 saves), Union and Vermont. Rondeau had a 141:29 scoreless streak
and consecutive shutouts (first time for a Yalie since 1998) in
December. His 22 wins this year are a school record. He ranks third
in GAA (1.97) and third in SP (.928) in Division I (3rd in both
among ECAC goalies). Rondeau's career-high is 40 saves at Princeton
in 2009. The senior, who owns a 27-8-1 career record, has been in
net for seven wins over ranked teams including a 3-2 decision with
North Dakota at the 2010 NCAA Northeast Regional
semifinal.
GOLD STANDARD
Denny
Kearney (Hanover, NH) is third on the team with 13
goals and fourth with 30 points. His assist total (17) includes 12
that were primary helpers. Kearney notched eight points over the
first two games (Brown, Dartmouth on Oct. 29-30) and was ECAC
Hockey's Player of the Week. That included his first collegiate hat
trick (natural) and a game-winner during the most prolific weekend
of his collegiate career. In addition, all four assists were
primary ones. Kearney (131 gp, 42-78-120), who was voted by his
teammates as the "best dresser" and "most talkative" among the
Bulldogs, is Yale's active career assist leader (5th best at Yale)
and is ninth in points and third in career games played. However,
he may not be the best athlete in his family. His sister, Hannah
Kearney, won an Olympic gold medal in mogul skiing at the 2010
Games and is the top ranked American in that event.
LOTS OF LITTLE
Yale senior forward Broc Little (Rindge, N.H.) is second on
the team with 15 goals and 32 points. Little, sixth on Yale's
career goals list, had his third career hat trick (3-1-4) against
Holy Cross on Jan. 2. Ten of his 17 assists have been primary ones.
He was named one of the 20 candidates for the Lowe's Senior CLASS
Award in hockey, which honors student-athletes who excel both on
and off the ice. Little (123 gp, 68-63-131), who has eight more
points than games played, led the 2009-10 Bulldogs with 27 goals, a
Yale record for juniors, while leading all of Division I in goals
per game (.79). He was second on the team with 41 points and
garnered numerous post-season honors, including RBK Second-Team
All-America, first-team All-ECAC, All-Ivy and All-New England.
Little, a political science major, has shown the same dedication in
the classroom with a 3.1 GPA and three-time ECAC Hockey
All-Academic Team status.
WALTER BROWN AWARD
Chris Cahill, Broc Little and Denny Kearney are all among
the 15 semifinalists for the 59th annual Walter Brown Award given
to the top American born Division I player in New England by the
Gridiron Club of Boston each March. A Yale player has never won the
award.
BENCH LEADER
Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of
Hockey, is 94-54-13 as a head coach, including 9-7 in the post
season. Only two other Yale hockey head coaches have more wins, and
none have reached the 90-win mark faster than Allain. The former
Yale goalie has led the Blue to three Ivy League titles, two ECAC
regular season championships, three straight 20-win campaigns and a
pair of NCAA Tournament appearances. Allain, who played and worked
for Tim Taylor at Yale, earned the 2008-09 Tim Taylor Award as the
ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year by leading the Elis to the best
season in the program's history. A school-record 24 wins, Yale's
first ECAC Tournament Championship and a school-best No. 5 national
ranking in late March were a few reasons why he was selected.
College Hockey News named him 2008-09 national coach of the year.
This is Allain's 12th overall year at Yale; he spent four as a
student-athlete goalie and three as an assistant coach in the
1980s. Allain, a former NHL (17 years) and Olympics (1992, 2006)
assistant, was named the 11th head coach of the Yale men's ice
hockey program on April 15, 2006. Allain is the second Yale
graduate to take the position and the first since Holcomb York '17
led the Bulldogs from 1930 to 1938 (Lawrence M. Noble '27 coached
the Elis from 1928 to 1930). The starting goalie on four Bulldog
squads, Allain recorded the second-most (31) wins for a Yale
netminder and ranks third at the school with 2,337 career saves. He
owns four of the top 10 Yale single-game save totals, including 55
stops in a 7-3 loss at Minnesota on Dec. 28, 1978.
WORLD JUNIORS
Keith Allain served as head coach of the 2011 U.S. National
Junior Team and led the squad to a bronze medal at the
International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship in
Buffalo, N.Y. The U.S., which won all but its semifinal game,
defeated Sweden to take the bronze on Jan. 5. Allain, who
helped the U.S. National Junior Team win a second straight medal at
the IIHF World Junior Championship for the first time, owns a
13-4-2 overall record as a head coach in the event, giving him the
top winning percentage (.736) of any U.S. head coach to have served
on multiple teams. Allain was joined on the U.S. team by Yale's
hockey strength & conditioning coach Joe Maher. Kyle Wallack,
Yale's fifth-year assistant who is in his first season as associate
head coach, served as Yale's head coach in Allain's
absence.
RANKED TEAMS
Yale is 3-2 vs. ranked teams this year. The Elis beat Union, RPI
and Dartmouth at home while falling to the Dutchmen and Engineers
on the road. The Blue is 6-2 vs. teams currently ranked in the
uscho.com poll.
HITTING THE NET
The Bulldogs have 124 goals and are No. 1 in the nation
with a 4.28 average after 29 games. Yale hit the 100-goal mark
after 23 games. The Blue scored 10 against the Crusaders and had
seven goals twice, six three times and five on eight occasions this
year. Yale led the nation in scoring in 2009-10 and hit the 100
mark in game No. 25. The school record is 160 goals by the 1985-86,
a squad that went 20-10 and lost an ECAC semifinal in OT to Cornell
at Boston Garden.
CAPTAIN MARTIN
Captain Jimmy
Martin (St. Louis, Mo.) is a defensive defenseman who
has turned himself into a player with offensive potential. He has
points in six of his last nine games. His five goals this year are
a career-high. He now has nine goals and 51 career points which
rank ninth at Yale. Martin, who attended three different high
schools in three states before coming to New Haven, is a political
science major who helped the Des Moines Buccaneers make it to the
2007 USHL final four.
BACKSTOP BACKDROP
A pair of experienced sophomores joins Ryan Rondeau in the
net mix. Jeff
Malcolm (12 gp, 4.02, .837, 6-4-0) made 16 saves in the
7-4 win over Brown on Oct. 29 before stopping 25 shots in a 4-3
loss at Air Force. The Lethbridge, AB, native has allowed eight
goals, including six on the power play and two with a 5-on-3
advantage. Alta Loma, Calif., resident Nick
Maricic (16 gp, 2.89, .888, 7-4-2) played the last
period against Holy Cross (5 saves) and some of the third at RPI.
Maricic has not had a start this winter.
BLUE LINE
Three seniors, two juniors and a sophomore comprise the typical
Yale defensive lineup this season. These six players, who have 12
goals between them in 2010-11, have a combined 527 career games
played. Two seniors with 30 points combined, Jimmy Martin and Mike
Matczak (Sewell, N.J.), have produced seven goals this season.
Martin and Ken
Trentowski (Ronkonkoma, NY) scored goals at
Quinnipiac.
CAHILL
Chris Cahill (North Andover, Mass.) is enjoying his best
collegiate season on offense with a career-high 12 goals and 29
points, including four different two-goal games and a trio of
three-point outings. None of his goals were bigger than the one he
scored to win the Feb. 20 game at Princeton with less than two
minutes left. Cahill was named ECAC Hockey Player of the Week on
Dec. 6 after leading Yale to a pair of wins over nationally ranked
teams with three goals and four points. The senior forward is
fourth on the team in goals and has career numbers of 28 goals and
70 points in 119 games.
AGOSTINO
Yale freshman forward Kenny Agostino, named HCA National
Rookie of the Month for January (8-4-12), is the first Yale
freshman to receive that award. He was ECAC Hockey MLX Skates
Rookie of the Week on Jan. 23 (3 goals vs. Clarkson/SLU), becoming
the only Bulldog to earn conference rookie honors this season. The
former Delbarton School star had a goal and three assists before
the holiday break, and has nine goals and 10 assists since. The
leading scorer (10-13-23) among Yale freshmen, he ranks eighth
nationally among rookies with .96 points per game. Agostino
became the first Yale newcomer in 30 years to record five points in
one game on Jan. 2. He notched three goals and two assists against
Holy Cross and became the school's first freshman to tally five
points since former Olympian and NHL star Bob Brooke '83
established the school rookie record against Dartmouth in 1980.
FROSH
The class of 2014 includes four forwards and one
defenseman. All five competed in the Northeast during 2009-10.
Three of the new Elis played in the juniors (Eastern, North
Atlantic) last winter while two came to Yale from New England prep
schools. F Clinton Bourbonais (Colchester, Conn.), F Kenny Agostino
(Flanders, N.J.) and F Jesse
Root (Pittsburgh, Pa.) have all found the net this
season. D Gus
Young (Dedham, Mass.), who has been fighting injuries,
has an assist in three games played, while F Brad
Peltz (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) is looking for his first
regular season action. Agostino (2), Root and Peltz combined for
four of Yale's five goals in the Dec. 29 win over the Russian Red
Stars. Agostino tied a school rookie record with five (3-2) points
against Holy Cross.
GEOGRAPHIC BALANCE
The Yale roster includes players from 12 different states and
three provinces. Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania are represented twice each while
six hail from Alberta, including a Calgary pair.
FROM WHENCE THEY CAME
Northeast prep schools and the United States Hockey League
each contributed nine players to the Bulldog roster. Six former
British Columbia Hockey League skaters are at Yale while the
Atlantic Junior Hockey League has a pair. One Eli played in the
Eastern Junior Hockey League and another came from a private
school.
SHOOTERS
The Bulldogs have outshot 26 of 29 opponents (by 281
combined) this year after having the advantage in 26 of the 34
games last year. Vermont (32-30), Union (34-30) and Princeton
(40-32) are the only squads to outshoot the Blue this season.
Vermont was the only team to outshot the Blue at Ingalls.
STREAK
After opening the season with five straight wins, the Blue
stumbled on Nov. 14 at Air Force before bouncing back with a road
win at Cornell on Nov. 19. That was the first of 10 straight wins
that carried through to the Jan. 15 victory over Brown at Ingalls.
Division I's longest win streak this year came to an end the next
day at Brown.
DIFFERENT STREAK
Yale's streak of 57 straight ECAC games without consecutive
losses came to an end during the Union/RPI trip in late
January.
A CLASS OF ITS OWN
The Class of 2011 became the winningest in Yale men's
hockey history after beating Holy Cross on Jan. 2. The current
seniors have amassed 84 victories, surpassing the total (72)
reached by the Class of 2010. In addition, the Class of 2011, which
is the first from this school to be undefeated (3-0-1) at Cornell,
is the first at Yale to have four winning seasons since the Class
of 1954.
SCORING SPREAD
Eight members of the senior class have accounted for 55
goals. The juniors (6) have hit the net 37 times. Yale sophomores
(4) have tallied 17 goals, while the freshmen (4) have added 15.
Bulldog defensemen have hit the net 12 times.
SHORTY
Yale had four shorthanded goals last year and led the
nation with nine the year before. The Bulldogs' first goal of
2010-11 was shorthanded by Broc Little, the school's career leader
with seven, but the team gone 15 games without another. Chris
Cahill hit the net down a man against Clarkson at home. The Elis
tripled their season output on the Quinnipiac-Princeton road trip
with shorthanders by Kevin
Limbert, Denny Kearney, Andrew Miller and Charles
Brockett. Notre Dame leads the nation with 12
SHG.
BULLDOG BITES
Jimmy Martin and Denny Kearney tied the school record with
131 career games played… Four of the five goals scored the
last weekend of the regular season came in the second
period… active scoring leaders vs. series opponent?
UP NEXT
The Blue either heads to Atlantic City for the ECAC
Championship Weekend or waits for the March 20 NCAA selection show
to see if they are in the 16-team national tournament.
BULLDOGS IN THE PROS
This season, for the first time ever, two former Yale
players skated on the same National Hockey League team. Chris
Higgins '05 and Joe Callahan '05 have been on the Florida Panthers'
roster at times. They played in the same game again on Feb. 13 and
Higgins had a goal that night against the Sharks. In other alumni
news, Mark Arcobello '10 was named MVP of January's ECHL All-Star
Game after netting three goals. Fourteen former Yale players are
skating professionally this winter: Sean Backman '10 (Texas Stars,
AHL, 46 GP, 6-10-16 ), Ryan Donald '10 (Reading Royals, ECHL), Mark
Arcobello '10 (Oklahoma City Barons, AHL), Thomas Dignard '10
(Tulsa Oilers, CHL), Alec Richards '09 (Rockford Icehogs, AHL, 78
GA, 2 SO, 2.63, 11-18-1, .906), Brennan Turner '09 (Binghamton
Senators, AHL), David Meckler '09 (Manchester Monarchs, AHL), Matt
Cohen '07 (Hamburg Freezers, DEL), Brad Mills '07 (New Jersey
Devils, NHL; Albany Devils, AHL), Chris Higgins '05 (Florida
Panthers, NHL, 45 GP, 10-11-21), Joe Callahan '05 (Florida
Panthers, NHL; Rochester Americans, AHL), Stacey Bauman '03 (Tulsa
Oilers, CHL), Jeff Hamilton '01 (HIFK Helsinki, FNL), Ray Giroux
'98 (Chelyabinsk Traktor, KHL).
YALE HOCKEY BROADCASTS
The pay-per-view Yale home regular season hockey "TV"
broadcasts on yalebulldogs.com are a Yale Athletic Department
production that employs students to produce, shoot and broadcast
most of the action. Sam Dorward '13 is the producer and Joel
Oblizalo '12 does the camera work. Evan Ellis '11 handles most of
the calls for the Elis as well as an interview with Coach
Allain.
ON 'TV'
Yale has been on TV seven times this season. The Dec. 5
game against Union and the Feb. 20 contest at Princeton aired live
on ESPNU. The YES Network aired the Feb. 5 Dartmouth game.
The Elis have also been on CBS College Sports (at Cornell) and Time
Warner Cable (at Colgate, Union and RPI).
WYBC
The Yale student radio station formerly found on AM-1340
and on wybc.com, is only available via internet this season. WYBC
does most of the home contests and a pre-game interview with Coach
Allain.
INGALLS RENOVATIONS
Yale hockey celebrated the re-dedication of Ingalls
Rink (3,500 capacity) on Jan. 16, 2010, with ceremonies on and off
the ice. The rink built in 1958 has been modernized in many ways
while adding 13,000 square feet of varsity operational space. The
additions include locker rooms and space for strength &
conditioning (including skating treadmill), student-athlete study
area, medical & training, officials, video, coaches, equipment,
reception (Schley Room) and more. There are new historical displays
and concession stands and bathrooms for the building nicknamed the
Yale Whale because of its humpback-shaped roof.
NCAAS BACK AT BRIDGEPORT
Yale and Fairfield hosted the 2009 East Regional in
Bridgeport at Webster Bank's Arena at Harbor Yard, and the Bulldogs
were one of the four teams to participate. The 2011 and 2012 East
Regionals are also slated for the Yard. This coming NCAA tourney is
March 25-26. Game times on the 25th are 3 and 6:30 with a 6:30 p.m.
championship contest on the 26th.
filed by Steve Conn, Yale Sports Publicity Director
