Team Notes: Yale-Colgate Friday at Atlantic City
NEW HAVEN, Conn. –The Yale men's
hockey team (25-6-1, 17-4-1 ECAC), coming off a 2-1 ECAC Hockey
Quarterfinal Series win over St. Lawrence last weekend, heads to
Southern New Jersey to compete in Atlantic City's inaugural
conference championship weekend at Boardwalk Hall (9,800).
The Bulldogs, ranked No. 1 in the PairWise System and No. 3 in the
USA Today/American Hockey Magazine and uscho.com polls, take on
league giant slayers Colgate (11-26-3), coming off successive road
series victories at Rensselaer and top-seeded Union. The opening
drop of the puck is set for Friday at 4:36 p.m. and can be seen
live on CBS College Sports. The winner of this contest takes on the
Cornell-Dartmouth (7:36 pm) survivor.
WATCHING THE GAMES
Both semifinal contests and Saturday's championship game (7:36 pm)
air live on CBS College Sports (DirecTV 613, Dish Network 152,
various cable outlets). Matt Shepard, Dave Starman and Shireen
Saski provide the commentary. Saturday's third-place contest will
be streamed live on America One.
TOURNEY NOTES
The semifinals and championship game require 20-minute, sudden
death overtimes to determine winners after regulation ties. The
third-place game would have the standard, five-minute extra
session. The title winner earns an automatic berth in the 2011 NCAA
Tournament.
YALE IN ECAC PLAYOFFS
The Blue has played 69 ECAC Playoff contests since the first in
1967 and are 20-44-5 overall. Yale, winners of seven of its last 10
conference playoff games, has won two straight. The longest Eli win
streak is four games, which happened during the school's only
conference tournament title run in 2009. Yale hosted the ECAC
Quarterfinals nine times (last 3 years straight) and is 10-7-3 in
those games while advancing to the conference championship weekend
five 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. COLGATE
The Raiders hold a 45-38-5 advantage in a series with Yale that
began in 1916-17, though the Elis are 5-1-2 in the last eight
games. Colgate has had the upper hand in the playoffs with a 6-1
mark against the Blue in ECAC post-season games. This is the first
meeting during the conference championship weekend.
THIS YEAR VS. RAIDERS
GAME 1: Yale beat Colgate 6-4 at Starr Rink on Nov. 20. Antoine
Laganiere had a goal and three points while Kenny
Agostino, Andrew
Miller and Jesse
Root each had a goal and one assist. The Elis had a slight
(34-33) advantage in shots, but got 29 saves and some big plays
from senior Ryan
Rondeau. He needed 14 of those stops in the final period to
keep the Raiders from making a comeback. Colgate, which dominated
on the dots with a 46-28 advantage on faceoffs, got 28 saves from
Eric Mihalik, making his second start of the year.
GAME 2: 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.
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.
DOG GATE
Andrew Miller has two goals against Colgate this season and three
overall, but he is not the active scoring leader against the
Raiders; Broc
Little is with four. Brian
O'Neill and Kevin
Limbert each have a pair. Ryan Rondeau is 1-1 against the
guys from Hamilton with three games started. The senior goalie got
the starting nod (but did not finish) in the 5-4 OT win at Starr
Rink in 2008-09 when the Elis erased a 4-0 third-period
deficit.
OTHER MATCHUPS
Yale and Dartmouth have met 197 times since 1907 with Yale leading
102-84-12. The Bulldogs swept the series last year and have taken
the last six straight, including three this season. Cornell and
Elis have played since the turn of the 20th century and Cornell has
a 75-57-5 lead. Yale, however, has taken the last seven
straight.
IMPROVING ONE GAME AT A TIME
The penalty minutes (18, 32, 56) increased each night of the
three-game series against St. Lawrence, which ultimately helped
Yale tally six power-play goals on the way to winning the last two
contests. The Bulldogs also played better each night and ended up
outscoring the Saints 12-6 while having a 109-81 shots advantage.
Eight different Elis found the net, while Yale goalie Ryan Rondeau
stopped 75 of 81 shots and 13 of 15 man-advantages. The line of
Broc Little (2-5-7),Denny
Kearney (2-4-6) and Kevin Limbert (2-2-4) contributed six
goals and 17 points over three days, while the names Brian O'Neill
(1-2-3) and captain Jimmy
Martin (2-2-4) were often on the box scores.
ROLLING THREES
Yale had three straight goals to erase a 1-0 deficit in game one
last weekend before breaking open a 1-1 game with three consecutive
on the second night. In game three, a trio of tallies put the game
out of reach before a clinching goal was added.
TOP DOGS
Seniors Jimmy Martin and Denny Kearney became Yale's career
leaders in games played when they skated in their 134th Sunday
against SLU. They both passed Mark Arcobello '10 (131 gp) last
weekend.
GIANT SLAYERS
Colgate, which finished at the bottom of the league standings,
knocked off two of the big guys – both in three games with
overtime in the finales - to get to Atlantic City. The Raiders lost
the first game of both series and came back to take two straight,
first at RPI and then at Union. Senior defenseman Wade Poplawski
scored his first goal of the year at 12:52 of the OT on Sunday to
give the Raiders a 4-3 win at Achilles Rink. Freshman goalie Eric
Mihalik played all three games and made 99 saves.
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 25 wins are a Yale record and are one better than 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 North Dakota (28) and
Boston College (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
St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center for April's Frozen Four…
assuming one of the home state schools also advances. Former Yale
player Jack Dalrymple '70 (lettered in 1968) might also have a
two-team rooting interest as governor of North Dakota.
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 (66 gp, 16-58-74), voted "best passer"
by his teammates, is No. 7 in the nation with .91 assists per game
(tops in ECAC). More impressive is that 19 of his 29 assists are
primary ones. Miller leads the team with 29 helpers (8th best at
Yale) this year while his 40 points are tied for the most. 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 20th in the
nation with 1.25 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.
WHALE OF A TIME
The Whale (Ingalls Rink) has been a tough place for visitors this
season. Yale, which enjoyed its first undefeated (15-0-1, only
Division I team to do that this year) regular season at Ingalls,
finished 17-1-1 at home. The Elis never won that many games in a
season at New Haven. Yale last went unbeaten at New Haven in
1928-29. The Bulldogs are 40-10-3 over the last three seasons at
the Whale and 12-10-3 in home ECAC playoff games all time.
SOLD OUT
Despite having close to 9,000 in attendance last weekend, Yale's
streak of home sellouts ended at 12. The largest crowd was 3,314 on
Saturday night though the building looked close to capacity (3,500)
all three nights.
ENGINE NO. 9
Junior F Brian O'Neill (99gp, 46-65-111), who had three points
last weekend, leads the Blue with 18 goals and 40 points. That
includes a career-high three goals at Clarkson on Feb. 12. O'Neill
ranks 20th nationally with .56 goals per game and 1.25 points.
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 30 of the 32 games and has been named ECAC
Hockey MLX Skates Goalie of the Week three times this year. He tied
Alec Richards' (2008-09) school record with his fourth shutout of
the year (Colgate, Game 3). The three other blankings include
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 24 wins this year are also a
school record. He ranks second in GAA (1.87) and third in SP (.928)
in Division I. Rondeau's career-high is 40 saves at Princeton in
2009. The senior, who owns a 29-9-1 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), who shares the career games played
(134) record with Jimmy Martin, is third on the team with 15 goals
and fourth with 36 points. His assist total (21) includes 16 that
were primary helpers, including all four last weekend against SLU.
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
(134 gp, 44-82-126), 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 eighth in points.
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 17 goals and is third with 39 points. Little, fifth on
Yale's career goals list, had his third career hat trick (3-1-4)
against Holy Cross on Jan. 2. Twelve of his 22 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 (126 gp, 70-68-138), who has
12 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
97-55-13 as a head coach, including 11-8 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 then 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 8-2 vs. teams currently ranked in the
uscho.com poll.
HITTING THE NET
The Bulldogs have 136 goals and are No. 1 in the nation with a
4.25 average after 32 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 nine 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.
Martin, whose five goals are a career-high, ranks 32nd among
Division I blueliners with .62 points per game. He now has 11
goals, including a career-best two in game one of the ECAC
Quarterfinals, and 55 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 15
goals between them in 2010-11, have a combined 545 career games
played. Two seniors with 34 points combined this winter, Jimmy
Martin and Mike
Matczak (Sewell, N.J.), have produced nine goals this
season.
CAHILL
Chris Cahill (North Andover, Mass.) is enjoying his best
collegiate season on offense with a career-high 13 goals and 31
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 29 goals and
72 points in 122 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 11 assists since. The leading
scorer (10-14-24) among Yale freshmen, he ranks ninth nationally
among rookies with .89 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 29 of 32 opponents (by 309 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 outshoot 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 86 victories, surpassing the total (72) reached by the
Class of 2010. In addition, the Class of 2011 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 62 goals. The
juniors (6) have hit the net 41 times. Yale sophomores (4) have
tallied 17 goals, while the freshmen (4) have added 16.
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 went 15 games without another. That's when 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.
BULLDOG BITES
Yale will wear its home white jerseys this weekend as the top
seed… Six of Yale's 12 goals last weekend came in the second
frame… The Elis went 3-2 vs. SLU this year… All four
ECAC quarterfinal series went to a game three… Junior
forwards Kevin Limbert (8-10-18) and Chad
Ziegler (7-7-14) are enjoying career-best offensive
seasons… Yale has 43 power play goals compared to 26 by
opponents… Two NHL draftees have skated for the Bulldogs
this winter: Kenny Agostino (Pittsburgh) and Gus Young
(Colorado).
UP NEXT
On Sunday, the Elis find out where and with whom the NCAA
Selection Committee has placed them. The selection show is 11:30
a.m. on ESPN2.
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
