Team Notes: Yale-Air Force at NCAAs
NEW HAVEN, Conn. –The Yale men's hockey
team (27-6-1), coming off last weekend's ECAC Hockey Tournament
Championship win, has secured the No. 1 overall seed in the 2011
NCAA Tournament. The Bulldogs take on No. 16 Air Force (20-11-6) in
the NCAA East Regional at Webster Bank's Arena at Harbor Yard in
Bridgeport, Conn., this Friday at 6:30 p.m. The Bulldogs,
winners of four straight games, are making their third straight
NCAA Tournament appearance. The winner of the Yale-Air Force
contest takes on the survivor of the No. 8 Union (26-9-4) vs. No. 9
Minnesota-Duluth (22-10-6) semifinal slated for 3 p.m. on Friday.
The winner of the East heads to St. Paul, Minn., for the April 7-9
Frozen Four.
WATCHING GAMES
ESPNU HD and espn3.com carry all three games live with Clay
Matvick and Barry Melrose providing commentary.
LAST TIME VS. FALCONS
Four straight goals erased a 3-0 deficit as Air Force beat Yale
4-3 at Cadet Ice Arena on Nov. 14. Air Force engineered the
comeback by keeping Yale (15 penalties) in the penalty box for most
of the third period. Nine penalties in the final period helped turn
a game nearing a blowout for Yale into a four-goal comeback in just
over 10 minutes. Jeff
Malcolm got his first start since the season opener and made 25
saves. Jason Torf stopped 34 of 37 shots to earn his first
collegiate win and hand the Elis their first defeat of the season.
Jimmy
Martin, Brian
O'Neill and Denny
Kearney got pucks past him. VS.
VS. UMD, UNION
Yale won the first meeting with Minnesota-Duluth (5-4, 1975)
before losing the last five straight. There were three encounters
in the 1970s and three between 2001 and 2005. Also nicknamed the
Bulldogs, UMD last beat Yale 5-1 in 2005 at Duluth. The Elis have a
21-15-3 lead over Union in a series that began in 1991-92, the year
Dutchmen replaced Army in ECAC Hockey. Yale and Union split this
winter's meetings.
LAST MEETING WITH UMD, UNION
Yale was No. 1 in the polls and Union was 12 when the Dutchmen
beat the Blue 3-2 on Jan. 28 in New York. Ryan
Rondeau stopped 31 of 34 shots. It was just the second time the
Bulldogs had been outshot (34-30) in a game. Kenny
Agostino and Jimmy Martin were the two Bulldog goals scorers.
The Elis were swept at UMD early in the 2005-06 season (year before
Keith Allain) by a combined 14-2, going 0-for-10 on the power play
while allowing five man-advantage tallies.
VS. AIR FORCE
Yale owns a 9-4 lead in a series that began in 1989 and has a
66-34 advantage in goals. However, the last four meetings have been
split. Here are the 13 meetings (YU score listed first):
BLUE BEATS RED FOR TITLE
Kevin
Limbert had two goals and Ryan Rondeau made 22 saves as Yale
captured the 2011 ECAC Hockey Tournament Championship by beating
Cornell 6-0 at Boardwalk Hall on March 19. The Bulldogs hit the net
six times after 40 minutes on just 19 shots on target. Yale, the
top seed, finished with a 33-22 advantage in shots. Antoine
Laganiere, Chris
Cahill, Colin
Dueck and Broc
Little also scored goals while Denny Kearney had three assists.
Jimmy Martin, Brian O'Neill and Andrew
Miller each had two helpers. The Elis got to the title game by
handing Colgate a 4-0 loss in the first semifinal on March 18.
ATLANTIC CITY ROUNDUP
The first ECAC Hockey Championship Weekend on the Jersey Shore was
a dominating one for Yale. The Bulldogs outscored opponents 10-0 at
Boardwalk Hall last weekend while outshooting them 73-44. Five of
the 10 tallies came in the second period. Chris Cahill, Kevin
Limbert and Antoine Laganiere all had a pair of goals. Yale scored
three times on 10 man-advantages while stopping all 10 opponent
chances. Brian O'Neill, Andrew Miller, Jimmy Martin, Ryan Rondeau
(MVP) and Cahill all made the all-tournament team.
2010-11 POST SEASON
Yale lost its first game of the 2010-11 post season and then won
four straight by a combined score of 19-2. The Elis have outshot
post-season opponents 182-125 in five games and are 19 for 29 on
the power play with 11 different skaters finding the net.
YALE IN NCAA PLAY
Friday's game is Yale's seventh NCAA Tournament contest, and the
Elis are 2-4 in those games.
YALE IN ECAC PLAYOFFS
The Blue, winners of two of the last three ECAC Tournament
Championships, has played 71 ECAC Playoff contests since the first
in 1967 and are 22-44-5 overall. Yale, winners of nine of its last
12 conference playoff games, has won four straight, equaling the
school record (also 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 also 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.
AIR FORCE
Air Force earned its fourth Atlantic Hockey Association (AHA)
Championship in the last five years by beating RIT 1-0 last
Saturday at Rochester's Blue Cross Arena. Jason Torf tied a
career-high with 40 saves and Jacques Lamoureux scored the only
goal as the Falcons advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth
time in school history. "This was a great playoff game," said
Falcons' head coach Frank Serratore (2-2 vs. Yale). "We have a
great team in the true sense of the word team. This one was pure
gratification because nobody besides our guys thought we could win
it. You have to earn these kinds of wins and these guys did. When
you get here, you have to make the most of it, because you never
know if and when you will get back." The last time Air Force played
in the NCAAs in 2009, the Falcons upset Michigan and then fell to
Vermont in OT at Bridgeport. The OT decision came after a video
replay of a puck going through a net.
MINNESOTA
The Bulldogs are not looking past the NCAA Regionals, 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… but
it could be at the expense of home state school UMD. Former Yale
player Jack Dalrymple '70 (lettered in 1968) might also have a
two-team rooting interest as governor of North Dakota. The Fighting
Sioux, ranked No. 1 in both polls, is the top seed in the Midwest
Regional at Green Bay and takes on Rensselaer Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
ET.
WINS
The 27 wins are a Yale record and are three 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.
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.
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 on the second-to-last day of
the season (Colgate on Feb. 25) was the first OT game and tie of
2010-11. The last time Yale went without a tie was the 2003-04
campaign; the Blue last went a season without OT in 1967-68.
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 (4th in 5 years) Ivy title by going 9-1 and
having 18 points. Dartmouth was second with 13 points.
MILLER TIME
A 2010-11 first-team All-ECAC pick, sophomore F Andrew Miller (68
gp, 17-62-79), voted "best passer" by his teammates, is No. 4 in
the nation with .97 assists per game (tops in ECAC). More
impressive is that 22 of his 33 assists are primary ones. His
team-high 33 helpers (2nd best at Yale and five behind Mark
Kaufmann '93) are a sophomore school record while his team-best 45
points are seven off the Yale mark (52, Ding Palmer, 1927-28). 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 12th in the
nation with 1.29 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 in 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 at the ECAC Hockey
Quarterfinal Playoffs, Yale's streak of home sellouts at Ingalls
Rink (3,500) ended at 12 that weekend.
TOP DOGS
Seniors Jimmy Martin and Denny Kearney became Yale's career
leaders in games played when they skated in their 136th against
Cornell. They both passed Mark Arcobello '10 (131 gp) on March 11
against St. Lawrence.
ENGINE NO. 9
2010-11 first-team All-ECAC selection Brian O'Neill (101gp,
46-69-115), who had four assists last weekend, shares the team lead
with 18 goals. The junior forward's 44 points are second. That
includes a career-high three goals at Clarkson on Feb. 12, which
helps him rank 15th nationally with 1.29 points per game. He 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
Ryan Rondeau (Carvel, Alb.) notched a few school records in
2010-11, a year after sharing the Yale net with three others and
not knowing where he would fit in this season. He did not show up
on any All-ECAC or All-Ivy League teams, but he has managed to lead
the nation with a 1.83 GAA and is second with a .932 SP. The senior
goalie currently has a three-game shutout streak and a scoreless
string of 202 minutes, 19 seconds. His 2010-11 post-season stats
include a 4-1 mark with a 1.11 GAA, while he has stopped 119 of 125
shots and 23 of 25 man-advantages. After getting six starts in
2009-10, Rondeau has started 32 of the 34 games and has been named
ECAC Hockey MLX Skates Goalie of the Week three times and was
insidecollegehockey.com national player of the week on March 21.
Rondeau had a 141:29 scoreless streak and consecutive shutouts
(first time for a Yalie since 1998) in December. The senior, who
owns a 32-9-2 career mark and a school-record 26 wins this winter,
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
(136) record with Jimmy Martin, is third on the team with 15 goals
and fourth with 39 points. His assist total (24) includes 18 that
were primary helpers, including all four against SLU in the home
playoff series. 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 (136 gp, 44-85-129), who was voted by his teammates as the
"best dresser" and "most talkative" among the Bulldogs, is Yale's
active career assist leader (4th 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 tied for the
team lead with 18 goals and third with 40 points after a
three-goal, eight-point conference playoff run. His 5-2-7 in the
SLU playoff series gave him ECAC MLX Skates Player of the Week for
the second time this year. 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 (128 gp, 71-68-139), who has 11 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.
CAPTAIN MARTIN
Captain Jimmy Martin (St. Louis, Mo.) is a defensive defenseman
who has turned himself into a player with offensive potential.
Martin, whose seven goals and 22 points are career-highs, now has
11 career goals, including a career-best two in game one of the
ECAC Quarterfinals, and 57 career points which rank eighth at Yale.
Martin, who attended three different high schools in three states
before coming to New Haven, is a political science major who helped
Des Moines 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 16
goals between them in 2010-11, have a combined 557 career games
played. Two seniors with 36 points combined this winter, Jimmy
Martin and Mike
Matczak (Sewell, N.J.), have produced nine goals this
season.
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.
CAHILL
Chris Cahill (North Andover, Mass.) is enjoying his best
collegiate season on offense with a career-high 15 goals and 34
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 31 goals and
75 points in 124 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 10 goals and 11 assists since. The leading
scorer (11-14-25) among Yale freshmen, he ranks 11th nationally
among rookies with .86 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.
BENCH LEADER
Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey, is
99-55-13 as a head coach, including 13-8 in the post season and 1-1
vs. Air Force. Only two other Yale hockey head coaches have more
wins, and none have reached the 90-win mark faster than Allain, who
has led his current squad to a school-record 27 wins. The former
Yale goalie has led the Blue to three Ivy League titles, two ECAC
regular season championships, two ECAC Tournament titles, 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.
ALLAIN SAYS
After ECAC Title: "We played an outstanding game tonight. Our
power play was clicking and allowed us to get an early lead, but I
was most pleased with how sound our defensive effort was."
About Facing Air Force: "They are a fast, tough, well-coached team
that will be a challenge for us to play against. They made a great,
late comeback to beat us at their place early this season. We will
need our best game to reach Saturday."
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 9-3 vs. teams currently ranked in the
uscho.com poll and 3-3 against teams in the NCAA Tournament.
HITTING THE NET
The Bulldogs have 146 goals and are No. 1 in the nation with a
4.29 average after 34 games. Yale hit the 100-goal mark after 23
games. The Blue scored 10 against Holy Cross and had seven goals
twice, six four 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.
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 31 of 34 opponents (by 338 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 88 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 65 goals. The
juniors (6) have hit the net 43 times. Yale sophomores (4) have
tallied 21 goals, while the freshmen (4) have added 17.
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 became the second ECAC Champion to take its semifinal and
final with shutouts... The Bulldogs became just the second ECAC
team to have five of the six all-tournament spots... Yale has
beaten Cornell in two of the last three ECAC Championship Games by
a combined score of 11-0… The Bulldogs wore their home white
jerseys for the second straight night at Atlantic City in their
first neutral site games of the season… The Yale lineup was
the same last Friday and Saturday… Junior
forwards Kevin Limbert (10-10-20) and Chad
Ziegler (7-7-14) are enjoying career-best offensive
seasons… Two NHL draftees have skated for the Bulldogs this
winter: Kenny Agostino (Pittsburgh) and Gus Young (Colorado).
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, 57
GP, 7-15-22), Ryan Donald '10 (Providence Bruins, AHL), Mark
Arcobello '10 (Oklahoma City Barons, AHL), Thomas Dignard '10
(Tulsa Oilers, CHL), Alec Richards '09 (Rockford Icehogs, AHL, 104
GA, 2 SO, 2.90, 14-21-1, .899), Brennan Turner '09 (Gwinnett
Gladiators, ECHL), 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 (Vancouver
Canucks, NHL, 53 GP, 11-13-24), 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 nine 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, ECAC semi
and final) 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.
HARBOR YARD
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 2012 East Regional is also
slated for the Yard, which has also hosted numerous NCAA
post-season basketball events.
filed by Steve Conn, Yale Sports Publicity Director
