Team Notes: Yale Hosts Boston College
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale men's
hockey team (5-2-1, 3-1-0 ECAC), coming off a Tuesday night
loss on the road, completes a string of three out-of-conference
games by hosting No. 5 Boston College (9-4-0) Saturday afternoon at
4. The No. 8 Bulldogs drop the puck against the Eagles in a game
that is completely sold out but can be seen live on Yale's All
Access.
BC-YALE SERIES
The Eagles have dominated (42-11, last three) this series heading
into the 54th meeting. Recent contests have been close calls; four
goals separated the teams in the last three outings.
LAST MEETING
Boston College, on the way to a 2010 national title, and Yale
played one of the highest scoring NCAA Tournament games ever, a 9-7
Eagles win before 6,054 at the DCU Center in the NCAA Northeast
Regional final. Mark Arcobello had three goals and three assists,
Brian O'Neill had two goals and two assists
and Andrew Miller dished out four helpers. Three
different players spent time in the Yale net, while John Muse gave
up all seven Eli tallies before leading his team to the Frozen Four
title. Cam Atkinson led the BC attack with three tallies.
ELIS STUMBLE ON THE ROAD
Yale took 105 shots - 53 on net - and six went in, but still lost
7-6 to Sacred Heart last Tuesday at Webster Bank Arena in
Bridgeport. Kenny Agostino had a goal and two assists
while six different Bulldogs scored. The Bulldogs outshot SHU 53-19
and blanked the Pioneers on four advantages, but could not come up
with the big stop when needed. Jeff Malcolm (10 saves, 5 GA) started the
game, was pulled in the first and returned in the third. Nick Maricic, who made two saves over 24
minutes of action, gave up a pair of goals.
BC
Boston College has already enjoyed a six-game win streak this
season that came to an end with a 4-2 loss at UMass on Nov. 5. The
Eagles, losers of three of the last four, were stunned (3-2 Loss)
in OT at Notre Dame on Nov. 18. BC freshman F Johnny Gaudreau
scored with 2:10 left in the third to force OT and then the Irish
found the net with 1.1 seconds left in the extra frame. Junior F
Chris Kreider (9-8-17), one of nine NHL draft picks who have skated
for BC this year, leads the team in scoring. Junior Parker Milner
(.909, 2.36, 9-4) has all of the work in goal this season. Jerry
York, in his 40th season as a college head coach and 18th at BC, is
the active NCAA leader in wins including four national titles.
MALCOLM IN MIDDLE
Junior Jeff Malcolm has started every game this season and has all
five wins. He had a shutout streak of three (Colgate, RPI, Union)
games and 226:39 minutes (parts of 5 games) earlier this month and
was named ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week after stopping all 72
shots in wins at No. 8 Union and RPI on Nov. 11-12. The three
straight SHOs tied the school record set by Ryan Rondeau '11 last
winter. His scoreless streak fell short of the 240:53 by Rondeau.
His career record is 11-6-1 with a 2.75 GAA and three shutouts.
Malcolm has a 2.10 GAA with a .932 SP this year.
BULLDOG BITES
The only change in the Yale lineup on Tuesday from last Saturday's
UConn game was freshman Anthony Day (Buffalo, NY) in for senior
forward Charles Brockett (Shaker Heights, Ohio), who
has 99 career games played… Yale had one of the longest
delayed penalty possessions anyone had ever seen when the Elis
controlled the puck for over a minute without on
Tuesday… The six goals against SHU were a
season-high… The Blue has 11 goals over the last two
games… Fourteen different Bulldogs have scored after three
players notched their first of the year on Tuesday... Yale has
better than 20 SOG in the second period of the last two games
against SHU.
MILLER TIME
Junior F Andrew Miller (78 gp, 18-68-86) leads the Blue with six
assists and has a goal and five points over the last two outings.
Miller, a 2010-11 first-team All-ECAC pick, was voted "best passer"
by his teammates last season while he had 12-33-45. He was No. 4 in
the nation with .97 assists per game (tops in ECAC). More
impressive is that 22 of his 33 assists were primary ones. His
team-high 33 helpers (2nd best at Yale and five behind Mark
Kaufmann '93) were a sophomore school record while 45 points were
second on the team. 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.), was
12th in the nation with 1.29 points per contest and registered the
most (34 as a freshman) 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.
In 2009-10 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 that year with .85 assists per
outing.
CAPTAIN O'NEILL
Yale's captain, Brian O'Neill (111gp, 51-74-125), has 3-5-8 this
season. He was a 2010-11 first-team All-ECAC selection and has led
the team in scoring the last two seasons. His best night was a hat
trick at Clarkson on Feb. 12, 2011. He ranked 15th nationally with
1.29 points per game last year. 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. The year before, he led the Elis with 29
assists and 45 points while ranking seventh in the country with
1.32 PPG. O'Neill (Yardley, Pa.) made the 2008-09 CHN (national)
and ECAC Hockey All-Rookie teams after going 12-14-26.
NET MIX
Junior Nick Maricic (Alta Loma, Calif.) saw his first action of
the year at SHU but has not made a start this season. Freshman Connor Wilson (Cary, NC) is looking for his
first opportunity.
BLUE LINE
There are seven defensemen on the Yale roster: two seniors, a
junior, a sophomore and three freshmen. Two of the newcomers, Tommy Fallen (Plymouth, Minn.) and Matt Killian (Basking Ridge, NJ) scored
goals against SHU. Three of the seven have a depth of experience.
Seniors Kevin Peel (Onoway, Alb.) and Nick Jaskowiak (Bloomington, Minn.) have
been regulars since arriving in New Haven. Junior Colin Dueck (Calgary, Alb.) became a
mainstay last winter and sophomore Gus Young (Dedham, Mass.) has seen action in
every game this season.
AGOSTINO
Yale sophomore forward Kenny Agostino (Flanders, NJ) has three
goals and seven points over the last two games. His best game this
year was 2-2-4 vs. UConn. Agostino became the first Yale newcomer
in 30 years to record five points in one game on Jan. 2, 2011. 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. Yale's rookie of the year last
winter after scoring 11 goals and 25 points, Agostino was the HCA
National Rookie of the Month for January (8-4-12), the first
Bulldog 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 in 2010-11. The
former Delbarton School star had a goal and three assists before
the holiday break, and 10 goals and 11 assists after. He ranked
11th nationally among rookies with .86 points per game.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
Senior F Dan Otto (Lake Zurich, Ill.) notched his
first two collegiate goals at Union on Nov. 12 after battling
injuries the last three years that prevented him from playing a
regular season contest. Otto (2-0-2) has played in every game this
year.
GEOGRAPHIC BALANCE
The Yale roster includes players from 13 different states and
three provinces. New York and Minnesota are represented by three
players from each state while Alberta brings in four players.
FROM WHENCE THEY CAME
The United States Hockey League contributed 10 players to the
Bulldog roster. There are four from the British Columbia Hockey
League, one from the Atlantic Junior Hockey League and another from
the Eastern Junior Hockey League. Ten Yale student-athletes came
directly from prep schools.
CODE RED
There is one new face on the Yale bench this season, Dennis "Red"
Gendron, who replaced Kyle Wallack as the Bulldogs' associate head
coach. Dennis "Red" Gendron, an assistant at the University of
Massachusetts the last six seasons and a former University of Maine
coach from 1990 to 1993. He helped the Black Bears win a 1993 NCAA
Championship before working in the New Jersey Devils
organization.
BULLDOGS IN THE PROS
There are 22 former Yale hockey players skating professionally,
including eight from the class of 2011. Here are the Bulldog pros,
youngest to oldest. Chris Cahill '11(AHL, Milwaukee Admirals),
Denny Kearney '11(ECHL, Trenton Titans), Broc Little '11
(HockeyAllsvenskan in Sweden, VIK Västerås HK), Jimmy
Martin '11(ECHL, Bakersfield Condors), Brendon Mason'11 (Division
1-series in Sweden, Nybro Vikings), Mike Matczak '11 (ECHL,
Kalamazoo Wings), Ryan Rondeau '11 (CHL, Laredo Buck), Ken
Trentowski '11 (SPHL, Augusta Riverhawks), Sean Backman '10 (AHL,
Bridgeport Sound Tigers), Ryan Donald '10 (Charlotte Checkers,
AHL), Mark Acrobello '10 (Oklahoma City Barons, AHL), Alec Richards
'09 (Rockford Icehogs, AHL), Brennan Turner '09 (Dundee Stars,
EIHL), David Meckler '09 (Manchester Monarchs, AHL), Matt Cohen '07
(Fife Flyers, EIHL), Brad Mills '07 (New Jersey Devils, NHL), Chris
Brooks '06 (Bakersfield Condors, ECHL), Chris Higgins '05
(Vancouver Canucks, NHL), Joe Callahan '05 (Hamilton Bulldogs,
AHL), Stacey Bauman '03 (Tulsa Oilers, CHL), Jeff Hamilton
'01 (HIFK Helsinki, FNL), Ray Giroux '98 (Chelyabinsk Traktor,
KHL).
CURRENT NHL CONNECTIONS
Three players on the current Yale roster have been drafted by NHL
teams: Gus Young (Colorado, 7th, 184, 2009); Kenny Agostino
(Pittsburgh, 5th, 140, 2010); Brad Peltz (Ottawa, 7th, 190, 2009).
YALE'S LAST 3
The Yale men have left a mark on Division I over the last three
seasons under Keith Allain '80, the Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of
Hockey. The combined statistics from 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11
make the last three years the best in the history of the sport in
New Haven and among the best in the nation over that span.
ON TV
The Nov. 4 Cornell game at Ingalls was on CBS Sports Network, the
first of three TV games including Yale this month. Time Warner
Cable did both the Nov. 11 and 12 games at RPI and Union. Other TV
games planned are Jan. 27 at Harvard (NBC Sports Ntwk), Feb. 17
Dartmouth (NBC Sports Ntwk) and Feb. 25 at Quinnipiac (SNY).
YALE HOCKEY BROADCASTS
Pay-per-view broadcasts of Yale hockey regular season home games
are available on yalebulldogs.com. The Yale Athletic Department
production is almost entirely student run: Sam Dorward '13 is the
producer; Tom Stokes '12 and Patrick Ouziel '13 are the
cameramen; Evan Ellis '12, the Voice of Yale Hockey, and Max
Valenstein '13 are the broadcasters.
WYBCX.COM
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
Yale hockey celebrated the re-dedication of Ingalls Rink (3,500
capacity) on Jan. 16, 2010. 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.
WHALE OF A TIME
The Whale (Ingalls Rink) has been a tough place for visitors in
recent years. Yale, which enjoyed its first undefeated (15-0-1,
only Division I team to do that) regular season at Ingalls last
winter, finished 17-1-1 at home. That is the most wins ever in New
Haven for a Yale team (The Blue went unbeaten at New Haven in
1928-29). The Bulldogs are 42-10-3 over the last three-plus seasons
at the Whale and 12-10-3 in home ECAC playoff games all time.
SOLD OUT
Ingalls Rink was sold out for the last 12 games of the 2010-11
regular season and the first two games this season. The Boston
College sold out in a few days of selling, while only G.A. and
S.R.O. tickets remain for contests with Harvard and Dartmouth.
HARBOR YARD
Yale and Fairfield hosted the 2009 and 2011 NCAA East Regional
Tournaments in Bridgeport at Webster Bank's Arena at Harbor Yard,
and the Bulldogs participated in both. The 2012 East Regional is
also slated for the Yard, which has also hosted numerous NCAA
post-season events.
ATTENTION MEDIA
Here are some important things to know if you are covering the
Bulldogs or just working a game at Ingalls.
Interviews
Yale head coach Keith Allain and select players are available on a
semi-regular basis each week at Ingalls Rink, typically Thursdays
at 2:30 p.m. If you would like to attend these informal media
sessions, please contact Sports Publicity Director Steve Conn.
Post-game interviews with Yale personnel are conducted in one of
the youth locker rooms at ice level on the home side of the
building. Let Steve Conn know who you would like to speak with
immediately after the game.
Media Gate List
Attendants stationed at the front and back of the rink have a
media gate list to check off your name. The same list is used for
PARKING in the garage (entrance off Prospect Street) behind the
rink.
filed by Steve Conn, Yale Sports Publicity Director
