OMG!

Yes we've been quiet. Well, quiet blogging wise, but that's what happens when you've got two Clarkson Hockey Fans in training in the house now. Still, nothing more gratifying than Clarkson victories, and just wanted to point out, one of the biggest ever for the Women occured today as they took out #2 Mercyhurst, a team that nearly had an undefeated season last year, 3-2 at Cheel. The Knights also

Clarkson Returns to the North Country

Clarkson vs. Providence(Photo Credit: Vanessa Vickery)Clarkson returns to ECAC play this weekend welcoming Harvard and Dartmouth to Cheel Arena. Clarkson ended both these teams seasons last year, sweeping Harvard out of the quarterfinals and eliminating Dartmouth in the semifinals in Albany. This will be the first game of the year for the Crimson and the second for the Big Green.Clarkson is

We're you payin attention to the Dude's story?

Tech splits with Lake State.Clarkson took the Friday game 4-0 and followed it up Saturday with a pretty lousy effort, falling 5-1. The series echoed the games last year in Cheel in which Clarkson was blown out on Friday, then returned the favor Saturday night.Scoring goals on the weekend were Nick Dodge, Chris D'Alvise, Lauri Tuohimaa, Steve Zalewski and David Cayer. David Leggio started on

ECAC Preview

Yale BulldogsLast Year's Finish - 8thLast Year's CHF Predicted Finish - 11thKey Losses - Bill LeClerc Sr. D, Matt Cohen Sr. DKey Returnees - Sean Backman So. F, Mark Arcobello So. F, Alec Richards Jr. GLike many of the teams in the league, the Yale Bulldogs are somewhat of an enigma. On one hand they lose two senior defenseman, on the other hand they return 8 of 9 leading scorers from last year.

FOR THE WIN!

D'ALVISE SCORES IN OVERTIMECLARKSON DEFEATS SLU 5-4PIZZO, TUOHIMAA TALLY FIRST CAREER GOALSMARKS AND ZALEWSKI CHIP INLEGGIO SHAKES OFF SHAKY FIRST PERIOD, STANDS TALL

ECAC Preview

My apologies for the delay in the previews, unfortunately the real world has caught up with me. Nevertheless:Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteLast Year's Finish - 8thLast Year's CHF Predicted Finish - 8thKey Losses - Kirk MacDonald Sr. F, Jake Luthi Sr. D, Oren Eizenman Sr. FKeey Returnees - Jordan Alford Sr. G, Mathias Lange Jr. G, Seth Klerer Jr. FWhen first year head coach Seth Appert looked

Clarkson Gets By Providence Despite Being Outshot

Post-game podcast located here.Clarkson utilized two first-period tallies to get past Providence Saturday night before 2,599 at Cheel Arena. It looked as though the Golden Knights were going to easily handle the Friars after scoring early, but Providence tightened up their defense the rest of the way to keep the Clarkson offense in check.“I think it was a little bit them and a little bit us, they

Clarkson Downs Massachusetts in OT

Despite a rough start the Knights upended the Minutemen in overtime, exacting revenge after both an overtime tie and loss to Massachusetts last year. Captain Nick Dodge picked up his 100th career point, tying the game at one a piece in the third period. Junior Dan Tuttle did the honors in the extra session, beating Paul Dainton to his left side following a centering pass by Dodge.The Knights

In-Game Updates: UMass

For in-game updates head on over to The Knight Report. Thanks!

UMass and Providence this Weekend

Hello all, my name is Chris Fohlin, I cover Clarkson men’s hockey for the Clarkson Integrator, USCHO.com, and the Sports Information Department at Clarkson University. I started the Clarkson Men’s Hockey Podcast for the 2006-07 season and it is now in its second season (07-08). Brett has been kind enough to invite me to contribute to this blog as both he and Ron are quite busy these days. I'll

Where's the Beef?

It turns out a second child cuts down your blogging time in immense ways. As things begin to calm down you'll see a little bit more love. After all, we've just begun right?I was fortunately enough to take in the Acadia exhibition on Cheel, which had an excellent turnout. No big changes at Cheel with the exception of some very classy banners promoting Clarkson's drive to raise some endowed hockey

Let the games begin!

I will be heading up to Clarkson this weekend and as a by-product of the trip will be catching the home-opener against Acadia University on Saturday where they will face the Axeman. The Axeman have opened up the season 0-2 and have not faced an NCAA opponent this season. After they take on the Golden Knights, they'll head over to match-up against UVM. Keep an eye out for plenty of commentary over

Women Usher in 2007-2008 Season

The Clarkson Women's Hockey Team ushered in another season of hockey at Cheel Arena as they defeated Stoney Creek 3-0 at Cheel Arena on Saturday. Lauren Dahm faced the immense task of being the newest netminder for the Knights as she earned her first shut-out. Marie-Jo Gaudet keeping right up with last year's form tallied a goal (the game winner). Melissa Waldie and Brooke Beazer tallied the

ECAC Preview

Brown University BearsLast Year's Finish - 11thLast Year's CHF Predicted Finish - 12thKey Losses - Sean Dersch F, Antonin Roux F, Brian Ihnacak FKey Returnees - Jeff Prough Sr. F, Sean Hurley Sr. D, Brian McNary Sr. FBrown seems to be the enigma of the league. Head coach Roger Grillo and his staff search high and low amongst the recruits and always seem to find some diamonds in the rough,

Awakening from a deep slumber.

It’s funny how this sort of works. We’re in the middle of pennant races with our favorite baseball teams and Notre Dame’s football team nearly has half as many losses as their hockey team had all of last season. Suddenly it hits us like a bucket of cold water. It’s hockey time.The first inkling that something was up was when NHL08 suddenly appeared on my radar about two weeks ago, complete with

Back At It

Clarkson Hockey Fans are back on the air!Coming up right now the ECAC Preview!Union College DutchmenLast Year's Finish - 12thLast Year's CHF Predicted Finish - 10thKey Losses - TJ Fox F JR, Oliver Bouchard F SRKey Returnees - Justin Mrazk G SR, Josh Coyle F SR, Lane Caffaro D JRAfter an up and down season last year Union will be looking to rebound from off season losses both on and off the ice.

Huskins, Marchant, Ducks Take Cup

For the second year in a row, the Stanley Cup will add former Clarkson players to it's historic list of names.With a 6-2 victory at home over the Ottawa Senators, the Anaheim Ducks won their first Stanley Cup. Todd Marchant and Kent Huskins will join Erik Cole (Carolina '06) and Colin Patterson (Calgary '89) as Stanley Cup Champions.

Two New Recruits plus Stanley's Cup

Clarkson has announced two new recruits for the 2008 season. Michael Kosziwka joins the team out of the OPJHL where he racked up 62 points, 28 goals and 34 assists. He scored 17 goals on the PP as well. He also had 72 PIM, meaning we might have another guy out there who is willing to play physical to keep the opposing team in-line when they're being stupid. In addition, Lauri Tuohimaa, a foward

2007-2008 Schedule Released

The athletic department released the schedule for the 2007 - 2008 season today.Clarkson looks to stay competitive on the PWR scene by playing seven teams from last years NCAA tourney.The season opens with an exhibition at Cheel against Acadia, followed by a rematch of last years heartbreaking NCAA loss against UMass. The following weekend opens ECAC play with a home and home series against

Nick Dodge: All American

Clarkson captain Nick Dodge was named a second team east coast All American by the coaches yesterday. Dodge becomes Clarkson's 35th All American.However the bigger honor might be receiving the Golden Bonesaw.

End of Year Awards

The Clarkson Golden Knights hockey team had their awards banquet tonight. Here are you 2007 award winners:Knight Club Award Presented to a deserving player who made a significant contribution to the team, achieved academically as well as being excellent role model for his teammates and the young people of the community.Recipient: Matt CurleyFran Neragin Award Named in honor of the loyal Clarkson

Weller Goes Pro

OTTAWA - Ottawa Senators general manager John Muckler today announced the club has signed prospect Shawn Weller to an entry-level contract. Weller, 20, was the Senators’ first third-round choice (77th overall) in the 2004 NHL entry draft. The Glens Falls, N.Y., native set career highs in goals (19), assists (21) and points (40) while recording 62 penalty minutes in 39 games in his third season

Top Ten Reasons....

For Clarkson not winning their NCAA game this weekend:10. Flaky internet connection at Blue Cross Arena severs the link between George Roll's mind, the Roundtable and USCHO message boards.9. Mike Sullivan gassed after Coach Roll enters him in Toastmaster competition scheduled for immediately after the game.8. Pre-game lunch at Nick Tahou's inadvertently causes Clarkson to go into a dump and chase

College Hockey 24 hours a day!

The Knights have graciously accommodated the Northern New York and New England fans by winning a #1 seed, and the accompanying Rochester location. Yet still, some of us can not attend the event due to:(a) having not convinced the significant other that these games are vital to the family's healthor(b) having not calculated the ROI to gain the supervisors approval for your days off.Those that are

Seats are filling up!

Single game tickets go on sale today for the Rochester regional. Act fast because the word is sections 104 and 105 were sold out. These were the sections offered by the University. Here is a seating chart of the BCA.The Ticketmaster charge by phone number is 585-232-1900. The box office hours are 10am-3pm. Tickets go on sale right now. Let's Go Tech! See you at the rink!Addition: Now is good a

A Rochester Primer

With games approaching quickly here is a brief overview of the Rochester Area and a list of things to see and do while you're in town.We'll start with the Blue Cross Arena.Getting there:FROM THE EAST NYS Thruway to exit 45 (Victor) Take 490 WEST and exit at Clinton Avenue Turn Left at Broad Street (third light) The Arena is on the corner

You Asked For It

Dear anonymous RPI poster,When you said:It seems like the Clarkson fans are spending more time here bashing the RPI band (and trying everything to fabricate reasons to do so) rather than celebrating the championship they just won. Don't you have anything better to do with your time?You were right, we need better things to do with our time. Enjoy.

Post Game Press Conference

The press conference following the championship game. Featuring Roll, D'Alvise, Paquet.

Game Misconduct!

This week's CHF ECAC Hockey Trivia question should be an easy one for those who attended the tournament last weekend in Albany.Q: How is it possible to be eliminated from the ECACHL Tournament twice?(answer at the bottom of the post.)What a weekend! Pretty much a constant adrenaline rush with the exception of the first two periods on Saturday that were instead lumped into the final twenty.

Knights Take Title

The Clarkson Golden Knights - 2007 ECAC Tournament ChampionsRecaps:College Hockey NewsUSCHOInside College HockeyBonesawAlbany Times Union

ONE SEED!

ECAC CHAMPIONS!

The Barn! The Barn! The Barn is on fire!

(posted by Ron)WOW. Bring us back to 1998-1999 again.. With a strong lead in hand, the Princeton Tigers stormed back to tie the Golden Knights when Willie Mitchell fired "The Shot" to take Clarkson to the ECAC finals where they would defeat St. Lawrence.. Tonight Dartmouth comes back from 3-1 down to tie the Knights 4-4 with a minute and change remaining when Steve Zalewski nails the game-winner

Too pumped for blogging!

First, we owe you all an apology. We've been pretty quiet on the blogging from for a variety of reasons, much of which have to do with us trying to cover the entire NCAA situation over at College Hockey News. The other part is that so much has been said, it's just tough to say it again. Brett and I are incredibly excited about this weekend. Brett just hit the road at noon to drive his way through

A nice highlight reel from the weekend. Courtesy of The Bonesaws.

Knights Sweep Crimson

It wasn't pretty but Clarkson defeated Harvard tonight 2-1, sweeping the Crimson and advancing to the ECAC final four for the first time since 2004.Grant Clitsome put the Knights on the board first with a first period powerplay goal. Clarkson played it's best period of the weekend in the first, but only had a 1-0 lead to show for it at the end.Harvard was skating for their lives in the second

Knights Blank Harvard; Take Game One

Nick Dodge tucks home a Shawn Weller rebound for Clarkson's second goal.David Leggio stops 27 shots, including 18 in the second period for his second shutout this season.Rutherglen nets game winner halfway through the game.Dodge tallies on the powerplay.Weller seals it with an empty netter.Game two tonight at 7.

Harvard @ Clarkson: ECAC Quarterfinals

Coming off their first weekend of rest in nearly three months the Clarkson Golden Knights look to advance to Albany and the ECACHL final four. Armed with the league's top goaltender, David Leggio, and the second ranked offense and defense in the league the Knights would appear to have a clear advantage going into this best of three game series against the 7th seeded Crimson. However the press

Mad Skillz!

Clarkson's Lindsay Williams has been named to the East squad for this year's Pontiac Frozen Four Skills challenge. The challenge will be held on April 6th, in St. Louis. Williams is also a candidate for the Humanitarian Award which will be presented along with the Hobey Baker award prior to the event which kicks of festivities for this year's Frozen Four. Mike Sullivan has been named as an

Redemption

Shea Guthrie nets the first goal of the game in the third period against Quinnipiac.Photo Credit: Brad PettengillFriday night was a disaster. The Golden Knights took their lumps at Hobey Baker rink from the Princeton Tigers and we're forced to regroup at the end of a 7-1 defeat. The Knights showed serious resilience Saturday and put together what might have been their best game of the year in a

Gameday @ Princeton

Clarkson looks to lock up second place tonight at Hobey Baker Rink.Golden Knights also looking to keep pace in national Pair Wise Rankings.Puck drops at 7.College Hockey News Tale of the TapeScenarios:Clarkson can clinch second place with:A win or tieORA SLU win or tie AND a Dartmouth win or tieA SLU win at Quinnipiac gives the Saints the league title.

#2 St. Lawrence v. #7 Clarkson

Yessiree! Playoffs! While the men are working on nailing down one of the most successful regular seasons in recent history at Princeton and Quinnipiac, the Women are looking to make their mark by winning their first ever ECACHL playoff series against the hated Saints of St. Lawrence in a best of three series in Appleton Arena.Some thoughts:Clarkson is 1-4-1 all-time against St. Lawrence, and has

The Envelope Please...

With the last weekend of the regular season upon us, there are still plenty of things to sort out in the ECACHL this year. A regular season champion, the first round byes, and the last home ice spots. However some things in the league are a given, namely some of the post season awards to be handed out. In this season of Award Nights we at CHF will make some predictions of who will be receiving

Weekend Thoughts.

When is a tie almost as good as a win? When you let a 2-1 lead slip away in the third, fall behind 3-2, then score a power play goal with your goalie pulled with 3.3 seconds left to tie the game. Instant beach-ball frenzy. One of the more electric moments in recent Cheel Arena history, and a great way to salvage Senior Night.Clarkson looked fairly dominant against Union, although there was a

And we're back!

Due to last weekend's Boston Extreme Beerfest, and this week's prolonged hangover, posting has come to a standstill. In the void the Golden Knights locked up home ice in the first round and have their eyes on a first round bye this weekend.Clarkson took it's first four point weekend of 2007, and their first home four point weekend in league play defeating Brown and Yale.Shawn Weller was named

Weekend Preview

The table is set for the Clarkson Golden Knights.Six games left in the regular season, four at home and five against the bottom five teams in the league. Just one point out of second place and two points out of first Clarkson sits poised to make a move to the top of the league in the next couple weeks.This is the ECAC, however, anything can happen.The league is very tight right now with a mere

Senior Weekend

Sadly, we haven't done enough to cover Women's Hockey this season as we would like. Regardless, this weekend marks the final weekend for the twelve women who have skated for the first four years of Clarkson's Women's Hockey Program and we wanted to give a shout-out to them for helping make this program a national success. Despite a tough road this season, as bloggers and fans we have great

Bring it!

The esteemed MikeR our on again off again contributor dropped a bomb in the roundtable today, dropping the names of some teams that will apparently be facing the Golden Knights in non-conference play in 2007-2008. Some of the names and games that could be making the cut: @ LSSU - Do we get to bring our band?UMass and Providence - Turning into a HE / ECAC TraditionSt. Cloud - A flip of the scores

A Belated Birthday

Just over a year ago Ron and I started this blog with no real intent. We both read the Clarkson Roundtable and contributed, but we wanted something more, a place where we could get info and put out our personal feelings in a non-message board setting. I don't think either of us expected the return we have seen. In the past 12 months, according to our stat trackers, we have had over 25,000

REBOUND

CLARKSON TAKES TWO POINTS WITH A 2-1 WIN AT COLGATESULLIVAN SCORES ON A FIRST PERIOD POWERPLAYZALEWSKI NETS GAME WINNER ON A BEAUTIFUL PASS FROM PAQUETLEGGIO STANDS TALL WITH 33 SAVESSTANDINGS1. SLU 11-4-1 232. Quinnipiac 9-4-4 223. Clarkson 9-4-3 214. Cornell 7-6-3 174. Dartmouth 7-6-3 176. Harvard 7-9-1 156. Colgate 6-7-3 158. Princeton 6-8-2 149. Yale 6-9-1 139. Brown 5-8-3 1311. Union 6-10-0

Conroy Returns to Calgary

Former Clarkson Golden Knight Craig Conroy was traded by the Los Angeles Kings to the Calgary Flames earlier this evening for Jamie Lundmark and two draft picks. Conroy returns to a Calgary team that he once captained. He also helped lead the Flames to to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2004. We wouldn't be surprised to see him in a line with Jerome Iginla whom have been a productive tandem in the

NCAA Frozen Four Skills Challenge

Clarkson's Mike Sullivan and Lindsay Williams are both eligible for the NCAA Frozen Four Skills Challenge that will occur in St. Louis. Sullivan and Williams survived the first cut from 189 players down to 88. Fan voting is going on right now, and the results will be taken into consideration by the selection committee in determining the final 32 spots (16 from the West and 16 from the East.) Be

Gutcheck

Clarkson defeats Crimson4-2Knights move into second place tie with Quinnipiac10:00 PMMatt Beca's beautiful one time shot off a Shawn Weller pass beat Harvard netminder Kyle Richter and gave the Knights their first lead of the weekend at the 18:36 of the third period tonight at Cheel. To this point Clarkson had scrapped their way to a 2-2 tie with goals from D'Alvise and Sullivan. Clarkson came

Weekend Preview

At the halfway point of the league schedule the Golden Knights have to be pleased with the results. Clarkson has taken at least one point from seven of the eleven other teams in the league and has swept the season series with St. Lawrence At 7-3-2 in the conference and in third place the Knights are just one point out of second and three points out of first. Third place is not where this teams

Was that 6 unanswered goals?

I'd like to say a few words about last night's game, but the Bonesaw Brigade have already said it.BONESAW!

GAMEDAY @ SLU

Brett got a chance to talk with Coach Roll yesterday, here are some of the highlights:CHF: Give us your take on the past weekend at RPI and Union.Roll: I thought we played well for six periods of hockey. We got off to a rough start at RPI but even then we didn't give up any grade A chances. We got up then gave up one but got it back on a beautiful goal by Steve Zalewski. I felt it was a very

Clarkson @ Union

1-2FinalCLITSOMEUnion snaps unbeaten streak at 10.Clarkson answers on a 5 on 3 of their own to start the second period.Clarkson comes out undisciplined, Union scores first on a 5 on 3.

Clarkson @ RPI

4-1DODGE WELLER ZALEWSKI and BECARoll's first win over RPIDodge and Weller draw first blood in the second period. 17 seconds apart in the second period.Leggio solid with 30 saves.Zalewski scores on a break to end the second, Beca tallies on the empty net.Clarkson looks to extend unbeaten streak tomorrow at Union.Guthrie out for weekend with viral infection.New lineup for the night:Cayer Dodge

Weekend Preview

After two ties last weekend, assistant coach Greg Drechsel had this to say about the two ties,"We are happy with the effort, but we are not very satisfied getting two ties. We have an expectation level where we believe we will win our games at home. We played hard in both games. The difference was on specialty teams. We did not capitalize on the power-play chances we had. It was the first time in

There's lots of rumors, on the internets...

Word on the web is that Shea Guthrie has an illness and will not play this weekend. I'm giving this rumor a 50/50 shot of becoming truth.Also here are some search parameters that led one RPI student to this blog:Google, where rivalries live.

Fit To Be Tied

Much like the previous evening against Colgate, Clarkson found itself playing an extra five minutes. Much like the previous evening the Golden Knights jumped out to a first period lead but could not hold on and had to settle for a tie. Chris D'Alvise scored toward the end of the first period and Mitch Carefoot answered in second period. David Leggio made 26 saves and Troy Davenport ended up

Colgate and Comments

Two goals bookended a goaltending duel last night at Cheel. Steve Zalewski scored in the first minute then David Leggio and Mark Dekanich took over keeping the score 1-0 until the 14:46 mark of the third period when Jason Williams tallied his third goal of the year to tie the game. In over time Clarkson outshot Colgate 5-1 but Dekanich was too much and both teams took a point. Overall Dekanich

The Blogosphere's First Textcast!

Ron: Should we do a back and forth chat preview today? Brett: Sure. I'm kind of nervous about tonight to tell the truth. Ron: So why are you nervous about tonight? I actually haven't been feeling this good about this series in years. Brett: Colgate plays us tough, and with Dodge out I'm worried about a flat effort which would really be the opposite of what should happen. Ron: Well, the last I

Chat with George Roll

George Roll had an interview with CSTV today and took some interesting questions from around the country. Here are some of the highlightsNick Dodge's one game suspension will stand and he will not dress for Friday's game.This weekend's series is big for all four teams. But there are plenty of games left on the schedule.The four game losing streak showed the team how much work it takes to win

A Tune Up

The Golden Knights face off against McGill tomorrow night. (Or Western Ontario depending which schedule you look at.) Regardless of foe, the game is an exhibition and Clarkson will look to improve their play from the last exhibition which ended in a less than stellar loss to the USA Under 18 team. The differences between Clarkson now and Clarkson then are numerous. First and foremost the Knights