Yale Preparing For Ultimate Goal
BULLDOGS, UND AT N.E. REGIONAL, MYTV9 TO AIR IT
LIVE
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Yale men’s hockey
team (20-9-3, 15-5-2 ECAC Hockey) got what it deserved after
winning the conference regular season championship and being ranked
among the nation’s top 10 for most of the year. The No. 9
ranked Bulldogs (20-9-3), despite falling short in the ECAC Hockey
Tournament, earned the opportunity to compete for a national
championship with an invitation to the NCAA Northeast Regional.
Yale, the No. 3 seed, will take on fourth-ranked North Dakota (No.
2 seed, 25-12-5) at 5 p.m. ET on Saturday at the DCU Center in
Worcester, Mass. The other game, at 1:30 on Saturday, pits Boston
College (No. 1, 25-10-3) against Alaska-Fairbanks (No. 4, 18-11-9).
The winners play Sunday at 5:30 p.m for a trip to Detroit’s
Ford Field and the 2010 Frozen Four.
TICKETS
All session ticket packages, admission to all three games, are
available for $85.00. Tickets priced at $47.50 for individual days
(Saturday or Sunday) will be available on Monday, March 22, at 10
a.m. Tickets may be purchased at the DCU Center Box Office, all
Ticketmaster locations, by phone at 800/745-3000 and online at
ticketmaster.com. Tickets will also be available this week at the
Yale Ticket Office.
YALE STUDENT OFFER: The Department of Athletics, in conjunction with the President’s Office and the Dean’s Office, will subsidize the cost of an all-session ticket for Yale students. All-session tickets will go on-sale directly through the Athletics Ticket Office (20 Tower Pkwy.) at 2pm on Tuesday, March 23 for $35. The all-session ticket provides admission for all three games. Tickets for Yale students will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Bus transportation (Saturday 11:30 a.m. departure) will be provided free-of-charge for students who purchase a game ticket. The buses will return immediately after the Yale game. A similar plan (to be announced) is in place for Sunday should Yale advance to the championship contest.
WATCHING THE GAMES
The Yale-UND game airs live on MyTV9/WCTX (Hartford), MASN (Mid Atlantic Sports Network) and on
FSN North (Fox Sports Net North). All the
action at Worcester can be seen live on ESPN360.com, which is soon
to be ESPN3.com in April. Dan Parkhurst and Damian DiGiulian call
all the games. Saturday’s games re-air on ESPNU at noon on
Sunday.
STATS LINE
Here are the game averages for the Bulldogs and Fighting Sioux and
where they rank in Division I.
YALE
UND
Offense
4.09
(1st)
3.29 (13th)
Defense
2.94
(32nd)
2.10 (4th)
PIM
12.9
(38th)
18.4 (5th)
Power
Play
23.5
(2nd)
21.0 (9th)
Penalty
Kill
81.8
(29th)
86.9 (6th)
YALE ON RADIO
Yale’s regional games can be heard live on WYBC Radio
(AM-1340) and on wybc.com. Michael Dunn ’10 and Rich
Scudellari ’10 call the action on Yale’s student
station.
SERIES
The Fighting Sioux have taken all five meetings with Yale dating
to the first game in 1960. Here are the five contests:
Date
Score
Site
Jan. 1,
1960
15-0
at RPI Tournament
Nov. 30,
1986
6-4
at Grand Forks
Nov. 2,
2002
7-3
at New Haven
Oct. 31,
2003
8-4
at Grand Forks
Nov. 1,
2003
10-0
at Grand Forks
COMMON FOE
UND and Yale share two opponents from 2009-10, Cornell and
Wisconsin. The Sioux split a weekend series at Lynah Rink in late
January, while the Blue took both meetings with the Big Red. Yale
tied Wisconsin in the finale of the Badger Showdown in early
January. In early December, the Sioux tied and lost to the Badgers
at Grand Forks.
VS EAGLES, NANOOKS
Boston College has a 41-11 mark against the Bulldogs. The first
meeting was in 1922 and the last was in 2005, a 1-0 Eagles victory
at Ingalls Rink. Yale and Alaska-Fairbanks played four times
between 1987 and 1992 and the Nanooks have taken each contest. The
first came at the Phoenix Mutual Classic in Hartford, Conn., and
the last was at the Great Alaska Face-off in Fairbanks.
THREE OTHER REGIONALS
Three other regional sites in New York, Indiana and Minnesota get
underway this weekend. The East (Albany) and West (St. Paul) play
Friday and Saturday. The Midwest (Fort Wayne) has the same schedule
as Worcester.
FROZEN FOUR
The semifinals and final of the 2010 NCAA Division I Men’s
Ice Hockey Championship will be conducted at Ford Field in Detroit.
The Central Collegiate Hockey Association and Detroit Sports will
serve as hosts for the championship. The semifinal games will be
played Thursday, April 8, at 5 and 8:30 p.m. E.T.. The championship
game will be played Saturday, April 10, at 7 p.m.
YALE IN NCAA PLAYOFFS
Yale has three NCAA post-season hockey appearances and four games
(1-3-0) overall. The first came in 1952 at Colorado Springs, Colo.,
when Yale fell to Colorado College, 4-3, in the semifinals. The
Elis and St. Lawrence were selected that year to represent the East
at the final four. The Bulldogs beat the Saints 4-1 in the
consolation game. Yale’s second NCAA playoff contest was a
4-0 loss to Ohio State at Ann Arbor, Mich., in the 1998 West
Regional when the Elis were the No. 5 seed in the West and there
were only 12 teams picked overall. The most recent endeavor was the
2009 East Regional at Bridgeport’s Arena at Harbor Yard, a
4-1 loss to Vermont.
BULLDOGS, SIOUX IN NCAA
This is Yale’s second straight appearance in the NCAA
Tournament, UND has gone to eight straight national championship
events. The Bulldogs lost to Vermont, 4-1, on day one of the East
Regional at Bridgeport a year ago, their third trip to the NCAA
Tournament. North Dakota, currently ranked No. 5 nationally, has
won seven NCAA hockey championships. At the 2009 Northeast Regional
in Manchester, N.H., the Sioux fell to New Hampshire in the first
round.
POST-SEASON OVERALL
The Bulldogs won their first ECAC tournament title ever in 2009.
They have played in just four conference semifinals in 49 years of
ECAC affiliation. Yale is 18-43-5 in conference playoff games,
1-3-0 in the NCAAs and 19-46-5 overall. The Bulldogs had won four
straight conference playoff games before falling 2-1 in the
best-of-three quarterfinal series to Brown on March 12-14 at New
Haven.
BACK-TO-BACK
Yale’s Feb. 26 win at Princeton clinched the ECAC regular
season championship, the second in a row for the Bulldogs.
It’s the first time a Yale hockey team has ever won
consecutive titles (the Elis also took Ivy League titles the last
two years). The 2009-10 squad is the first to have back-to-back
NCAA appearances as well.
NORTH DAKOTA
The Fighting Sioux, who have won 12 of their last 13 games, are
coming off Saturday’s WCHA Tournament title, a 6-5 win over
St. Cloud State at St. Paul. Jason Gregoire leads UND with 20
goals, while Chris VandeVelde (16-24) has a team-high 40 points for
a squad that has six double-digit goal scorers. Brad Eidsness
(.915, 2.18, 24-9-4) has most of the work in net.
PAIRWISE
The PairWise system is a ranking established by uscho.com that
tries to imitate the NCAA Selection Committee’s ordering of
teams for the tournament. Yale is currently No. 9, UND is
fifth.
BACK-TO-BACK
Yale’s back-to-back ECAC and Ivy titles are the first
consecutive championships of any kind for a Bulldog hockey
team. Yale is the first ECAC Hockey squad to win consecutive
regular-season championships since Cornell in 2001-02 and 2002-03;
the Big Red were the last ones to take two straight (2003-04,
2004-05) Ivy crowns as well.
ALLAIN
Keith Allain ‘80, Yale’s Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach
of Hockey, won his 70th game in four seasons as leader of the
Bulldogs on Feb. 26 at Princeton. Only four other Yale hockey head
coaches have more wins, and none reached the 70-win mark faster
than Allain. The former Yale goalie has led the Blue to three Ivy
League titles, two ECAC regular season championships and a 2009
NCAA Tournament appearance. Allain, who played and worked for Tim
Taylor at Yale, had an eye on the Olympics because of his
connection to team USA. He worked with 13 of the 22 on the roster,
either in the National Hockey League or at the 2006 Winter Games.
In 2008-09 Allain earned the Tim Taylor Award as the ECAC Hockey
Coach of the Year by leading Yale 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 the coaches picked
him. College Hockey News named him 2008-09 national coach of the
year. This is Allain’s 11th overall year at Yale; he spent
four as a student-athlete goalie and three as an assistant coach in
the 1980s.
WORCESTER CONNECTION
Keith Allain is not only a Worcester native, his parents and six
brothers still live in the Central Massachusetts city. Allain
attended St. Peter’s High School and played his home games at
Holy Cross’ Hart Recreation Center his senior season. In
addition, he served as an assistant coach with the AHL Worcester
Ice Cats for three seasons.
IN THE POLLS
Yale moved up one spot to No. 8 in both major polls for the final
week of voting. The Elis earned their best-ever ranking of No. 4 in
the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll on Feb. 22. The Bulldogs are
3-1-1 against top 15 teams in the current USA Today rankings and
4-1-2 vs. the USCHO’s top 20. Yale is 6-2-1 against teams
that were ranked on game night.
ARCOBELLO
Senior F Mark Arcobello (11-18-29), who has been over 20 points in
each of his four seasons, is the Yale career games played leader
with 129, which are four more than Jeff Hamilton ’01 and Jeff
Hristovski ’06 who had been tied for the record.
Arcobello has 109 career points including 45 goals. His top
game of 2009-10 was a two-goal performance at Dartmouth. He scored
his first collegiate SHG before tallying the winner. Arcobello
added his second SHG against Dartmouth at home this winter. He was
a 2008-09 second-team All-American after recording 17-18-35.
BACKMAN
F Sean Backman (21-14-35), who missed the conference playoffs with
an injury and is unlikely for the NCAA Tournament, is a first-team
All-ECAC pick and the Ivy League Player of the Year. He is alone at
No. 7 on the school’s career points list with 126. His 77
career goals are fourth best at Yale and put him one behind Bob
Kudelski for third. His 126 points in 122 games puts him in a
select class of current Division I players who have over 100 games
and as many points as games played. Backman, who was named to the
College Hockey News (CHN) 2009-10 Pre-Season All-America squad,
lived up to the billing. He has a point in 19 of 29 outings this
winter and is third in Division I with .72 goals per game. He was
second-team All-ECAC last year after leading his team with 20
goals. Backman, a four-time, first-team All-Ivy selection, was 2009
conference tournament MVP.
Yale Career
Goals
Yale Career Points
Ding Palmer
87
1927-30
Jeff Hamilton
173
1996-01
Jeff Hamilton
80
1996-01
Mark Kaufmann
160
1989-93
Bob Kudelski
78
1984-87
Bob
Kudelski
158
1983-87
Sean Backman
75
2006-Pres.
Bob
Brooke
155
1979-83
Randy
Wood
141
1982-86
Dan
Poliziani
131
1978-82
Sean Backman
126
2006-Pres.
Bob
Logan
122
1982-86
Jack
Morrison
119
1964-67
DIGNARD
Senior D Tom Dignard (6-20-26), who was named second-team
All-America by collegehockey247.com, earned second-team All-ECAC
honors for the second straight year. He was first-team All-Ivy this
winter and ranks fourth among Division I blueliners and No. 1 in
the ECAC with .96 points per game. He has 19 career goals, which is
fourth on the school charts and 10 shy of the record set by Dave
Baseggio ‘89 (29-79-108). Dignard needs three goals to catch
Darcy Ryan and Ray Giroux (22) and tie for second. He is fourth
among Yale blueliners in career points (75) surpassing Jack Duffy
‘93. Dignard, who has a 3.71 GPA in economics and math, is
Yale’s candidate for ECAC Hockey’s Student of the Year
Award.
Yale Defensemen Career Points
Dave Baseggio
29-79-108
1985-89
D’Arcy Ryan
22-62-84
1971-72, 73-75
Ray Giroux
22-62-84
1994-98
Tom Dignard
19-56-75
2006-Pres.
Jack Duffy
16-55-71
1989-93
Jeff Dwyer
14-55-69
2000-04
CAPTAIN DONALD
Ryan Donald (St. Albert, ALB), a class of 2010 defenseman, is the
captain of the 2009-10 Bulldogs. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound skater has
already tied his career-high for goals (2) in a season and has
surpassed that mark in points with nine. The defensive-blueliner
(5-19-24 career) is a political science major who was recognized as
a conference all-tournament selection as well as a member of the
ECAC All-Academic team in 2009. Last summer he skated in the
Vancouver Canucks’ free-agent camp.
KEARNEY
Junior F Denny Kearney (9-25-34) is one of the premier set-up men
in college hockey. He ended the regular season with a 2-1-3 weekend
that included two goals at Quinnipiac and added 1-3-4 in the
conference playoff series. He has a point in 24 of 32 games.
Kearney has 26 career goals and 87 points in 100 games, but may be
equally famous for having an Olympic gold medal winning sister,
Hannah Kearney, who won the 2010 mogul competition two hours after
the Bulldogs beat Cornell on Feb. 13. He and many of his teammates
were glued to a computer monitor watching the live coverage on the
bus ride back from Ithaca. Hannah, during a Feb. 14 Bob Costas
interview on NBC, mentioned being a hockey fan because her brother
plays for Yale.
LITTLE
Junior F Broc Little (26-14-40), a first-team All-ECAC and Ivy
League selection, was named the Player of the Month (Feb.) by the
Hockey Commissioner’s Association. He leads Division I
players with .81 goals per game and seven game-winning goals. His
26 goals (32 games) are the most by a Bulldog since Jeff Hamilton
’01 had 27 in 1997-98. He has one SHG this year after leading
Division I with five in 2008-09. Little’s nine-game point
streak to start 2009-10 is a team best. He has 52 goals and 98
points in 93 career games and is the only Bulldog with a hat trick
(Clarkson, Feb. 20) this season.
MILLER
Freshman F Andrew Miller (5-25-30), the Feb. 15 ECAC Hockey Rookie
of the Week, is third among conference rookies with .94 points per
game, which also put him seventh in the country for newcomers. He
is ranked 18th in Division I with .78 assists per outing. The most
points by a Yale rookie are 41 by Tom Walsh in 1984-85.
NETS
This is the first time in the 115-year history of Yale hockey that
three different Yale goalies have at least five wins each. Four
Bulldog tenders have a decision this winter, the first time
that’s happened since 2003-04. The goalie with the best
overall record (7-2), is not the player with the most saves or
minutes played on the team. Senior Billy Blase (2.37, .901), who
has seven starts, 10 appearances and just 23.4 percent of the
goalie time, does not qualify for any of the conference or national
rankings. He is the only current Eli netminder with post-season
experience and a collegiate shutout. Blase started all three ECAC
playoff games and stopped 63 of 70 shots in a win (6-3) and two
losses (3-2, 1-0). He started two of the three games in the 2008
ECAC Quarterfinals at Princeton and earned a win (4-3) and a loss
(4-0) while making a total of 60 saves. Freshmen Nick Maricic
(2.95, .888, 7-4-2), who also has seven wins, and Jeff Malcolm
(2.89, .882, 5-2-0) have most of the work in goal this year. Junior
Ryan Rondeau (3.84, .880, 1-1-1) has the top save night with 40 at
Princeton but has not played since Nov. 21 at Brown.
O’NEILL
Sophomore F Brian O’Neill (14-25-39) is second to Little in
points on the team. He has points in 24 of 32 games, but his most
memorable plays of 2009-10 are easy to recall. He put the puck on
Sean Backman’s stick before the OT game-winner at Cornell on
Feb. 13, and he had the tying goal in the OT draw in the Badger
Showdown title game against Wisconsin on Jan. 3. O’Neill had
2-1-3 in the win over Sacred Heart on Nov. 24 and hit the net twice
in game two of the ECAC Quarterfinals. O’Neill’s 1.22
points per game are 17th in Division I. He made the 2008-09 CHN
(national) and ECAC Hockey All-Rookie teams after going 12-14-26
last winter. His career numbers are 26-39-65 in 65 games.
30 POINTS
Juniors Broc Little and Denny Kearney, senior Sean Backman,
sophomore Brian O’Neill, and freshman Andrew Miller have all
hit the 30-point mark. It was the third time for Backman
(21-14-35), the second for Little (26-14-40) and the first for
Kearney (9-25-34), O’Neill (14-25-39) and Miller (5-25-30).
Two other Bulldogs are within three points of that mark. The Elis
had four players over the 30-point mark last winter.
20 POINTS
Yale has seven players who have reached 20 points this season.
Last year, during the Elis’ best winter on ice, there were
just five skaters over that mark. The last time the Blue had that
many 20-point guys was 1991-92 with Mark Kaufmann, John Sather,
James Lavish, Jack Duffy, Martin Leroux, Craig Ferguson and Jeff
Blaeser.
IVY
Yale clinched (16 points) its second straight Ivy League title by
winning at Ithaca on Feb. 13 before beating Princeton on Feb. 26 to
finish 9-1 for the second straight year. Second-place Cornell had
12 points. The Elis now have nine (12 if you count titles before
the league officially formed in 1956) Ancient Eight crowns
including three in the four seasons under Keith Allain ’80,
Yale’s Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey.
Hockey Ivy League Titles (since 1930)
1. Harvard: 25; 2. Cornell: 18; 3. Dartmouth: 14; 4. Yale: 12; 5.
Brown: 7; 6. Princeton: 4
SHUTOUTS
Yale has not blanked an opponent this season. Last year, Alec
Richards had a school-record four SHO and finished with six, a Yale
career record. The Bulldogs have had at least one SHO in seven of
the last 10 seasons.
CAREER-HIGHS
Three (non freshmen) Bulldogs have career-highs for goals this
season: Broc Little (26), Brendan Mason (9) and Chad Ziegler (3).
Ten players have had their best point output: Little (40), Brian
O’Neill (39), Sean Backman (35), Denny Kearney (34), Tom
Dignard (26), Jimmy Martin (17), Kevin Peel (14), Mason (14), Jeff
Anderson (11) and Ziegler (5).
RED LIGHT DISTRICT
Yale scored 71 goals at home this year for a 4.4 average while
going 11-4-1. The Elis lead the nation in goals per game and have a
power play that ranks second in Division I. Two Bulldogs (Sean
Backman, Broc Little) are among the top five in the nation in goals
per game, while defenseman Tom Dignard is fourth in Division I
points per game for defensemen. Yale has scored 44 power play goals
and 131 (most since 2002-03) overall. The 1985-86 Bulldogs own the
school record for both, 59 and 160 respectively.
CLASS OF ‘10
There are five seniors on the Yale roster: Mark Arcobello, Sean
Backman, Billy Blase, Tom Dignard and captain Ryan Donald. They
have accumulated 146 career goals and 336 combined points in 528
games. A few other classes have produced more offense -- all with
at least two more skaters -- including 1993 (Mark Kaufmann, James
Lavish, Yannick Chiasson, Jack Duffy, Peter Allen, Dean Malish)
which had 170 goals and 431 combined points.
CLASS MIX
The current Elis are a true mix of experience. The last lineup
included six juniors, five sophomores, four seniors and five
freshmen, including two goalies. No class has been common for any
one Bulldog line or defensive pairing.
SELLOUT STRING
The crowd of 3,500 for the Feb. 20 Clarkson game marked the ninth
sellout at Ingalls this year and the seventh straight. Yale
students were on Spring Break during the ECAC Playoffs, so none of
the three games (2,688 average) had full houses. Yale had six
sellouts in 2008-09.
GEOGRAPHIC BALANCE
The Yale roster includes players from 12 different states and
three provinces. The most from a state is two (California,
Connecticut, Illinois and New Hampshire) while six hail from
Alberta, including a Calgary pair.
SHOOTERS
The Bulldogs have outshot opponents in 26 of the 32 games and are
19-5-2 in those outings. The Elis average 40 shots and give up 26
while having a 402 shot advantage overall. Yale outshot Clarkson
56-26, a margin that has not been seen since the Blue had a 50-15
game against Harvard last February.
SHORTY
Yale potted a pair of shorthanded goals on Feb. 5/6 and has four
this year. Mark Arcobello has two this winter, Sean Backman and
Broc Little have the others. Little led the country with five last
year while the Elis had nine overall.
SPECIAL
It’s been an up-and-down special teams season; the power
play has been up - most of the time - and the penalty kill has been
good - some of the time. Yale is second in the nation on the power
play with a 23.5 mark. However, the Elis went one for 19 over three
games during the middle of the campaign. The Blue, 12-0 when
tallying at least two PPG, was just over 11 percent after the first
six games but went on a tear. The best night was 5-for-8 against
Brown on Jan. 16, the most productive PP day since Nov. 13, 1992,
when the Blue went 5-for-7 in a 10-6 win over Colgate at Hamilton.
The penalty-kill unit is at 81 percent, which is fourth in the
ECAC.
ECAC
The Bulldogs won the conference regular season championship but
did not garner any of the post-season individual honors. The last
time an ECAC team won the season title and did not have a player or
coach earn a post-season conference honor was Clarkson in 1999.
FROSH
All seven members of the class of 2013 have been in the lineup at
times this year, combining for 14 goals and 51 points. Antoine
Laganiere leads the newcomers with seven goals, while Andrew Miller
has 30 points and is ranked seventh among Division I rookies and
third among ECAC newcomers with .94 points per game. The two
goalies, Nick Maricic and Jeff Malcolm, who have contributed a
combined four assists to the offense, own 20 of the 32 decisions
and 12 of the 20 wins.
BULLDOG BITES
Yale’s only game ever at Worcester came in November of this
season, an 8-3 win over Holy Cross… Yale’s longest win
streak was eight games this season, which came to an end the last
game of the regular season at Quinnipiac… Brian
O’Neill, Denny Kearney and Andrew Miller – players from
three different classes – all have 25 assists… The
Yale junior class has 115 career goals and 308 points… Yale
goalie Billy Blase has 43 career games played; the other three
goalies average 11 career outings… The Bulldogs have four
double-digit goal scorers this year and 12 who have 10 or more
points… Yale’s third-period comeback against Clarkson
was just the second time this season the Elis have erased a deficit
to win in the final frame; Yale is now 2-9-3 when trailing after 40
minutes… The junior class has contributed 52 goals this
season, the seniors have 40. The sophomores are third with 25 while
the newcomers have 14 goals… ECAC Hockey teams have won NCAA
Tournament games four of the last five years
THE FUTURE
On one hand, the Bulldogs lose three of their top five point
producers to graduation after the 2009-10 season. On the other
hand, Yale returns seven of its top 10 point scorers and three of
the four goalies next season.
CAREER OUTINGS
Senior F Mark Arcobello broke the school record for games played
with his 129th against Brown. Teammates F Sean Backman (122) and D
Ryan Donald (121) recently followed Arcobello to the century mark.
The old record was shared by Jeff Hamilton ‘01 and Jeff
Hristovski ‘06.
MATURO RETIRING
Ed Maturo, in his 33rd year as Yale’s Director of Equipment
Services, will be retiring at the end of the 2009-10 season.
Maturo, who began working with Yale hockey teams in 1977-78 and was
nicknamed “Fox” because of his silver-colored hair many
years ago, missed the 1993-94 and 2005-06 seasons to work for U.S.
Teams at the winter Olympic games. He is about a season and a half
shy of working 1,000 Yale men’s varsity hockey games.
BULLDOGS IN THE PROS
Fourteen former Yale players are skating professionally this
winter. Here are the details on each. Alec Richards ’09
(Rockford Icehogs, AHL), Brennan Turner ’09 (Elmira Jackals,
ECHL), David Meckler ’09 (Manchester Monarchs, AHL), Blair
Yaworski ’08 (Wheeling Nailers, ECHL), Matt Cohen ’07
(Trenton Devils, ECHL), Brad Mills ’07 (Lowell Devils, AHL),
Chris Brooks ‘06 (Bakersfield Condors, ECHL), Joe Zappala
‘06 (Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs, CHL), Chris Higgins
’05 (Calgary Flames, NHL), Joe Callahan ’05 (Worchester
Sharks, AHL), Stacey Bauman ’03 (Rio Grande Valley Killer
Bees, CHL), Jeff Hamilton ’01 (Lugano, Swiss-A), Ray Giroux
’98 (St. Petersburg SKA, KHL) Alex Westlund ’98 (Linz
EHC, Austria). Higgins has played 67 games between the New
York Rangers and the Flames and has eight goals and 17 points.
Hamilton has 22 goals and 46 points in 46 games for HC Lugano this
winter.
LOOKING AHEAD
The 2010-11 Yale schedule includes non-league home games against
Brown, Sacred Heart, Vermont, Holy Cross and either Princeton or
Dartmouth. The road games in place for next year are Air Force and
Colorado College.
INGALLS RENOVATIONS
The Yale hockey program celebrated the re-dedication of Ingalls
Rink on Jan. 16 with ceremonies on and off the ice. The rink 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.
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