At age 15, playing for the Portland Junior Pirates, he committed to play for Division I University of Vermont, and had his hockey path in place. But people evolve. Circumstances change, futures become altered, forcing tough choices, hard decisions. Anthoine never did play a shift for Vermont, choosing instead to ply his trade with the […]
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Top coaches, players to be honored
On Thursday at the Ramada Inn in Lewiston, awards will be handed out for player of the year and coach of the year, and the NCAA Division III ice hockey All-America teams will be announced. All three are presented by the the American Hockey Coaches Association The player of the year award is named after […]
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Brickler a Knight in shining armor
The SUNY-Geneseo Knights punched their ticket to the Division III Frozen Four on Sunday thanks to Tyler Brickler’s hat trick in a 3-2 victory over the Norwich University Cadets. But Brickler credits his teammates for getting the Knights to the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston. “It’s great memories, that’s for sure,” Brickler said of defeating […]
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Oswego evolved throughout the season
Coach Ed Gosek says it wasn’t pretty. Coming off a loss in the Division III National Championship game, Gosek’s team had graduated 14 seniors. Only three players were back that had played in that championship loss. The Lakers were now a team with a foundation of 19 freshmen and five transfers. The season opened with […]
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NCAA Division III Hockey: Ladd has the details down cold at Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Yet nothing prepared him for his second winter in Stevens Point, Wis., a record-breaking freeze-out that forced the temperature to dip below zero a record 57 consecutive days. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Ladd said. “I mean, it’s cold in Bemidji, but I came out here and I’m thinking, ‘I moved south, didn’t I?’” […]
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NCAA Division III Hockey: Wisconsin-Stevens Point season review
Wisconsin-Stevens Point earned the right to claim Division III hockey’s first dynasty by winning four national titles in five seasons between 1989 and 1993. The Pointers passed the D3 dynasty torch to Middlebury in the 1998 championship and sunk into a frustrating stretch of mediocrity. With shrewd recruiting and an unwavering mission that drew top […]
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St. Norbert netminder is man for all seasons
It isn’t every hockey season that a freshman goaltender leads his team to a national championship. So after backstopping St. Norbert College’s charge to a second consecutive NCAA Division III title in March 2012, David Jacobson piled unusual on top of unusual, in the form of an unexpected request to coach Tim Coghlin. “He came […]
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St. Norbert season review
St. Norbert boasts the rare distinction of having both the No. 1 scoring offense and No. 1 scoring defense in NCAA Division III. How unusual? No other team can say it’s ranked among the top five in both categories. Coach Tim Coghlin says the two concepts are closely related. The Green Knights are a blue-collar […]
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NCAA Division III Ice Hockey: SUNY-Geneseo season in review
The Geneseo Knights punched their ticket into the NCAA Division III Frozen Four with a pair of 3-2 victories against the Nichols College Bison and the Norwich Cadets in the opening and quarterfinal rounds, respectively. They earned an at-large bid into the tournament after falling to the the Oswego State Lakers in the State University […]
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Bowdoin, Lewiston hockey histories forever linked
“The price was right,” Dumont quipped, a reference to the convenience, then and now, that admission to all Bowdoin sporting events is free. “It was always pretty special to be able to drive 20 minutes and see such a high quality of hockey. And to be honest, nothing against the University of Maine, but it […]