avelanch Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 updated schedule: Date Opponent Time/Status Notes Oct 21, 2011 Western Ontario 4:00 p.m. Exhibition - Live stats Nov 4, 2011 Princeton * 4:00 p.m. Live stats/Video Nov 5, 2011 Quinnipiac * 4:00 p.m. Live stats/Video Nov 11, 2011 Cornell * 4:00 p.m. Live stats/Video Nov 12, 2011 Colgate * 4:00 p.m. Live stats/Video Nov 18, 2011 at Clarkson * 4:00 p.m. Live stats Nov 19, 2011 at St. Lawrence * 4:00 p.m. Nov 22, 2011 New Hampshire 4:00 p.m. Live stats/Video Nov 25, 2011 at Dartmouth * 4:00 p.m. Dec 2, 2011 at Massachusetts 4:00 p.m. Dec 10, 2011 at Princeton * 1:00 p.m. Dec 30, 2011 at North Dakota 4:30 p.m. Dec 31, 2011 at North Dakota 4:00 p.m. Jan 6, 2012 at Union * 4:00 p.m. Jan 7, 2012 at Rensselaer * 4:00 p.m. Jan 13, 2012 Union * 12:00 p.m. Live stats/Video Jan 14, 2012 Boston University 4:00 p.m. Live stats/Video Jan 20, 2012 at Colgate * 4:00 p.m. Jan 21, 2012 at Cornell * 4:00 p.m. Jan 27, 2012 Yale * 4:30 p.m. Live stats/Video Jan 28, 2012 Brown * 4:00 p.m. Live stats/Video Jan 31, 2012 Dartmouth * 4:00 p.m. Live stats/Video Feb 3, 2012 at Quinnipiac * 4:00 p.m. Live stats/Video Feb 6, 2012 vs. Boston University @ TD Garden 2:00 p.m. Beanpot Feb 10, 2012 Rensselaer * 4:00 p.m. Live stats/Video Feb 13, 2012 vs. Boston College/Northeastern @ TD Garden TBA Beanpot Feb 17, 2012 at Brown * 4:00 p.m. Feb 18, 2012 at Yale * 4:00 p.m. Video Feb 24, 2012 St. Lawrence * 4:00 p.m. Live stats/Video Feb 25, 2012 Clarkson * 4:00 p.m. Live stats/Video * = Conference games. looks like we'll actually be able to watch him a whole lot this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Harvard Men’s Hockey Freshmen Recognized by INCH INCH Recruiting Rankings: Forwards | Defensemen | Goalies | Teams CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Inside College Hockey has recognized the Harvard men’s hockey Class of 2015 as one of the top recruiting classes in the NCAA and named four individual freshmen among the best at their positions in its 2011 recruiting rankings. The Crimson sports arguably the nation’s deepest freshman class, as only Miami’s top-ranked class matches Harvard’s four players recognized in the INCH individual rankings and only Minnesota and North Dakota equal the Crimson’s five incoming National Hockey League draftees. INCH lists Harvard’s overall class, which features nine players, is ranked 12th nationally by INCH. The class was previously ranked fourth by Red Line Report. Steve Michalek is INCH’s pick for the nation’s No. 2 freshman goaltender. The Glastonbury, Conn., native led the United States to a silver-medal performance at the 2010 Ivan Hlinka and was invited to the U.S. National Junior Evaluation Camp in summer 2011. Two Crimson defensemen are ranked among INCH’s top 20 freshmen on the blue line. Patrick McNally, captain of last year’s New England-champion Milton Academy squad, is ranked 14th. Max Everson, a 2010-11 Minnesota Mr. Hockey finalist, comes in at No. 17. Czech Republic native Petr Placek is the No. 20 forward in the INCH freshman rankings. The former Hotchkiss School captain was ranked as high as No. 54 on the NHL Central Scouting list before being picked by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. McNally was selected by the Vancouver Canucks in 2010 NHL Entry Draft, a year before the Toronto Maple Leafs chose Everson, the Minnesota Wild picked Michalek and the San Jose Sharks selected Colin Blackwell. Along with previous draftees Danny Biega (Carolina Hurricanes), Alex Fallstrom (Boston Bruins) and Alex Killorn (Tampa Bay Lightning), the Crimson has eight NHL picks on its 2011-12 roster, the ninth-highest total in the NCAA.http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mice/2011-12/releases/111019_inch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dasein Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 http://www.gocrimson...ses/111019_inch Good to see that McNally will be playing in front of a decent goaltender if Michalek does end up winning the starting goaltending job. Seeing as he's the #2 ranked freshman, and won a silver medal for USA in the Ivan Hlinka, I'd say he has a pretty good chance. Also, having a good goaltender will help McNally because his style requires a goaltender who can bail him out one or two times in a game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3. Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 If you would like to watch Patrick's game, just tune into this at 4PM PST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3. Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 McNally is currently on the second pairing and is partnered with Brenden Rempel. Patrick is also already +2 on the night, and it's only halfway through the first period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanford Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Heh It feels like ages ago when we followed Patrick White's first game with the Gophers... Now its Mcnally's turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 no points yet, but he's +3 in a 5-1 game... edit, make that +3, as 2 of the goals are on the PP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilya Mikheyev Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 Heh It feels like ages ago when we followed Patrick White's first game with the Gophers... Now its Mcnally's turn. McNally isn't playing for the Gophers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 mcnally with an assist 6-4, and pat hasn't been on for a goal against yet, hes been on for all the goals for though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 2 assists now. 7-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 game over Harvard wins 7-4, Mcnally with 2 assists, +3 and on ice for every goal for, no goals against. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoneypuckOverlord Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 nono Defense is teachable scoring is not agree on this. It's not hard to teach playing defence because it's all about awarness and cutting down angles, angling players off to the side etc etc. Offence is depending on how gifted that player is. That's why instead of drafting defencemens to hopefully become offensive players, Gillis often drafts already offensively gifted defencemens and hope they learn the defensive side of the game, rather then vice versa. Connauton, Corrado, Henrik Tommeris, examples of offensive defencemens that needs to "work" on their defensive game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 Offense on Exhibit in 7-4 Win for Harvard Men’s Hockey Greiner scored the Crimson's second goal and the eventual game-winner (photo courtesy Steve Babineau). CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Luke Greiner, Alex Killorn and Conor Morrison scored two goals each to lead the Harvard men's hockey team to a 7-4 win in an exhibition game against Western Ontario Friday night at Bright Hockey Center. The Crimson scored five goals in the game's first 26 minutes to build a 5-0 lead. The Mustangs cut the advantage to one, but Harvard held Western scoreless in the third period and added two power-play goals to seal the win. Morrison led all players with four points, while Killorn had three and Marshall Everson also scored. Alex Fallstrom and newcomers Patrick McNally and Tommy O'Regan logged two assists each. Raphael Girard played half the game in goal, stopping 15 of 16 shots. Harvard was 4 for 9 on the power play and outshot Western, 43-31. Everson logged the unofficial first goal of 2011-12 for the Crimson. After Fallstrom banked the puck off the boards, Everson outraced the Mustangs to it and got a shot past Alain Valiquette less than five minutes into the game. Greiner doubled the lead at the 10:50 mark, redirecting in Danny Fick's point shot, with O'Regan also assisting. Killorn made it 3-0 with a goal from the slot on the power play after passes from Danny Biega and Morrison. Harvard outshot Western, 18-13, in the end-to-end first period. The margin grew to 5-0 early in the second period, on Morrison's power-play tally from Fallstrom and Killorn, followed by Greiner's second, with O'Regan and Brendan Rempel assisting. Western got back in the game quickly, with goals by Shaun and Jason Furlong and another by Tyler Peters. Kevin Baker scored a bad-angle shot on a power play to trim the Crimson's edge to a single goal in the waning seconds of the frame. The Mustangs held a 10-9 shots edge in the second. Harvard peppered Valiquette with 16 third-period shots. The Western goalie stopped 14 and finished with 36 saves. Steve Michalek saved all eight Western shots in the period, overcoming an 81-second two-man disadvantage, to total 12 stops. Morrison gave the Crimson some breathing room with his power-play goal at the 9:23 mark and, along with McNally, assisted on Killorn's man-advantage goal less than four minutes later. The Crimson opens the regular season Nov. 4 against Princeton.http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mice/2011-12/releases/201110218a6cyi good showing by McNally, looking forward to see how he does this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millerdraft Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 game over Harvard wins 7-4, Mcnally with 2 assists, +3 and on ice for every goal for, no goals against. Yeah, when it's that blatant it really cannot be a coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canvoucer Vanuck Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Wow, awesome showing by McNally, hope he keeps it up during the regular season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Yeah, when it's that blatant it really cannot be a coincidence. yeah, so much for the whole "he played high-school hockey so he can't play defense" theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dasein Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 yeah, so much for the whole "he played high-school hockey so he can't play defense" theory. Still remains to be seen if he can play defense against NCAA competition, where they'll actually have NHL prospects and a lot better competition. Good showing against Western, but being able to defend against them is not saying much or proving anything. Until he shows defensive stability against actual competition, I wouldn't say that he can defend well just yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 McNally's first NCAA season game is this Friday @ 4PM pacific. video link: http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/harvard.portal# just click on live events then click on "Watch" for the game. not too sure about the quality of the feed though. for the exhibition game it was just a stationary camera from one of the corners, and it didn't zoom or move. it might (should) be better for a real game, but we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Preview for this weekend's games along with a bunch of articles on the Crimson and Mcnally: Harvard Men's Hockey Starts 2011-12 Against Princeton, No. 19 Quinnipiac Ryan Grimshaw leads Harvard as the program's 119th captain (photo courtesy Steve Babineau). CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The puck drops on the 112th season of Harvard men's hockey as the Crimson faces Ivy League rival Princeton Friday night at Bright Hockey Center and another ECAC Hockey foe, No. 19 Quinnipiac, Saturday night. Both games start at 7 p.m. Game Notes (PDF) | ECAC Scoreboard | National Scoreboard This Week in Harvard Hockey Ted Donato '91, the Robert D. Ziff Head Coach for Harvard Men's Ice Hockey, shares his thoughts on the upcoming season with Bernie Corbett. In the News NBC Sports Network to Air Harvard-Yale men's hockey Boston Herald: Positive Outlook for Ted Donato, Harvard The Boston Globe: Harvard men's hockey team itching to start season Donato on Harvard's Class of 2015 (audio) Ontario Reign signs Chris Huxley '11 The Harvard Crimson hockey preview: The Icemen's New Groove Armed and Ready Dominating Both Zones A Dynamic New Wave of Talent This Weekend at Bright Friday night is Faculty/Staff Day, with Harvard employees gaining free admission. The game is also a Student Rewards contest and will feature Chuck-a-Puck from the Harvard University Employees Credit Union and free schedule magnets. Saturday is a Coke Family Four Pack night, so fans purchasing tickets online can get four seats for $40 and four free Cokes. Game On • Harvard looks to pick up where it left off after a strong finish to 2010-11. The Crimson reeled off a six-game win streak and came within an overtime goal of reaching the ECAC Hockey semifinals. • The Crimson welcomes back 18 letterwinners, including seven of its top nine scorers and five defensemen who skated in more than 25 games. Five of the nine new freshmen have been drafted by National Hockey League teams, tying the Crimson for the most incoming draft picks in the nation. • Former Crimson captain, NCAA Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player and NHL veteran Ted Donato begins his eighth season behind the Crimson bench. Defenseman Ryan Grimshaw (Rochester, N.Y.) captains the Crimson, assisted by forwards Alex Killorn (Montreal, Que.) and Daniel Moriarty (Bienfait, Sask.). • All-league defenseman Danny Biega (Montreal, Que.) led the Crimson with 30 points and 19 assists last season and paced ECAC defensemen with 21 points and nine goals in league play. Killorn netted a team-high 15 goals, and Harvard returns 73 percent of its 2010-11 goal-scoring. Follow From Home Live, pay-per-view video and free live statistics from all home games will be on GoCrimson.com. WHRB-FM 95.3 and WHRB.org offer live audio with Brendan Roche and Raafi Alidina on the call. Last Time Out Harvard made its 2011-12 competitive debut with a 7-4 win against Western Ontario Oct. 21. Despite just a week of formal practices, the Crimson offense looked to be in midseason form, jumping out to a 5-0 lead and scoring four power‑play goals. Conor Morrison (London, Ont.) led the way with two goals and two assists. Luke Greiner (Faribault, Monn.) and Alex Killorn also scored twice each. Killorn added an assist, while Alex Fallstrom (Stockholm, Sweden) and rookies Patrick McNally (Glen Head, N.Y.) and Tommy O'Regan (Needham, Mass.) notched two helpers apiece. For Openers The Crimson is 80-28-3 all-time in official season openers, including a team-record 18 straight opening wins from 1922-39, and 20‑11‑1 in home openers since the opening of Bright Hockey Center in 1979. This is the first time Harvard and Princeton have faced off in an opener since a 7-5 Crimson win Jan. 1, 1946. Last Year's Opener Union defenseman Greg Coburn scored a power‑play goal to break a third-period tie and lift the No. 15 Dutchmen to a 2-1 win against the Crimson Nov. 5, 2010. Danny Biega scored earlier in the third period, and Kyle Richter '10-11 made 33 saves. Let's Get It Started Due to Ivy League schedule restrictions and no games last weekend, Harvard is the last of the 58 NCAA Division I men's hockey teams to begin the 2011-12 season. Experienced Opponents Princeton enters its game against a Harvard team making its season debut having already played three games. Quinnipiac will play its 11th game against the Crimson. A Tradition of Excellence Harvard has amassed 21 NCAA tournament appearances, 21 Ivy League championships, 13 ECAC regular-season titles, 12 Frozen Four berths, 10 Beanpots, eight ECAC tournament crowns and an NCAA championship in 1989. Harvard's hockey history features 24 Olympians and 36 All-America picks. Three Harvard players have earned the Hobey Baker Memorial Award as the top player in college hockey. Only Minnesota and Minnesota Duluth have captured more Hobey trophies, with four each. Harvard owns an all-time record of 1,301‑843-113. A Strong Finish The Crimson looks to pick up where it left off after playing its best hockey at the end of last season. Harvard won six straight games, including a road sweep of Clarkson in the first round of the playoffs and a defeat of Dartmouth in Game 1 of the teams' quarterfinal series. That win against the Big Green completed a run of eight wins and a tie in a 10-game span for the Crimson. Dartmouth won the last two games of the series by a goal each, with Game 2 reaching overtime. A Strong Finish, by the Numbers ECAC Hockey's best records in February: Union, 7-0-1 (.938); Yale, 6-1-1 (.813); Harvard, 5-3-1 (.611). ECAC's best records from Feb. 1 to season's end: Yale, 11-3-1 (.767); Union, 8-3-1 (.708); Harvard, 8-5-1 (.607). ECAC's best records in team's last month of season: Yale, 6-2-0 (.750); Harvard, 8-3-0 (.727); Colgate, 5-5-1 (.500); Cornell, 5-5-1 (.500). Well Prepared Thanks to new compressors installed in summer 2010, the 2011 summer was the first in which the Bright Hockey Center ice was available for members of the Crimson to use during the summer. The team took advantage, as most players were able to spend time skating together in the summer. The entire squad was able to take part in captains' practices together as soon as they arrived on campus for classes, rather than waiting until mid-September. New Faces Behind the Bench Albie O'Connell comes to Cambridge following a three-year stint at nearby Northeastern. He also previously coached at Merrimack, Holy Cross, Niagara and Colby. O'Connell played at Boston University, where he won four Beanpots and a Hockey East Championship and advanced to the NCAA Frozen Four twice. Jerry Forton served as an assistant coach at UMass Lowell for two seasons following 13 years at Niagara. He coached or recruited five players to the River Hawks and seven to the Purple Eagles who were drafted or signed NHL free-agent contracts. Veteran Scorers The players who scored 56 of Harvard's 77 goals last year are back in Cambridge this season. In addition to top goal-scorer Alex Killorn, a number of other returning forwards were key factors in Harvard's late‑season surge, including Conor Morrison, who totaled 19 points in 2009‑10, and Alex Fallstrom, who tied for second in ECAC Hockey with four playoff goals. Preseason Picks Danny Biega was named to the ECAC Hockey Preseason All-League teams by the conference's coaches and covering media members. The coaches picked Harvard to finish seventh, while the media selected the Crimson 12th. Award Winners Danny Biega earned selection to the All-Ivy League first team, ECAC Hockey second team and New England All-Star team last season. Alex Killorn was a second-team All-Ivy pick. Rated Rookies Harvard's nine-player freshman class has been ranked among the nation's best and is arguably its deepest. Red Line Report ranked the class as NCAA Division I's fourth-best, while Inside College Hockey ranked the class 12th nationally. INCH named four incoming players among the best at their positions: Steve Michalek (Glastonbury, Conn.), second among goaltenders; defensemen Patrick McNally, 14th, and Max Everson (Edina, Minn.), 17th among defensemen, and Petr Placek (Rakovnik, Czech Republic), 20th among forwards. Next Stop ... the Next Level The five NHL draftees in Harvard's freshman class match Minnesota and North Dakota for the nation's most. Patrick McNally was a fourth‑round pick of the Vancouver Canucks in 2010. Four other Crimson rookies were chosen in 2011: Steve Michalek (Minnesota Wild, sixth round), Petr Placek (Philadelphia Flyers, sixth), Colin Blackwell (North Andover, Mass.) (San Jose Sharks, seventh) and Max Everson (Toronto Maple Leafs, seventh). NHL Draft Picks by NCAA Team, Top 10 1. Minnesota 17 2. North Dakota 14 3. Boston University 12 4. Michigan 11 5. Notre Dame 10 6. Boston College 9 Denver 9 Miami 9 9. Harvard 8 Wisconsin 8 Series History: Harvard vs. Princeton Only Yale has faced off against Harvard more than Princeton. Starting with a 6-3 win March 1, 1902 in New York City, Harvard holds a 146‑55‑11 series edge and is 9‑6‑2 against the Tigers under Ted Donato. Harvard has swept two league playoff series from the Tigers—including in 2010 at Baker Rink—but Princeton scored a 4-1 win against Harvard in the 2008 ECAC final. Last Season: Harvard vs. Princeton The teams played two close games last season. Princeton's Mike Condon made 36 saves in a 1-0 Nov. 19 win at Baker Rink and Alex Killorn registered three points as Harvard rallied three times for a 4-4 tie Feb. 11. Scouting the Tigers Princeton's first season under new coach Bob Prier got off to a promising start with a 2-2, non-league tie against No. 10 Yale. The Tigers have since lost to Brown, 3-2, in their Ivy Shootout finale and Quinnipiac, 5-2, in their conference opener. Defenseman Michael Sdao paces Princeton with two goals and is one of five players sharing the team lead with two points each. Sean Bonar has started two of the Tigers' three games, while Mike Condon started the other. Bonar owns a 2.92 goals-against average and .902 save percentage. Andrew Calof led the Tigers with 33 points and 24 assists last year. Series History: Harvard vs. Quinnipiac The Crimson is 7-6-2 against Quinnipiac in a series that dates back to a 5-2 Bobcats win in their first ECAC game in 2005. Harvard won a home ECAC Hockey quarterfinal series between the teams in 2008 and is 7-2 against the Bobcats at Bright. Quinnipiac is 4-0-2 in its series home games, including a 2-2 tie in the inaugural ECAC Hockey game at TD Bank Sports Center in 2007. Last Season: Harvard vs. Quinnipiac Playing in his hometown, Rence Coassin (Hamden, Conn.) had a goal and an assist to lead Harvard back from a 4-1 deficit, but Quinnipiac held off a late Crimson flurry to win at home, 5-4, after Ben Arnt broke the tie in the third period. In the rematch at Bright, Eric Hartzell made 34 saves to overcome a 35‑20 edge in shots for Harvard, leading the Bobcats to a 3-1 win. Scouting the Bobcats Qunnipiac got goals from five different scorers in Tuesday's 5-2 win at Princeton to open league play. Jeremy Langlois enters Friday's game at Dartmouth with the nation's second-highest goal total at eight and a team-high 14 points. He was voted October's ECAC Hockey/Fischer Hockey Player of the Month, while teammate Matthew Peca (three goals, six assists) was the Rookie of the Month. Dan Clarke had a 1.50 goals-against average, .928 save percentage in five starts while sharing time with Eric Hartzell. The Bright Stuff Harvard is 61-35-4 (.630) at home under Ted Donato and 283-128-29 (.676) all-time at Bright Hockey Center, which opened in 1979-80.http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mice/2011-12/releases/2011110368d75x First game is tonight at 4PM pacific, and Versus will show a game on Jan 27th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 hmmm, apparently you have to pay for the video... harvard down 1-0 after 1, McNally's even with no shots, and was not on the ice for the PP goal by princeton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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