The best College Hockey coverage is at CollegeHockeyNews.com http://www.collegehockeynews.com Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:36:58 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/images/design/chn2006-text-180px.gif http://www.collegehockeynews.com College Hockey News http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/30_et_east_regional_notebook.php The end was in sight for Canisius. Just over 12 minutes to go. A two-goal lead over top-ranked Quinnipiac. Somehow, it appeared the Canisius Golden Griffins, a team that snuck into the NCAA tournament by winning Atlantic Hockey’s automatic bid, was going to knock off the top team in the land. Then Matthew Peca happened. The Quinnipiac sophomore bobbed his way around the offensive zone, found the ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/30_et_cavanaugh_remembered_again.php Brian Cavanaugh coached Canisius through 24 years. Twenty-four years of being a club team, a Division III team, and ultimately a Division I team. He coached them through playing at two community rinks, as a part-timer, making $3,500 per year. Cavanaugh was made a full-time coach in 2000. By 2004, he was fired, 15 days before Christmas, amid a tumultuous year in the program's history. His players had ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/29_et_canisius_journey_started.php There's a thousand stories in the naked city. You just have to look for them. As it goes for the day-to-day underbelly of New York City, it goes in Division I college hockey as well. Canisius is a team people rarely, if ever, pay attention to. But that doesn't mean the stories weren't there, or their journey is any less compelling. Canisius enters the NCAA tournament on an eight-game winning streak ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/29_et_rediscovering_himself.php By now, the name Cory Conacher resonates with most college hockey fans. The Tampa Bay Lightning winger  is among the favorites for the NHL's Calder Trophy -- awarded to the league's rookie of the year -- with nine goals and 15 assists in 33 games. Preston Shupe has known Conacher for about four years. He played with him at Canisius as a freshman and a sophomore. Conacher was Atlantic Hockey's Player ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/28_et_east_regional_preview.php For the four teams traveling to Providence, R.I., for the East Regional of the NCAA tournament, the path was very different. The field contains the defending national champion, a national semifinalist from last season, the tournament's No. 1 overall seed and a conference champion that nearly ceased to exist as recently as eight years ago. Top-seeded Quinnipiac plays Atlantic Hockey champion Canisius ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/28_et_atlantic_hockey_hopes.php The landscape of college hockey is rapidly changing. It isn’t just the advent of two new leagues on the horizon for next season, and the end of another, but the gap between the bottom and the top is as close as its ever been. Parity, they call it. For the first time ever, two Atlantic Hockey Association teams will be a part of the NCAA tournament after Canisius won the league’s automatic bid ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/24_putting_itself_on_the_map.php Canisius is a team that most fans across the country don't pay much attention to, let alone have heard of. That is all changing. Even in the league, Canisius was left for dead this year. But in the year that the best player in the program's history, Cory Conacher, made a name for himself in the National Hockey League, the Golden Griffins continued the magic, winning its last eight games to capture ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/22_bubble_buster.php All season, Niagara dominated Atlantic Hockey, giving the conference a lot of recognition by being well within range of an at-large bid to the NCAAs. But in losing Friday to Canisius, Niagara actually gave Atlantic Hockey even more recognition, because now, for the first time, two conference teams will go to the NCAAs. That is not the way Niagara wanted it to happen, of course. But it ran into its ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/22_atlantic_hockey_preview.php For the first time since 2007, Air Force and RIT are not in the Atlantic Hockey semifinals, meaning someone else will represent the league in the NCAA Tournament. Air Force was knocked off by an upstart team at home while RIT fell on the road to favored Niagara in the quarterfinals. No. 1 Niagara (23-8-5, 20-5-2 AHA) vs No. 7 Canisius (17-18-5, 12-13-2 AHA) Season series: Niagara won 2-1 It’s ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100