March 9, 20242 yr 20 hours ago, Law said: The people that are in St Louis are thrilled. It's their first Nationals and that is always special and exciting. Huge for St Vincent and the Martz (father-son) coaching tandem. Big congratulations to their program Looks like a win for them today against Colby!
March 10, 20242 yr #20 Pitt vs #5 UNLV at 10:15 in quarter-final. UNLV beat Pitt two years ago at Nationals 5-2.
March 10, 20242 yr 3 hours ago, Law said: The dream is over. UNLV 5 PITT 1. Honestly to me that's a very successful season.
March 10, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, aaaahockey said: Honestly to me that's a very successful season. Great for program............future schedule and recruiting
March 13, 20242 yr 30 minutes ago, Law said: Adrian 3 UNLV 0 Adrian wins their 3rd National Championship. How good is Adrian? Did you see the game? Adrian has a great D-3 team as well! Not bad for a school that has 1700 total undergrads!
March 13, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, hockeyisgreat said: How good is Adrian? Did you see the game? Adrian has a great D-3 team as well! Not bad for a school that has 1700 total undergrads! Adrian is a hockey powerhouse.
March 13, 20242 yr 2 hours ago, hockeyisgreat said: How good is Adrian? Did you see the game? Adrian has a great D-3 team as well! Not bad for a school that has 1700 total undergrads! Hockey budget size is a much, much bigger factor than school size. They also have a rink on campus, which some NCAA schools don't have. Jeff Docking is a big hockey guy and gets their teams a lot of money. He sort of had a vision like that at W&J, but I don't think he had the support from the administration that he wanted. W&J was a very good ACHA D1 team when he was there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Docking
March 14, 20242 yr On 3/13/2024 at 10:51 AM, Spear and Magic Helmet said: Hockey budget size is a much, much bigger factor than school size. They also have a rink on campus, which some NCAA schools don't have. Jeff Docking is a big hockey guy and gets their teams a lot of money. He sort of had a vision like that at W&J, but I don't think he had the support from the administration that he wanted. W&J was a very good ACHA D1 team when he was there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Docking Too bad the school itself doesn't have the same credentials. 😞
March 15, 20242 yr Does anyone remember Life University back in the 1990s early 2000s? They “were” (I honestly don’t know anymore) a chiropractic school in Georgia that somehow managed to lure in a team full of ringers from Canada that nobody knew anything about. They dominated out of nowhere for several seasons.
March 15, 20242 yr On 3/13/2024 at 10:51 AM, Spear and Magic Helmet said: Hockey budget size is a much, much bigger factor than school size. They also have a rink on campus, which some NCAA schools don't have. Jeff Docking is a big hockey guy and gets their teams a lot of money. He sort of had a vision like that at W&J, but I don't think he had the support from the administration that he wanted. W&J was a very good ACHA D1 team when he was there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Docking I don’t know Jeff Docking. I never met him. All I do know, is that he almost pulled off the exact same feat at W&J as he is currently doing at Adrian. Just didn’t quite get the overall push like he wanted from the school. As far as I know/remember, he was thee entire reason W&J had a brief, but illustrious ACHA college hockey flash in the pan. He was the reason why W&J acquired their own Iceoplex locker room, training room,, everything that comes with a traditional legitimate college hockey program during a time where it just didn’t happen (unless you were NCAA).
March 15, 20242 yr 6 hours ago, Rewster said: Does anyone remember Life University back in the 1990s early 2000s? They “were” (I honestly don’t know anymore) a chiropractic school in Georgia that somehow managed to lure in a team full of ringers from Canada that nobody knew anything about. They dominated out of nowhere for several seasons. I absolutely do remember that. The school exists still and coincidentally, one of the better players on the River Monsters is a Canadian who went and played there. I also don't know if Life is still a powerhouse or if they even still have a team, but yeah in that era, they were always at Nationals in D2 and won a few times. I want to say that the ACHA might have made it harder for grad students to play. They definitely reduce the amount of eligibility. It was 12 semesters or 6 years back in that era (I forget which) and I know at one point it went down to 10 semesters or 5 years. https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/222041/kynan-tarnowski https://www.achahockey.org/mens-division-1-national-champions-2
March 15, 20242 yr 10 hours ago, Rewster said: Does anyone remember Life University back in the 1990s early 2000s? They “were” (I honestly don’t know anymore) a chiropractic school in Georgia that somehow managed to lure in a team full of ringers from Canada that nobody knew anything about. They dominated out of nowhere for several seasons. This sounds like it has "Netflix documentary" all over it.
March 15, 20242 yr 2 hours ago, nemesis8679 said: This sounds like it has "Netflix documentary" all over it. I think the more interesting story would be at Liberty University. They have plenty of Canadian players too.
March 15, 20242 yr 20 minutes ago, Spear and Magic Helmet said: I think the more interesting story would be at Liberty University. They have plenty of Canadian players too. What goes on there? I do know that some Europeans get on NCAA teams because their home countries pick up the tab, which is higher tuition than residents would pay.
March 15, 20242 yr Jamestown only had 2 US players on their team. Alot of the top ten schools in ACHA D1 are filled with foreign players
March 16, 20242 yr 6 hours ago, Spear and Magic Helmet said: I think the more interesting story would be at Liberty University. They have plenty of Canadian players too. At the very least, Liberty appears to be the current incarnation of ACHA college hockey’s version of “how to build a hockey powerhouse program through the same principles that the USA military implements everywhere it goes…spend an absurd amount of dollars acquiring an absurdly excessive amount of superior assets that will simply overwhelm any competition.” It appears to be a sound strategy if money is not an object.
September 11, 20241 yr Pitt hockey coming off an elite 8 appearance at ACHA D1 Nationals opens the season on Friday with the City game on ice vs Duquesne at 830 at Alpha followed by a trip to Wes Banco on Sunday for a 1PM game vs WVU.
January 13, 20251 yr #20 Pitt ACHA D1 team split with #1 Ohio University this weekend. Won Friday night game 5-3 but lost Saturday 3-1. They play at #7 Niagara next weekend.
January 13, 20251 yr 15 hours ago, Law said: #20 Pitt ACHA D1 team split with #1 Ohio University this weekend. Won Friday night game 5-3 but lost Saturday 3-1. They play at #7 Niagara next weekend. Good luck! Seems like pretty good hockey. I remember last year I saw on this post Pitt lost to UNLV. That's the same UNLV that beat NCAA D1 #6 Denver. Just goes to show how good the top ACHA teams are. Denver isn't a bottom dweller NCAA D1 team.
March 13, 20251 yr Pitt plays #14 University of Mary (ND) today in the ACHA D1 National tournament. The winner will play Ohio University tomorrow. It's the 4th consecutive tournament appearance for Pitt. Last year Pitt lost in the Elite 8 to UNLV. In addition, St Vincent is making its 2nd consecutive National appearance in D3. They will start pool play later in the week
March 14, 20251 yr Thu, Mar 13 MD1 University of Pittsburgh 0 MD1 University of Mary 4 NHL Arena-CCIC
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