The United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL), the largest junior hockey league in the country wrapped up a nearly week-long national championship tournament at the Utica University Nexus Center with champions crowned in two divisions, and the city and its brand new facility making quite the positive impression.
Tom Fiorentino, 2009 New Hartford High School graduate, is on his fifth year as an assistant coach with the Statesmen after a four-year playing career at Hobart. He and the team earned the program's first national title on Sunday with a 3-2 overtime win over then-defending champion, Adrian College.
The Utica Comets began the home stretch of the regular season - with just 11 games left coming in, all against North Division opponents - with a big 4-3 win over arch-rival Syracuse Crunch at the Adirondack Bank Center, Thursday.
The Colgate men's ice hockey team will open its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2014 against No. 2 Michigan on Friday. Despite being considered the underdog heading in, the team is fresh off beating two Top 10 teams en route to its first ECAC Tournament title since 1990, and so the Raiders enter the Big Dance with the confidence that they can compete with the best.
The ECAC champion Colgate University men's ice hockey team departed campus, Wednesday, bound for Allentown, Pennsylvania where the nationally-ranked No. 19 Raiders will face No. 3 Michigan in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Friday.
The Colgate University men's ice hockey team gets set for the NCAA Tournament, after a Cinderella run through the ECAC Tournament where the Raiders captured the program's first ECAC Tournament title since 1990.
The Utica Comets play three of the next four games at home after a recent five-game road trip where the team went 2-3-0-0. The team has just 11 games left in the regular season, all against North Division opponents.
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