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Merrimack has announced the formation of a radio partnership with WGAM ‘The Game’ in New Hampshire to broadcast all regular season and playoff games.
An ESPN Radio affiliate, all of Merrimack’s 36 regular season games and all playoff games will be broadcast live across Northern Massachusetts and all of Southern New Hampshire on 1250 and 900 AM or 1590 AM and will also stream online and on the station’s smartphone application.
“WGAM ‘The Game’, southern New Hampshire’s home for sports, is so proud to be the new home for Merrimack College Hockey for the 2012-13 season,” said Matt Perrault, General Manager of WGAM. “We are always looking to carry the best local sports in Southern New Hampshire and Northern Massachusetts and without a doubt, Merrimack College Hockey has become one of the premier athletic programs in the region.”
“We’re really excited to partner with WGAM for the upcoming hockey season,” said Director of Athletics Glenn Hofmann. “This partnership continues to increase our coverage area and visibility and will help us promote not only Merrimack hockey, but more importantly, Merrimack College.”
With the exception of four Friday games in October and November, all games will be broadcast live on 1250 AM (based in Manchester) and 900 AM (based in Nashua) and online at wgamthegame.com. The four Friday games will air live on WSMN-Nashua 1590 AM and online at wsmnradio.com.
An all-sports radio station, Merrimack will also be featured during WGAM’s “Hometeam with Matt Perrault” show, which airs Monday-Friday at 4 p.m.
“Merrimack fans everywhere will be able to hear the games for free off our two separate radio signals, online off our website and through our WGAM smart phone application,” said Perrault. “We are so excited to get started this fall.”
The Warriors will also take part in the Catamount Cup this December, where they’ll play Union and Princeton at Gutterson Field House on Dec. 28 and 29.
Merrimack non-conference schedule includes: Home — Harvard, Colgate, Army, UConn, NTDP (exhibition); Road — Union (season opener), Alaska Fairbanks (tourney), Alaska Anchorage (tourney), Princeton (Catamount Cup in Vermont), Union (Catamount Cup in Vermont)
Boston College has received a $5 million gift from an anonymous donor to endow its head men’s ice hockey coaching position, held by Jerry York.
In addition to being the largest gift to a BC Athletics team, it is the first coaching endowment received at any Hockey East school. The donor cited a long love for BC Hockey, admiration for Jerry York and his leadership, and the commitment that BC has to student-athletes as demonstrated by its high graduation rates as the catalysts for his gift.
York is one of the most successful coaches in all of NCAA sports, with five NCAA championships and 913 wins during his storied career.
“I am humbled and honored to lead a program where its alumni care so deeply about our commitment to excellence and developing our student-athletes as men and women for others,” said York. “This gift signals that BC Hockey will continue to be competitive for years to come. It is certainly our hope that others will follow this lead and help BC Hockey to become fully endowed.”
Merrimack 2013 recruit Wade Murphy of the Penticton Vees capped a spectacular season with the Royal Bank Cup championship on Sunday night. The RBC Cup is awarded yearly to the Canadian Junior A National Champion.
He joins Kyle Bigos (’09 Vernon Vipers) and Mike Collins (’09 and ’10 Vernon Vipers) as recent Merrimack players who have won the title.
It caps an incredible season for Murphy, in which he scored a total of 109 points (45 goals, 64 assists) in 75 games.
The Vees, trailing 3-2 in the third period after a by the Woodstock Slammers, tied the score with 8:50 remaining in the period and then St. Cloud recruit Joey Benik scored the game-winning goal with 0:51 left in regulation.
Avon Old Farms defenseman Colin Sullivan, a draft choice of the Montreal Canadiens, will join Boston College this coming fall.
A 6-foot-2, 180-pounder, Sullivan was a New England Prep All Star this past season. Before Avon, he played for Fairfield Prep in Connecticut, his home state.
Sullivan was previously committed to Yale but decommitted in January after the Yale coaching staff approached him about playing a year of junior hockey. Sullivan reportedly wanted to come in as a freshman in 2012.
There were four Massachusetts players as well as one Rhode Islander selected in the USHL Futures Draft earlier this week.
Topsfield’s Ara Nazarian, a freshman at Malden Catholic, was taken in the sixth round by Des Moines. Maine recruit Liam Pecararo of Canton (he plays for Boston Advantage) was taken as the second overall pick.
Conor Garland of the Junior Bruins went to Muskegon in the third round and Bryan Lemos, a standout at La Salle Academy (Rhode Island) was picked by Youngstown in the fourth round. Ryan Donato, son of Harvard head coach Ted Donato, who plays at the Dexter School, was also taken in the sixth round by the Omaha Lancers.
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Team USA will open the IIHF World Championships tomorrow (Friday) morning at 5 a.m. EST when they face France, which boasts just one NHL player on its roster, former Merrimack center Stephane Da Costa.
The game will be televised live in the United States on the NBC Sports Network.
In 16 career games at the World Championships, Da Costa has six points (1-5-6). In overall international competition, including juniors, he has 38 points (13-25-38) in 31 games.
Da Costa split this past season, his first as a pro, between the Ottawa Senators (NHL) and Binghamton Senators (AHL), posting five points (3-2-5) in 22 NHL games and 36 points (13-23-36) in 43 AHL games. He was recalled to the Senators as one of their Black Aces for the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs during their series with the New York Rangers.
Photo provided by the Penticton Vees
Merrimack recruit Wade Murphy will participate in the RBC Cup this spring. The tournament, which opens on Saturday, will feature Murphy’s team, the Penticton Vees, along with the
Murphy finished the regular season with 91 points (36-55-91) in 60 games between the Vees and the Victoria Grizzlies. In 15 playoff games with the Vees, Murphy has 18 points (9-9-18).
The highlight film was produced by Max Collins of Atomic Lizard.
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Merrimack College has finalized 34 of its 36-game schedule for the upcoming 2012-13 season.
The Warriors will open the season on Oct. 6 with a road trip to Union, which competed in the Frozen Four this past season.
The full schedule to date, listed below, details 34 of Merrimack’s 36 games. The Warriors are allowed an extra two games on its schedule this season due to playing in an exempted tournament in Alaska (games against Alaska schools, in Alaska are exempt, hence the format of the tournament) this coming October.
In a scheduling oddity, the Warriors will face Maine three games in a row in January, playing at Lawler Arena on Jan. 12 and then twice in Orono the following weekend, Jan. 18 and 19.
The Warriors will play a road game against New Hampshire, at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, on Jan. 26 at 7 p.m.
All Friday home games have been moved to 7:30 p.m., to help accommodate fans dealing with northbound traffic during rush hour on the major highways leading into the Merrimack Valley.
Note: Two non-conference games to be added
OCTOBER
6 – @ Union (7pm)
10 – @ Northeastern, 7pm
19 – @ Alaska Tournament
20 – @ Alaska Tournament
26 – Vermont, 7:30
27 – Vermont, 7pm
NOVEMBER
2 – @ Northeastern, 7pm
3 – Northeastern, 7pm
9 – Boston University, 7pm
10 – Connecticut, 7pm
16 – @ Boston College, 7pm
23 – Colgate, 4pm (Friday after Thanksgiving)
30 – Providence, 7:30
DECEMBER
1 – @ Providence, 7pm
7 – Harvard, 7:30
8 – U.S. Under-18 Team, 4pm
11 – Army, 7pm
JANUARY
5 – @ Vermont, 7pm
11 – Boston University, 7:30
12 – Maine, 7pm
18 – @ Maine, 7pm
19 – @ Maine, 7pm
25 – New Hampshire, 7:30
26 – @ New Hampshire, 7pm (at Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester)
FEBRUARY
1 – Lowell, 7:30
2 – @ New Hampshire, 7pm
8 – @ Boston University, 7pm
9 – Massachusetts, 7pm
15 – Boston College, 7:30
17 – @ Providence, TBA
23 – Boston College, 7pm
MARCH
1 – @ Lowell, 7pm
2 – Lowell, 7pm
8 – Massachusetts, 7:30
9 – @ Massachusetts, 7pm
