CORTLAND men's ICE HOCKEY 2017-18 TEam Guide 2017-18 Season Preview The 2017-18 Cortland men’s Ten forwards are back in hockey roster is comprised of 26 2017-18, including eight of the players. That includes just eight top-10 scorers from a season ago, upperclassmen consisting of making this the most-experienced six seniors and two juniors. The group on the team. Seniors Dan rest of the team features eight Broderick, Andrew McCann, sophomores and 10 freshmen, Tommy Nolan and Paul Fregeau marking the second season in a combined to score 54 points on row that fourth-year head coach 26 goals and 28 assists last season. Joe Cardarelli has brought double- Broderick, the team’s active scoring digit newcomers into the program. leader with 74 points in 75 games, totaled 13 points on three goals Goaltender Drew Weigman and 10 assists in 25 games. McCann is one of the six seniors and has produced 14 points on nine goals continued to work his way toward and five assists in 24 games. Nolan the top of the career saves list at scored 15 points on eight goals and Cortland. Through three seasons, seven assists in 24 games with all Weigman has turned aside 2,203 eight goals coming in conference Senior Dan Broderick. shots, which ranks second all-time play. Fregeau collected 12 points Senior Drew Weigman. as a Red Dragon. He also is tied for on six goals and six assists in 23 first in career shutouts and is closing in on the top spot in career games in his first season with the team. wins. Last season, Weigman started and played in 22 games, posting an 8-13-1 record with 762 saves, an .893 save Junior Mike Crowley is Cortland’s returning percentage, a 4.24 GAA and one shutout while leading scorer having compiled 23 points on five facing some of the top programs in Div. III hockey goals and a team-high 18 assists in 25 games last throughout the season. season. Crowley also led the Red Dragons with 16 points in SUNYAC action. Sophomore Douglas Sophomore Nick Modica also returns this Elgstam finished the 2016-17 season third in scoring, season. Modica saw the ice in one game off the registering 19 points on five goals and 14 assists in bench as a freshman, playing 17 minutes, 17 seconds 25 games. Sophomore Stefano Alonzi also skated in in goal against Geneseo. Freshman Salvatore all 25 games, picking up 17 points on five goals and Lauretta joins the team after last playing for a very 12 assists. successful Binghamton Jr. Senators of the NA3HL, where he went undefeated between the pipes Sophomore Sean Perichak saw the ice in all during the 2016-17 regular season. 25 games as a freshman. Playing in all situations, Perichak tallied 15 points on five goals and 10 assists. Defensively, Cardarelli returns four players. Sophomore Nico Gonzalez totaled 11 points on four Senior Cory Lauer skated in 72 games in his career, goals and seven assists in 21 games last season, while picking up 11 points on four goals and seven assists. sophomore Connor Beck contributed one goal and Last season, Lauer scored three goals and added four assists in 19 games. three assists in 24 games. Junior Andrew Gleason Senior Tommy Nolan. appeared in the third-most games as a defenseman Six freshmen round out the roster at forward. last season, collecting three goals and six assists in Scott Docherty was a proven goal scorer in the 23 games. Sophomore Martin Lavallee contributed one goal and OJHL where he won a league championship with the Georgetown six assists in 17 games as a freshman, and sophomore Ryan Fritz, Raiders. Scott Donahue proved who joined the team in the second himself as one of the best players half of the season, picked up two in the EHL for two seasons with assists in six conference games. the Boston Bandits. Michael Faliero, who last played for the Freshmen Logan Blaser, Louis Buffalo Jr. Sabres of the OJHL, DiMatteo and Justin Schebel join brings skill and grit to the program. the program on the blue line Tom Ritchie is a versatile player in 2017-18. Blaser played more who last skated for the New York than 150 games in the OJHL and PAL Islanders of the USPHL. Alex the CCHL, last skating for the Storjohann led the NOJHL in Brockville Braves. DiMatteo brings assists last season as a member of a wealth of OJHL playing time that Kirkland Lake. Conor Tierney brings includes league and Dudley-Hewitt speed to the lineup after helping Cup championships. Schebel lead the Philadelphia Flyers of the competed in more than 100 games USPHL to the playoffs last season. in the CCHL and the NOJHL and also has a league title and a trip to the Dudley-Hewitt Cup on his Senior Cory Lauer. resume. Senior Andrew McCann. CORTLAND Coaching Staff Joe Cardarelli Head Coach Joe Cardarelli enters his fourth season as Cortland’s head coach in 2017-18. Cardarelli has improved the team’s record every year since taking over and has put together the program’s best three-year record since the 1990-93 seasons. He also has coached the program’s first All-American as well as the SUNYAC Rookie of the Year. Cardarelli previously served as an assistant coach for Left to right: Head Coach Joe Cardarelli, Assistant Coach Ryan the Red Dragons during the 2013-14 school year where Michel, Student Operations Manager Garrett DuMond, Student he was the program’s recruiting coordinator and re- Media Director James Farrell, Student Equipment Manager Bobby sponsible for coaching the defense. Prior to Cortland, Juliano. Cardarelli was the head coach of the Laconia Leafs in the Atlantic Junior Hockey League and led the team Ryan Michel to the most wins in the program’s Junior A history. In Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator 2011-12, Cardarelli took over the Yellowstone Quake and brought the team to the Northern Pacific League’s play- Ryan Michel begins his first season as an assistant coach on off semifinals. the Cortland men’s ice hockey staff in 2017-18. Michel played defense for four seasons at Hobart College. While with the Cardarelli’s coaching background includes three years Statesmen, he was a three-time All-ECAC West selection as as an assistant coach at Oswego. As the program’s pri- mary recruiter he brought in the majority of the players well as team MVP during his junior and senior seasons. He on Oswego’s 2007 NCAA Division III championship team. finished his collegiate career ranked ninth on Hobart’s all-time During his tenure, the Lakers had three All-Americans, assist list. two conference Rookies of the Year, five All-SUNYAC players and eight members of the SUNYAC All-Academ- Following Hobart, Michel played two seasons profession- ic Team. Cardarelli also served as an assistant coach for ally for the Macon Mayhem of the Southern Professional American International College (NCAA Division I, At- Hockey League, winning regular-season and postseason cham- lantic Hockey) and was the head coach at the National pionships. Sports Academy, a preparatory school for winter-sport student-athletes in Lake Placid, N.Y. Michel received a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Hobart. The Camillus, N.Y., native works summer Since 2000, Cardarelli has been heavily active with hockey camps in central New York for West Genesee High USA Hockey at the local, district and national levels. School and the Salt City Prospects. He’s presented at several Coaching Education Program clinics around the country and works extensively with player development. Cardarelli has been an evaluator for the NYS Central Section tryouts as well as for the New York, Southeastern and Central Districts. Additionally, Cardarelli coaches at a USA Hockey Select Player Devel- opment Camp each summer. For more information on the SUNY Cortland men’s ice hockey program, please contact: Joe Cardarelli, Men’s Ice Hockey Head Coach SUNY Cortland, Park Center, P.O. Box 2000 Cortland, NY 13045 (607) 753-4990 (office) (607) 753-4929 (FAX) [email protected] 2017-18 Seniors (left to right): (Front row) Dan Broderick, Drew Web Site: http://www.cortlandreddragons.com Weigman, Andrew McCann. (Back row) Paul Fregeau, Cory Lauer, Tommy Nolan. R E D D R A G O N S Team Roster No. Name .................................. Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. Hometown/Junior Team 3 Logan Blaser ............................D 5-11 205 Fr. Aurora, ON/Brockville Braves (CCHL) 4 Andrew Gleason ....................D 5-10 175 Jr. Vestal, NY/Syracuse Stars (USPHL) 5 Tom Ritchie ..............................F 5-11 190 Fr. Spencerport, NY/New York PAL Islanders (USPHL) 6 Cory Lauer ................................D 6-2 190 Sr. Mt. Juliet, TN/Toronto Lakeshore Patriots (OJHL) 7 Connor Beck ...........................F 5-11 165 So. Richmond Hill, ON/Toronto Jr. Canadiens (OJHL) 8 Douglas Elgstam.....................F 5-11 185 So. Stockholm, Sweden/New Jersey Rockets (EHL) 9 Andrew McCann ...................F 5-9 185 Sr. Bowmanville, ON/Wellington Dukes (OJHL) 10 Mike Crowley ..........................F 5-11 180 Jr. Buffalo, NY/Springfield Blues (NAHL) 11 Dan Broderick .........................F 5-9 180 Sr. White Plains, NY/New York PAL Islanders (USPHL) 12 Scott Docherty ......................F 6-5 210 Fr. Oakville, ON/Georgetown Raiders (OJHL) 13 Ryan Fritz ..................................D 6-3 205 So. Rochester, NY/Buffalo Jr. Sabres (OJHL) 14 Tommy Nolan .........................F 5-9 170 Sr. Mahopac, NY/Connecticut Oilers (EHL) 15 Paul Fregeau .............................D 6-3 195 Sr. Los Angeles, CA/Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) 17 Stefano Alonzi ........................F 5-11 190 So.