2014-15 Team Guide MEN's Ice Hockey
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CORTLAND MEN's ice hockey 2014-15 TEam Guide 2014-15 Season Preview The 2014-15 season is one Cardarelli welcomes three of new beginnings for the freshmen on defense in 2014-15. Cortland men’s ice hockey Brendan Pascarella comes to team. Joe Cardarelli was named Cortland by way of the Hartford head coach in June 2014 after Jr. Wolfpack of the EHL. Cory serving as an assistant coach Lauer skated for the Toronto with the program last season. Lakeshore Patriots of the OJHL. Prior to Cortland, Cardarelli Drazen Zack was a member of had experience coaching at the the Connecticut Oilers, also of preparatory school, Junior A, the EHL. NCAA Division III and NCAA Division I levels. The roster The Red Dragons return nine features 15 returning players as forwards in 2014-15, including well as nine newcomers, with the top scorer from a season new players coming in at every ago. Senior assistant captain position. The schedule features Nick Zappia earned third team Sophomore Casie Garrison. the usual season-long slate of All-SUNYAC honors last season Junior Kyle Herring. 16 conference games as well as after leading the Red Dragons a non-conference schedule that features opponents from in goals (11), assists (17) and points (28). Zappia has seen action throughout the Northeast, including new match in 73 games over the past three seasons, scoring ups with several New England schools. 34 goals and 28 assists for 62 points. Junior Brant Sherwood and sophomore Casie Garrison each The Red Dragons feature one returning saw action in all 24 games last season. Sherwood goaltender as well as two newcomers. The lone scored 12 points on seven goals and five assists. returner, sophomore Mike Staversky, saw limited Garrison tallied six points on three goals and action in his first season, earning 14:58 of ice time three assists. at Plattsburgh late in the campaign. The two newcomers in goal are freshmen Drew Weigman Junior Mike Davie saw ice time in 22 games, and Kollyn Jones. Weigman is a product of the scoring 11 points on five goals, all on the power Northern Cyclones of the EHL, while Jones play, and six assists. Juniors Michael Mascaro comes from the New York PAL Islanders of the and Sam Pinsler saw time in 18 and 16 games, USPHL. respectively. Mascaro put up two goals and two assists, while Pinsler scored one goal and added Along the blue line, Cortland features five two assists. Junior Jason Kenney scored a goal returners. Junior Ryan Wagner again serves as and appeared in 12 games in his first season with captain, while senior Jeff Vanzant was named an the team. Junior Josh LaRose tallied an assist Junior Mike Davie. assistant captain this season. Wagner, who saw in two games after appearing in 15 games his action in 23 games during his sophomore season, freshman season. Junior Michael Markowitz saw led all defensemen in scoring with 11 points on three goals and action in only one game due to injury after in his first season eight assists. Vanzant played in 19 games in 2013-14, including on the roster. 15 SUNYAC contests, recording two assists on the season. Four freshmen join the forwards this season. Andrew Senior Kevin Antonik has McCann skated for the played in 69 games during his Wellington Dukes of the OJHL career after seeing action in all last season. Dan Broderick 24 games last season. He scored was with the New York PAL two goals and recorded two Islanders of the USPHL. Tommy assists in 2013-14. Junior Kyle Nolan was a member of the Herring tallied nine points on Connecticut Oilers of the EHL. two goals and seven assists last Finally, Darren McCormick was season in 23 games after seeing on the Buffalo Jr. Sabres of the action in 22 games his freshmen OJHL. year. Junior Adam Diorio rounds out the returners on defense. He appeared in eight games last Junior Brant Sherwood. Junior Sam Pinsler. year after playing in all 25 as a freshman. CORTLAND Coaching Staff Joe Cardarelli Head Coach Joe Cardarelli was hired as Cortland’s men’s ice hockey coach in May 2014. He previously served as an assistant coach for the Red Dragons during the 2013-14 school year where he was the program’s recruiting coor- dinator and responsible for coaching the defense. Prior to Cortland, Cardarelli was the head coach of the Laconia Leafs in the Atlantic Junior Hockey League Assistant coach Dan Jones (left), head coach Joe Cardarelli (center) and led the team to the most wins in the program’s and assistant coach Sean Cromarty. Junior A history. In 2011-12, Cardarelli took over the Yellowstone Quake and turned the team around by Sean Cromarty improving its goal differential and reducing penalty min- Assistant Coach utes, ultimately leading the team to the Northern Pacific Sean Cromarty joins the Cortland men’s ice hockey coaching League’s playoff semifinals. staff in 2014-15. Cromarty’s previous coaching experience includes serving as the head coach at Westfield High School in New Jersey No stranger to the SUNYAC, Cardarelli’s coaching from 2011-14 and with the New Jersey Rockets. He also has worked background includes three years as an assistant coach at with the USA Hockey Atlantic District Program as an evaluator. Oswego. As the program’s primary recruiter, he brought Cromarty is a 2000 graduate of Upper Canada College in Toron- in the majority of the players on Oswego’s 2007 NCAA to, Ont., where he captained the boys’ ice hockey team as a senior. Div. III championship team. During his tenure, the Lakers He earned a scholarship to Div. I Colorado College, then of the had three All-Americans, two conference Rookies of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, and was a four-year letter Year, five All-SUNYAC players and eight members of the winner for the Tigers from 2000-04. SUNYAC All-Academic Team. Cromarty currently owns and operates Competitive Advantage Training, a company geared toward hockey-specific training. Cardarelli also served as an assistant coach for Ameri- Dan Jones can International College (NCAA Div. I, Atlantic Hockey) Assistant Coach and was the head coach at the National Sports Acad- emy, a preparatory school for winter-sport student- Dan Jones enters his second season as an assistant coach for the athletes in Lake Placid, N.Y. Cortland men’s ice hockey program in 2014-15. Jones works as the team’s goaltender coach, helps develop off-ice training programs and is responsible for team morale and mental skills. Since 2000, Cardarelli has been heavily active with USA Hockey at the local, district and national levels. Jones played four seasons of hockey at SUNY Oswego as a He’s presented at several Coaching Education Program goaltender, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in May, 2013. During his career, the Lakers won two SUNYAC titles and made four clinics around the country and works extensively with Div. III “Frozen Four” appearances. He received the Pete Sears Perse- player development. Cardarelli has been an evaluator for verance Award and was a member of the SUNYAC Commissioner’s the NYS Central Section tryouts as well as for the New List. York, Southeastern and Central Districts. Additionally, Prior to joining the Cortland staff, Jones served as an assistant Cardarelli coaches at a USA Hockey Select Player Devel- private instructor with Joslin Elite Training for three years working opment Camp each summer. with minor junior, college, semi-pro and NHL players. 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] Web Site: http://www.cortlandreddragons.com Senior assistant captain Nick Zappia (left), junior captain Ryan Wagner (middle) and senior assistant captain Jeff Vanzant. r e d d r a g o n s Team Roster No. Name .................................. Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. Hometown/Junior Team 3 Brendan Pascarella ................D 6-1 205 Fr. Sloatsburg, NY/Hartford Jr. Wolfpack (EHL) 6 Cory Lauer ................................D 6-2 175 Fr. Mt. Juliet, TN/Toronto Lakeshore Patriots (OJHL) 7 Michael Mascaro ...................F 5-9 165 Jr. Merrick, NY/NY Apple Core (EJHL) 9 Andrew McCann ...................F 5-10 175 Fr. Bowmanville, ON/Wellington Dukes (OJHL) 10 Michael Markowitz ..............F 5-9 185 Jr. Staten Island, NY/NY Bobcats (AJHL) 11 Dan Broderick .........................F 5-9 175 Fr. White Plains, NY/New York PAL Islanders (USPHL) 12 Sam Pinsler ...............................F 5-9 185 Jr. Chicago, IL/Green Mountain Glades (EJHL) 14 Tommy Nolan .........................F 5-9 170 Fr. Mahopac, NY/Connecticut Oilers (EHL) 15 Josh LaRose ..............................F 5-8 155 Jr. Liverpool, NY/Syracuse Stars (EJHL) 16 Casie Garrison ........................F 5-9 170 So. Cortland, NY/Philadelphia Revolution (EJHL) 17 Jason Kenney ...........................F 6-0 240 Jr. Boston, MA/Drumheller Dragons (AJHL) 18 Nick Zappia ..............................F 5-11 185 Sr. Manlius, NY/Kingston Voyageurs (OJHL) 19 Drazen Zack .............................D 6-3 215 Fr. East Greenbush, NY/Connecticut Oilers (EHL) 21 Mike Davie................................F 5-11 180 Jr. Brooklyn, NY/NY Apple Core (EJHL) 22 Darren McCormick ...............F 5-11 170 Fr. West Seneca, NY/Buffalo Jr. Sabres (OJHL) 23 Brant Sherwood.....................F 6-0 190 Jr. Rochester, NY/Drayton Valley Thunder (AJHL) 24 Adam Diorio ............................D 5-10 190 Jr. Staten Island, NY/NY Bobcats (AJHL) 27 Kevin Antonik .........................D 6-2 230 Sr. Central Islip, NY/New Jersey Hitmen (EJHL) 28 Ryan Wagner ...........................D 5-11 185 Jr.