2006-07 Season Preview The 2005-06 Cortland men’s ice hockey season is long goals and 10 assists. His forgotten, stowed away with all the other past years. After output needs to increase enduring a long and arduous campaign last season, sixth-year this season if the Red head coach Tom Cranfield is only looking ahead. The 2006-07 Dragons are to return to team may still be young, but the majority of the players have the SUNYAC playoffs. plenty of experience and understand what needs to be done to Sophomore Nick Catanzaro keep the ghosts of last season from haunting Alumni Arena. had a successful rookie campaign. Catanzaro was Finding a number- second on the team in one goaltender is scoring with 23 points on Cranfield’s top priority. 10 goals and 13 assists He has plenty of and second with seven options with four on power-play goals. Junior the roster. Senior Jason alternate captain Matt Lojewski brings the Goslant has proven to most experience to the be one of Cortland’s top ice, having been with playmakers. He was second the program since the on the team with 14 assists 2002-03 campaign. in 2005-06 and scored 17 In his time with the points overall. Senior Jon Sandos is one of program, Lojewski Cortland’s most-experienced has seen action in Senior Ryan LaShomb blue liners. 17 games with 12 had a strong 2005-06 starts. Junior Jon Bova campaign, scoring nine points on three goals and six assists, enters his third season and will be a regular in the lineup this season. Physical Junior Matt Goslant has been with the team and sophomore Chris Corso played in 22 games last season and selected as an alternate captain for continues to improve. collected 11 points on five goals and six assists. He’ll see an the 2006-07 season. Two newcomers, abundance of ice time this season. Senior Buddy Anderson has sophomore Mike made the move from defense to forward this season. Always a Mistretta and freshman Ben Binga, will compete for time in net. threat offensively as a blue liner, Anderson scored 11 points on Mistretta earned 12 starts at Northland College last season and four goals and seven assists in 2005-06. Juniors Justin Bodine posted a 4.43 GAA and an .884 save percentage. Binga comes and Zach Dehm skated in 10 and 20 games, respectively, in to the Red Dragons from the Syracuse Stars Junior A program 2005-06. Bodine scored seven points on two goals and five and shows great promise. assists, while Dehm contributed five points on a goal and four assists. Junior Matt Nichols has seen limited playing time his Four returning first two seasons but has continued to work hard and will be defensemen are joined by a factor on offense in 2006-07. Other players looking to earn four newcomers. Senior more ice time are senior Brian Herlihy, junior Brennan Briggs captain Peter Deloria and sophomores Justin Kocent and Corey LaRoche. heads the list. Deloria is in his fourth year with the Cranfield has brought program and has missed six freshmen forwards to just four games in that the team. Nick Shackford span. Senior Jon Sandos is a very fast and gifted is also in his fourth year forward who will be with the team and his looked upon to add to the experience around the offense. Niles Moore is a crease will be essential in skilled power forward who 2006-07. Sophomore Mike understands the game Egan, the Red Dragons’ and sees the ice well. biggest player, is Cortland’s Patrick Palmisano is a tall, top-scoring returning blue lanky forward with great liner this season, having vision on the ice and will scored seven points on two see his share of minutes. Sophomore Nick Catanzaro goals and five assists in 24 Frank Rizzo has great was second on the team with games. Classmate Robert skills around the net that seven power-play goals as a Podlucky saw action in 16 should translate to goals in freshman. games as a freshman and 2006-07. Also looking to will help to keep the crease crack the lineup are John clear. Freshman Gerard Heinz, who joined the team late last Perrotta and Mike Friel. Junior Matt Nichols will play a season but did not compete, and sophomore Casey Hubbard significant role in the offense in are very skilled defensemen who will log plenty of minutes this With the 2005-06 2006-07. season. Sophomores Taylor Indivero and Tim Lloyd look to earn season all but forgotten, time. the 2006-07 Red Dragons have a fresh start. If Cranfield can find a consistent goaltender, a couple of effective scoring lines The Red Dragons return three of their top-four scorers from and defensive pairings that click, Cortland has the opportunity a year ago. Junior alternate captain Barry McLaughlin was to skate in the postseason again. third on the team in scoring in 2005-06 with 20 points on 10 CORTLAND Coaching Staff Tom Cranfield Head Coach Tom Cranfield, a former SUNY Cortland men’s ice hockey player and assistant coach, begins his sixth season as the program’s head coach in 2006-07. In 2004-05, he guided the Red Dragons to an 11- 14-2 record and a fifth straight appearance in the SU- NYAC playoffs. In 2003-04, the Red Dragons posted a 10-16-1 re- cord and earned a SUNYAC playoff berth. In 2002-03, (Left to right): Head Coach Tom Cranfield, Volunteer Assistant Cranfield led the Red Dragons to a SUNYAC playoff Coach Howie Thomas and Assistant Coach Josh Murray. berth and their first victory over rival Plattsburgh since 1977. In his first season, he guided the Red Dragons to a 14-11-4 record, the most wins by the program Josh Murray since 1993. Cortland won its opening-round SUNYAC Assistant Coach playoff series before being eliminated in the confer- ence semifinals. Josh Murray enters his fifth season behind the Cortland bench in 2006-07. Prior to Cortland, he was an assistant coach Cranfield served as head ice hockey coach and for the men’s ice hockey team and head coach of the men’s taught physical education at the highly-regarded cross country team at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts from 1997-99. Northfield Mount Hermon Prep School in Massachu- setts from 1995-2001. He was an assistant coach at Murray was a standout defenseman for four seasons at Cortland for two seasons from 1993-95. SUNY Oswego, helping guide the Lakers to the SUNYAC play- offs all four seasons. He led the team in “Plus/Minus” and was A standout defenseman at Cortland from 1989-93, voted “Fan Favorite” as a junior and senior. Murray earned a Cranfield is the school’s career assist leader (73) and bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice in 1993 with a double ranks 12th in overall scoring (93 points). As a senior in minor in Health Science and Coaching. 1992-93, he earned first team All-State University of After graduation, Murray pursued a professional hockey New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) honors. The career, playing with the Utica Bulldogs of the Colonial Hockey Red Dragons finished 19-9 that season and advanced League under Head Coach Marty Howe and the San Antonio to the finals of the SUNYAC postseason tournament. Iquanas of the Central Hockey League for seven-time NHL all- Cranfield was a team captain and the program’s Red star Bill Goldsworthy. Letter Award winner in both his junior and senior A native of Massachusetts, Murray is a 1989 graduate of seasons. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physical Tabor Academy, where he earned All-New England honors in education in 1993 and a master’s degree in education both ice hockey and football. in 1995. Howie Thomas A native of Auburn, N.Y., Cranfield graduated from Auburn High School in 1988. He was the school’s Volunteer Assistant Coach hockey Most Valuable Player in both 1987 and 1988. His father, Jim, is a 1961 Cortland graduate and a Howie Thomas enters his second season as a volunteer member of the school’s C-Club Athletic Hall of Fame. assistant coach for the Cortland men’s ice hockey program in 2006-07. Cranfield resides in Cortland with his wife, Tara, Thomas played collegiate hockey at Elmira College from and their daughter, Gabrielle. 1989-91 before joining the Las Vegas Aces of the Pacific South- west Hockey League, now known as the Las Vegas Wranglers of the East Coast Hockey League. For more information on the SUNY Cortland men’s ice hockey program, please contact: Thomas and his wife Nicki currently reside in Cortland. Tom Cranfield, Men’s Ice Hockey Head Coach SUNY Cortland, Park Center, P.O. Box 2000 The 2006-07 Cortland Men’s Ice Hockey Guide was written and edited Cortland, NY 13045 by Associate Sports Information Director Dan Surdam. Action and team (607) 753-4990 (office) photographs by Darl Zehr Photography. The guide was printed by Graphics (607) 753-4929 (FAX) Plus Printing of Cortland, N.Y. [email protected] ON THE COVER: (clockwise from upper left): Junior Barry McLaughlin, Web Site: http://www.cortland.edu/athletics/hockey senior Buddy Anderson, senior Peter Deloria and senior Ryan LaShomb. R E D D R A G O N S Team Roster No. Name ...........................Pos. Yr. Ht. Wt. Hometown Last Team 1 Jon Bova .......................G Jr. 5-10 170 Camillus, NY West Genesee HS 2 Casey Hubbard .............D So. 6-1 185 Ronkonkoma, NY New York Bobcats 3 Jon Sandos ....................D Sr.