DIVISION III MEN’S ICE HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS RECORDS BOOK 2017 Championship 2 History 3 Won-Lost Records in Tournament Play 8 All-Time Results 9 2017 CHAMPIONSHIP HIGHLIGHTS Norwich claims 4th championship: The Norwich University men’s ice hockey team won its fourth NCAA Division III Ice Hockey National Championship with a 4-1 win over Trinity (Conn.) on Saturday night at the Utica Memorial Auditorium. The Cadets (27-1-3) got goals from seniors Anthony Flaherty, Paul Russell and tournament Most Valuable Player William Pelletier, as well as freshman Todd Jackson to lead the offense. Meanwhile senior Ty Reichenbach made a NU career-high 35 saves to lift Norwich to its first national title since 2010 and punctuate the season with a program- record 25-game unbeaten streak. NU’s last and only loss of the season came on Nov. 18 in a 3-2 overtime decision to Skidmore. The win capped off an incredible resurgent season for the 10-player senior class that bowed out in the New England Hockey Conference (NEHC) Semifinals last year and failed to win the league regular season for the first time in 18 years. Norwich is now a four-time NCAA Division III National Champion, having won titles in 2000, 2003 and 2010. The Cadets are now tied for the third most D-III national championships with St. Norbert. Only Middlebury (eight) and UW-Stevens Point (five) have more titles. After a bit of a feeling out and relatively evenly played first period, the Cadets didn’t take long to strike first blood in the second frame. Norwich finally opened the scoring at the 1:38 mark of the second period with Flaherty scoring his 12th goal of the season off an assist from Pichette. Pichette gloved the puck at the blue line after Trinity failed to clear it out. Pichette wheeled in from the right wing and got a 360 spin-o-rama shot off that Morin made a leg pad save on. However, the rebound bounced out to Flaherty crashing the net from the left side and he slipped it behind Morin to make it 1-0 Norwich. Trinity (21-7-3) came roaring back though and nearly tied it up just under two minutes later with a great scoring chance for Sean Orlando, but he couldn’t dig out a pass from the left side in his skates and didn’t get all of a shot he pushed just wide right. The Bantams finally did capitalize at the 5:04 mark of the second period with Tyler Whitney scoring his 13th goal of the year on a pretty tip off an initial shot from the point by Liam Feeney on the power play. Whitney tipped the puck up and over the glove of Reichenbach for the goal from the right side of the crease. Ryan Cole notched the second assist on the goal after feeding the puck back to Feeney at the point. Norwich regained the lead at the 8:07 mark of the second period with Todd Jackson using his blazing speed up the right wing and then sniping a quick wrist shot past the glove of Morin to beat him short side off the post for his seventh goal of the season. TJ Dockery picked up the only assist on the goal after he chipped the puck up off the boards after digging it out of the corner. Jackson corralled it and then chipped the puck up off the boards himself to speed around the Trinity defender and create a breakaway for himself. The biggest turning point of the third period came at the 5:45 mark when Reichenbach made a sprawled out pad save while fully extended to rob Barclay Gammill on the doorstep. Reichenbach’s save paved the way for another senior to step up in a big moment just over a minute after the save. Russell extended lead to 3-1, capitalizing on a misplay by Morin behind the net, stripping the puck from him, curling around the left side and firing a wrist shot between the legs for his eighth goal of the season. Reichenbach continued to come up big with another save on a partial breakaway, robbing Andy Chugg for another spectacular save. He also made the game- clinching save with 1:30 together, diving across the crease to glove the puck and rob a Trinity player on top of the crease. Pelletier added the punctuation mark at the 19:35 mark with an empty-net goal off an assist from Kevin Salvucci for his 18th of the season. Pelletier, Dockery and Reichenbach were all named to the All-Tournament team. Trinity outshot Norwich 36-35. Morin made 31 saves in the loss for Trinity. Reichenbach’s NU career-high of 35 saves finished his season with an 11-1-3 record. 2017 Championship 2 HISTORY RESULTS Year Champion (Record) Coach Score Runner-Up Host or Site Championship Championship Game Attendance Total Attendance 1984 Babson (27-5-1) Rob Riley 8-0 Union (NY) RIT 1,064 9,226 1985 RIT (26-6) Bruce Delventhal 5-1 Bemidji St. Union (NY) 2,500 14,557 1986 Bemidji St. (25-9-1) R.H. Peters 8-5 #Plattsburgh St. Bemidji St. 2,047 14,592 1987 #Plattsburgh St. (34-6) Steve Hoar 8-3 Oswego St. Plattsburgh St. 4,000 17,530 1988 Wis.-River Falls (31-6-1) Rick Kozuback 7-1, 3-5, 3-0 Elmira Elmira 4,000 21,723 1989 Wis.-Stevens Point (34-5-2) Mark Mazzoleni 3-3, 3-2 RIT RIT 2,100 19,171 1990 Wis.-Stevens Point (28-4-6) Mark Mazzoleni 10-1, 3-6, 1-0 Plattsburgh St. Wis.-Stevens Point 1,200 15,829 1991 Wis.-Stevens Point (27-9) Mark Mazzoleni 6-2 Minn. St. Mankato Elmira — 16,701 1992 Plattsburgh St. (32-2-2) Bob Emery 7-3 Wis.-Stevens Point Plattsburgh St. — 18,932 1993 Wis.-Stevens Point (25-5-2) Joe Baldarotta 4-3 (OT) Wis.-River Falls Maplewood, Minn. 2,878 13,900 1994 Wis.-River Falls (21-8-4) Dean Talafous 6-4 Wis.-Superior Wis.-Superior 2,150 10,448 1995 Middlebury (23-2-2) Bill Beaney 1-0 Fredonia Middlebury 1,700 12,340 1996 Middlebury (26-2-0) Bill Beaney 3-2 RIT Wis.-River Falls 624 11,876 1997 Middlebury (22-3-2) Bill Beaney 3-2 Wis.-Superior Middlebury 1,600 16,850 1998 Middlebury (24-2-2) Bill Beaney 2-1 Wis.-Stevens Point Plattsburgh St. 3,015 11,018 1999 Middlebury (21-5-1) Bill Beaney 5-0 Wis.-Superior Norwich 4,733 15,621 2000 Norwich (29-2-1) Mike McShane 2-1 St. Thomas (MN) Wis.-Superior 3,641 16,417 2001 Plattsburgh St. (29-5) Bob Emery 6-2 RIT RIT 2,100 17,675 2002 Wis.-Superior (24-5-5) Dan Stauber 3-2 (OT) Norwich Middlebury 2,600 19,202 2003 Norwich (27-3) Mike McShane 2-1 Oswego St. Norwich 3,000 12,609 2004 Middlebury (27-3) Bill Beaney 1-0 (OT) St. Norbert Norwich 2,200 13,490 2005 Middlebury (23-4-3) Bill Beaney 5-0 St. Thomas (MN) Middlebury 2,165 11,905 2006 Middlebury (26-2-2) Bill Beaney 3-0 St. Norbert Elmira 1,474 13,671 2007 Oswego St. (23-3-3) Ed Gosek 4-3 (OT) Middlebury Wis.-Superior 1,052 12,087 2008 St. Norbert (27-1-4) Tim Coghlin 2-0 Plattsburgh St. Lake Placid, N.Y. 4,770 15,842 2009 Neumann (21-9-2) Dominick Dawes 4-1 Gust. Adolphus Lake Placid, N.Y. 3,141 10,102 2010 Norwich (26-1-4) Mike McShane 2-1 (OT) St. Norbert Lake Placid, N.Y. 5,100 19,879 2011 St. Norbert (25-4-1) Tim Coghlin 4-3 Adrian Minneapolis 1,741 11,592 2012 St. Norbert (21-5-5) Tim Coghlin 4-1 Oswego St. Lake Placid, N.Y. 3,300 17,749 2013 Wis.-Eau Claire (24-5-2) Matt Loen 5-3 Oswego St. Lake Placid, N.Y. 2,089 11,321 2014 St. Norbert (28-3-1) Tim Coghlin 3-1 Wis.-Stevens Point Lewiston, Me. 1,851 10,575 2015 Trinity (CT) (25-3-1) Matthew Greason 5-2 Wis.-Stevens Point Minneapolis 1,303 8,456 2016 Wis.-Stevens Point (24-5-2) Chris Brooks 5-1 St. Norbert Lake Placid, N.Y. 2,304 12,645 2017 Norwich (27-1-3) Mike McShane 4-1 Trinity (CT) Utica, N.Y. 1,595 12,000 #Participation in the tournament vacated by the NCAA Committee on Infractions. TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Middlebury 8 Wis.-Stevens Point 5 Norwich 4 St. Norbert 4 Plattsburgh St. 2 Wis.-River Falls 2 Babson 1 Bemidji St. 1 Neumann 1 Oswego St. 1 RIT 1 Wis.-Eau Claire 1 Wis.-Superior 1 History 3 TOURNAMENT SCORING LEADERS Year Player, School G A P Andrew Mather, Oswego St. 2 3 5 Year Player, School G A P 2012 Cody Keefer, St. Norbert 5 0 5 1984 Maurice Montambault, RIT 5 5 10 Seth Soley, St. Norbert 1 4 5 1985 Dave Piromalli, Plattsburgh St. 4 7 11 2013 Chris Muise, Oswego St. 4 2 6 Peter DeArmas, Plattsburgh St. 7 4 11 2014 Joe Perry, St. Norbert 5 2 7 1986 Ritchie Herbert, RIT 6 6 12 2015 Elie Vered, Trinity (CT) 4 2 6 1987 *Chris Panek, Plattsburgh St. 2 7 9 William Pelletier, Norwich 3 3 6 1988 Arron Scott, Wis.-River Falls 6 7 13 2016 Anthony Marra, SUNY Geneseo 3 3 6 1989 Paul Caufield, Wis.-Stevens Point 4 10 14 Frankie DeAugustine, UMass Boston 1 5 6 1990 Ralph Barahona, Wis.-Stevens Point 2 7 9 Kyle Sharkey, Wis.-Stevens Point 2 4 6 Jim Duran, Plattsburgh St.