Photo Courtesy @the_anthonydasilva on Instagram BY: AIDAN SHINNERS, STAFF WRITER The St. Bonaventure Division I club hockey season has come to an end following the AAU College Hockey National Championship tournament that took place from March 5-7. The 16 qualified teams were placed into four separate round-robin pools where the highest-placing team in each would…
BY: ANDREW RUSS, STAFF WRITER Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Terry Pegula’s ownership of the Buffalo Sabres has been a subject that many fans have become increasingly upset with. Pegula bought the Sabres in 2011, and the team has seen zero success since. The franchise has seen poor management, inconsistent and flat-out bad coaching and…
Photo: www.bonnieshockey.com BY: ROGER WEBSTER, STAFF WRITER With the St. Bonaventure hockey season about halfway done, players look back on the first half of the season and what to improve on moving forward. In the team’s most recent game, the Bonnies defeated the Cornell Big Red 4-0, putting their record to 6-2. Senior forward and…
Photo: @bonnies.hockey on Instagram BY: KYLE MAIER, SPORTS EDITOR With eyes set on a national championship this season, the St. Bonaventure men’s AAU Division I hockey team looks to bring its win streak to four following two games against the Rochester Institute of Technology this weekend. After a 2-1 start, head coach Jordan Farnham made…
BY WILL POLADIAN, SPORTS EDITOR St. Bonaventure traveled north to the Buffalo State Ice Arena to take on the Buffalo State Bengals on Saturday. The Bonnies took a commanding lead and never looked back, winning in blowout fashion, 12-2. “I think that we executed our gameplan in every way, ” said freshman right winger Michael…
BY JAMES RUMSCHLAG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER We’ve all been there, and we all love going. The St. Bonaventure hockey games. The Bonnies games are played at the rec center down in Olean proper, but what if Bonaventure had its own rink? This would help save some bit of gas for students who live on or close…
I love sports. I love everything about sports. The competition, the adrenaline and the stories that unfold as we watch a season come down to the final few games always creates a buzz that lasts until the next season .One of my favorite things about sports is what the athletes wear. Uniforms are the trademark…
In every professional sport, there is a vast amount of debate among fans, media and experts on who the best players are. Last week, a popular hockey magazine, “The Hockey News,” did their version of this with their annual piece that highlights the top 50 players in the National Hockey League. When looking at the…
By Mikael DeSanto Staff Writer The St. Bonaventure club hockey team had its most recent game cut short due to lack of officiating, as the referees were stuck in Buffalo and could not make the game. The Bonnies faced Ithaca in their last home game of the season, making it senior night for the team.…
By Anthony Candelaria Contributing Writer The St. Bonaventure men’s club hockey team looks to finish strong, playing its final game at home. But this game has a lot of meaning for the seniors on the team, according to senior forward John Rogers. “(The game) means everything. Hockey is an addiction, and that is what has…
The NHL All-Star Game was this past weekend, and people are already calling it one of the best NHL All-Star events in recent history. For one, the new format made the game appear more competitive and fun for fans to watch. The 3-on-3 tournament format led to fans seeing back-checking, one-timers, big saves and actual…
By Julia Mericle News Editor Matthew McGuinness said it feels great to be a Bonnie. The 14 year old from Franklinville was officially drafted onto the St. Bonaventure club hockey team on Sat., Nov. 7 as part of TEAM IMPACT, an organization that pairs children facing life-threatening and chronic illnesses with a college athletics team.…
By Ethan MacKrell Contributing Writer There’s no better feeling than getting your first goal out of the way and taking the pressure off your shoulders. This past weekend, Joe Chinelly scored the first goal of his Bonaventure career off of a pass from line mate Andrew Farnham. Chinelly, a freshman on this year’s St.…
By Nick Konotopskyj Sports Assignment Editor St. Bonaventure’s hockey team played two games against Ithaca this weekend with Ithaca taking the first game in a shootout 6-5 and the Bonnies taking the second game 3-2. For the Bonnies, it was their second win on the season, and it puts their record at 2-3-1. Forward…
By Gavin Lindahl Sports Assignment Editor With a 15-1 loss to the University at Buffalo and a 4-1 loss against Cortland last weekend, the club hockey team’s season is finishing the way it started. With only one game remaining (last weekend’s game against Binghampton was postponed, date to be announced) and devoid of any significant…
By Gavin Lindahl Sports Assignemnt Editor With seven points (four goals and three assists) in his last five games, freshmen forward Andrew Farnham has been one of the club hockey team’s bright spots in an otherwise forgettable and bleak season. According to Farnham, his goals come the old fashioned way by getting to the dirty…
By Gavin Lindahl The NHL has never been the most popular sports league in the United Sates. Ice hockey has never taken off in popularity in the southern US and has fallen to third or fourth to the likes of the NFL, NBA and MLB. However, NHL officials have tried time-and-time again to make hockey’s…
By Gavin Lindahl Sports Assignment Editor The club hockey team split its road trip with one loss and one overtime win last weekend. The Bonnies’ win over Ithaca Sunday was the team’s first win since Nov. 8 and its second win of the season. According to junior defenseman and assistant captain Nate Parker, the 4-3…
By Gavin Lindhal Sports Assignment Editor In sports, there are few positions as physically and mentally demanding as that of an ice hockey goalie. Game in and game out, goalies are expected to contort their bodies, diving and spinning to stop discs of vulcanized rubber traveling at speeds up to a 100 mph from entering…
By Gavin Lindahl Sports Assignment Editor Sixteen years ago, when junior forward Andrew Chadwick was only four years old, his mother made an interesting and, possibly, ill-informed decision. She put the four-year-old Chadwick on ice with skates and a hockey stick and let him play hockey as opposed to football. “My mother thought football…