The preferred method at Cadet Arena is to give freshmen time to adjust to challenges of military and college life, to say nothing of physically maturing more for the rigors of college hockey. Air Force won’t have that luxury this…
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Air Force no doubt had plenty of intel on its new director of hockey operations, Ben Kinne, who was announced this week. Kinne came from Cedar Rapids of the USHL, where he had served as an assistant coach the past…
If someone had put me in a headlock before Air Force’s 2018-19 hockey season and asked me which player I thought would garner the most three stars selections I would have said, “That’s easy – senior Billy Christopoulos.” It wasn’t…
[iframe src=”http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/9531956″ width=”100%” height=”500″] The past few weeks have been eventful ones around the Air Force hockey program. Senior Kyle Haak was selected the winner of the 2019 Senior CLASS Award. He took time to discus that honor and what’s next for…
Air Force didn’t wait long to turn the page on a season that fell short of the program’s well-established expectations. Rising senior Matt Pulver was selected the Falcons’ captain for the 2019-20 season in a recent vote by returning players….
Oh no! Or in Air Force’s case this season, No O! If you’re looking for one reason why the Falcons didn’t reach the first of their goals – the final four of the Atlantic Hockey Conference tournament – you could…
One of the more interesting subplots in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, which begins Friday, is yet another postseason meeting between former Air Force Director of Hockey Operations Steve Miller and a program he spent nearly two decades…
It’s not exactly breaking news that Air Force has an excellent penalty kill. The Falcons kill off nearly 90 percent of opponents’ penalties (89.7 percent), and have had one of Division I’s top PKs for the past several years. The…
Air Force hockey fans got their first extended look at sophomore goaltender Zach LaRocque last fall, when he filled in for Billy Christopoulos after the senior underwent emergency surgery. But LaRocque should be familiar to fans of Colorado youth hockey…
The numbers aren’t pretty – collectively no goals for the past 14 games. And two of the three members had no goals all season. Yet there was Air Force’s fourth line scoring the decisive goal off the stick of junior…
