Joe Tyran arrived at the Air Force Academy hoping to make an impact right away. The defenseman’s plans were derailed by a season-ending knee injury in the Falcons’ exhibition game in October 2017. Tyran spent the next year rehabbing and…
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The hanger will be full this season for Air Force Academy. Coming off one of the most successful season’s in program history, the Falcons will welcome a 12-member freshman class to the 21 players returning from last season’s team. Air…
Everyone at Cheers supposedly knows your name. Air Force defenseman Dylan Abood does the famous Boston watering hole one better – I think he might know everyone’s name. During a handful of interviews with the Falcons junior co-captain I came…
It wasn’t as if going to an NCAA Tournament should be that unusual. When current Air Force seniors Johnny Hrabovsky, A.J. Reid and Tyler Rostenkowski enrolled at the Academy as freshmen the Falcons were just one year removed from going to…
When it comes to Air Force’s three seniors, the individual numbers don’t come anywhere close to telling the entire story. The numbers that count are 15, 16, 17 and 18. Thanks in part to returns to health and surges in…
The Air Force formula of balanced offense, tight defense, great goaltending and exceptional penalty killing worked to near-perfection Friday night. The Falcons blasted American International, 5-0, as 12 skaters hit the scoresheet and Shane Starrett stopped 17 shots for the…
Fear must have been a good motivator for Air Force this week. Four days after coach Frank Serratore said this weekend’s series at Bentley was one he was leery about because of Bentley’s recent resurgence and a distinct home-ice advantage at…
Basketball and hockey took center stage for the first time this season at Air Force’s weekly news conferences this week, and that meant the return of coach Frank Serratore to the broader media galaxy. Couple that with a six-game win…
If junior Erik Baskin is going to score a goal, there is a 75 percent chance it’s happening on a Friday night. Three of his four this season have come in series openers, including the past two weekends. The 6-foot-3…
How do you want your goals? Air Force is fine with any way, as it proved Saturday night at World Arena, where it defeated Colorado College, 6-3. The Falcons (7-5-2) scored shorthanded, on the power play, at even strength and…
