Dr. Altenkirch outlines hockey budget expectations
UAH President Robert Altenkirch met with The Huntsville Times editorial board Tuesday and outlined the budget expectations for the hockey program to stay Division I: Under the new plan, UAH will provide $650,000 to the projected $1.5 million annual budget cited by the school to have a competitive NCAA Division I hockey program. That leaves [...]
All Is Not Lost
The Huntsville Times has the scoop: the program will continue past 2012. Here’s the statement from the school: Members of The University of Alabama in Huntsville administration met this evening with hockey supporters, following discussions with Chancellor Malcolm Portera, and came to a consensus to work closely together to pursue institutional and community support to [...]
WHNT 19 and WAAY 31 Coverage of Thursday’s Press Conference
We thought you’d like to see the TV coverage of the event. – WHNT News 19 – WAAY 31 WAFF 48 covered the event, but their video is not yet available online.
Videos of Thursday’s Press Conference
As we’ve told you before, a group of community leaders all gathered at the Iceplex on Thursday morning to voice their support for the UAH hockey program. We’ve gotten the video in, and it’s all on Jeff Winchester’s (’06) YouTube account. Please note: if you see large areas of whitespace below, please refresh the page. [...]
On Media Coverage
Sunday afternoon, Eric Burton pinged me on Twitter about local media coverage. He’s known around the Internets as “ndgoon” or “goon48″, and he blogs about college hockey at Goon’s World. Goon has often written about the UAH situation from a WCHA perspective, terming the CCHA’s rejection of UAH’s 2009 application as “bs” right after it [...]
UAH Coach Danton Cole on WUMP, 23 Mar 2010
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Thanks to WUMP for getting the word out about UAH Hockey.
UAH Hockey in the 2010 Regoinals: TV and Radio
Howdy, everyone. I think we’re all aware that UAH has made the 2010 Midwest Regional. Wondering where to catch it? Television: ESPNU will carry the game at 3:00 p.m. Huntsville time. Buffalo Wild Wings on University Drive (Madison Sq. Mall) has indicated to us that they receive ESPNU and would be willing to host UAH [...]
WCHA Commissioner Bruce McLeod on the UAH Situation
The fine folks at The Hockey Show in Bemidji spoke with WCHA Commissioner Bruce McLeod back in January to talk many topics, and while they were talking, UAH came up … [Audio clip: view full post to listen] In case you missed it, UAH Hockey isn’t going away, and will be back in 2010-11 on [...]
College Hockey Alabama
At the post-game presser, here’s Coach’s comment, as reported by INCH: It marks the Chargers second CHA title and the senior class of Tom Train, Cal Tanaka, Kevin Morrison, Brennan Barker, and Brandon Roshko’s second championship after winning the 2007 crown, also in overtime. They took number one seed Notre Dame to double overtime before [...]
Matti Järvinen on 2009-10 CHA All-Rookie Team
Congratulations to Matti for making the final CHA All-Rookie team!