Union Hockey Game
to be broadcast on Time Warner Ch. 3
Schenectady, NY (Jan.
26, 2004) – The Union men's hockey home game against Harvard on
February 1st at 7:00
p.m. will be televised live on local cable channel 3. It
will be the first college hockey game ever carried by the local Time Warner
affiliate and first televised game of the season for the Dutchmen.
“This is a great thing for the program,” stated Union head hockey coach
Nate Leaman. “We feel that we are a program that is heading in the right
direction and this is another positive step for us. College hockey is extremely
important to the greater Albany
area, including having the ECACHL championships at the Pepsi Arena, and we hope
this helps promote that event as well.”
Coach Leaman was an
assistant at Harvard for four seasons on former head coach Mark Mazzoleni's staff. During his final season with the
Crimson, Leaman served as the team's top assistant and recruiting coordinator,
earning the reputation as one of the top young coaches in the game of college
hockey. Leaman was part of a staff that helped rebuild the Harvard program into
one of the top teams in the ECAC, taking the team from eighth place in the
league to an ECAC tournament championship and NCAA appearance in 2001-2002, and
an ECAC runner-up finish and NCAA appearance in 2002-2003. He now finds himself
coaching against players he recruited and a team he helped to build. Leaman is
now setting the groundwork to build a program he has taken over two years ago.
He will be facing another one of the top
young coaches in the game against Crimson first-year head coach Ted Donato, who was a former Harvard hockey captain and led his
team to an NCAA championship, played in the Olympic Games, and enjoyed a
13-year NHL career. Donato and his squad won the
first meeting between these two teams earlier this season in Cambridge by a 4-1 score.
Union is 3-20-2 all-time against Harvard. The Crimson have won the last seven meetings. The last win for the
Dutchmen was back on February 24, 2001 at home by a 3-2 score. This matchup
has produced exciting hockey over the past couple seasons, two of the last
three games have been decided by one goal.