Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey

The Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college ice hockey program that represents Princeton University. The Tigers are a member of ECAC Hockey. They play at the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink in Princeton, New Jersey.http://www.uscho.com/m/princeton-tigers/mens-college-hockey/team,pri.html In 1999, future NHL player Jeff Halpern scored 22 goals to tie for the most goals in the ECAC and was co-winner of Princeton's Roper Trophy for athletic and academic achievement.Jeff Halpern In 2010–11, Andrew Calof was ECAC Rookie of the Year.
==History==
Princeton University had an ice hockey team organized already during the 1894–95 season, when the school still went by the name of College of New Jersey. On March 3, 1895 the university ice hockey team faced a Baltimore aggregation at the North Avenue Ice Palace in Baltimore, Maryland and won by a score of 5–0. The players on the 1895 team were Chester Derr, John Brooks, Howard Colby, James Blair, Frederick Allen, Ralph Hoagland and Art Wheeler.The Baltimore Sun, March 4, 1895, pg. 7
For the 1899–1900 season the Princeton University ice hockey team became a member of the Intercollegiate Hockey League (ICHL) where they played organized league games against other Ivy League school teams such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and Yale.
Princeton's most famous ice hockey player Hobey Baker (1892–1918) played for the school team between 1911 and 1914, before he graduated and went on to play for the New York City based St. Nicholas Hockey Club.
As many college programs did, Princeton's ice hockey squad suspended operations for the 1917–18 season due to the United States entering World War I but the icers returned after the armistice was signed. A few years later the Tigers hired their first head coach, Russell O. Ellis, but they would go through several more before they could find someone to lead the program for more than a few years. Despite the tumult behind the bench Princeton was still producing some of the best teams in college hockey, setting a program record of 15 wins that would stand for 76 years.
In the midst of the great depression Richard Vaughan came to Princeton and would helm the team for the next quarter-century. Vaughan would keep the Tigers competitive through much of his tenure and his 159 wins remains a program high 60 years after his retirement. Princeton found it difficult to replace Vaughan, going through 5 coaches in 18 years while producing only two winning records in that time. The team's nadir came under Bill Quackenbush who, despite ending up in the Hall of Fame as a player, was the program's worst coach as far as records go. Quackenbush's tenure began well with Princeton making the ECAC Tournament for the first time, but the following season the team slid to 16th in the conference and would not win more than 5 games a year for the next 5 seasons. Quackenbush remained with the program even after a 1–22 season but resigned in 1973 with the Tigers an afterthought in ECAC Hockey. Princeton would not play another postseason game until 1985, the year after 7 teams left to form Hockey East, and they would not win a playoff game until 1992 under first-year head coach Don Cahoon.
During Cahoon's time at Princeton the program recovered from decades as a bottom-feeder and in 1995 produced their first winning season in 27 years. Three seasons later the Tigers won their first conference tournament and made the NCAA Tournament for the first time. After Cahoon left to head Massachusetts in 2000, he was replaced by long-time assistant Len Quesnelle but after four years the team was back at the bottom of the conference and he was swiftly replaced by Guy Gadowsky.
It took Gadowsky a few years to get the Tigers back on their feet but he led the team to its second conference championship in 2008, setting a program high with 21 wins that he bested by 1 the following year. Two years later Gadowsky left and was replaced by Bob Prier but just as had happened with Cahoon, the successor did not last long and after a dismal third season Ron Fogarty was hired as the 17th head coach in program history. As of 2019 Fogarty's best season came in 2018 when he led an underdog Tigers squad to their 3rd conference title.
==Season-by-season results==
== Records vs. Current ECAC Hockey Teams ==
As of the completion of 2018–19 season
School	Team	Away Arena	Overall Record	Win %	Home 	Away 	Last Result
 	 	 	72–90–11 	 	35–39–6	33–46–6	5-6 L (3OT)
 	 	 	34–84–7 	 	24–35–5	6–45–1 	1-1 T
 	 	 	48–59–8 	 	28–26–6	15–32–2	3-4 L
 	 	 	53–91–8 	 	25–39–6	16–50–2	2-3 L
 	 	 	89–104–16 	 	45–44–8	34–46–8	0-5 L
 	 	 	58–158–12 	 	27–60–5	18–75–6	4-2 W
 	 	 	12–17–1 	 	4–10–1 	8–7–0 	3-6 L
 	 	 	37–69–11 	 	19–26–5	18–40–6	2-6 L
 	 	 	25–70–11 	 	16–33–5	9–36–4 	5-3 W
 	 	 	25–36–7 	 	16–15–3	8–21–4 	2-3 L
 	 	 	109–141–11 	 	51–47–4	32–69–3	3-2 W
== All-time coaching records ==
As of completion of 2019–20 season
Tenure 	Coach 	Years 	Record 	Pct.
1899–1917, 1918–1920	No Coach 	20 	103–87–6 	
1920–1921 	Russell O. Ellis 	1 	4–4–0 	
1921–1922 	Moylan McDonnell 	1 	3–6–1 	
1922–1924 	Chippy Gaw 	2 	24–11–1 	
1924–1927 	Beattie Ramsay 	3 	19–25–1 	
1927–1933 	Lloyd Neidlinger 	6 	71–31–3 	
1933–1935 	Frank Fredrickson	2 	15–18–0 	
1935–1943, 1945–1959	Richard Vaughan 	22 	159–211–14 	
1959–1965 	R. Norman Wood 	6 	49–88–1 	
1965–1967 	Johnny Wilson 	2 	14–27–1 	
1967–1973 	Bill Quackenbush 	6 	34–104–2 	
1973–1977 	Jack Semler 	4 	25–66–5 	
1977–1991 	Jim Higgins 	14 	130–219–21 	
1991–2000 	Don Cahoon 	9 	122–129–32 	
2000–2004 	Len Quesnelle 	4 	29–84–11 	
2004–2011 	Guy Gadowsky 	7 	105–109–15 	
2011–2014 	Bob Prier 	3 	25–58–12 	
2014–Present 	Ron Fogarty 	6 	59–113–21 	
Totals 	17 coaches 	118 Seasons	990–1390–147	
==Statistical leaders==
The team's statistical leaders are as follows.
===Career points leaders===
Player	Years 	GP 	G 	A 	Pts	PIM
 	1985–1989	110	60	118	178	
 	2015–2019	132	75	77 	152	
 	1988–1992	106	62	88 	150	
 	2015–2019	130	52	92 	144	
 	1995–1999	132	60	82 	142	
 	1960–1963	 	67	65 	132	
 	2010–2014	117	44	79 	123	
 	1986–1990	96 	64	57 	121	
 	1995–1999	130	41	77 	118	
 	1957–1960	 	60	57 	117	
===Career Goaltending Leaders===
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average
Minimum 30 games
Player	Years 	GP 	Min 	W 	L 	T 	GA 	SO	SV% 	GAA
 	1947–1949	34 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	2.38
 	2006–2010	108	6267	57	44	5 	257	9 	.912	2.46
 	2009–2013	53 	2969	18	22	8 	288	3 	.917	2.67
 	2010–2014	63 	3457	17	33	6 	182	2 	.898	2.84
 	1994–1998	76 	3975	29	24	11	196	5 	.896	2.94
Statistics current through the start of the 2019–20 season.
==Roster==
As of October 14, 2020.
==Awards and honors==
===Hockey Hall of Fame===
*Hobey Baker (1945)]
===US Hockey Hall of Fame===
*Hobey Baker (1973)
===NCAA===
====All-Americans====
AHCA First Team All-Americans
*1952-53: Hank Bothfeld, F
*1985-86: Cliff Abrecht, D
*2007-08: Mike Moore, D; Lee Jubinville, F
*2018-19: Ryan Kuffner, F
AHCA Second Team All-Americans
*1997-98: Steve Shirreffs, D
*2008-09: Zane Kalemba, G
*2010-11: Taylor Fedun, D
*2017-18: Ryan Kuffner, F; Max Véronneau, F
===ECAC Hockey===
====Individual Awards====
Player of the Year
* Lee Jubinville: 2008
* Zane Kalemba: 2009
Rookie of the Year
* John Messuri: 1986
* Andre Faust: 1989
* Andrew Calof: 2011
Best Defensive Defenseman
* Mike Moore: 2008
* Danny Biega: 2012
Best Defensive Forward
* Ian Sharp: 1994, 1995
* Syl Apps III: 1999
Ken Dryden Award
* Zane Kalemba: 2009
Student-Athlete of the Year
* Landis Stankievech: 2008
Tim Taylor Award
* Guy Gadowsky: 2008
Most Outstanding Player in Tournament
* Jeff Halpern: 1998
* Zane Kalemba: 2008
* Ryan Ferland: 2018
====All-Conference====
First Team All-ECAC Hockey
* 1985–86: Cliff Abrecht, D
* 1987–88: John Messuri, F
* 1997–98: Steve Shirreffs, F
* 2004–05: Luc Paquin, D
* 2007–08: Mike Moore, D; Lee Jubinville, F
* 2008–09: Zane Kalemba, G
* 2010–11: Taylor Fedun, D
* 2017–18: Max Véronneau, F
* 2018–19: Ryan Kuffner, F
Second Team All-ECAC Hockey
* 1961–62: John Cook, F
* 1962–63: John Cook, F
* 1967–68: Thomas Rawls, D
* 1986–87: John Messuri, F
* 1989–90: Mike McKee, D; Andre Faust, F; Greg Polaski, F
* 1991–92: Andre Faust, F
* 1993–94: Sean O'Brien, D
* 1997–98: Jeff Halpern, F
* 1998–99: Steve Shirreffs, D; Jeff Halpern, F
* 1999–00: Kirk Lamb, F
* 2004–05: Dustin Sproat, F
* 2007–08: Brett Wilson, F
* 2009–10: Taylor Fedun, D
* 2011–12: Michael Sdao, D
* 2012–13: Andrew Calof, F
* 2016–17: Max Véronneau, F
* 2017–18: Ryan Kuffner, F
* 2018–19: Max Véronneau, F
Third Team All-ECAC Hockey
* 2005–06: Eric Leroux, G; Grant Goeckner-Zoeller, F
* 2008–09: Jody Peterson, D
* 2010–11: Andrew Calof, F
* 2017–18: Josh Teves, D
* 2018–19: Josh Teves, D
ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team
* 1987–88: Mark Salsbury, G; Andy Cesarski, D
* 1988–89: Mike McKee, D; Andre Faust, F
* 1990–91: Rob Laferriere, F
* 1992–93: Jason Smith, D
* 1994–95: Casson Masters, D
* 1996–97: Dominique Auger, D
* 2005–06: Brett Wilson, F
* 2010–11: Andrew Calof, F
* 2015–16: Ryan Kuffner, F
* 2016–17: Jackson Cressey, F
==Olympians==
This is a list of Princeton alumni who have played on an Olympic team.
Name 	Position 	Princeton Tenure	Team	Year	Finish
Gerard Hallock 	Defenseman	1923–1926 	USA 	1932	
Robert Livingston 	Defenseman	1928–1931 	USA 	1932	
Fred Kammer 	Right Wing	1931–1934 	USA 	1936	
Malcolm McAlpin 	Center 	1930–1932 	USA 	1936	
Christopher Rodgers	Goaltender	1941–1942 	USA†	1948	DQ
Jim Sloane 	Right Wing	1940–1943 	USA†	1948	DQ
† denotes the AAU team that marched in the opening ceremony but did not participate.
==Tigers in the NHL==
This is a list of Princeton alumni who have played or currently play in the NHL.
Jeff Halpern won a Stanley Cup as an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning during the 2019–2020 season.
	= NHL All-Star Team		= NHL All-StarPlayers are identified as an All-Star if they were selected for the All-Star game at any time in their career.			= NHL All-Star and NHL All-Star Team		= Hall of Famers
Player 	Position 	Team(s) 	Years 	
Syl Apps Jr. 	Center 	NYR, PIT, LAK 	1970–1980 	0
Mike Condon 	Goaltender	MTL, PIT, OTT 	2015–Present	0
Chris Corrinet	Wing 	WSH 	2001–2002 	0
Andre Faust 	Left Wing 	PHI 	1992–1994 	0
Taylor Fedun 	Defenseman	EDM, SJS, VAN, BUF, DAL 	2013–Present	0
Jeff Halpern 	Center 	WSH, DAL, TBL, LAK, MTL, NYR, PHO	1999–2014 	1
Ryan Kuffner 	Left Wing 	DET 	2018–Present	0
Ed Lee 	Wing 	QUE 	1984–1985 	0
Player 	Position 	Team(s) 	Years 	
Mike McKee 	Defenseman	QUE 	1993–1994 	0
Mike Moore 	Defenseman	SJS 	2010–2011 	0
George Parros 	Right Wing	LAK, COL, , FLA, MTL	2005–2014 	1
Darroll Powe 	Center 	PHI, MIN, NYR 	2008–2014 	0
Eric Robinson 	Left Wing 	CBJ 	2017–Present	0
Josh Teves 	Defenseman	VAN 	2018–Present	0
Max Véronneau 	Right Wing	OTT 	2018–Present	0
Kevin Westgarth	Right Wing	, CAR, CGY 	2008–2014 	1
File:Mike Condon, Montreal Canadiens 3, Ottawa Senators 4, Centre Bell, Montreal, Quebec (29773480240) (cropped).jpg|Mike Condon
File:Jeff Halpern Coyotes.jpg|Jeff Halpern
File:MikeMoore.jpg|Mike Moore
File:George Parros.jpg|George Parros
File:Kevin Westgarth 2013-04-27.JPG|Kevin Westgarth
==See also==
*Princeton Tigers women's ice hockey
*Princeton Tigers
*Hobey Baker Award
==References==
==External links==
*Tigers men's ice hockey
 
Category:Ice hockey teams in New Jersey