Parting Schotts

Monday, June 17, 2013

Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals between the Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday attracted the most viewers for an NHL game ever on NBC Sports Network. The Bruins' 2-1 overtime victory earned a 2.0 rating and was seen by an average of 3.964 million viewers. It's the ...

Monday, June 17, 2013

AHL fans in the Capital Region will finally get to see the Calder Cup finals on Time Warner Cable SportsChannel. TWCS announced Monday that Game 6 of the series between the Grand Rapids Griffins and Syracuse Crunch will be shown on TWCS channel 1 at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The Griffins ...

Monday, June 17, 2013

Although it hasn't been officially announced, ESPN2 will be airing some Canadian Football League games this season. The schedule is on ESPN's Media Zone page. The first game will be Saturday, June 29, when Saskatchewan Roughriders faces Edmonton Eskimos at 3:30 p.m. Other games will be Winnipeg Blue Bombers at ...

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Highly touted Union hockey 2014-15 recruit Michael Pontarelli announced on his Twitter account Sunday that he will remain with his junior team, the Cornwall Colts, this season. "I've decided to play in Cornwall for one more year! Time to start getting ready for our season as defending champs," Pontarelli wrote ...

Friday, June 14, 2013

The 2013-14 ECAC Hockey men's composite schedule is now on the league's website. To view it, click here. Follow @slapschotts on Twitter. Follow @dgazettesports on Twitter.

Friday, June 14, 2013

It's just been over a week since WPTR-AM (1240) became the third radio station in the Capital Region to have an 24-hour sports format, joining WOFX-AM (980) and WTMM-FM (104.5). WPTR had been an oldies music station, but has been airing sports programming with Union College hockey and NASCAR. CBS ...

Thursday, June 13, 2013

The final numbers are out for NBC Sports' coverage of Wednesday's thrilling triple-overtime Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals. The Chicago Blackhawks' 4-3 win over the Boston Bruins scored a 3.9 rating and averaged 6.358 million viewers, up 117 percent and 119 percent, respectively, versus last year's Game 1 ...

Thursday, June 13, 2013

The NCAA Academic Progress Rates for ECAC Hockey teams are out, and the Union and RPI teams did very well. On the men's side, Union scored a 995 out of a possible 1,000. RPI earned a 994. Three men's teams had perfect scores: Brown, Dartmouth and Princeton. The other ECACH ...

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Wednesday night's triple-overtime thrilling Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals between the Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks delivered a solid 4.8 overnight rating for NBC Sports, the network announced Thursday morning. The Blackhawks won, 4-3, on Andrew Shaw's goal at 12:08 of the third OT. The 4.8 rating is ...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Union College hockey volunteer assistant coach Joel Beal has been named an assistant coach at Sacred Heart. Beal, who played for the Dutchmen from 2001-05 and had 101 career points, served as volunteer assistant under head coach Rick Bennett the past two seasons. Sacred Heart is coached by CJ Marottolo. ...