1980–81 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season

1980–81 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season


Ivy League Champions
Conference	ECAC Hockey
Home ice	Ingalls Rink
Record
Overall	13–12–1 (7–2–1)
Home	7–2–1
Road	5–9–0
Neutral	1–1–0
Coaches and Captains
Head Coach	Tim Taylor
Assistant Coaches	Bob Richardson Ben Smith
Captain(s)	Doug Tingey
Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey seasons « 1979–80 1981–82 »

The 1980–81 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey team represented Yale University in the 1980–81 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season. The team is coached by Tim Taylor, his fifth season behind the bench at Yale. The Bulldogs play their home games at Ingalls Rink on the campus of Yale University, competing in the ECAC.

The Bulldogs posted a regular season record of 13 wins, 12 losses, and 1 tie. Despite finishing 2nd in the Ivy Region of the ECAC Conference, Yale didn't qualify for the postseason.

Offseason

Five Senior Bulldogs graduated in May: Captain Gary Lawerence – F, Keith Allain – G, Steve Harrington – D, Wally Row – F, and Gavin Thurston – F

On June 11, forward Bob Brooke was drafted 75th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft.

Senior defensemen Doug Tingey was named Captain for the 1980–81 season.

1980–81 Roster

Departures from 1979–1980 team

Gary Lawerence, F – Graduation
Keith Allain, G – Graduation
Steve Harrington, D – Graduation
Wally Row, F – Graduation
Gavin Thurston, F – Graduation

1980–81 Bulldogs

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S/P/C	Player	Class	Pos	Height	Weight	DoB	Hometown	Previous team	NHL rights
Massachusetts !	Brooke, BobBob Brooke	2 !Sophomore	3.0 !F	74 !6' 2" (1.88 m)	205 lb (93 kg)	20145 !1960-12-18	Massachusetts !Acton, Massachusetts !Acton, Massachusetts		St. Louis !STL, 75th overall 1980
Rhode Island !	Meehan, JohnJohn Meehan	3 !Junior	2.0 !D	70 !5' 10" (1.78 m)	175 lb (79 kg)	21128 !1958-04-10	North Scituate, Rhode Island		—
New York !	Nichols, BillBill Nichols	2 !Sophomore	2.0 !D	74 !6' 2" (1.88 m)	195 lb (88 kg)	19952 !1961-06-29	New York !Glen Head, New York !Glen Head, New York		—
Ontario !	Poliziani, DanielDaniel Poliziani	3 !Junior	3.0 !F	70 !5' 10" (1.78 m)	180 lb (82 kg)	20799 !1959-03-05	Ontario !Burlington, Ontario !Burlington, Ontario	OPJHL !Mount Hamilton A's (OPJHL !Mount Hamilton A's (OPJHL)	—

Coaches

Name	Position	Seasons Coaching at Yale University	Alma Mater
Tim Taylor	Head Coach	5	Harvard University (1963)
Bob Richardson	Assistant Coach	2	Providence College (1975)
Ben Smith	Assistant Coach	4	Harvard University (1968)

Staff

Name	Position	Seasons Staffing at Yale University
Edward Maturo	Equipment Manager	3
Christopher Carosa	Student Manager	2

Standings

1980–81 ECAC Hockey standings
	Conference							Overall
	GP	W	L	T	Pct.	GF	GA	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
East Region
Boston College	22	13	6	3	.659	85	72	31	20	8	3	126	100
Northeastern	21	12	9	0	.571	118	104	26	13	13	0	140	139
Maine	21	12	9	0	.571	101	93	34	23	11	0	197	147
Providence*	22	12	9	1	.568	106	90	33	17	15	1	165	143
New Hampshire	24	13	10	1	.563	128	100	33	19	13	1	166	129
Boston University	22	10	12	0	.455	87	88	29	14	15	0	115	116
West Region
Clarkson†	20	17	2	1	.875	119	65	37	26	7	4	202	119
Colgate	20	12	7	1	.625	99	84	35	21	12	2	194	150
Rensselaer	21	10	11	0	.476	98	83	29	16	13	0	158	118
St. Lawrence	22	9	12	1	.432	77	87	33	15	16	2	137	126
Vermont	22	4	16	2	.227	81	114	34	9	23	2	136	173
Ivy Region
Cornell	22	12	9	1	.568	95	79	31	19	11	1	144	110
Yale	21	11	9	1	.548	96	101	26	13	12	1	127	137
Princeton	21	10	11	0	.476	78	99	25	12	13	0	93	111
Harvard	21	8	12	1	.405	79	98	26	11	14	1	103	119
Dartmouth	22	8	14	0	.364	87	115	26	10	16	0	100	138
Brown	22	3	18	1	.159	67	125	26	5	20	1	83	144
Independent
Army^	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	35	21	13	1	230	160
Championship: Providence † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion ^ Army had been accepted into ECAC Hockey but had not begun a conference schedule Final rankings: USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Coaches Poll Top 10 Poll

Schedule

Date	Opponent^#	Site	Result	Record
Exhibition
December 31	Vasby-Sweden*	Ingalls Rink • New Haven, CT	W 4–3	2–5–0 (1–2–0)
Regular Season
November 25	vs. Merrimack*	Ingalls Rink • New Haven, CT	W 12–3	1–0–0 (0-0-0)
November 30	at Colgate	Starr Arena • Hamilton, NY	L 3–8	1–1–0 (0–1–0)
December 6	St. Lawrence	Ingalls Rink • New Haven, CT	L 2–3 ^OT	1–2–0 (0–2–0)
December 10	at Boston University	Walter Brown Arena • Boston, MA	L 3–5	1–3–0 (0–3–0)
December 13	at Princeton	Hobey Baker Memorial Rink • Princeton, NJ	W 5–2	2–3–0 (1–3–0)
December 28	at Wisconsin*	Dane County Coliseum • Madison, WI	L 5–10	2–4–0 (1–3–0)
December 29	at Wisconsin*	Dane County Coliseum • Madison, WI	L 1–12	2–5–0 (1–3–0)
January 2	vs. Toronto*	New Haven Coliseum • New Haven, CT (Yale Invitational)	L 3–6	2–6–0 (1–3–0)
January 3	vs. Vermont*	New Haven Coliseum • New Haven, CT (Yale Invitational)	W 7–2	3–6–0 (1–3–0)
January 6	Clarkson	Ingalls Rink • New Haven, CT	L 5–6	3–7–0 (1–4–0)
January 10	Brown	Ingalls Rink • New Haven, CT	W 8–6	4–7–0 (2–4–0)
January 17	at Vermont	Gutterson Fieldhouse • Burlington, VT	W 7–4	5–7–0 (3–4–0)
January 20	at Boston College	McHugh Forum • Chestnut Hill, MA	L 1–6	5–8–0 (3–5–0)
January 24	at Dartmouth	Thompson Arena • Hanover, NH	W 5–4 ^OT	6–8–0 (4–5–0)
January 27	RPI	Ingalls Rink • New Haven, CT	W 4–3	7–8–0 (5–5–0)
January 30	Cornell	Ingalls Rink • New Haven, CT	W 7–3	8–8–0 (6–5–0)
January 31	Princeton	Ingalls Rink • New Haven, CT	W 4–3 ^OT	9–8–0 (7–5–0)
February 6	at Maine	Alfond Arena • Orono, ME	L 4–5 ^OT	9–9–0 (7–6–0)
February 7	at New Hampshire	Snively Arena • Durham, NH	L 2–12	9–10–0 (7–7–0)
February 14	at Harvard	Bright Hockey Center • Allston, MA	L 2–6	9–11–0 (7–8–0)
February 17	Northeastern	Ingalls Rink • New Haven, CT	W 7–5	10–9–0 (8–8–0)
February 21	Harvard	Ingalls Rink • New Haven, CT	T 5–5 ^OT	10–9–1 (8–8–1)
February 24	at Brown	Meehan Auditorium • Providence, RI	W 6–4	11–9–1 (9–8–1)
February 27	at Providence	Schneider Arena • Providence, RI	W 4–3	12–9–1 (10–8–1)
March 4	Dartmouth	Ingalls Rink • New Haven, CT	W 10–3	13–9–1 (11–8–1)
March 7	at Cornell	Lynah Rink • Ithaca, NY	L 1–5	13–12–1 (11–9–1)
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from USCHO.com Poll.

Statistics

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1980–81 Statistics

Player	POS	Age	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Bob Brooke	F	19	27	12	30	42	59
Joe Gagliardi	F		27	17	21	38	32
Dan Poliziani	F	21	26	17	21	38	14
Dan Brugman	F		27	17	16	33	18
Jim Murphy	F		27	5	19	24	18
Ed Kilroy	F		27	6	17	23	56
Mark Crerar	F		27	14	7	21	8
Jim Steiner	F		27	9	9	18	16
Paul Castraberti	F		14	4	13	17	6
Bill Nichols	D	19	27	4	13	17	10
David Williams	F		27	8	7	15	14
Matt Bohan	F		27	6	5	11	14
John Meehan	D	22	27	1	9	10	4
Bill Thurston	D		27	0	10	10	31
Blair Wheeler	D		25	3	6	9	50
Dave Tewksbury	D		27	0	6	6	18
George Minowada	F		17	2	1	3	2
Doug Tingey	D		13	0	3	3	30
John Weber	D		23	2	0	2	10
Matt Baab	D		9	0	2	2	0
Ted Lowe	G		1	0	0	0	0
Paul Tortorella	G		3	0	0	0	0
Ken Shaw	G		9	0	0	0	0
Mark Rodrigues	G		24	0	0	0	0
	Team		27	127	215	342	410

References

1 2 "1980–81 Yale University roster and statistics". hockeyDB.com. Retrieved March 10, 2015.

External links

Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey

Venues

Ingalls Rink (1958–present)

Head coaches

Talbot Hunter (1919–20)
Francis Bangs (1920–21)
Clarence Wanamaker (1921–28)
Lawrence Noble (1928–30)
Holcomb York (1930–38)
Murray Murdoch (1938–65)
Richard Gagliardi (1965–72)
Paul Lufkin (1972–76)
Tim Taylor (1976–83, 1984–93, 1994–2006)
Mike Gilligan (1983–84)
Daniel Poliziani (1993–94)
Keith Allain (2006–present)

Seasons

1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Bold denotes National Championship season

Conference affiliations

ECAC Hockey (1961–present)

Rivalries

National championships

2013

Frozen Four appearances

1952
2013

NCAA Tournament appearances

Conference Tournament champions

ECAC: 2009
2011

Yale University

People	Namesake: Elihu Yale President: Peter Salovey (predecessors) Provost: Ben Polak Faculty Sterling Professors People list

Schools	Undergraduate: Yale College Graduate: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Professional: Architecture Art Divinity Drama Engineering & Applied Science Forestry & Environmental Studies Law Management Medicine Music Nursing Public Health Institute of Sacred Music Defunct: Sheffield Scientific School

Campus	Connecticut Hall Old Campus Hewitt Quadrangle Hillhouse Avenue Science Hill Yale-Myers Forest

Residential colleges	Berkeley Branford Calhoun Davenport Ezra Stiles Jonathan Edwards Morse Pierson Saybrook Silliman Timothy Dwight Trumbull

Library & museums	Yale University Library Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University Art Gallery Yale Center for British Art Peabody Museum of Natural History Collection of Musical Instruments

Research centers	Child Study Center Cowles Foundation Haskins Laboratories MacMillan Center Rudd Center Yale Cancer Center Defunct: Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism

Athletics	Team: Yale Bulldogs Mascot: Handsome Dan Arenas: Yale Bowl (football) Ingalls Rink (hockey) Yale Golf Course Yale Field (baseball) Reese Stadium (soccer & lacrosse) Payne Whitney Gymnasium Rivalries: Harvard–Yale Regatta Harvard–Yale football rivalry

International	Gruber Foundation Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Yale World Fellows Yale-NUS College Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Category Commons Wikinews

Ivy League

Brown Bears Columbia Lions Cornell Big Red Dartmouth Big Green Harvard Crimson Princeton Tigers Penn Quakers Yale Bulldogs

ECAC Hockey

Teams	Brown Bears men women Clarkson Golden Knights men women Colgate Raiders men women Cornell Big Red men women Dartmouth Big Green men women Harvard Crimson men women Princeton Tigers men women Quinnipiac Bobcats men women Rensselaer Engineers men women St. Lawrence Saints men women Union Dutchmen men women Yale Bulldogs men women

Venues	Meehan Auditorium (Brown) Cheel Arena (Clarkson) Starr Rink (Colgate) Lynah Rink (Cornell) Thompson Arena (Dartmouth) Bright Hockey Center (Harvard) Hobey Baker Memorial Rink (Princeton) TD Bank Sports Center (Quinnipiac) Houston Field House (Rensselaer) Appleton Arena (St. Lawrence) Achilles Rink (Union) Ingalls Rink (Yale) Boardwalk Hall (Men's tournament)

Championships & awards	Men's champions Women's champions Player of the Year Rookie of the Year Coach of the Year Best Defensive Defenseman Best Defensive Forward Ken Dryden Award Student-Athlete of the Year Most Outstanding Player in Tournament

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