Weekend lookahead

Time to look ahead to the weekend in Indiana hockey.

ECHL
Evansville
Friday: at Greenville, 6 p.m. CST
Saturday: at Greenville, 6 p.m. CST
Sunday: at Greenville, 2 p.m. CST

Fort Wayne
Friday: at Toledo,  7:15 p.m. EST
Saturday: at Kalamazoo, 7:30 p.m. EST
Sunday: vs. Kalamazoo, 5:00 p.m. EST

USHL
Indiana
Friday: vs. USA, 7 p.m. EST at Pan Am Pavilion
Saturday: vs. Muskegon, 7 p.m. EST at Bankers Life Fieldhouse

NCAA
Notre Dame
Friday: vs. Alabama-Huntsville, 7:35 p.m.
Saturday: vs. Alabama-Huntsville, 7:05 p.m.

NCAA: Notre Dame schedule

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish have announced their 2013-14 schedule, their first season of competition in Hockey East.

The regular season opens with a home-and-home with Western Michigan Oct. 11-12. Conference play begins Nov. 1 at Vermont. The Irish will host a Thanksgiving-weekend tournament Nov. 29-30, and also compete in the Frozen Fenway event on Jan. 4 against Boston College at Fenway Park.

Link to the full schedule. 

Also, looking ahead to 2014-15, the Irish will host the Ice Breaker Tournament at Compton Family Ice Arena, with Minnesota, RPI and Minnesota-Duluth coming to South Bend.

Ice: Draft release

The official team release from the Indiana Ice regarding the 2013 USHL Draft.

ICE BULK UP ROSTER IN 2013 USHL ENTRY DRAFT

TEAM PICKS 18 FORWARDS, FIVE DEFENSEMEN AND FIVE GOALTENDERS IN DRAFT

INDIANAPOLIS—The Indiana Ice capitalized on five first-round draft picks and six of the first 20 selections to reload the squad for the 2013-2014 season and beyond.  Indy had 28 total picks in the seven-hour event, acquiring 18 forwards, five defensemen and five goaltenders.

 

The Ice selected forward Aiden Muir from the Victory Honda (MI) program with the first overall pick.  Muir recorded 40 points (17G, 23A) in 37 games with Victory Honda while earning a scholarship to Western Michigan University.  He is also listed as the 108^th ranked skater on the Final Scouting Rankings for the 2013 NHL Draft on June 30.

 

Back-to-back picks with the sixth and seventh selections saw Indy pick up Brian Pinho (St. John’s Prep-MA) and Scott Conway (Texas-NAHL) to further boost the Ice offense.  Pinho immediately follows Muir on the Central Scouting list at the 109^th spot while Conway was the top-scoring 1995 forward for the Tornado with 54 points (18G, 36A).

 

Indy rounded out their first group of picks with Brett Beauvais (Kalamazoo-NAHL), a 6-0 defenseman from Summerside, P.E.I. and Jason Pawloski (Austin-NAHL), a 6-0 goaltender from Omaha, NE.  Beauvais finished the season tied for fourth among NAHL blueliners in assists (27) while Pawloski recorded 17 wins and two shutouts in 24 contests.  The Ice also had some local flavor as the Ice selected captain Joe Chitwood from the Indiana Jr. Ice U18 program.

 

“I thought the draft went extremely well for the Indiana Ice,” said head coach and general manager Jeff Brown.  “We’re excited about the players we were able to acquire and we can’t wait for camp and the next hockey season.  It’s going to be a very competitive.  The talent level is extremely good and we hope to turn things around next season.”

 

2013 USHL ENTRY DRAFT SELECTIONS

Aiden Muir-F, Victory Honda U18	Brian Pinho-F, St. John’s Prep (MA)
Scott Conway-F, Texas (NAHL)	Brett Beauvais-D, Kalamazoo (NAHL)
Jason Pawloski-G, Austin (NAHL)	Tyler Andrew-F, Topeka (NAHL)
Jacob Pritchard-F, Victory Honda U18	Timothy Shoup-D, Pittsburgh Penguins U18
Samu Perhonen-G, Akatemia (Finland)	Karl El-Mir-F, Selects Academy U16
Nick Kunin-F, St. Louis Blues U18	Roy Radke-F, Culver U16
Michael Ederer-F, Nichols School (NY)	Christopher Forney-D, Thief River Falls (MN)
Nathan Churchill-G, Omaha AAA U16	Alex Alger-F, Cranbrook (MI)
Nick Azar-D, Belle Tire U16	Vaughan Ahrens-G, Wayzata (MN)
Ryan Collins-C, Ottawa (CCHL)	Michael Turner-F, Cushing (MA)
Tyler Boston-C, York Simcoe Express	Tyler Augustinsen-F, Selects Academy U16
Joe Chitwood-F, Indiana Jr. Ice U18	Andrew Debrincat-D, Cumberland (CCHL)
Mitch Slattery-F, Hill Murray (MN)	Drew Best-F, South Surrey (BCHL)
Nick Vilardo-G, WBS Knights	Logan Brown-F, St. Louis Blues 98’s

 

The Indiana Ice is now taking deposits for 2013-2014 season ticket packages.  Call the Ice office at 317-925-4423 or visit www.indianaice.com.

 

The Indiana Ice is a member of the United States Hockey League, America’s only Tier One League.

Ice: USHL Futures Draft selections

The Indiana Ice began steps toward their 10th season in the USHL this week with the two USHL drafts.
The first day is the so-called Phase I draft (formerly known as the Futures Draft), in which teams select underage players who are longer-term projects. Some are immediate prospects, too.
On Tuesday, the Phase II draft (the Entry Draft) takes place. The Ice have four first-round picks in the Entry Draft. (note that all ht/wt/DOB data is from eliteprospects.com)

Here is the official team release

Quoting Ice coach Jeff Brown: “Our organization is ecstatic about the talent level of our selections tonight,” said head coach Jeff Brown.  “So many different things fell into place for us in this draft.  All these selection will be future stars on the Indiana Ice roster. 

The full list below the jump.