St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey explained

Current:	2021–22 St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey season
Team Name:	St. Lawrence Saints
Team Link:
University:	St. Lawrence University
Sex:	women's
Conference:	ECAC Hockey
Conference Short:	ECAC
Location:	Canton, New York
Coach:	Chris Wells
Coach Year:	13th
Coach Wins:	221
Coach Losses:	161
Coach Ties:	57
Arena:	Appleton Arena
Capacity:	3,200
Ncaarunnerup:	2001
Ncaafrozenfour:	2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Ncaatourneys:	2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2017, 2024
Conference Tournament:	2012

The St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey program represents St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. The Saints play at Appleton Arena and are part of the Eastern College Athletic Conference. In 2001, St. Lawrence participated in the inaugural NCAA Championship tournament. Their current head coach is St. Lawrence alumnus Chris Wells, who played for the 1992 men's championship ice hockey team.

History

Beginning as a club team, the women's program has seen great success since entering Division I in 1997. Currently, the team has made five Frozen Four appearances in the eight years since the creation of a Women's NCAA Division I tournament. With the women's appearance in inaugural Frozen Four (2001), St. Lawrence became the first school to have both their men and women's programs in the NCAA Division I ice hockey tournament in the same year.^[1] The women's team also recorded the first ever win in the history of the NCAA Women's Frozen Four.^[2]

The first women's hockey game was played in 1974, as a club program. The women's team transitioned to a Division III program in 1979, and won three consecutive ECAC Division III tournaments in 1990, 1991, and 1992.^[3]

Following the 2007–08 season, Head Coach Paul Flanagan left St. Lawrence to a position with Syracuse University. Flanagan was the women's program's all-time winningest coach with a nine-season record of 230–83–24. Then Men's Associate Head Coach, Chris Wells was appointed to replace him^[3] and in his first season coached the team to a berth in the national championship tournament with a record of 24–11–3.

Year by year

Won Championship	Lost Championship	Conference Champions	League Leader

Year	Coach	W	L	T	Conference	Conf. W	Conf. L	Conf. T	Finish	Conference Tournament	NCAA Tournament
2022-23	Chris Wells	17	19	3	ECAC	10	9	3	6th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Quinnipiac	Did not qualify
2021-22	Chris Wells	15	15	7	ECAC	10	8	4	7th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Yale	Did not qualify
2020–21	Chris Wells	6	7	0	ECAC	5	5	0	2nd ECAC	Won Semifinals vs. Clarkson Lost Championship vs. Colgate	Did not qualify
2019–20	Chris Wells	13	16	7	ECAC	8	10	4	8th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Cornell	Did not qualify
2018–19	Chris Wells	14	15	7	ECAC	9	7	6	5th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Princeton	Did not qualify
2017–18	Chris Wells	20	11	4	ECAC	14	6	2	4th ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Quinnipic Lost Semifinals vs. Clarkson	Did not qualify
2016–17	Chris Wells	26	6	4	ECAC	16	3	3	2nd ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Yale (4–1, 4–0) Lost Semifinals vs. Cornell (3–1)	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Boston College (6–0)
	Chris Wells	17	15	6	ECAC	9	8	5	6th ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Princeton Lost Semifinals vs. Quinnipiac	Did not qualify
	Chris Wells	19	12	5	ECAC	13	5	4	5th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Cornell	Did not qualify
2013–14	Chris Wells	13	19	3	ECAC	12	7	3	5th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Quinnipiac	Did not qualify
2012–13	Chris Wells	19	14	5	ECAC	12	6	4	5th ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Quinnipiac Lost Semifinals vs. Cornell	Did not qualify
	Chris Wells	24	10	4	ECAC	14	6	2	5th ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Dartmouth Won Semifinals vs. Harvard Won Championship vs. Cornell	Lost First Round vs. Boston College
	Chris Wells	16	18	2	ECAC	11	11	0	7th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Harvard	Did not qualify
	Chris Wells	16	14	7	ECAC	11	8	3	7th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Clarkson	Did not qualify
2008–09	Chris Wells	24	11	3	ECAC	16	5	1	2nd ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Clarkson Lost Semifinals vs. Dartmouth	Lost First Round vs. Mercyhurst
	Paul Flanagan	28	10	1	ECAC	18	3	1	2nd ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Yale Won Semifinals vs. Dartmouth Lost Championship vs. Harvard	Lost First Round vs. New Hampshire
	Paul Flanagan	29	8	3	ECAC	17	4	1	3rd ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Clarkson Won Semifinals vs. Harvard Lost Championship vs. Dartmouth	Won First Round vs. New Hampshire Lost Frozen Four vs. Wisconsin
	Paul Flanagan	31	5	2	ECAC	16	2	2	1st ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Yale Lost Semifinals vs. Harvard	Won First Round vs. Minnesota-Duluth Lost Frozen Four vs. Wisconsin
	Paul Flanagan	28	8	5	ECAC	14	3	3	3rd ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Brown Lost Semifinals vs. Dartmouth	Won First Round vs. Minnesota-Duluth Lost Frozen Four vs. Harvard
2003–04	Paul Flanagan	28	10	1	ECAC	15	3	0	2nd ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Colgate Won Semifinals vs. Dartmouth Lost Championship vs. Harvard	Lost First Round vs. Harvard
2002–03	Paul Flanagan	22	9	4	ECAC	10	4	2	4th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Brown	Did not qualify
2001–02	Paul Flanagan	22	10	4	ECAC	12	3	1	3rd ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. Cornell Lost Semifinals vs. Brown	Did not qualify
2000–01	Paul Flanagan	24	8	3	ECAC	18	4	2	3rd ECAC	Won Quarterfinals vs. New Hampshire Lost Semifinals vs. Harvard	Won First Round vs. Dartmouth Lost Championship vs. Minnesota-Duluth
1999–2000	Paul Flanagan	18	15	1	ECAC	11	12	1	7th ECAC	Lost Quarterfinals vs. Harvard	Did not qualify
1998–99	Ron Waske	11	17	2	ECAC	8	16	2	10th ECAC	Did not qualify	Did not qualify
1997–98	Ron Waske	8	16	3
1996–97	Pam Mahoney	7	19	0
1995–96	Bernie McKinnon	6	15	2
1994–95	Bernie McKinnon	9	10	0
1993–94	Bernie McKinnon	10	9	1
1992–93	Bernie McKinnon	10	8	2
1991–92	Bernie McKinnon	8	9	1
1990–91	Bernie McKinnon	5	11	3
1989–90	Bernie McKinnon	4	13	1
1988–89	Bernie McKinnon	7	16	0
1987–88	Bernie McKinnon	7	11	0
1986–87	Bernie McKinnon	14	9	0
1985–86	Bernie McKinnon	9	10	1
1984–85	Bernie McKinnon	12	7	0
1983–84	Bernie McKinnon	14	5	0
1982–83	Bernie McKinnon	12	7	1
1981–82	Bernie McKinnon	12	5	1
1980–81	Bernie McKinnon	8	10	1
1979–80	Bernie McKinnon	12	4	0
1978–79	Bernie McKinnon	11	5	0

Source^[4]

Coaches

Years	Coach	Record
1974	Bill Coakley	1–1–1
1974–77	Tom McDonald
1978–1997	Bernie McKinnon	170–164–14
1996–97	Ron Waske/Pam Seaborn	17–19–0
1997–99	Ron Waske	19–34–5
1999–2008	Paul Flanagan	230–83–24
2008–present	Chris Wells	131–98–29

Current Roster

2022–23 Saints

As of September 15, 2022.^[5]

Notable players

Isabelle Chartrand
Sabrina Harbec
Gina Kingsbury, (remains in the university's top-5 in career points (152) and goals (74)) and holds the school record with nine points in a game (4 goals, 5 assists)

Olympians

Isabelle Chartrand : Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament
Gina Kingsbury, : 2006 and 2010 Olympics^[6]
Former St. Lawrence University women's hockey assistant coach Jodi McKenna was an assistant for Team USA at the 2010 Olympics, which won the silver medal.
When Gina Kingsbury won her first gold medal with Canada in 2006, she became the third St. Lawrence alumnus-athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. Her jersey number for Canada is 27, the same number that she had while skating for St. Lawrence. Fellow hockey player, Isabelle Chartrand was the second St. Lawrence alumnus who won an Olympic gold medal (doing so with Canada's women in 2002). The first St. Lawrence alum was Ed Rimkus, who won gold in 1932.^[7]

International

Grace Harrison, Goaltender : 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, Group B – Silver Medal

Scoring leaders

Player	Years played	Points
Sabrina Harbec	2004–08	217
Rebecca Russell	2001–05	178
Chelsea Grills	2003–08	167
Carson Duggan	2000–04	159
Gina Kingsbury	2000–04	152

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Awards and honors

Rachel Barrie, 2003 Sarah Devens Award ^[9]
Brittony Chartier, 2010 Frozen Four Skills Competition participant^[10]
Marianna Locke, 2009 Sarah Devens Award^[11]
Meghan Maguire, Defense, 2002 ECAC North Second Team
Britni Smith, Defense, 2009 Second Team All-ECAC
Britni Smith, Pre-Season 2009–10 All-ECAC Team^[12]
Britni Smith, 2010 Frozen Four Skills Competition participant
Grace Harrison

Women's Hockey Commissioners Association Division I Goaltender of the Month for January 2019^[13]

ECAC awards

Rachel Barrie, Goalie, 2002 ECAC North First Team
Rachel Barrie, 2002 ECAC-North Goalie of the Year^[14]
Alison Domenico, Forward, 2009 Second Team All-ECAC
Alison Domenico, 2009 ECAC Best Defensive Forward ^[15]
Gina Kingsbury, Forward, 2002 ECAC North First Team
Gina Kingsbury, two-time ECAC All-Conference

ECAC All-Rookie Team

Lucy Morgan, 2019–20 ECAC All-Rookie Team Selection^[16]

ECAC All-Tournament Team

Sabrina Harbec, 2007 ECAC All-Tournament team^[17]

ECAC Monthly awards

Taylor Lum, ECAC Adirondack Health Rookie of the Month (March 2021) ^[18]

ECAC Weekly awards

Jamie Goldsmith, ECAC Rookie of the Week (Week of October 12, 2009)^[19]
Kelly Sabatine, ECAC Rookie of the Week (Week of October 19, 2009)^[20]
Kayla Sullivan,^[21] ECAC Rookie of the Week (Week of October 26, 2009)
Rachel Bjorgan, Adirondack Health Rookie of the Week (Awarded March 8, 2021)^[22]
Kayla Vespa, ECAC Hockey Player of the Week (St. Lawrence) (awarded October 21, 2019) ^[23]

All-America honors

Isabelle Chartrand, Second Team All-America honors (2001)
Gina Kingsbury, All-America honors (2004)
Rebecca Russell, All-America honors (2005)^[2]
Sabrina Harbec, First Team All-America selection (2006)^[24]
Annie Guay, Second Team All-America selection (2006)
Sabrina Harbec, All-America honors (2007, 2008)
Annie Guay, All-America honors (2007, 2008)^[25]
Brooke Webster, ACHA Women's CCM Hockey Division I Second Team All-America^[26]

Patty Kazmaier Award finalists

See main article: Patty Kazmaier Award.

Year	Player	Position
2008	Sabrina Harbec	Forward
2007	Sabrina Harbec	Forward
2006	Sabrina HarbecJessica Moffat	ForwardGoalie 2005Forward

In 2005, Harbec was a top three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. She was the first St. Lawrence player to be a finalist for the award.^[27]

Saints in professional hockey

= CWHL All-Star

= NWHL All-Star

= Clarkson Cup Champion

= Isobel Cup Champion

Player	Position	Team(s)	League(s)	Years	Championships
Nadine Edney		Sydney Sirens EHV Sabres Wien	AWIHL EWHL	2	2020 Joan McKowen Memorial Trophy 2021 Austrian women's league championship
Annie Guay	Defense		CWHL		2011 Clarkson Cup
Sabrina Harbec	Forward		CWHL		2009 Clarkson Cup
Grace Harrison^[28]	Goaltender	Botany Swarm	NZIHL	3
Gina Kingsbury	Forward	Montreal Axion Calgary Oval X-Treme	NWHL WWHL		Gold Medal: 2007 Esso Women's Nationals^[29] 2016 Clarkson Cup asst. coach
Hannah Miller	Forward	Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays Dream Gap Tour	CWHL PWHPA
Kayla Nielsen		Sydney Sirens EHV Sabres Wien	AWIHL EWHL	2	2020 Joan McKowen Memorial Trophy 2021 Austrian women's league championship
Britni Smith	Defense		CWHL		2014 Clarkson Cup scored GWG
Brooke Webster	Forward		CWHL	2

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Web site: Karen Thatcher wins prestigious Sarah Devens Award. April 11, 2006 . Hockey East. 11 May 2010.
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Web site: ECAC Hockey . ECAC Hockey . 2016-09-06.
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Web site: Dartmouth's Haggard named ECAC-North Player of the Year . Dartmouth.edu . 2010-06-07 . 2016-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606022122/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2002/march/031402.html# . 2011-06-06 . dead .
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