{"id":97509,"date":"2011-11-10T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/ecac-blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2011-11-10T08:17:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:17:13","slug":"an-18-year-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2011\/11\/10\/an-18-year-oversight\/","title":{"rendered":"An 18-year oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"
In Wednesday’s column, I took a moment to celebrate Colgate head coach Don Vaughan’s landmark 300th win, which came on Friday at Brown. I also made sure to acknowledge the other active 300-win mentors of ECAC Hockey, in St. Lawrence’s Joe Marsh (469 wins), Cornell’s Mike Schafer (314); and Dartmouth’s Bob Gaudet, who won No. 300 two weekends ago and has since improved to 302. <\/p>\n
I clearly didn’t spend enough time combing the records, because I overlooked another completely active, assuredly successful coach with more career wins than Vaughan, Gaudet or even Schafer: second in the league in career wins among active coaches, Quinnipiac’s Rand Pecknold (324 victories) is also second among that group in career winning percentage (.588, trailing only Schafer’s .628). <\/p>\n
Pecknold, now 18 years into his tenure at the only program he’s ever led, has earned every inch of his status as the 10th-most-victorious active D-I coach, only four wins behind Notre Dame’s Jeff Jackson. The Bobcats haven’t suffered a sub-.500 season in 15 years and counting under Pecknold, a streak that has survived Quinnipiac’s jump to D-I in 1999, the program’s transition from the late MAAC to Atlantic Hockey in 2003, and its acceptance into the ECAC two years later. <\/p>\n
The absolutely outstanding players he has guided, the stellar student-athletes, and the truly good citizens of the world who spent four years under his tutelage are too numerous to count, but they – and any team he’s ever coached against – can attest to the fact that 18 years is a lot to overlook. Especially Rand Pecknold’s 18 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Wednesday’s column, I took a moment to celebrate Colgate head coach Don Vaughan’s landmark 300th win, which came on Friday at Brown. I also made sure to acknowledge the other active 300-win mentors of ECAC Hockey, in St. Lawrence’s Joe Marsh (469 wins), Cornell’s Mike Schafer (314); and Dartmouth’s Bob Gaudet, who won No. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425],"tags":[1221,1486],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n