Niagara University Athletics

The 1999-2000 Purple Eagles men's ice hockey team made history by capturing the inaugural College Hockey America championship in the program's fourth season of NCAA Division I competition. The Purple Eagles went on to post the program's first and only win in the NCAA Tournament when they defeated the University of New Hampshire in the Western Regional First Round.

The 1999-2000 team holds the program record for the most wins (30), most goals (165), the best power play percentage (27.8) and the best penalty kill percentage (87.9) in a single season. On October 20, 1999, the Purple Eagles were ranked No. 15 in the USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll to receive a national ranking for the first time in program history. The team finished the regular season ranked 8th in the nation.
 

1 Mike Shannon	11 Mikko Sivonen	22 John Heffernan
2 Peter Ricketts	12 Darwin Murray	23 Nicholas Carriere
3 Chris MacKenzie	14 Mike Isherwood	24 Todd Elliot
4 Nate Handrahan	15 Rob Bumbaco	25 Colin Rows
5 Mike Bozoian	16 Peter DeSantis	27 Richard DeCaprio
6 Jon Marshall	17 Jay Kasperek	28 Andrew Nahirniak
7 Kyle Martin	18 Thomas Clayton	30 Greg Gardner
8 Timo Makela	19 Randy Harris	35 Mario Long
9 John Maksymiu	20 Scott McDonald	-- Scott Crawford
10 Chris Sebastian	21 Adam Morris	-- Bernie Sigrist

 

Head Coach: Blaise MacDonald	Assistant Coaches: Dave Burkholder, Kenny Rausch and Jerry Forton
Hockey Trainer: Naoto Goto	Hockey SID: Steve Ostaszewicz
Team Moderator: Dr. Robert Hall	Student Managers: Chanin Martin, Lisa Marley and Sean McPhee