The 2025-26 ice hockey season is fully underway.
Below find submitted game stats, game coverage and the schedule for co-ed-eligible games, boys schools and for girls-only play for Monday, Dec. 1-Sunday, Dec. 7.
This file will be updated and republished nightly after stats are received.
WEST NYACK — When the final horn sounded at the Palisades Center ice rink Wednesday night to end Mamaroneck’s game against host Clarkstown, the Tigers had their third straight win to open its 2025-26 ice hockey season.
But Mamaroneck’s 4-1 victory certainly didn’t come easily.
First, with the flu traveling through the team, it traveled across the Hudson with 11 players left at home sick.
That included its starting goalie and many top forwards.
Then the trip itself was hellish. It might have been Wednesday afternoon, but traffic delays proved worse than a Friday during the height of fall leaf-peeper exoduses.
The game finally began about the time the first period would otherwise probably have ended.
And the Tigers, expected to be one of the top teams in Section 1, then got off to a slow start, which could be expected with lines greatly reshuffled, players normally suiting up for the junior varsity getting lots of ice time and Clarkstown’s goalie doing a good job and his teammates playing a scrappy, up-tempo brand of defense, filling shooting lanes.
It wasn’t until after a scoreless first period in which Clarkstown killed off two penalties that the Tigers started resembling a team many think will find itself with a shot at winning a Section 1 title this season.
With Mamaroneck up a man again early in the second period, junior Aaden Kou carried the puck in a big circle, going counter clockwise around the back of the net, then through the high slot, before ripping off a shot from the right side, low and just inside the post to beat goalie Jeremy Seif.
Clarkstown, largely due to strong play from its freshman netminder, who stopped everything from pucks through traffic, to a knuckling puck to hot chances from right in front — including a shot by Kou and then another chance by Kou off the rebound — kept the damage to one goal going into the third period.
Mamaroneck quickly took control and when Kou scored for a second time with fewer than eight minutes gone in the third period, it had a commanding 4-0 lead.
If the game spoke of anything, it was of Mamaroneck’s depth. It might have taken a while but even with many of its top players missing, it showed why there’s a lot of excitement about its chances this year.
For Clarkstown, the game was a learning experience and there were multiple positives, including two really fine periods of play by Seif and non-stop hustle that probably won’t win it a title but is sure to win it multiple games this season.
One lesson to be learned is to stay out of the box. Two of the Tigers’ goals came on the power play.
Kou, an offensive-minded defenseman, finished with two goals and an assist and top game honors.
His second goal was a thing of beauty as, cruising left through the high slot, he shot back right, putting the puck just inside the right post and just under the crossbar.
Henry Doherty had Mamaroneck’s second and third goals.
The first came off a high snap shot off Seif’s glove with the goalie going down.
The second came fewer than four minutes later and again was from the left side — this time on a power play.
Jase Schroer got Clarkstown on the board with 8:07 to play, scoring with multiple players in front of the net.
But Tigers keeper Kenny Steson, making his first varsity start, came up big soon after that, sliding left to stop Spencer Diamond, who was alone on Steson’s left post.
Mamaroneck dominated the closing minutes but Seif, who finished with 20 saves, came up with several strong ones to limit the damage to four goals.
Clarkstown had multiple strong defensive moments, including from Ryan McMahon, Dylan McDermott and Frank Negri.
Steson had 16 stops for the Tigers.
Joe Zanlunghi and Diamond assisted on the Clarkstown score.
Savante Toftgaard had two assists and Derek Tumsuden and Gustav Ranje also both had one assist for Mamaroneck.
“It took a period to get used (to playing with revamped lines),” Kou said.
But, although very early in the season, the league win was significant.
“It was great. We haven’t beaten them in a few years,” Kou said.
Iona Prep 3, Xaverian 1
IP
— Steve Spaziani: 1G, 1A
— Rogan Lester: 1G
— Billy Haggerty: 1G
— Scott Alessy: 1A
— Billy Pappa: 1A
— Thomas Caracappa: 1A
— Jeff Maldari: 1A
— Dillon Sykes: 1A
— Aidan Sullivan: 13S
X
— Elion Aksalic: 1G
— Charles Ludovico: 1A
— Christian Venezia: 1A
— Ethan Riso: 25S
Monday, Dec. 1
Girls: East Green Wave vs. Rockland Rockies at Sport-O-Rama, 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 2
Rivertown vs. Pelham at Ice Hutch, 5 p.m.
Scarsdale vs. Rye Town/Harrison at Playland Ice Arena, 8:45 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 5
Byram Hills vs. BYSNS at Brewster Ice Arena, 4 p.m.
Carmel vs. Horace Greeley/John Jay-Cross River at Brewster Ice Arena, 6:15 p.m.
Mamaroneck vs. Rivertown at Westchester Skating Academy, 6:20 p.m.
Pelham vs. Suffern at Sport-O-Rama, 7:05 p.m.
Clarence vs. Rye at Playland Ice Casino, 7:55 p.m.
Fox Lane vs. Mahopac at Brewster Ice Arena, 8:30 p.m.
ETBE/New Ro vs. Mount Pleasant at Westchester Skating Academy. 8:35 p.m.
Clarkstown at Pascack Valley, 9:15 p.m.
Girls: Rockland Rockies vs. Morristown Beard at Twin Oaks Ice Rink, 5 p.m. (Morristown, N.J.)
Saturday, Dec. 6
Clarence vs. Mamaroneck at Hommocks Ice Arena, 5:30 p.m.
Byram Hills vs. Cortlandt at Brewster Ice Arena, 8:20 p.m.
White Plains vs. Pearl River at Sport-O-Rama, 8:45 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 7
Byram Hills vs. Mahopac at Brewster Ice Arena, 5:45 p.m.
BYSNS vs. Cortlandt at Brewster Ice Arena, 7:30 p.m.
Horace Greeley/John Jay-Cross River vs. Fox Lane at Brewster Ice Arena, 8 p.m.
Nancy Haggerty covers sports for The Journal News/lohud .
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