The Cool Cats opened the season with a sweep of the Niagara Eagles over the weekend. One associate coach at Niagara thinks the Cats could be contenders in the top 25 in the ACHA Division 1 teams (we are Division 2 for the record), read more at Niagara's website.
This season you can listen to select home games LIVE on WRFL at 88.1FM on your dial or online on their website www.WRFL.fm. The next game to be broadcast will be this Friday night's contest versus Wright State. Tune in and cheer the Cats on!
Refresh of the site is underway, expect some outages and funky things going on occasionally over the next 24-48 hours starting around 6:00pm on October 21st, 2009. The old site is going to be retained and should be accessible throughout all at ukhockey.com/old/ until everything is converted over to the new site.
Next Home Games!
Midnight - Fri Oct 30th
Lexington Ice Center
Lexington, KY
Friday night we will be having a costume contest. Dress up for Halloween and win a customized jersey or one of several T-shirts!
Midnight - Sat Oct 31st
Lexington Ice Center
Lexington, KY
| Saturday Oct 18th | 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | F | |
| Kentucky Cool Cats | 4 | 1 | 2 | - | 7 |  |
| North Carolina State | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 |
Cool Cats were a little slow to get started in the first, but once they did they were on fire! The second saw a lot of penalties on both teams and a pretty even period, each team putting one in the net. The Coooool Cats take another homestand sweep and did Valerino get another hat trick tonight - in the FIRST period? YES!
| Friday Oct 17th | 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | F | |
| Kentucky Cool Cats | 2 | 4 | 3 | - | 9 | |
| North Carolina State | 0 | 2 | 4 | - | 6 |
Cool Cats are up by two after a fairly evenly played first period. The cats put four more up in a dominating second period, while giving up two on NC State power plays. The last period had the cats looking a little rocked back early, but with three more goals they easily took the victory. Valerino put up another hat trick somewhere in the mix of it all!
| Saturday Oct 10th | 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | F | |
| Kentucky Cool Cats | - | - | - | - | 6 | |
| Davenport | - | - | - | - | 10 | |
After a valiant strugle the Cats went down, taking the first and only loss of the season so far to last years league champion. Come out for more hockey at the Lexington Ice Center next Friday at Midnight!
| Saturday Oct 10th | 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | F | |
| Kentucky Cool Cats | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| Robert Morris One | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 |
Obviously a very tight game throughout the match, the Wildcats coming from behind in both the 1st and 3rd, making the final tie with 57 seconds remaining in that period. The Cats took the game in OT.
| Friday Oct 9th | 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | F | |
| Kentucky Cool Cats | 0 | 5 | 3 | - | 8 | |
| Missouri Gold | 1 | 0 | 4 | - | 5 |
Seems like from the twitter feed indicated and what I saw from Mr. Hinkley, the Cats won quiet handily!
| Saturday Oct 3rd | 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | F | |
| Kentucky Cool Cats | 2 | 6 | 5 | - | 13 | |
| Northwestern | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 |
The Cats seemed to start out a bit flat and Northwestern was a seemingly different team. Late in the first the Cats capitalized on penalties to get on the board. Midway in the second the cats turned on, scoring three in one 32 second stretch. Cats controlled most of the third, Valerino gets another hat trick (apparently every time his Dad is in the stands), averaging 10 points a game now, and they they take 12 points in the standings to the Showcase next weekend!
| Friday Oct 2nd | 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | F | |
| Kentucky Cool Cats | 7 | 3 | 2 | - | 12 | |
| Northwestern | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
The Cool Cats are continuing with their winning ways jumping out to a 7-0 lead in the first period of play. Second saw a bit of a slow down and some penalties, but not to bad for the Cats who still put up 3 more. Cats take the win and Valerino gets another hat trick in the third!
| Saturday Sept 25th | 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | F | |
| Kentucky Cool Cats | 3 | 3 | 4 | - | 10 | |
| Eastern Kentucky University | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | 1 |
The barn was packed tonight as technically the EKU club played host to the Wildcats. Aside from a few extra EKU fans in the stands, it still had the feeling of largely a home game. The Cool Cats pretty much dominated from beginning to end and the rivalry between the teams showed that UK can be a very physical team hard hitting team.
| Saturday Sept 25th | 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | F | ||
| Kentucky Cool Cats | 7 | 2 | 5 | - | 14 | |
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| University of Cincinatti | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 |
The Cool Cats dominated the first period of play, scoring first around the ten minute mark and putting up a total of seven points. In the second period the highlight was Valerino putting his third puck in the net for a hat trick. The Wildcats were not done yet though, five more in the third with a second hat trick by Ampleford in the mix!
| Saturday Sept 19th | 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | F | |
| Kentucky Cool Cats | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| Niagara University | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
The Cool Cats continued where they left off the night before, taking a lead to the locker room for the first period. The second period they had several penalties and Niagara got back in the game, taking the lead, having scored three goals. The Cats came back out in the third and got goal to tie it up forcing overtime. Just past two minutes in the OT, the Cats put one in the net to clinch the sweep for their season opening stand.
| Friday Sept 18th | 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | F | |
| Kentucky Cool Cats | - | - | - | - | 7 | |
| Niagara University | - | - | - | - | 3 |
In last nights Kentucky Ice Hockey opener, the Wildcats dismantled the Niagara D1 club winning seven to three. The Wildcats, who are in the ACHA D2 division, looked like a D1 club as they took the lead with 12:01 remaining in the first period and never relinquished it. With six different scorers for the Wildcats, stellar defense and penalty kill, they look to be a force to be reckoned with in the ACHA this season.