[2] Chace had been a tennis champion and avid player of ice polo, a game which predated hockey in the United States.

[4][3][2] During the following Christmas break, Chace formed a team made up of Brown, Harvard, Cornell and Columbia students and played a ten-game schedule in Canada, with the goal of learning the Canadian game.

[1] The Malcolm G. Chace Award is given each year to the player who "best exemplifies leadership and the traditions of the sport at Yale".

[6] Fred Rocque became the program's first head coach in the 1916–17 season, during which the team finished with ten wins and four losses.

[9] In 1936, the Council of Ivy Group Presidents agreed on the formal formation of the League, however the agreement did not go into effect until the 1955–56 season.

[10] Yale lost to the hometown Colorado College Tigers but won the consolation game 4–1 over St. Lawrence to place third in the tournament.

Murdoch finished with a record of 271–234–20, lead the Bulldogs to two Hobey Baker Trophy Quadrangular League Championships, and the program's first NCAA Frozen Four appearance.

[8] That same season, on November 15, 1986, Yale beat rival Harvard 7–5 to win the 100th game of the Taylor era.

Despite losing in the ECAC playoffs to Harvard, Yale received an at-large bid to the 1998 NCAA Ice Hockey tournament.

11th-seeded Yale eventually won 3–2 when David Meckler redirected a Zach Mayer shot 1:35 into the fifth overtime for a shorthanded goal, giving the a 3–2 victory over the 6th-seeded Union.

The Bulldogs followed the regular season by sweeping Brown in the ECAC Quarterfinal Round then getting a 4–3 win over St. Lawrence 4–3.

[19] The third-seeded Bulldogs faced the second-seeded North Dakota in the NCAA Northeast Regional held in Worcester, Massachusetts.

[20] After starting the third period with a three-goal lead, Yale held on during a Fighting Sioux comeback to win the game 3–2.

[21] In the second round of the tournament, Yale lost to Boston College in a high scoring game, 7–9.

Yale was seeded first in the 2011 NCAA Ice Hockey tournament and placed into the East Regional, held in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

[26] In the opening round the Bulldogs came close to an upset but defeated the fourth-seeded Air Force 2–1 in overtime.

[29] The team finished fourth in the 2013 ECAC tournament after losing to Union 0–5 in the semifinal[30] and falling to Quinnipiac 0–3 in the third-place match.

[34] In the Frozen Four semifinal, Yale defeated University of Massachusetts Lowell 3–2 on captain Andrew Miller's overtime goal.

[35] The 2013–2014 season was an off-year for the Bulldogs after finishing 3rd in the Ivy League[36] and being eliminated in the quarterfinal round of the 2014 ECAC tournament in a 0–2 series with Quinnipiac.

[38] For the second year in a row the Bulldogs were eliminated in the quarterfinal round of the ECAC tournament in a 1–2 series with Harvard.

[40] In the first round of the NCAA tournament, the 14th-seeded Bulldogs faced off against 3rd-seeded Boston University, losing 2–3 after Terrier forward Danny O'Regan scored in the overtime period.

The two teams met on April 13, 2013, for the fourth time in the 2012–13 season in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to play for the national championship.

Although, Quinnipiac had won the previous three meetings (all in the 2012–13 season) by a combined score of 13–3, Yale shut them out in the national championship game, 4–0.