Todd D. MilewskiMore than two-thirds of the players selected for the camp that will help select the 2014 U.S. men’s Olympic team come from college hockey roots. Of 48 players named to the U.S. Men’s National Team Orientation Camp in August, 33 played in college. Minnesota had seven former players chosen, with Wisconsin right behind at six. … Read more
College Hockey Inc. will stage the season-opening Ice Breaker Tournament at Notre Dame in 2014 and in Portland, Maine, in 2015. The organization announced those locations on Tuesday, when it also unveiled that the 2014 field would include the host Fighting Irish, Minnesota, Minnesota-Duluth and Rensselaer. Maine will host the 2015 event at the Cumberland … Read more
Former Miami goaltender Jon Whitacre was killed Thursday in a plane crash. He was 28. A small, single-engine plane Whitacre was flying with an instructor while working toward his pilot’s license crashed in a field in Louisiana. The instructor, Clarence Collins, also died in the crash. The cause has not yet been determined. Whitacre was … Read more
As college hockey grinds through another tectonic landscape shift, one can’t help but wonder if our game might someday extend west to the Pacific again. Jayson Hron reports.
Following is a list of players drafted in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft who play for a college team, have committed to a college or play in a league that traditionally feeds college hockey. Commitments are from Chris Heisenberg’s recruiting site. Follow all the draft picks on the NHL’s website.
The specifications for sites interested in bidding on regionals and Frozen Fours from 2015 to 2018 are out, and one item jumped out to me right away. It appears that the NCAA is considering moving the game dates for the Frozen Four from Thursday and Saturday to Saturday and Monday. That’s listed as a possible … Read more
The specifications for sites interested in bidding on regionals and Frozen Fours from 2015 to 2018 are out, and one item jumped out to me right away. It appears that the NCAA is considering moving the game dates for the Frozen Four from Thursday and Saturday to Saturday and Monday. That’s listed as a possible … Read more
George Gwozdecky interviewed at Alabama-Huntsville and said he was impressed with what the school has to offer, but he told the Wisconsin State Journal that he’s no longer a candidate for the head coaching job there. Gwozdecky, a two-time national championship-winning coach who was fired as Denver’s coach on April 1, met with Chargers athletic … Read more
NCAA members failed to overturn the prohibition on live scouting of future opponents, the association announced Friday. The Division I board of directors passed the legislation in January but it came under fire as being contrary to deregulation efforts, and 94 schools requested an override. Only 55.2 percent of the schools and conferences voted to … Read more
The NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey committee would like to turn down the volatility in the PairWise Rankings based on the so-called teams under consideration cliff. Now it just needs to figure out how to do it. The committee discussed potential changes to national tournament selection criteria at its meeting in Indianapolis last week, … Read more
Brown was the only school to earn a perfect score in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rates for the 2011-12 academic year in both its men’s and women’s hockey programs. And both men’s and women’s hockey are tops among NCAA sports in their gender for average score. It’s the fifth straight 1,000 for the Brown men’s … Read more
The National Collegiate Hockey Conference is losing its first commissioner before it plays its first game. Jim Scherr, who in early 2012 got a 4½-year contract to run the NCHC, is leaving the league to become chief operating officer of the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. The league made the announcement late Friday afternoon, … Read more
National Collegiate Hockey Conference commissioner Jim Scherr has been in discussions with organizers of the 2015 European Games about a job with the group, but he said a report that he has accepted the position is premature. Inside the Games reported that Scherr would become the chief operating officer for the organizing committee of the … Read more
If you’re waiting to hear where the 2015 Frozen Four will be, you’re in for quite a wait. Site selection announcements for NCAA events from 2015 to 2018 are scheduled for December, according to the web site for the coordinated, NCAA-wide bid process. That means the 2015 regional and Frozen Four hosts will have only … Read more
If you’re waiting to hear where the 2015 Frozen Four will be, you’re in for quite a wait. Site selection announcements for NCAA events from 2015 to 2018 are scheduled for December, according to the web site for the coordinated, NCAA-wide bid process. That means the 2015 regional and Frozen Four hosts will have only … Read more
As the saying goes, everything old is new again. When the Division I men’s coaching body met last week during the annual American Hockey Coaches Association convention to discuss the hot topics in college hockey, two of the major themes centered around moving NCAA regional games back to campus sites and tweaking the selection criteria … Read more
The college hockey community is remembering former Yale coach Tim Taylor, who passed away Saturday. Here are some thoughts from USCHO’s Jayson Moy and Dave Starman.
Tim Taylor, whose tenure as Yale coach lasted 30 years and included two sabbaticals to coach the U.S. Olympic team, died Saturday, the New Haven Register reported. He was 71. Taylor had been battling cancer recently but continued to serve in a prominent role with USA Hockey. He was the director of player personnel for … Read more
Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold was fond of telling those who were interested in judging Bobcats goaltender Eric Hartzell’s qualifications for individual awards about the rest of the team. Namely, that the Bobcats’ top scorer was hovering around 100th in the country in points per game yet the team was ranked No. 1 in the country. … Read more
In his first season at Massachusetts-Lowell, Norm Bazin engineered a 19-win improvement from the season before. What was left for an encore? Two Hockey East trophies and a trip to the Frozen Four later, Bazin and the River Hawks showed last season was no fluke. Bazin repeated as USCHO’s coach of the year after leading … Read more