Todd D. MilewskiUtica has been cited by the NCAA for failing to monitor its financial aid program for Canadian students and will be on probation for two years. The punishment, announced Thursday by the NCAA, also includes public reprimand and censure, a postseason ban for any teams that include a player still receiving that kind of financial … Read more
Nebraska-Omaha dismissed two players and suspended a third after all three were ticketed for suspicion of disorderly conduct following an incident in which they allegedly used racial slurs. Preston Hodge and Matt White were removed from the team and had their scholarships removed, UNO athletic director Trev Alberts said in a news release Friday. Alex … Read more
Tyler Walsh has joined Canisius as director of hockey operations after spending the last three seasons as Maine’s student assistant coach and video coordinator. Walsh is the son of former Maine coach Shawn Walsh and the grandson of former Lake Superior State, Bowling Green and Michigan State coach Ron Mason.
ECAC Hockey’s postseason championship will again be on television when it returns to Lake Placid, N.Y. The league and Fox College Sports have partnered to show the 2014 semifinals and finals. FCS also showed the 2013 tournament from Atlantic City, N.J. It was not available on TV in 2012 after a stretch where the league … Read more
Former Middlebury player and assistant coach Julia Ireland has been named an assistant coach for the Bowdoin women’s team. Ireland followed a playing career that included a 78-13-8 record by joining Bill Mandigo’s staff for the last two seasons. She replaces Holly Lorms on the Bowdoin staff under head coach Marissa O’Neil.
Former coach Ron Mason and three former college hockey players were among the United States Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2013 announced Thursday. Cindy Curley (Providence, 1981-85), Bill Guerin (Boston College, 1989-91) and Doug Weight (Lake Superior State, 1989-91) joined Mason and Carolina Hurricanes owner Peter Karmanos Jr. in the group. Mason won 924 … Read more
More 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