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Bo Hanson played youth hockey in Colorado and will be returning to Denver next season to play as a graduate transfer on the blue line for the Pioneers (photo: St. Lawrence Athletics).
Illinois has been looked at as a school that may be adding NCAA hockey in the future. A 2017 feasibility study that wrapped in 2018 proved it could work. Two years later, Illinois is still on track to make hockey work, even with the COVID-19 outbreak putting the brakes on some of the planning (photo: Joe Connor).
Mercyhurst assistant coach Tom Upton has left his position to become the new head coach and general manager for the USHL’s Madison Capitols (photo: Matt Durisko/Mercyhurst Athletics).
The NCAA announced Friday that high school students intending to play NCAA Division I or II sports whose final semesters of their senior year were canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic will have several pathways to meet the NCAA’s initial-eligibility requirements this year.
Boston University senior defenseman Breanna Scarpaci, whose efforts to support young hockey players began in high school, has been named the first recipient of the College Hockey Inc. Scholarship, presented by JLG Architects (photo: Rich Gagnon).
Brett Epp, a goaltender who played the past two seasons at Nichols, has left school and will play the 2020-21 season for Nipissing, a Canadian OUA/USports university in North Bay, Ont. (photo: Brian Foley/Nichols College Athletics).
This week has seen at least five more players announce their intent to transfer for the 2020-21 season, either to sit out a year and be eligible for 2021-22 or as graduate transfers who will be eligible with their new schools immediately (photo: Liz Brady/RPI Athletics).
In a tweet sent out Tuesday by the UMass hockey account, the team announced that sophomore forward Bobby Kaiser is retiring from the game of hockey due to “a culmination of shoulder injuries.”
The Utica women’s team will face Nazareth in an outdoor game at the Griffiss Business and Technology Park in Rome, N.Y., on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021.
Vermont announced late Wednesday night that Todd Woodcroft has been named the fifth head coach in Catamounts history (photo: thecoachessite.com).
Efforts to grow the game of hockey have produced some innovative ideas, including how to increase scoring. One idea is a “two-point” arc, similar to the three-point arc in basketball (photo: Jim Rosvold/University of Minnesota).
Chatham announced Wednesday that Michael Gershon has been named the new men’s hockey head coach (photo: Justin Cohn/RMU Athletics).
St. Olaf announced Tuesday the hiring of Eddie Effinger as the head coach of the Oles men’s hockey team.
Boston University captain Sammy Davis has been named the winner of the 2020 Sarah Devens Award (photo: Rich Gagnon).
Northeastern forward Grant Jozefek has received a medical hardship waiver from the NCAA and will return for the 2020-21 season with the Huskies (photo: Rich Gagnon).
The Chicago Blackhawks have signed Denver junior defenseman and captain Ian Mitchell to a three-year, entry-level contract (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
After two seasons at Connecticut, forward Jordan Timmons will transfer to Robert Morris and will be eligible to play starting with the 2021-22 season.
Minnesota Duluth junior defenseman Scott Perunovich has been named the winner of the 2020 Hobey Baker Memorial Award (photo: Jim Rosvold).
Maine junior goaltender Jeremy Swayman has been awarded the 2020 Mike Richter Award, given annually to the best goaltender in NCAA Division I men’s hockey (photo: Maine Athletics).
Sixteen different schools have players honored as CCM/AHCA Hockey All-Americans for the 2019-20 season (photo: Bradley K. Olson).