USCHO Staff
North Dakota junior Jordan Kawaguchi is the NCHC Forward of the Year, while UND freshman Shane Pinto picked up NCHC Rookie of the Year honors and Minnesota Duluth junior Justin Richards was tabbed NCHC Defensive Forward of the Year for the second straight season, the first player to win that honor twice (photo: Candace Horgan).
Western Michigan sophomore defenseman Mattias Samuelsson on Wednesday agreed to a three-year, entry-level contract with the Buffalo Sabres, giving up his last two seasons of NCAA eligibility (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
St. Olaf announced recently that Cole Workman will not be retained as the permanent head coach of the men’s hockey team (photo: St. Olaf Athletics).
The MIAC has named Gustavus sophomore defenseman Kayla Vrieze the 2019-20 Elite 22 award winner for women’s hockey (photo: Gustavus Athletics).
The BCHL’s Cranbrook Bucks announced Tuesday that current Yale assistant coach Ryan Donald has been named head coach and general manager, agreeing to terms on a four-year contract starting with the 2020-21 season.
The 10 semifinalists for the 2020 Mike Richter Award were announced Tuesday. The award is given to the top goaltender in Division I hockey and is named after Mike Richter, the former Wisconsin goalie and 1994 Stanley Cup winner with the New York Rangers (photo: Omar Phillips).
A pair of Minnesota Duluth standouts have repeated as NCHC individual award winners in 2019-20, while North Dakota senior defenseman Colton Poolman also received league recognition on Tuesday (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Massachusetts junior forward Mitchell Chaffee has signed a two-year, entry-level contract with the Minnesota Wild, forgoing his final year of collegiate eligibility (photo: Rich Gagnon).
For leading his team to the ECAC Hockey regular-season title and the top seed of the cancelled NCAA tournament, Cornell’s Doug Derraugh is the CCM/AHCA Women’s National Collegiate Coach of the Year (photo: Eldon Lindsay/Cornell Athletics).
The top 12 women’s hockey players in the nation have been recognized as 2019-20 CCM/AHCA All-Americans. Five selections come from ECAC Hockey, four from the WCHA and three from Hockey East (photo: Brad Rempel).
The NCHC announced Monday that Minnesota Duluth junior forward Kobe Roth is the 2019-20 Sportsmanship Award winner, while North Dakota junior forward Jordan Kawaguchi and UMD junior defenseman Scott Perunovich split the NCHC’s Three Stars Award as co-winners. In addition, Dave Starman of CBS Sports Network was named the conference’s third annual Media Excellence Award winner (photo: Candace Horgan).
Concordia (Minn.) junior forward Tyler Bossert has been named the winner of the MIAC Elite 22 award for academic excellence in men’s hockey (photo: Concordia (Minn.) Athletics).
USA Hockey announced Monday it will reveal the winner of the 2020 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award on Friday, March 27, at 1:30 p.m. EST.
After a season that abruptly ended almost two weeks ago, Cornell finishes the year ranked No. 1 in the final USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll of the 2019-20 season with 25 first-place votes (photo: Omar Phillips).
Sean Dhooghe, who played the past three seasons for Wisconsin, will play his final season of NCAA eligibility at Arizona State (photo: UW Athletics).
Computer simulations produced North Dakota as the NCHC Champion and top-seed in a simulated NCAA tournament. The computer predicted that the Fighting Hawks skated past Denver, 4-2, in the NCHC title game (File photo: Jim Rosvold/2016)
UMass Lowell was one of a number of teams that a computer picked to pull off an upset in league semifinal action on Friday. The computer picked the River Hawks to advance over sister school, UMass, in overtime to face Maine in the Hockey East final. (File photo: Rich Gagnon)
Western Michigan junior forward Austin Rueschhoff signed a free-agent, entry-level contract with the New York Rangers on Friday afternoon, giving up his last season of NCAA eligibility (photo: Ashley Huss).
The Calgary Flames announced Friday that they have signed Minnesota State junior defenseman Connor Mackey to a free-agent contract, who will forego his senior season in Mankato (photo: David Faulkner/SPX Sports).
The NCHA men’s conference announced recently its three major award winners and all-conference and all-freshman teams for the 2019-20 season (photo: Mike Dickie/Adrian Athletics).