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For six Ivies, league title is more than just ECAC Hockey

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  Over the past month, 57 different college hockey programs jumped on the ice for games scheduled on any given night. They competed against one another to gain non-conference wins towards an eventual national tournament berth while battling league comrades for the first points towards postseason tournament seeding. Highlights rang social media throughout morning-after breakdowns, … Read more

Gap in the market: Omaha coach Gabinet makes use of family pedigree in new recruiting era

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  The recruiting landscape in college hockey these days, and in American college sports in general, isn’t what our parents grew up with. The NCAA rolling out the transfer portal in October 2018, letting student-athletes move freely from one school to another, made sure of that. Seven years later, the recruiting scene in NCAA Division … Read more

The NCAA Power Index (NPI) is replacing the PairWise, but what does that mean for college hockey?

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The PairWise Rankings have been as familiar – and often controversial – as any topic across college hockey for the better part of three decades. The term, first coined by three self-described “stat geeks” from the University of Minnesota (who went on to start USCHO back some 30 years ago), is going the way of … Read more

Hockey Humanitarian Award Finalist Feature: Cornell’s Kempf all about giving back to local community with memory of late mother the catalyst for volunteering, helping, assisting others

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Thousands of hockey players rotated through Cornell’s New York-based campus over Mike Schafer’s three decades of head coaching. From an on/ice perspective, their legacy is long entrenched as a piece of the Big Red’s history of building successful champions. Even in this last year, raising the Whitelaw Cup for a second straight season handed the … Read more

Hockey Humanitarian Award Finalist Feature: By spearheading organ donor awareness events, Fortin’s ‘desire to make an impact to help others is a really great legacy that she leaves here at Bemidji State’

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Like innumerable kids, Kendra Fortin grew up with a list of ideas as to what she may want to do for a profession once she was out of school. What separates the Bemidji State senior defenseman in that regard is how her ultimately chosen career route tied into something that happened to her family when … Read more

Hockey Humanitarian Award Finalist Feature: Volunteering her service to special education individuals means Boston College’s Clougherty ‘doing it for others and for the smiles on those people’s faces’

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The thread through nearly everything Boston College senior Keri Clougherty does is relationships. The youngest of three and an incredibly outgoing, generous and gregarious person, Clougherty always seems to be in the center of a group of people. She draws them in with her warmth and ability to meet everyone she meets where they are. … Read more

Hockey Humanitarian Award Finalist Feature: With Sticks Together non-profit, St. Lawrence’s Thompson introducing game of hockey to all parts of the globe

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After committing to Syracuse early in her high school career, Sarah Thompson thought she’d close out her hockey career with the Orange. But she has always been adaptable and when the opportunity came to use her last year of eligibility playing at St. Lawrence, Thompson couldn’t pass it up. After graduating from Syracuse with a … Read more

Hockey Humanitarian Award Finalist Feature: A star on the ice at Merrimack, Szott, ‘she’s the type of person you hope to have in your life,’ finding greater calling with off-ice initiatives

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As Merrimack defenseman and captain Raice Szott’s collegiate career draws to a close, it’s becoming clearer all the time that her legacy at the North Andover, Mass., college will last far beyond her playing days there. A native of Daysland, Alta., Szott is a finalist for the Hockey Humanitarian Award for the second year running. … Read more