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Each year on the night that the men’s hockey team hosts Harvard in Lynah Rink, denizens of the Lynah Faithful smuggle contraband into the rink in order to break the rules and continue the tradition of covering the ice with fish before the game. Oct. 28 will be different.
Following three consecutive trips to the 16-team NCAA tournament, high expectations were heaped on the Ohio State men’s hockey team entering last season. But injuries and other problems took their toll.
Billy Sauer’s job as Michigan’s starting goalie just got a bit more secure as his longtime goalie coach gets tapped to help him out in Ann Arbor.
At last Thursday’s media day, Nate Hagemo, sophomore defenseman for Minnesota’s men’s hockey team, was in high spirits, to say the least. But, after a couple of days practicing with the team, it was announced Hagemo will never practice or play with the team again.
There’s nowhere to hide for Wisconsin, which starts out the year as the defending NCAA champion and atop the national polls.
During an offseason of losses for college hockey, Boston College retained key names in its run for a national championship.
Mark Johnson can’t believe it, but it’s not even October yet and the puck is already set to drop for the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team.
Giving new meaning to the term “dryland training,” four Babson athletes pedaled 3,300 miles in just 39 days to raise money to fight MS, as Tim Costello reports.
For Nicholas Jon Wood, Wisconsin’s sixth national title was a watershed event — and he was on hand for the whole shooting match.
Every year the NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee meets to determine how the past season went and to look forward to future seasons. This past meeting is summarized by Ty Halpin, the NCAA’s liaision to the Rules Committee. The Committee reports on rules changes, points of emphasis and future discussions.
Russell Jaslow reflects on Laura Hurd’s career and all the lives she touched before her untimely death.
Keith Seabrook may not have been on the scouts’ consensus hot list, but that didn’t stop the Denver recruit from becoming draft day’s biggest jumper, Jim Connelly says.
Phil Kessel was indisputable college hockey’s hottest incoming commodity a year ago. Saturday, the Minnesota sophomore-to-be saw his stock drop a bit, Jim Connelly reports.
As the cream of the crop of young hockey talent strides to the podium Saturday, Jim Connelly says you can credit an American flavor partly to the growth of the U.S. National Team Development Program.
There’s plenty going on in Vancouver around the NHL Draft, and Jim Connelly is there to soak it all up.
New York’s Apple Core Junior team has paved the way to college hockey for a number of current and former standouts. Dave Starman — a man with intimate knowledge of the program — displays its impact.
Brian Strait doesn’t flash. He doesn’t make a scene. The Boston University recruit just leads the U.S. Under-18 Team by example, Joe Haggerty finds.
University of North Dakota president Charles Kupchella has emerged as one of the NCAA’s staunchest critics of a policy that punishes some of the association’s member institutions for using American Indian nicknames, mascots and imagery in athletic competition. Back in early August of last year, when the NCAA Executive Committee announced its plans to implement … Read more
Players with college ties could take the top three slots in this weekend’s NHL Draft — and Jim Connelly finds that there’s plenty more where that came from.
As the battle over the “Fighting Sioux” continues, Patrick C. Miller sat down with University of North Dakota President Charles Kupchella for a chat.