St. Anselm’s College will add women’s ice hockey as a varsity sport for the 2004-2005 season. The school says a head coach will be named by this July and the team will compete as a club team in 2003-2004. Athletic Director Ed Cannon says the women will play in the ECAC, once the team attains … Read more
North Dakota defenseman David Hale became the second WCHA player to forego his senior season and turn pro, signing with the New Jersey Devils this week. Hale joins Peter Sejna, the Hobey Baker finalist who signed a free-agent deal with the St. Louis Blues. Hale was a first-round draft pick of New Jersey in the … Read more
In one corner, the number-one team in the nation, sporting the top defense and a Hobey Baker finalist in goal. In the other — the favorite, New Hampshire? Maybe not, but Thursday, Cornell will look to silence the naysayers while simultaneously exacting revenge for a loss in last year’s NCAA quarterfinals. The Wildcats, meanwhile, seek … Read more
What do Cornell and the ECAC have to do to prove the doubters wrong?
It’s a rematch of last year’s national semifinal Thursday evening, with 2002 titlist Minnesota taking on Michigan, back for its third straight Frozen Four. No matter the winner, youth will be served: neither team closely resembles last year’s edition thanks to graduation, early departure, academics and injury. Minnesota (26-8-9) vs. Michigan (30-9-3) Thursday, 6 p.m. … Read more
Three finalists — the “Hobey Hat Trick” — are left in the race for the 2003 Hobey Baker Memorial Award, presented annually to college hockey’s most outstanding player. Peter Sejna Team: Colorado College. Position: Forward. Class: Junior. Height, weight: 5-foot-11, 198 pounds. Hometown: Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia. Peter Sejna leads the nation in scoring (photo: Christopher … Read more
One year after close-but-no-cigar, Cornell returns to the Frozen Four.
If there’s one thing you learn in sports, when passion and loyalty are involved, not everyone is always watching the same game.
Minnesota’s youth movement has kept the Gophers in the chase for a repeat NCAA title.
UNH’s Lanny Gare has been a pleasant surprise, but the sparkplug may miss Thursday’s semifinal.
Hobey Baker Award finalist Peter Sejna signed a free-agent contract with the St. Louis Blues on Sunday and quickly made an impact at the top level. Sejna, who played three seasons at Colorado College, scored a power-play goal in his first game for the Blues, beating Colorado goalie Patrick Roy in the second period of … Read more
For Michigan, the NCAA tournament has historically been a showcase.
Injured Merrimack goaltender Joe Exter has returned home after spending nearly four weeks in two hospitals in Boston. “Joe is making a remarkable recovery from the head injury. He will continue his rehabilitation from home,” said Heechin Chae, MD, associate medical director, Inpatient Brain Injury Program, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network. “It is too early to … Read more
The mother of a former Army player now fighting in Iraq relates her son’s journey.
Mike Schafer has come full circle by leading Cornell back to the Frozen Four.
Oswego has promoted longtime assistant Ed Gosek to head coach.
Alaska-Fairbanks coach Guy Gadowsky has dismissed two players from the team for unspecified violations of team rules during the 2002-03 season. The players are both freshmen, forwards Doug Auchenberg and Russell Spence. “They were dismissed for rules violations,” Gadowsky told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. “I don’t feel good about it. We lost two very talented … Read more
Ferris State forward Chris Kunitz, the leading scorer this year in the CCHA and a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award, signed a two-year deal with the NHL’s Anaheim Mighty Ducks. Kunitz was undrafted, and signed as a free agent. Kunitz, the CCHA Player of the Year, was second in the nation with 35 goals … Read more
For the third consecutive year, USCHO.com is sponsoring a Town Meeting to entertain and inform college hockey fans during the festivities at the NCAA Frozen Four. This year’s USCHO.com Town Meeting topic is “The Evolution of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament,” and the panel will include the NCAA’s Director of Championships Tom Jacobs, NCAA … Read more
Minnesota, plagued by slow starts early in the season, has turned it up.