Wayne State began its 2002-03season with a 6-1 exhibition win Sunday afternoon against the University of Windsor at Detroit’s City Ice Arena. Last year’s leading scorer Kelly Zamora had three goals and one assist, while sophomore defenseman Krissy Langley scored the Warriors final goal. WSU’s first and fourth goals were scored by newcomers Jessica Haydahl … Read more
Cori Forbes scored two goals and Heidi Tallqvist added a goal and three assists as Findlay started the 2002-03 season with a 9-4 exhibition victory over the University of Windsor at the Clauss Ice Arena on Saturday night. The Oilers dominated for much of the game, outshooting the Lancers 39-11 for the game. Meghann Schlaff, … Read more
Julie Sasner, most recently the coach at Wisconsin, will soon be named head coach at MIT, USCHO has learned.
Yale and the ECAC would still like to host the 2004 Women’s Frozen Four, but now must find another practical venue that’s also up to NCAA standards. The NCAA has given them until Oct. 10 to report back.
The Crimson of Harvard were picked by six of the ECAC head coaches as the best team in the preseason poll. The Crimson return nine forwards, all six defensemen, and two goaltenders, and also add Olympian Julie Chu to their lineup. The Dartmouth Big Green got two first place votes and were picked second in … Read more
Cornell, the defending regular season champion, and Harvard, the defending ECAC tournament champion, finished 1-2 in both the preseason coach’s and media polls. In the coach’s poll, the Big Red edged out the Crimson by one point, garnering seven of the 12 first place votes and a total of 116 points. The Crimson received the … Read more
Four years in the making, the NCAA’s final amateurism package had little effect, except for the NHL Draft.
Former Minnesota coach Doug Woog, former Hobey Baker Award winners Mark and Scott Fusco, Joe Riley have been inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, located in Eveleth, Minn. The formal induction ceremony will take place Wednesday, Dec. 4. In his 14-year coaching career with the Golden Gophers, Woog guided Minnesota to an … Read more
Seth Cole has been named the recipient of the fourth annual Brian Fishman Internship, given each year to an outstanding college graduate who is pursuing a career in athletic media relations by USA Hockey. Named in honor of the late Brian Fishman, who served as the Manager, Communications and Marketing for the USA Hockey National … Read more
As part of the ECAC Hockey Media Day Monday, Sept. 23 at the Pepsi Arena in Albany, the ECAC will conduct live Web chats with two men’s and two women’s head coaches from 10-11 a.m. on hockey.ecac.org. A link to the chat will be available Monday morning so that fans and interested individuals can discuss … Read more
The fate of the 2004 NCAA Women’s Frozen Four, scheduled for April 9-11 in New Haven, Conn., remains in limbo, three weeks after the original site closed its doors.
Notre Dame has moved the second game of a two-game weekend series with Yale to Allstate Arena in suburban Chicago. The game, to be played Saturday, Jan. 18 at 7:05 (CT), will be the Irish’s first game in Chicago since 1995-96. The game scheduled for Friday, Jan. 17 between Notre Dame and Yale will remain … Read more
Though it may be another year for the MAAC, the coaches of the league see little different from the past and have select 2001 and 2002 regular-season champion Mercyhurst as the preseason favorite, according to a poll released today at the league’s media day. Receiving four of 11 first-place votes, Mercyhurst tops the poll that … Read more
Michigan, the reigning regular-season and conference tournament champions, received top billing from both the coaches and media, it was announced at the 2002-03 CCHA Media Day.
New Hampshire senior defenseman and assistant captain Garrett Stafford has been ruled academically ineligible to play during the fall semester of the 2002-03 season by the school. Garrett Stafford will miss the first half of UNH’s season for academic reasons. Stafford is considered one of the top returning defensemen in Division I and was named … Read more
With a new 2,500-seat on-campus arena finally open, the only state school in New England without a varsity hockey program ponders its future.
Is there life after hockey? Now, it appears, there is hope for a meaningful second career for the aged professional player. Quinnipiac University is joining with the National Hockey League to help retiring players pursue education and careers, the NHL announced Thursday. The Life After Hockey Program was launched during a news conference at the … Read more
Merrimack senior captain Anthony Aquino has decided not to return to the Hockey East school this season. Instead, he will attend the training camp of the Dallas Stars, who drafted him in the third round in 2001. Aquino will attend the camp without a contract and look to either make the club or play with … Read more
Manhattanville has named assistant coach Nicole Kirnan to take over its Division III women’s program. Kirnan replaces Rick Seeley, who left to start Clarkson’s new Division I women’s program. “I am very enthusiastic to have Nicole coach our women’s ice hockey team,” said school president Richard Berman. “Her experience as both a player and coach … Read more
Rick Seeley has been named as the head coach to usher in women’s hockey as a varsity athletic program at Clarkson. Seeley, who has served as the head coach at Division III Manhattanville the previous three years, will lead the Golden Knights into Division I competition beginning with the start of the 2003-04 season. The … Read more