Men’s D-II/III in general
The Gridiron Club of Greater Boston announced Sunday the 18 semifinalists for the fifteenth Joe Concannon Award, presented annually to the best American-born college player in New England at the NCAA Division II/III level. This year’s list is made up of nine forwards, five defensemen and four goaltenders. The candidates include eight players from the … Read more
St. Scholastica men’s coach Mark Wick has taken an indefinite leave of absence due to medical reasons. Saints’ assistant coach Ben Gordon will assume the head coaching duties in the interim. Wick is the winningest coach in program history with 145 career victories and has been named the NCHA Coach of the Year twice (2009, … Read more
Reigning Division III player of the year and St. Norbert senior goaltender David Jacobson is out for the rest of the 2014-15 season with an undisclosed broken bone. St. Norbert SID Dan Lukes tweeted the news Monday afternoon, which is a devastating blow to the defending Division III national champs. St. Norbert senior goaltender David … Read more
College Hockey, Inc. has named former Denver captain Andrew Thomas as the organization’s new director of education and recruitment. Thomas, currently the director of hockey operations at Rensselaer, will complete the season with the Engineers before officially assuming his new role with CHI. “We are thrilled to welcome Andrew Thomas and know he will thrive … Read more
A total of 15 nominees for the 2015 BNY Mellon Wealth Management Hockey Humanitarian Award were announced Thursday. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the award is presented annually to college hockey’s finest citizen – a student-athlete who makes significant contributions not only to his or her team, but also to the community-at-large through leadership … Read more
It’s all about the bottom line, and in hockey, that means Frozen Four championships. Western schools have capture the past FroFour titles (with St. Norbert accounting for three of them) but team success at that or any level reflects the ability of the players contributing to it. That said, it’s worth noting that currently most … Read more
The American Hockey Coaches Association announced on Tuesday its major awards for 2015. Eight individuals who contributed to amateur hockey in the United States will be recognized during the 2015 AHCA Convention in Naples, Fla., with the women’s hockey honorees being recognized on Friday, May 1, and the men’s hockey award recipients being honored on … Read more
Former Franklin Pierce forward and assistant captain Bill Sullivan has been named the new women’s assistant coach at Chatham.
The Bangor Daily News and Portland Press Herald have reported that Jeff Beaney has retired as Southern Maine’s men’s coach. Beaney was in his 30th season on USM’s coaching staff and 28th as head coach. Assistant coach Ed Harding has been named interim head coach for the Huskies and ran his first practice Wednesday. “It … Read more
It was that noted hockey blogger – William Shakespeare – who posted those famous lines, “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” Shakespeare, no doubt, was referring to the heavy weight of expectation that comes with being anointed as pre-season conference favorites, such as it seems to be the case in the Eastern realm … Read more
College coaches and athletic department personnel are encouraged to consider which of their athletes embrace hockey as an opportunity to enrich both their own lives and those of others in the community.
Buffalo State’s men’s game scheduled for Friday night at Fredonia has been postponed due to continued travel restrictions related to the severe snowstorm that pounded Western New York this week. The game has been rescheduled for Saturday, Feb. 14 at 7 p.m.
Bob O’Connor will be honored with the USA Hockey Builders Award as part of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremony and dinner on Dec. 4 in Minneapolis. “Bob has had an enormous impact in the on-going development of our coaching education program,” said USA Hockey president Ron DeGregorio in a news release. “He … Read more
Jackson Brewer – and his NESCAC-leading 33 assists – is coming back. So, too, are John Hawkrigg and Sean Orlando, with their 17 goals apiece in tow. And who can forget Ryan Cole, a freshman like Orlando, and his 16 league tallies. All of that is great news for Trinity, not so great for the … Read more
Framingham State’s T.J. Brown thinks so. John Rolli, an institution at Massachusetts-Dartmouth, does too. It is the opinion many, including those two MASCAC bench bosses, that conference title chase will boil down to two squads, Salem State and Plymouth State. Just like last year when they shared the regular-season crown. “I think the league should … Read more
Still young, still hungry, and until proven otherwise, the best of the bunch in the ECAC Northeast. Such as it is for Nichols, which won both the regular-season and conference tournament titles last year on the way to their second-ever NCAA appearance. The Bison did so with a cast of talented novices – including … Read more
Babson and Norwich. Norwich and Babson. It’s been that way in the ECAC East for just about forever, or so it seems. Between them, the two powers have captured a whopping 13 of the last 15 conference tournament titles, with Norwich going on to win the national title three times (2000, 2003, 2010). What’s more, … Read more
The team to beat in the ECAC West is … Elmira. That notion wouldn’t have put you out on a limb not too many seasons ago. For half a decade, from 2008 to 2012, the Soaring Eagles owned the spot at the top of the league at the end of the regular season. Each of … Read more
Somebody’s bound to say it. “Ours is the toughest conference in Division III hockey.” The thing is, the SUNYAC can make the claim as well as anybody, at least if the gauge is Frozen Four appearances. Last year’s Frozen Four featured two SUNYAC schools, Geneseo and Oswego, and although they both bowed out in the … Read more
St. Norbert won the national championship last year, its fourth in program history, but Green Knights’ coach Dan Coghlin doesn’t see his team as the defending champs. “We don’t look at it as defending a title,” Coghlin said. “It’s a brand new season and every team wants to be a champion. We want another shot … Read more