Wisconsin-Eau Claire alumnus and USHL Green Bay Gamblers assistant coach Luke Strand has accepted the position of head coach at his alma mater, replacing Jean-Francois Laforest, who stepped down in June to take a job in minor league hockey. Strand, a native of Eau Claire, played college hockey for the Blugolds from 1993-1997 under Ian … Read more
Wisconsin-Eau Claire men’s hockey coach Jean Laforest has resigned to become the first head coach and director of hockey operations in franchise history for the new Youngstown SteelHounds of the minor league CHL. Laforest leaves the Blugolds after three years as the head coach. In his second season, the Blugolds achieved their first winning campaign … Read more
Chris Lerch counts down the second half of the USCHO.com/CSTV D-III men’s preseason poll, looks at some overlooked teams, and adds his salute to the no-longer-long-suffering fans in Beantown.
Last season’s national runner-up, St. Norbert, and a team that narrowly missed the NCAA playoffs, St. John’s, each placed three players on the men’s preseason D-III All-USCHO team as announced Monday by USCHO.com. St. Norbert first-team All-Americans Jason Deitsch and Ryan Tew were selected for the All-USCHO first team, with second-team All-American Spencer Carburry joining … Read more
St. Scholastica has chosen Mark Wick as its men’s hockey coach. Wick, a 1985 St. Scholastica graduate, and a two-time NCHA all-academic team honoree, was an assistant coach at Augsburg from 1990-95 and at Wisconsin-Superior from 1996-2000. Steve Lyons, St. Scholastica’s vice president for student affairs and interim athletic director, said Wick was the school’s … Read more
Former Wisconsin-Superior goaltender David Harbinson has filed a lawsuit against Norwich University and former player Jason Lumsden. Harbinson charges that Lumsden’s stick struck Harbinson while Harbinson was seated in the Superior bench near the end of Norwich’s 5-4 overtime victory in an NCAA semifinal game, played at Superior’s Wessman Arena on March 17, 2000. Harbinson … Read more
The Soaring Eagles of Elmira captured first place in this week’s USCHO.com Division III Women’s Poll for the fourth time in four tries this season. With two wins over conference rival No. 6 Plattsburgh, Elmira remains perfect at 7-0-0. The Soaring Eagles put their record and pride on the line this weekend, traveling to Detroit … Read more
Elmira captured first-place honors in the first regular-season edition of the USCHO.com Division III Women’s Poll, but despite outscoring this weekend’s opponent, Chatham, by a combined 24-0 score and improving to 4-0-0 in the process, the Soaring Eagles do not have a stranglehold on first place. No. 2 Manhattanville garnered one first-place vote, despite having … Read more
Norwich held onto the top spot in this week’s USCHO.com Division III Men’s Poll, but after that, things got significantly more interesting. Two teams, RIT and St. Norbert, finished tied for the No. 2 slot, while No. 4 Wis.-Superior, the defending national champion, got more first-place votes than either No. 2 winners and finished just … Read more
And, they’re off … Wisconsin-Superior may be defending D-III champs, but it’s Norwich again on top of the polls.
Jean-Francois LaForest is the new men’s coach at Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He replaces Marlin Muylaert, whose contract was not renewed.
In a matchup familiar to observers of the Division III tournament, Wisconsin-Superior battles Plattsburgh. The defending NCAA champion Cardinals will attempt to advance against the Yellowjackets, who got into the Frozen Four the hard way. Russell Jaslow reports.
Middlebury, RIT and St. Norbert each placed two players on the first team of the Jofa/ACHA College Division All-Americans announced today. There were only three repeat winners. RIT’s Jerry Galway was named to the first team for the third time, while Adam Kragthorpe from Wisconsin-River Falls is on the first team for the second straight … Read more
St. Norbert and Wisconsin-Superior meet for the sixth and seventh times this season in the NCAA quarterfinals. Chris Lerch looks at some of the controversy surrounding the series that will produce the West Region’s lone Frozen Four member.
The four host schools for the 2001 NCAA Division III quarterfinal round have announced ticket pricing and availability. Tickets are available now for the St. John’s at Wis.-Superior series. Tickets for each game are $5 for general admission and $6 for reserved seating, with reserved sections set aside for both Superior and St. John’s. Tickets … Read more
Wisconsin-Eau Claire head coach Marlin Muylaert has been suspended by the school’s administration for a month, as a result of his actions during a game with Augsburg last Saturday, Dec. 9.
Augsburg took a forfeit victory over Wisconsin-Eau Claire on Saturday night after the Blugolds left the ice surface while trailing 11-1 with just over seven minutes remaining in the third period. Under NCAA rules, if a team or portion of a team leaves the ice in protest of an official’s call, the game is ruled … Read more
Paul Caufield, who resigned his head coaching job at Marian last season in the wake of a hazing incident, has returned to his alma mater, Wis.-Stevens Point, to become an assistant coach. Caufield is the all-time scoring leader at Stevens Point with 254 points. He also holds Pointer career records with 126 goals, 19 game-winning … Read more
Wisconsin-Superior athletic director and men’s hockey coach, Steve Nelson, announced his resignation from both positions today. Nelson has accepted a position as commissioner of the America West Hockey League, a junior league based in Montana.
Northland College named Dan Huntley its new men’s ice hockey coach, it was announced today. Huntley previously coached at Rainy River Community College, where he compiled a 76-40-6 record from 1994-1999. He capped off his tenure there with a junior college national championship in 1999, and was named the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) … Read more