After two seasons at Wisconsin, defenseman JD Greenway is leaving school and will play the 2018-19 season for the USHL’s Dubuque Fighting Saints (photo: Dan & Margaret Hickling).
Garrett Raboin has joined the Minnesota staff as an assistant coach.
Anders Lee tallied his first 40-goal NHL season for the New York Islanders in 2017-18. The Minnesota native and Notre Dame alum might have given a few of those scores back to have had the Islanders make the Stanley Cup playoffs instead (photo: Fighting Irish Media).
The Wisconsin athletic board met Friday afternoon and approved the contract renewals of women’s coach Mark Johnson and men’s coach Tony Granato. Johnson’s five-year contract was renewed through June 30, 2023, as was Granato’s. Last season, Johnson led the Badgers to a 31-5-2 overall mark (20-2-2 WCHA) and a national tournament semifinal berth, while Granato … Read more
Notre Dame junior defenseman Dennis Gilbert has signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Chicago Blackhawks and will not return to the Fighting Irish for his senior season (photo: Matt Dewkett).
Notre Dame junior forward Andrew Oglevie has signed a two-year, entry-level contract with the Buffalo Sabres, giving up his final year of collegiate eligibility (photo: Matt Dewkett).
Players of the year from four Division I men’s conferences were named first-team All-USCHO selections for the 2017-18 season (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
As a junior, Marody helped Michigan to the Frozen Four for the first time in seven seasons (photo: Jim Rosvold).
“We haven’t been able to find that third goal, for whatever reason,” Duluth coach Scott Sandelin said. “I was hoping tonight would be [the night].”
For most of the national championship game, the Irish struggled to simply get the puck into the offensive zone.
In five postseason games before Saturday’s national championship, the Irish had managed to find a way to win one-goal games in spite of being dead even with opponents in third-period scoring.
It’s the Team of Destiny versus the Cardiac Kids for the 2018 national title on Saturday (photo: Melissa Wade).
A sophomore, Cale Morris leads the country in save percentage (.944) and victories (27) (photo: Jim Rosvold).
Senior Jordan Gross has transformed himself from an offensive defenseman to a legitimate two-way defender.
Even though they were the two players who spurred the comeback, Andrew Oglevie and Jake Evans both said that they didn’t need to calm the team down when they were two goals in the hole.
There are, of course, no pleasant ways to lose. It’s never easy. But this was truly brutal (photo: Melissa Wade).
The nation’s third-best defense experienced a complete and total breakdown within the first 3:04 of the Frozen Four semifinal against Minnesota Duluth on Thursday (photo: Melissa Wade).
Ohio State junior goalie Sean Romeo is the recipient of this year’s Elite 90 Award for men’s hockey (photo: Omar Phillips).
Minnesota Duluth, Michigan, Notre Dame and Ohio State all are backstopped, essentially, by first-year starters.
Coach Mel Pearson views the prominence of the Wolverines in the two “big money sports” as an advantage rather than cause for jealousy (photo: Melissa Wade).