A published report in Monday’s Toledo Blade says Bowling Green defenseman Nolan Valleau has signed a contract with “an NHL team” and will not return to school for his last three years of eligibility. The paper noted Valleau took part in summer development camps with the Chicago Blackhawks and Winnipeg Jets and that it’s believed … Read more
Alaska-Anchorage has added Louis Mass to the staff as a new assistant coach. Mass, an Anchorage native, joins UAA following an eight-year coaching career with the ECHL’s Alaska Aces, where he served as an assistant and director of player development. Prior to joining the ECHL coaching ranks in 2007, Mass played professionally for seven seasons, … Read more
Former Bowling Green forward Greg Parks passed away Tuesday in his hometown of Edmonton, Alberta. Parks was only 48 years old. The cause of death was not immediately known. Parks played four years for the Falcons from 1985 to 1989 and recorded 101 goals and 139 assists for 240 points in 178 games – good … Read more
Bowling Green announced Monday that head coach Chris Bergeron has signed a five-year contract extension that will keep him with the Falcons through the 2022-23 season. “Chris Bergeron and his staff continue to achieve excellence in every facet of Falcon hockey,” BGSU director of athletics D. Christopher Kingston said in a news release. “He understands … Read more
Michigan Tech’s outstanding year translated to Huskies’ senior forward Tanner Kero being named the WCHA’s Player of the Year after winning the league’s scoring crown with a 13-goal, 21-assist performance for 34 points in 28 conference games. Kero was also named Student-Athlete of the Year after maintaining a 3.72 GPA in mathematics with a concentration … Read more
The Falcons won 18 games and made it to the WCHA Final Five last season; now they want more.
Minnesota State is the top team in both the WCHA preseason coaches’ poll and media poll, while Ferris State was picked to finish second in both polls. The media poll was conducted by the Bemidji Pioneer and the coaches’ poll by the Mankato Free Press. The Mavericks are coming off a Broadmoor Trophy-winning campaign and … Read more
Bowling Green has named former Falcons goaltender Jimmy Spratt as its director of hockey operations. Spratt played at BGSU from 2005 to 2009.
According to a report by TVNet in Latvia, the Winnipeg Jets have signed Bowling Green defenseman Ralfs Freibergs to an American Hockey League contract with the St. John’s IceCaps. The 2013-14 season was Freibergs’ first full season at Bowling Green as he was limited to just eight games in 2012-13 as he served a suspension … Read more
Ron Fogarty, who leads all active NCAA coaches in winning percentage, has been named the head coach at Princeton. Fogarty has spent the past seven seasons as head coach at Division III Adrian. “I am thrilled to have Ron join our distinguished team of coaches at Princeton,” said Princeton incoming director of athletics Mollie Marcoux … Read more
The International Olympic Committee announced Friday that Bowling Green forward Ralfs Freibergs of Latvia has been excluded from the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. His record is now disqualified from the quarerfinal game between Canada and Latvia. Freibergs provided a urine sample on Feb. 22 whose A and B samples indicated the presence … Read more
The Worcester Sharks, American Hockey League affiliate of the San Jose Sharks, announced the signing of Bowling Green junior forward Ryan Carpenter on Monday afternoon. Carpenter played in 15 games for the Falcons in the 2013-14 season, compiling eight goals and eight assists for 16 points. He missed the start of the season with a … Read more
The Falcons had eight power-play goals in their last six games but the Mavericks shut them down and scored a short-handed goal.
Bowling Green defenseman Ralfs Freibergs is suspected of failing a drug test while playing for Latvia at the Olympics in Sochi, Russia, this month, according to a Latvian media report on website LSV.lv.
Robert Morris and Bowling Green will play an outdoor game in Toledo, Ohio, on Jan. 3, 2015. The game, which will be just the second NCAA Division I outdoor game in the state, is slated to be part of the ECHL Toledo Walleye’s Winterfest at Fifth Third Field. “We are very excited to be a … Read more
Writer Joe Connor takes an off-beat look at some of the atmospheres created in college hockey rinks.
Former CCHA commissioner and director of the BGSU Ice Arena Jim Ruehl passed away this past Friday (Jan. 17) at the age of 83. Washington Capitals’ GM George McPhee, also a Hobey Baker winner at Bowling Green, called Ruehl “the man we all want to be” in a statement. “It is with great sadness that … Read more
Here’s a look at the college hockey holiday tournaments that start Friday.
The Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune has reported that Bowling Green junior forward Ryan Carpenter, who has been out all season with a broken finger, will remain on the shelf with a broken foot. Carpenter suffered the injury when he was hit by a shot in practice on Wednesday, BGSU coach Chris Bergeron confirmed to the paper. … Read more
Former Bowling Green coach Scott Paluch has been named to the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame. Paluch, now a regional manager for USA Hockey’s American Development Model, was the head coach at BGSU for seven seasons (2002-09), where he compiled an 84-156-23 record.