The CCHA announced Tuesday that the annual CCHA regular-season champion will be awarded the prestigious MacNaughton Cup, which has previously been used for the same purpose in the WCHA. “We are thrilled to award the MacNaughton Cup to the CCHA regular-season champions,” CCHA commissioner Don Lucia said in a statement. “The 40-pound handcrafted pure silver … Read more
St. Thomas announced Friday the hiring of Rico Blasi as its new men’s hockey head coach.
The CCHA announced Friday that veteran official Kevin Langseth has been named the conference’s director of officiating.
Jack Vivian, a key figure in the creation of the BGSU varsity hockey program as well as the original CCHA, has passed away.
He was 79.
The new CCHA, a men’s Division I conference that will begin play in October 2021, announced its new logo Tuesday.
College hockey icons Dean Blais, Tony Granato, Jenny Potter and Jerry York will make up the United States Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2020.
The Hockey Commissioners Association announced today that the start of the 2020-21 NCAA season will be delayed due to the impact of COVID-19 (photo: Tealin Robinson/Wisconsin Athletics).
The CCHA has voted unanimously to welcome St. Thomas as the league’s eighth program beginning with the 2021-22 season (photo: St. Thomas Athletics).
Following Atlantic Hockey and the WCHA, the CCHA will stream all of its games during the regular season and playoffs on FloHockey once the league kicks off with the 2021-22 season.
Unsurprisingly for someone who has coached for 30-plus years at three very different types of programs, Don Lucia has a lot of connections in the college hockey world. Those connections were on display Wednesday when the newly-(re)formed CCHA named Lucia as its first commissioner in advance of its debut season in 2021-22 (photo: Jim Rosvold).
The revamped CCHA, which will begin play in the 2021-22 season, has named Don Lucia its first commissioner. Lucia’s appointment was announced in a Zoom conference call Wednesday afternoon (photo: Jim Rosvold).
According to the Wisconsin State Journal, former Michigan coach Red Berenson has been named special adviser to the commissioner for hockey operations. In addition, the Journal reports Big Ten deputy commissioner Brad Traviolia left the conference a month ago (photo: Michael Dubicki).
Ferris State has announced its seven-member class for the school’s 2020 athletics hall of fame. Two of the seven have hockey ties in former coach and goaltender Jeff Blashill and former forward Chris Kunitz.
The new CCHA conference that is set to begin play for the 2021-22 season has chosen Bosack & Co., one of the country’s leading higher education and college athletics strategic branding firms, to develop the branding and positioning for the conference.
Last June, seven WCHA schools announced the exploration of a new Division I men’s hockey conference that will begin play in the 2021-2022 season. Today, it was announced that the league will be reestablished and branded as the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) (photo: Rachel Lewis).
Former Michigan State standout Jim Slater has been named the Spartans’ new volunteer assistant coach (photo: Michigan State Athletics).
Michigan State will induct former hockey player Mike Donnelly into its athletics hall of fame on Thursday, Oct. 24 as part of its annual Celebrate weekend.
The Carolina Hurricanes announced Tuesday that the team has hired Jason Muzzatti as its goaltending coach.
As part of Western Michigan’s athletics hall of fame class of 2019, the school will induct former Broncos goaltender Bill Horn.
This fall, 10 new members will be inducted into the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame. The group includes Natalie Spooner (women’s hockey) and RJ Umberger (men’s hockey).