Lakers head coach Scott Borek may be one of the wittiest guys around. “At Lake Superior, I’m happy to say, this summer was the first quiet one we’ve had in a while. I don’t know if that will lead to a quiet winter or not, but we hope so.” After beginning the 2000-01 season with … Read more
Bob Daniels is a nice guy. The Ferris State Bulldogs are a nice team. Nice guys don’t always have to finish last–or even close to last. “Going into this year and probably every year, I’m always optimistic, maybe a little bit more so this year than in the past,” says Daniels. “Two players that we … Read more
Rick Comley is a happy man. He’s no longer Athletic Director at Northern Michigan University. “It’s like a rebirth for me–25th year of the program, silver anniversary, and I’m back to being a full-time coach again. I can’t tell you how much that means to me, how much better I feel. “It’s great to go … Read more
Buddy Powers has a way with words. “I feel overall in the league…goaltending, staying healthy, and getting a break here and there is going to determine an awful lot of the final standings. Depending on those three categories, [especially] who stays healthy, and who gets the hot guy in the net.” If those are the … Read more
Where do you go from here? Nowhere but up, Tim Watters hopes. The Michigan Tech coach endured his worst season in a four-year collegiate coaching career last year, going 4-34, the most losses in a season in college hockey history. All the more reason to think there’s nowhere to go but up. The best thing … Read more
College Hockey America coaches have tabbed Bemidji State as the favorite in the second CHA preseason poll. Bemidji received two first place votes and 22 overall points in the balloting of the six league coaches.
After 13 years as both athletic director and head hockey coach for Northern Michigan University, Rick Comley will dispense with the AD role effective July 1 and concentrate on running the Division I hockey program he established at Northern in 1976. Comley and NMU President Judi Bailey announced the change at a press conference Thursday … Read more
Bowling Green coach Buddy Powers announced Tuesday that Eric Hoffberg, former head coach at RIT, has accepted an assistant coaching position with the Falcon hockey program. Hoffberg’s move reunites him with Powers, under whom he served as an assistant coach when Powers was head man at RIT. Ironically, Hoffberg replaces Wayne Wilson, who left to … Read more
Six Lake Superior State players have received two-game suspensions as a result of participation in a hockey tournament in Ontario last April, according to LSSU athletic director Bill Crawford. In addition, the four seniors, one junior, and one sophomore were each docked an equal percentage of scholarship money. “They didn’t take any money or compensation,” … Read more
On Mar. 6, Bowling Green led Ohio State 2-0 late in the third period of each team’s last regular-season game. When the Buckeyes pulled Jeff Maund in favor of the extra skater, they left more than an empty net; they left the puck close to the boards, near the OSU blue line, and near the … Read more
Bemidji State University announced Tuesday that its men’s ice hockey team will play the 1998-99 season as a Division I independent, ending the school’s run as a Division II powerhouse. Official notification, expected to be filed with the NCAA shortly, will confirm that the Beaver men’s team will play a mixed independent schedule next season … Read more
Michigan Tech announced Friday its intention to remain a member of the WCHA, ending several months of speculation following the departure of in-state rival Northern Michigan to the neighboring CCHA. The decision to remain in the WCHA came along with an endorsement of the proposed Hockey Educational Center, which athletic director Rick Yeo said would … Read more
Bowling Green junior forward Dan Price will return to the Falcon lineup for the first time since being suspended on Dec. 23, the school announced. Price was suspended after he pleaded “no contest” on Dec. 16 to charges of aggravated vehicular homicide, a third-degree felony stemming from his involvement in a late-summer automobile accident in … Read more
Bemidji State University, a Minnesota school which is a perennial power in NCAA Division II men’s ice hockey, is considering moving its program up to Division I play as soon as next season, the Minnapolis Star Tribune reported Tuesday. With few teams remaining in Division II hockey and a move down to Division III infeasible … Read more
It’s January 1996, the first month of the second half of the college hockey season, and the CCHA has settled into its usual “two-tier” system. The usual suspects — Michigan, Michigan State, Lake Superior, Miami — crowd the top, while the rest of the league looks up from below, behind in everything from points to … Read more
Rick Comley pauses to think before he answers a question. Why did Northern Michigan leave the CCHA for the WCHA in the first place? Comley laughs. “I’m sure for lots of good reasons, when you think back.” The cover of this year’s Wildcats’ media guide says, “Charging back into the CCHA.” Maybe it should read, … Read more
The Northern Michigan University Board of Control has approved a plan calling for the construction of a new campus event center, slated to go up by mid-1999. Construction will begin on the $9.5 million project next spring. Of the new arena, Mike Roy, vice president for finance and administration, said, “It will offer individual seating … Read more