Last year, Massachusetts experienced the typical regular season ups and downs before almost catching fire in the Hockey East quarterfinals. The Minutemen nearly pulled off a fourth trip to the Garden in seven years, losing to Northeastern in overtime of the third game. They bring back 21 lettermen and would seemingly be poised to make … Read more
Connecticut is celebrating its 50th season of hockey, and Bruce Marshall’s current squad would like to make some history of its own. It’s a tall order for a young team that skated 20 underclassmen last season. “It’s time for the junior class to step up,” said Marshall, whose team has just two seniors on the … Read more
Northeastern’s Matthews Arena has a new look after a renovation. Katy Fitzpatrick reports.
Defending league and national champion Boston University is the favorite in this year’s race for the Hockey East championship, a vote of league coaches shows. The Terriers, coming off a school-record 36-win season that ended with an overtime win over Miami in the national championship game, earned six of the 10 first-place votes. UMass-Lowell and … Read more
Three-time defending champion Air Force has been picked to again repeat as champions in the Atlantic Hockey coaches poll, announced Tuesday at the league’s media day, held at Blue Cross Arena, site of the 2010 league championships. Mercyhurst, which lost to Air Force in the AHA finals last season, is picked to finish second. RIT, … Read more
Longtime Massachusetts coach Jack Canniff, who led the school to its only conference championship, died last Saturday after a long battle with several health issues, the school announced. Canniff, who led UMass from 1967 to 1979, guided the team then known as the Redmen to the 1972 ECAC Division II title. He was UMass’ all-time … Read more
Three-time Olympians Jenny Potter and Angela Ruggiero were announced Monday as part of the 23-player United States Women’s National Team roster. PICTORIAL: The U.S. Women’s National Team The team, based in the Minneapolis area, will take part in a 10-game, nine-city national tour ahead of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. Twenty-one players will make … Read more
For Boston University students, summertime is a time to rejoice. It’s a time of doing nothing on the beach, porch or couch. It’s a time of “No more teachers, no more books, blah, blah, blah” and “Mom, can I borrow the car (and $20)?” And for the drained (bank accounts and bodies of the) academic … Read more
Hockey East on Thursday announced what surely will be the coolest game in league history — a doubleheader of outdoor college hockey action at Boston’s hallowed Fenway Park on Friday, Jan. 8. At 4 p.m., Northeastern will face New Hampshire in what is believed to be the first outdoor women’s hockey game in the sport’s … Read more
Mass.-Lowell goaltender Nevin Hamilton has been cleared of a drug-possession charge stemming from his July 24 arrest in Ashland, Mass. Hamilton, 24, had been charged with possession of a Class B substance. “Nevin was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Lowell coach Blaise MacDonald said in a news release. “Fortunately, justice has prevailed … Read more
A funeral mass was offered Wednesday for former Boston College captain Joe Cleary. Cleary, who captained the 1992 Eagles team and was a four-year letterwinner at the school, was found dead on July 30. He was 39. Cleary was a member of the Eagles from 1988 through 1992. During those years, Boston College appeared in … Read more
Defending national champion Boston University has elevated Mike Bavis to associate head coach and added former Bowling Green and Rensselaer coach Buddy Powers as an assistant. Bavis, entering his 12th season with the Terriers, takes over a spot vacated when David Quinn moved to head the Lake Erie Monsters of the AHL. Bavis, Powers and … Read more
Massachusetts-Lowell goaltender Nevin Hamilton was arrested last Friday in Ashland, Mass., on a drug possession charge, according to published reports. Hamilton, 24, was charged with possession of a Class B substance, the MetroWest Daily News reported. A Lowell spokesperson confirmed to the New England Hockey Journal that the arrested party was a student at the … Read more
A pair of former men’s college stars are among those set to be inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. Tony Amonte, who put up 126 points in two seasons at Boston University, and former Vermont standout John LeClair were among four individuals announced Monday as part of the Class of 2009. The 1998 … Read more
Herb Hammond, whose 20-year collegiate coaching career included stops at Division III Oswego State and Plattsburgh State and Division I Brown, died Wednesday at his home in Fort Gratiot, Mich. Hammond had been battling cancer. He coached Oswego to a 176-122-5 record in 11 seasons from 1969 to 1980, then led Plattsburgh to a 52-17-4 … Read more
The NCAA has placed New Hampshire’s men’s hockey team on two years’ probation as part of a punishment for major recruiting violations. The national association reported that a New Hampshire associate head coach sent 923 impermissible e-mail messages to 30 prospective student-athletes during the 2007-08 season. The associate head coach, who was not named in … Read more
One of college hockey’s greatest rivalries will have one of the game’s best-known voices telling its story when Rival Films releases “The Battle of Comm Ave — Boston University vs. Boston College” this fall. Mike “Doc” Emrick, the well-known voice for NBC and Versus broadcasts of NHL action, will provide the narration for this one-of-a-kind … Read more
Arguably the decade’s most successful sports town recognized two of college hockey’s most successful coaches Wednesday night. Boston College’s Jerry York and Boston University’s Jack Parker were honored with the Special Achievement Award at this year’s Tradition, a fundraising who’s-who of Boston sports that benefits the New England Sports Museum. “We were up at Clarkson … Read more
David Quinn is leaving his position as associate head coach of national champion Boston University to become the head coach of the AHL’s Lake Erie Monsters. David Quinn spent five seasons as an assistant to Jack Parker at Boston University (file photo: Melissa Wade). Quinn, 42, spent five seasons at his alma mater after leading … Read more
Boston University defenseman Brian Strait’s stint as co-captain proved to be a short one. Less than two months after the Terriers won the national championship in dramatic fashion over Miami, the rising senior opted to forgo his senior season in favor of signing a pro contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins, who drafted him in the … Read more