Men’s D-I in general
Canisius has found its man, and to many it comes as a bit of a surprise. Dave Smith, who was an associate head coach this past season at Mercyhurst College, leading the Lakers to this year’s NCAA tournament, has been hired by the Griffs it was announced at a news conference Friday. Smith replaces Brian … Read more
The NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Committee has named six finalists to host the Men’s Frozen Four from 2009-2011. They are: Boston – TD Bank North Garden (host: Hockey East/Boston University) Detroit – Ford Field (CCHA) (2010-2011 only) Philadelphia, Pa. – Wachovia Center (MAAC/Canisius/Niagara) St. Paul, Minn. – Xcel Energy Center (University of Minnesota) … Read more
For his efforts in leading Denver to back-to-back NCAA Division I titles, George Gwozdecky has been chosen winner of the 2005 Spencer Penrose Award as Division I Men’s Coach of the Year. The Pioneers went 32-9-2, finishing with a 4-1 win over North Dakota in the NCAA championship game. It is the second such honor … Read more
Northeastern has named Greg Cronin — former assistant coach at Maine and Colorado College and most recently the head coach of Bridgeport in the American Hockey League — the ninth head coach in the program’s history. Cronin will step down from his position in Bridgeport immediately. “A couple of things jumped at us,” said Northeastern … Read more
Atlantic Hockey will expand to 10 members beginning in the 2006-07 season when it will add Air Force, commissioner Bob DeGregorio announced at a news conference on the Air Force campus today. The league formerly had announced it will add RIT in the same season, which takes the total from the current eight members to … Read more
Atlantic Hockey is expected to announce Tuesday that Air Force will join the conference for the 2006-07 season. A press conference with both AHA and Air Force athletic department officials has been scheduled at the Air Force campus at 2 p.m. MT to make what the league calls “a major announcement.” Sources at Atlantic Hockey … Read more
A Freshman Will Lead Them Travis Zajac’s goal gave him five in the NCAA tournament, and 20 on the season. His 20 goals led the Sioux this season, which is the fewest that a leading goal-scorer has had since Landon Wilson had 18 to lead the Sioux in 1993-94. Travis Zajac’s first-period goal was his … Read more
It’s one of those wonderful contradictions of life that, sometimes, when time is at its most bleak, the human spirit shines the most. This is the case for Patty Sertich and her family. Just another loving American family — a family that happens to be one of the most famous college hockey families in the … Read more
For the third straight year, an ECAC goalie was in the Hobey Hat Trick, and for the third straight year, that goalie lost to a high-scoring WCHA forward. In two of those years, 2003 and 2005, it was a Cornell goalie, coming in with record-breaking statistics, losing to a Colorado College forward — David LeNeveu … Read more
After 43 games, it’s hard to call a freshman a freshman, especially when he’s the game-winning goalie for a national champion, and the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player. In two games, Denver goaltender Peter Mannino made 85 saves on 88 shots in a performance that earned him 2005 Frozen Four MOP honors and made him the … Read more
It hadn’t been done for 30 years. Now it’s been done twice in a row. Back-to-back national championships. Boston University achieved the feat in 1971 and 1972. Six times after that teams returned to the title game, but couldn’t pull off the repeat. Another four times they got as far as the Frozen Four, but … Read more
The stage was set and the story was all but written. North Dakota had risen from the ashes. Rebounding from a 15-13-3 record late in the season, UND rallied to make the NCAA tournament and pulled off three straight blowouts to make it to the national championship game against defending champ Denver. Add in the … Read more
On the night of April 11, 1975, J.P. Parise scored the first of many memorable OT goals in New York Islanders’ history. Almost 30 years later to the day, his son Jordan Parise wrote another chapter in the illustrious goaltending heroics of North Dakota hockey. In both cases their brilliance allowed their teams to avoid … Read more
Dean Blais still refers to North Dakota as “we.” And why not? He only won two national championships, went to another title game, and built the team that plays in this Saturday’s final before handing the reins to long-time assistant Dave Hakstol. And this is all he has right now, ever since the NHL season … Read more
Goaltender Peter Mannino has a handful of big saves and Paul Stastny’s second-period power-play goal has Denver one period away from a second consecutive national championship. Mannino has 21 saves through two periods and the Pioneers lead 2-1 after 40 minutes Saturday at Value City Arena. The freshman, who is making his first back-to-back starts … Read more
Colorado College junior forward Marty Sertich is the winner of the 25th Hobey Baker Memorial Award, presented annually to college hockey’s top player. Sertich, the nation’s leading scorer this season with 64 points on 27 goals and 37 assists in 43 games, led the Tigers to a share of the MacNaughton Cup as the WCHA’s … Read more
The fifth annual USCHO.com Town Hall Meeting kicked off the festivities on “Frozen Friday” before a crowd of 650 at Nationwide Arena. USCHO.com’s Jayson Moy (center) emcees the fifth annual USCHO.com Town Hall Meeting (photos: Melissa Wade). This year’s topic was the Ice Hockey Rules, and the panel featured Enrico Blasi, the head coach at … Read more
If you score a highlight-reel goal in the national semifinals, you expect to turn the TV set on later to relive your moment of glory. Your buddies will congratulate you on a truly “sick” move while the sportscaster extols your virtues for millions of viewers. So imagine Luke Fulghum’s surprise when ESPNews didn’t show him … Read more
If this were a story about the 2005 Hobey Baker winner, Marty Sertich of the Colorado College Tigers, you’d have all the ingredients of great cinema, all the potential of a legend in the making. Sure, Sertich’s numbers are impressive — 64 points with 27 goals and 37 assists in 43 games — but hardly … Read more
Boston College’s Sarah Carlson says that she’s made volunteering a lifestyle. It’s that lifestyle and her commitment to helping others that has earned her this year’s Hockey Humanitarian Award presented annually to “college hockey’s finest citizen.” Carlson was presented the award at a ceremony held Friday as part of Frozen Four weekend in Columbus — … Read more