John Philo has been named the inaugural recipient of the NCHC’s Mark Rudolph Officiating Achievement Award for the 2013-14 season. Philo, who has served 14 seasons as an NCAA official, was presented with the award at the NCHC’s annual linesman camp in the Detroit area on Sept. 20. At the presentation, Philo received a plaque … Read more
Minnesota-Duluth has named former Bulldogs’ goaltender Brant Nicklin its new volunteer assistant coach. Nicklin, who replaces Bill Watson, has served as the UMD women’s goaltending coach the past four seasons and as an assistant coach at St. Scholastica since 1995-96.
Minnesota-Duluth junior forward Caleb Herbert will bypass his senior year with the Bulldogs after he recently signed a two-year, entry-level contract with the Washington Capitals. Herbert was Washington’s fifth-round pick (142nd overall) in the 2010 NHL draft. This season at UMD, Herbert led the team with 31 points on 12 goals and 19 assists. For … Read more
Six Hockey East goaltenders were among the 18 nominated for the inaugural Mike Richter Award, given to the most outstanding goaltender in Division I men’s hockey.
Writer Joe Connor takes an off-beat look at some of the atmospheres created in college hockey rinks.
There are four teams on the wrong side of the bubble that might surprise some: Denver, North Dakota, Western Michigan and Miami.
Here’s our weekly look at big events and big issues around Division I men’s college hockey.
The Crusaders’ win over Boston College gave Atlantic Hockey, maligned for its poor nonconference record, another big upset.
Here’s our weekly look at big events and big issues around Division I men’s college hockey.
Here’s our weekly look at big events and big issues around Division I men’s college hockey.
Here’s our weekly look at big events and big issues around Division I men’s college hockey.
The Bulldogs have only nine upperclassmen, and coach Scott Sandelin wants his team to be better at even strength than it was last season.
The official title to Minnesota’s inaugural Division I men’s tournament that will be staged in January 2014 is the North Star College Cup. The event runs January 24-25, 2014, in St. Paul, Minn., with Minnesota, Minnesota State, Minnesota-Duluth and St. Cloud State all taking part. Bemidji State will not participate in the 2014 event.
More than two-thirds of the players selected for the camp that will help select the 2014 U.S. men’s Olympic team come from college hockey roots. Of 48 players named to the U.S. Men’s National Team Orientation Camp in August, 33 played in college. Minnesota had seven former players chosen, with Wisconsin right behind at six. … Read more
College Hockey Inc. will stage the season-opening Ice Breaker Tournament at Notre Dame in 2014 and in Portland, Maine, in 2015. The organization announced those locations on Tuesday, when it also unveiled that the 2014 field would include the host Fighting Irish, Minnesota, Minnesota-Duluth and Rensselaer. Maine will host the 2015 event at the Cumberland … Read more
Guy Gosselin, a regional manager of USA Hockey’s American Development Model, will be enshrined into the Minnesota-Duluth Athletic Hall of Fame. Gosselin played parts of five seasons (1982-87) on the blue line with the Bulldogs, helping the team to its first two Frozen Fours (1984, 1985), as well as its first two WCHA regular-season (1983-84, … Read more
Josh Fenton said he has reached out to several commissioners or former commissioners to gauge what the life as a college hockey commissioner entails. Matt Mackinder reports.
The National Collegiate Hockey Conference is losing its first commissioner before it plays its first game. Jim Scherr, who in early 2012 got a 4½-year contract to run the NCHC, is leaving the league to become chief operating officer of the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. The league made the announcement late Friday afternoon, … Read more
National Collegiate Hockey Conference commissioner Jim Scherr has been in discussions with organizers of the 2015 European Games about a job with the group, but he said a report that he has accepted the position is premature. Inside the Games reported that Scherr would become the chief operating officer for the organizing committee of the … Read more
Brett Larson has been named associate head coach at Ohio State. Larson, who played at Minnesota-Duluth from 1991-95, captaining the team as a senior, and was later an assistant coach with the Bulldogs, spent the last two seasons as the head coach and general manager of the Sioux City Musketeers in the United States Hockey … Read more