The National Collegiate Hockey Conference has a logo and a postseason tournament structure in place for its inaugural season. The NCHC will debut in the 2013-14 season with Colorado College, Denver, Miami, Minnesota-Duluth, Nebraska-Omaha, North Dakota, St. Cloud State and Western Michigan as members. Four winners of conference quarterfinal playoff series will advance the 2014 … Read more
According to the Duluth News Tribune, Minnesota-Duluth will have three regulars out of the lineup for Friday’s home game against Michigan Tech due to one-game suspensions stemming from a violation of team rules. Senior forward and captain Cody Danberg, senior defenseman Wade Bergman and freshman forward Austin Farley will sit for the unspecified violations.
Summaries of the seven tournaments that run Friday through Monday.
Minnesota-Duluth athletic director and football coach Bob Nielson resigned from both positions Wednesday to become the new head football coach at Western Illinois, effective immediately.
Does Michigan deserve the No. 19 ranking? And how about the goaltending we’ve seen so far this season? Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski discuss in this week’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
A pair of one-win teams are facing uphill battles. Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski talk about Maine and Wisconsin in this week’s edition of Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
There were skeptics before the 2011-12 season started who doubted that Minnesota-Duluth could come close to the success it had a year earlier. The Bulldogs won the national title in 2011 but Jack Connolly lost the wings of his high-scoring top line. Still, Connolly won the Hobey Baker Award, UMD managed to take second in … Read more
The administration for the National Collegiate Hockey Conference continues to develop this summer with new additions to the league office staff. Verna Toller was hired recently as business operations manager while Mike Moran, a former longtime spokesman for the United States Olympic Committee, signed a short-term contract as a media relations consultant, commissioner Jim Scherr … Read more
Former Minnesota-Duluth player Jim Nelson, who later went on to broadcast UMD games on the radio, passed away Aug. 2 in Duluth, according to the Duluth News Tribune. Nelson was 75. Nelson worked with play-by-play man Bob Junkert on WDSM and WEBC radio from 1968-1980 and was also part of the UMD hockey program as … Read more
Former Bemidji State women’s coach Bruce Olson died Tuesday morning in a Rochester, Minn., hospital where he had been receiving care for the past two weeks in his battle with cancer. He was 55. Olson, who played at Minnesota-Duluth from 1975-79, was named the third head coach in BSU women’s history prior to the 2002-03 … Read more
Joe Novak could hardly contain his excitement this February while he read the job advertisement for the director of hockey operations at the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference. “As I read the description I saw it was a perfect fit,” he said. “I jumped on it right away. This position is both a great challenge … Read more
The new National Collegiate Hockey Conference expects to make “two pretty big announcements by Wednesday of next week,” commissioner Jim Scherr said on Tuesday. Details were few, but Scherr will be in Minneapolis next Tuesday after spending the weekend in Naples, Fla., where he will talk with league officials and coaches attending the American Hockey … Read more
And the honors keep rolling in for Jack Connolly. The Minnesota-Duluth senior captain, already the Hobey Baker Award winner, WCHA player of the year, Premier Player of College Hockey winner and Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award winner, has now been named USCHO’s player of the year. Finishing the season second in the nation in scoring with … Read more
The 2012 Hobey Baker Award winner is much more comfortable on the ice. Brian Sullivan reports from the Hobey Baker Award ceremony.
Accompanied by unprecedented ceremony, Minnesota-Duluth forward Jack Connolly was named the 32nd recipient of the Hobey Baker Award on Friday. Upon hearing his name called, Connolly said he was “very emotional.” [scg_html_ff2012]”Kind of took my breath away,” said Connolly, a native of Duluth, Minn. “I thought I had an outside chance that my name would … Read more
Minnesota-Duluth’s Jack Connolly has been named the 2012 winner of the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, presented to the most outstanding senior student-athlete in Division I men’s hockey. Connolly is one of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Award, and he is a three-time WCHA All-Academic selection. “Winning the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award means a lot … Read more
Maine’s Spencer Abbott, Minnesota-Duluth’s Jack Connolly and Colgate’s Austin Smith are the members of the 2012 Hobey Hat Trick. Those three senior forwards received the most points from a 23-person voting panel that selected their top five choices from a list of 10 finalists earlier this week. The winner will be announced on Friday, April … Read more
The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed Minnesota-Duluth sophomore forward J.T. Brown to a two-year contract that runs through the 2012-13 season. “We are pleased to announce J.T.’s signing with the Lightning,” said Tampa Bay GM Steve Yzerman in a statement. “He has all the top characteristics we look for in a player, including high skill … Read more
The Bulldogs limited the Black Bears to nine shot attempts and just three shots on goal in the third period. Diana C. Nearhos reports from the Northeast Regional.
Boston College enters on a 15-game winning streak, but it’s not the only tournament-tested team in the quadrant. Here’s our Northeast Regional preview of BC, Minnesota-Duluth, Maine and Air Force.