The NCHC announced changes to its 2020-21 schedule on Friday. The changes were necessary due to a positive COVID-19 test and quarantine requirements for the entire Colorado College team, forcing the Tigers to delay the start of their season. The pod will still begin on Tuesday, Dec. 1 as scheduled at Omaha’s Baxter Arena. Colorado … Read more
The NCHC on Tuesday unveiled its 2020 NCHC Preseason All-Conference Team as selected by media. North Dakota makes up half of the six-man squad, while Minnesota Duluth has two representatives and Denver one. 2020 NCHC Preseason All-Conference Team F: Jordan Kawaguchi, Sr., North Dakota – 27 votes F: Noah Cates, Jr., Minnesota Duluth – 21 … Read more
With 30 first-place votes, North Dakota is again the No. 1 team in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll. Boston College earned three first-place nods and sits second this week, followed by Minnesota Duluth. Fourth-ranked Michigan picked up six first-place votes, while Denver is fifth and Minnesota State sixth, with the Mavericks garnering the other … Read more
It seems surreal. The last time I sat down at my computer to do a story on the NCHC, I had interviewed Denver coach David Carle about the abrupt end to the college hockey season. Carle, in a statement that seems prescient, said, “I think the lesson to be learned, or one of the many, … Read more
After hoisting the Penrose Cup as NCHC regular-season champions in 2019-20, North Dakota has been selected to do the same in 2020-21, as the Fighting Hawks topped the 2020 NCHC preseason media poll released Monday. North Dakota received 27 of a possible 28 first-place votes, totaling 223 points to sit first in the poll. NCHC … Read more
North Dakota captured 39 first-place votes this week to remain the top team in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll. Second-ranked Boston College, No. 3 Minnesota Duluth, No. 5 Minnesota State and No. 6 Michigan all garnered first-place votes as well. USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll – Nov. 16, 2020 The USCHO.com Poll consists of … Read more
North Dakota hockey icon Reg Morelli died Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. He was 84. Morelli was a trailblazer for North Dakota hockey, scoring what could be argued as the most significant goal in the school’s history, the game winner for UND’s first national title. “The North Dakota hockey family was saddened today to hear the … Read more
After releasing its plans and format for the 2020-21 season on Oct. 16, the NCHC on Monday unveiled the updated conference schedule for the season. All eight NCHC teams will play a 26-game conference slate for a total of 104 conference games in 2020-21. The NCHC season will be divided into two portions. The first … Read more
Just one day after the Arizona Coyotes officially renounced Mitchell Miller’s NHL draft rights, North Dakota announced Friday that the team has cut ties with the freshman defenseman. Earlier this week, it was uncovered that Miller had bullied and assaulted a black developmentally-disabled classmate during his eighth grade year four years ago in Sylvania, Ohio. … Read more
North Dakota freshman defenseman Mitchell Miller was involved in bullying and assaulting a black and developmentally-challenged schoolmate four years ago when he was 14 years old, according to a report in AZCentral.com. Miller was also selected by the Arizona Coyotes in the fourth round (111th overall) of the 2020 NHL Draft earlier this month. The … Read more
With 28 first-place votes, North Dakota begins the 2020-21 season as the No. 1 team in the USCHO.com Preseason Division I Men’s Poll (photo: Russell Hons).
According to the Grand Forks Herald, the NCHC is planning to start the 2020-21 in a hub (or “bubble”) and play approximately 10 games in a three-week span between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
College hockey icons Dean Blais, Tony Granato, Jenny Potter and Jerry York will make up the United States Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2020.
Omaha will have two incoming transfers for the 2020-21 season (photos: North Dakota Athletics; Michigan Athletics).
The 2020 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game originally scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 17, at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville has officially been postponed and moved to the new date of Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Former North Dakota defenseman James Patrick will be inducted into the UND Letterwinners Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2020.
North Dakota’s Brad Berry and Cornell’s Mike Schafer have been chosen co-winners of the 2020 Spencer Penrose Award as the CCM/AHCA Coach of the Year for men’s Division I hockey.
The Hobey Baker Hat Trick finalists for the 2020 award, honoring college hockey’s top player, are North Dakota junior forward Jordan Kawaguchi, Minnesota Duluth junior defenseman Scott Perunovich and Maine junior goaltender Jeremy Swayman.
A pair of Minnesota Duluth standouts have repeated as NCHC individual award winners in 2019-20, while North Dakota senior defenseman Colton Poolman also received league recognition on Tuesday (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Coming off back-to-back seasons of not qualifying for the NCAA tournament, there were a lot of questions facing North Dakota this season. Perhaps the biggest revolved around offense. Who was going to score? (photo: Bradley K. Olson).