On the eve of the NCHC Frozen Faceoff, the annual NCHC Awards Celebration took place Thursday night at the Muse Event Center in Minneapolis. A total of 12 awards were presented, three of which were won by St. Cloud State senior defenseman Ethan Prow, including NCHC Player of the Year, while North Dakota’s Brad Berry … Read more
From an initial list of nearly 30 goalies comes Wednesday’s announcement of the top five finalists for the 2016 Mike Richter Award. The final five: Candidates for the award were determined by nominations from all 60 NCAA Division I men’s head coaches. The finalists and winner are selected by a committee of coaches, scouts and … Read more
Denver, North Dakota and St. Cloud State have two players each on the NCHC All-Conference First Team announced Wednesday. The conference also revealed the All-Conference Second Team and a team of All-Conference honorable mentions. 2015-16 NCHC First Team All-Conference 2015-16 NCHC Second Team All-Conference 2015-16 NCHC Honorable Mention All-Conference
The NCHC has issued a one-game suspension to North Dakota junior defenseman Troy Stecher, stemming from an illegal hit during UND’s game against Minnesota-Duluth on Feb. 20. Stecher was suspended after the review of a play in which a hit was delivered to the back of a Minnesota-Duluth player at the 20-minute of the third … Read more
The Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation has announced its 2016 Legend of College Hockey recipient is Bill Selman. Selman is the only man to serve as head coach of four Division I programs and is widely acknowledged as having either built or rebuilt three of the four programs he coached. Selman’s coaching career began at … Read more
North Dakota sophomore goaltender Cam Johnson has been named the Hockey Commissioners’ Association National Division I Player of the Month for December, while the HCA National Rookie of the Month for December is Kyle Connor from Michigan. Johnson was nearly perfect during the month, as he started all four of North Dakota’s games in net … Read more
North Dakota has announced that Fighting Hawks will be the university’s new nickname. The results of the nickname runoff vote, held online Nov. 12-16 for eligible voters, were tallied and provided to UND by Qualtrics, the third-party voting platform management firm that conducted the voting process. In a tally of 27,378 votes, the Fighting Hawks … Read more
North Dakota and Minnesota are in the process of finalizing a game that will be played in Las Vegas on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, a college hockey source confirmed to the Grand Forks Herald on Sunday. The contract for the game has not been signed yet, according to the report, but officials at both schools … Read more
Voting results are in for North Dakota’s nickname runoff, with Fighting Hawks and Roughriders receiving the highest number of votes. According to a school news release, because no option received a majority of votes (over 50 percent), a final runoff vote between these two names will be held for eligible voters beginning Thursday, Nov. 12 … Read more
The NCHC has issued a one-game suspension to North Dakota senior forward Drake Caggiula stemming from an illegal hit during UND’s game at Colorado College on Saturday, Oct. 31. Caggiula was suspended after a review of a play in which a hit was delivered to the head of a Colorado College player at 14:01 of … Read more
North Dakota announced in a press release that voting results are in for the school nickname and a runoff vote will take place the week of Nov. 2 between three names: Fighting Hawks, Roughriders and Nodaks. The runoff vote between these three names will be held for eligible voters beginning Monday, Nov. 2 at noon … Read more
Brad Berry takes over for Dave Hakstol and has to replace three of UND’s top five scorers from a team that made the Frozen Four last season.
According to the Grand Forks Herald, a preseason practice injury to North Dakota’s Colten St. Clair will see the senior forward miss the first half of the 2015-16 season. The Herald report states St. Clair will need surgery on an undisclosed arm injury. St. Clair has struggled to find consistency at UND. He missed his … Read more
Two first-team All-Americans from last season return at the position.
The NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Committee announced Thursday the host sites for the 2017 regionals. The East Regional has been awarded to the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence, R.I., and will be hosted by Brown on March 24-25, while the Northeast Regional will be held at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, N.H., … Read more
With the NCHC introducing a new overtime format for conferences games beginning with the upcoming 2015-16 season, the conference has also slightly adjusted its conference standings format to reflect the new procedures. Although the point distribution and column point values within the standings are not changing, the look of the standings will be slightly altered. … Read more
North Dakota and Boston College will meet in a new marquee event, the College Hockey Showdown, on Dec. 3, 2016 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. “The NCHC is honored and excited to partner with Madison Square Garden, the University of North Dakota and Boston College to host the College Hockey Showdown at … Read more
An online vote to determine North Dakota’s nickname will be held from Oct. 19-23, according to a report in the Grand Forks Herald. The vote will open at 8 a.m. CDT on Oct. 19 and close at midnight on Oct. 23. Voters will choose between Fighting Hawks, Nodaks, North Stars, Roughriders and Sundogs. Continuing to … Read more
In a vote of 30 local and regional media members, Minnesota-Duluth was picked to win the NCHC this season. The Bulldogs garnered 17 first-place votes. Denver earned seven, North Dakota four and Miami the remaining two.
On Tuesday, the NCHC announced its 2015 Preseason All-Conference Team as voted on by local and national media. The NCHC’s media day is scheduled for Thursday.