Notre Dame officially became a sport affiliate member for Big Ten hockey on Saturday. The Fighting Irish join Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State and Wisconsin to give the conference seven hockey programs for the 2017-18 season. Notre Dame, which had been in Hockey East since the 2013-14 season, will make its Big … Read more
Notre Dame junior goaltender Cal Petersen will forego his last year of eligibility with the intention of signing an NHL contract this summer. A fifth-round pick (129th overall) by Buffalo in the 2013 NHL Draft, Petersen could sign with the Sabres or become a free agent later this summer. “I feel immensely fortunate I was … Read more
Notre Dame junior forward Anders Bjork has signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Boston Bruins, giving up his senior season with the Fighting Irish. A fifth-round pick by Boston in the 2014 NHL Draft (146th overall), Bjork posted a career-high and team-best 52 points on 21 goals and 31 assists as a junior while … Read more
“We didn’t really play our game, we didn’t play Irish hockey as we have been the past couple weeks,” Anders Bjork said.
Minnesota Duluth, Harvard, Denver and Notre Dame discussed how they stay in the moment at Wednesday’s Frozen Four media day.
The Pioneers and Fighting Irish play at around 8:30 p.m. CDT Thursday in Chicago.
The Irish are the only team in the Frozen Four that wasn’t a No. 1 regional seed.
In Jeff Jackson’s illustrious coaching career, which includes stops in the National Hockey League, the U.S. National Team and 18 years at the collegiate level at both Notre Dame and Lake Superior State, he’d never done it before.
Two Hockey East teams, including conference champion UMass Lowell, meet up with a pair of other talented squads at the Northeast Regional this weekend in Manchester, N.H.
The five finalists for the 2017 Mike Richter Award, which honors the most outstanding goaltender in NCAA men’s Division I hockey, were announced Thursday. The fourth annual award will be presented at the Frozen Four in two weeks in Chicago. Past winners of the award include Thatcher Demko (Boston College, 2016), Zane McIntyre (North Dakota, … Read more
UMass Lowell won the Hockey East championship on Saturday night by defeating Boston College at TD Garden. It won’t have to go far to contend for the Frozen Four.
Hockey East announced Wednesday the 2016-17 Pro Ambitions All-Rookie Team and nine other season-long award winners as voted by the league’s 12 head coaches in advance of the 2017 Hockey East championship March 17-18 at TD Garden in Boston. The honorees will be recognized at Thursday night’s annual awards banquet. Hockey East All-Rookie Team Also … Read more
Anders Bjork is one of five finalists for the 2017 Hockey Humanitarian Award and has spent the better part of the last two seasons making weekly trips to Perley Fine Arts Academy, an elementary school just south of campus.
Representatives of the Autonomy Five conferences met in Nashville, Tenn., on Friday, Jan. 20, to take additional action to “improve the experiences of students who play sports,” according to a press release sent out Friday by the Big Ten. Over the last three years, the Autonomy Five conferences have passed significant reforms to help student-athletes … Read more
Due to the Notre Dame-Northeastern game on Nov. 13 being suspended due to Zamboni and ice conditions, Hockey East released a statement Nov. 16: Sunday’s game between Northeastern University and the University of Notre Dame, which was suspended after two periods due to unplayable ice conditions, will be recorded as a tie game, it was … Read more
Notre Dame and Northeastern skated to a 0-0 tie through two periods of play before a Zamboni breakdown and subsequent problems with ice conditions forced the game to be suspended on Sunday afternoon at Matthews Arena. The teams will attempt to make up the third period later in the season at a date to be … Read more
Notre Dame has announced the addition of veteran coach John Micheletto as a special assistant to the coaching staff. A 24-year coaching veteran, Micheletto most recently served as the head coach at Massachusetts from 2012 to 2016. Prior to UMass, he was an associate head coach at Vermont for five seasons and also was an … Read more
Miami played a swarming, fearless defense at Schneider Arena Saturday night, beating Providence 2-1 while featuring 10 freshmen whom coach Enrico Blasi said “were not afraid to make mistakes.” With sophomore Kiefer Sherwood’s goal at 11:35 of the third period, the RedHawks avenged a one-goal loss to the same Friars on Friday night and left … Read more
In a vote of all 12 league coaches, Boston University will be the team to beat in Hockey East this season. The Terriers garnered 10 first-place votes, while Northeastern and Massachusetts-Lowell each bagged a nod to finish first. Results of the coaches poll were released Tuesday.
Hockey East has awarded a three-year contract extension to commissioner Joe Bertagna, taking him through the 2019-20 season. The deal extends his tenure as both the longest-serving commissioner in Hockey East history and the longest serving commissioner in the six NCAA Division I conferences. This season marks Bertagna’s 20th with Hockey East and 35th as … Read more