Miami will enter the NCAA tournament in a familiar spot — atop the national rankings. The RedHawks played one last game of leapfrog with Denver in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll, getting 28 of the 50 first-place votes to finish in the No. 1 spot. Miami also is the top overall seed in … Read more
The NCAA men’s ice hockey committee might have had attendance on the mind when it put together the bracket for the 2010 NCAA tournament. Miami, Denver, Wisconsin and Boston College earned No. 1 seeds, but the variations from complete bracket integrity with the third seeds appeared to be to get some teams closer to home, … Read more
The WCHA Final Five name will live on, but the 2011 tournament will be a six-team event. The moniker will reference the number of games in the tournament under the new format, which the league detailed Saturday. With the addition of Bemidji State and Nebraska-Omaha next season, all 12 teams will take part in the … Read more
The WCHA has suspended Wisconsin defenseman Cody Goloubef for Saturday’s Final Five third-place game. Goloubef was called for a five-minute major for contact to the head when he hit St. Cloud State’s Nick Oslund in open ice in Friday’s semifinal. The WCHA announced that its Final Five tournament committee assessed the additional penalty, citing the … Read more
Trinity goaltender Isabel Iwachiw has been named the winner of the Laura Hurd Award, given annually to the nation’s Division III women’s player. The player of the year in the NESCAC, Iwachiw is also a first-team All-American and led Trinity to its first NCAA tournament appearance. She had a 21-5-2 record, a 1.22 goals-against average … Read more
New Hampshire forward and Hobey Baker finalist Bobby Butler was named the Hockey East player of the year Thursday as the league hosted its annual awards dinner at the Royal Sonesta Hotel. Butler headlined a trio of Wildcats named among the first-team All-Stars. Butler dominated all Hockey East scorers with 21 goals and shared the … Read more
Five of the six women’s Division I All-Americans are from teams playing in the Frozen Four. Minnesota has two of them — goaltender Noora Raty and defender Anne Schleper. Also on the first team: Cornell defender Laura Fortino, Mercyhurst forward Vicki Bendus, Minnesota-Duluth forward Emmanuele Blais and New Hampshire forward Kelly Paton. Minnesota, Minnesota-Duluth, Cornell … Read more
Gustavus Adolphus forward David Martinson has been awarded the Sid Watson Award as the top player in Division III. Martinson, the MIAC player of the year, led the nation with an average of exactly one goal per game. He had 29 goals and 49 points for the Gusties, who advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals. “David … Read more
Miami finished first in the CCHA this year off a surprise Frozen Four appearance last April, and coach Enrico Blasi took home the prize for the league’s coach of the year Thursday. He’s the first coach in CCHA history to win four times. In his acceptance speech, he emphasized the personal struggles he’s gone through … Read more
Rensselaer junior forward Chase Polacek was named the ECAC Player of the Year at the annual ECAC banquet on Thursday. Polacek netted 35 points in 22 ECAC games this season, tallying 17 goals and 18 assists, with six of the goals being power play goals and two shorthanded. Overall, he finished third in the nation … Read more
Denver picked up two major awards and took half of the spots on the first team at the WCHA’s awards ceremony Thursday. Goaltender Marc Cheverie is the league’s player of the year, and George Gwozdecky is the WCHA’s top coach. Cheverie, forward Rhett Rakhshani and defenseman Patrick Wiercioch were first-team all-WCHA members, along with Wisconsin … Read more
Gridiron Club of Greater Boston president Ray Gallant announced on Wednesday that junior forward Coleman Noonan of St. Anselm College is the winner of the 10th annual Joe Concannon Award, which recognizes New England’s best American-born hockey player at the Division II-III level. Noonan is the first D-II player to receive the award. Noonan, from … Read more
With all the attention surrounding the injury to Yale’s Sean Backman last weekend, it was probably forgotten that Brown senior tri-captain Jordan Pietrus had been out of their lineup since the beginning of February. In an odd coincidence, both players wore No. 16 for their respective teams. The Providence Journal has reported that Pietrus, who … Read more
The top three teams in the country claimed half of the finalist spots for the Hobey Baker Award when the list of 10 was revealed Thursday. Denver goaltender Marc Cheverie and forward Rhett Rakhshani, Miami goaltender Cody Reichard and Wisconsin forward Blake Geoffrion and defenseman Brendan Smith made the cut to the final 10 names … Read more
Canisius junior forward Cory Conacher was named player of the year in Atlantic Hockey at the league’s annual awards banquet Thursday. The Burlington, Ontario, native led the league with 44 points, the second-highest regular season point total in AHA history. Overall, Conacher has 53 points to date (20 goals, 33 assists). Joining Conacher on the … Read more
Minnesota forward Jordan Schroeder has signed a contract with the Vancouver Canucks, ending his college career after two seasons. A three-time member of the U.S. World Junior team, Schroeder had nine goals and 28 points in 37 games for the Gophers this season. Those numbers were down from a freshman season in which he was … Read more
Merrimack forward Stephane Da Costa was a unanimous pick to Hockey East’s All-Rookie Team, announced Wednesday. Da Costa was third in league scoring with 36 points (nine goals, 27 assists) in 26 Hockey East games. He’s joined on the all-rookie team by Boston College forward Chris Kreider, Vermont forward Sebastian Stalberg, Boston College defenseman Brian … Read more
The Ohio State athletics department confirmed Tuesday that 15-year head coach John Markell will not return to the Buckeyes’ men’s hockey program in 2010-11. Markell’s contract was allowed to expire following the Buckeyes’ 2-1 loss to the Miami RedHawks on Sunday evening in the quarterfinals of the CCHA tournament. Markell said following the game he … Read more
The WCHA suspended North Dakota’s Matt Frattin late Monday for the forward’s hit on Minnesota’s Kevin Wehrs on Sunday. Frattin, a junior, was called for a major contact-to-the-head penalty in the second period of Sunday’s WCHA playoff series-clinching victory. He will be out of the lineup for the Fighting Sioux’s WCHA Final Five play-in game … Read more
After leading Union to the highest conference and overall win totals in program history, coach Nate Leaman was named the ECAC Hockey coach of the year. The Dutchmen have 20 overall wins and earned 12 in conference play after being picked to finish sixth in the standings. They are the third seed in the postseason. … Read more