Players with college ties — playing in college or committed to a school — listed in the mid-term rankings for the 2010 NHL Entry Draft: SKATERS Rank Name Pos Current Team Committed To 5 Riley Sheahan C Notre Dame (CCHA) 11 Derek Forbort D U.S. NTDP North Dakota 12 Nick Bjugstad C Blaine (Minn. HS) … Read more
Amo Bessone, who coached Michigan State to the 1966 national championship as part of 28 years leading the Spartans, has died in New Mexico. He was 93. He coached 814 games behind the Michigan State bench, second only to Ron Mason’s 974. He started in 1951 and retired in 1979 with a 367-427-20 record at … Read more
For the first time since the first week of the season, Miami is not listed atop the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll. Related link: USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll: Jan. 11 Denver supplanted the RedHawks in the No. 1 spot Monday, earning 45 of the 50 first-place votes after Miami lost twice to Robert Morris … Read more
Four current college players are ranked in NHL Central Scouting’s mid-term rankings for the 2010 entry draft. Notre Dame center Riley Sheahan heads the list, released Monday, at fifth among North American skaters. Minnesota State center Tyler Pitlick (21st), Harvard defenseman Danny Biega (31st) and Wisconsin defenseman John Ramage (187th) also appeared on the rankings. … Read more
Former Brown player Kevin Lovitt is joining College Hockey Inc. as its senior director of business affairs. Lovitt, who played for the Bears from 1977 to 1981, was the director of corporate sponsorship for the National Hockey League Players Association, working alongside CHI executive director Paul Kelly. “I am confident that he is the right … Read more
Multiple sources have confirmed that New Hampshire and Team Canada star Jenn Wakefield is transferring from UNH to Hockey East rival Boston University. The five-foot-nine 20-year-old from Pickering, Ont. led the Wildcats in goals and scoring last year as a sophomore, potting 32 goals with 17 assists in 31 games. Her 49 points edged her … Read more
The script had to seem way too familiar for the United States. For the second straight meeting at the 2010 World Junior Championship, Canada erased the Americans’ two-goal, third-period lead to force overtime. Last time, Canada won in a shootout to earn the top spot in the preliminary pool. Tuesday, there was a rewrite. Defenseman … Read more
Not unanimity. But awfully close. That’s the position — top ranked, with 19 of 20 first place votes — the Oswego Lakers find themselves after the first USCHO.com Division III poll of 2010. It is their fourth consecutive week atop the rankings. The second and third ranked teams in the country — Oswego’s SUNYAC rival … Read more
A tie in the championship game of the Badger Hockey Showdown was enough to move both Wisconsin and Yale up three spots in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll. Related link: USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll: Jan. 4, 2010 The Badgers are up to fourth, their highest ranking since Oct. 23, 2006, the first … Read more
A big tournament for Rensselaer’s Jerry D’Amigo keeps getting bigger. D’Amigo scored twice, John Carlson broke a 2-2 tie in the third period and St. Cloud State’s Mike Lee made 27 saves in the United States’ 5-2 semifinal victory over Sweden on Sunday at the World Junior Championship. D’Amigo has five goals in the tournament, … Read more
Rensselaer’s Jerry D’Amigo scored twice, and four other collegians added goals as the United States earned a spot in the World Junior Championship semifinals with a 6-2 victory over Finland on Saturday. Notre Dame’s Kyle Palmieri, Denver’s Matt Donovan, Boston College’s Chris Kreider and North Dakota’s Danny Kristo also scored for the U.S., which will … Read more
Another shootout against Canada, another heartbreaking loss for the United States in the World Junior Championship. The Americans led the hosts by two goals in the third period but couldn’t hold on and fell 5-4 in a shootout on Thursday. The extra point gave Canada first place in the pool and a bye into the … Read more
Forward Matt Frattin, dismissed from the North Dakota team in August because of a violation of team rules, is back practicing with the Fighting Sioux, the school announced Tuesday. Frattin, a junior, has enrolled in spring semester classes at North Dakota and is eligible to play beginning with the Sioux’s game against Niagara at the … Read more
Boston College’s Chris Kreider scored three times, one-quarter of a United States offensive barrage in a 12-1 victory over Latvia on Tuesday at the World Junior Championship. The Americans moved to 3-0 in pool play and clinched a spot in the quarterfinals. They can earn a bye to the semifinals by beating host Canada in … Read more
Denver’s Matt Donovan scored his second goal in as many games, and Boston College’s Chris Kreider added a goal in the United States’ 3-0 victory over Switzerland on Sunday in the World Junior Championship. Jack Campbell stopped 22 shots, 14 of them in the first period, for the Americans, who improved to 2-0. AJ Jenks … Read more
The line of collegians Derek Stepan, Jerry D’Amigo and Danny Kristo combined for three goals and a plus-12 rating as the United States rallied for a 7-3 victory over Slovakia Saturday in its opening game of the World Junior Championship. Despite outshooting Slovakia 46-20, the Americans had to rally from a 2-0 deficit in the … Read more
USA Hockey will take 11 college players to the 2010 World Junior Championships in Saskatchewan. The national team on Wednesday announced its 22-player roster for the annual Under-20 tournament, which starts Saturday and runs through Jan. 5. Wisconsin is the school most represented on the team. It has defensemen Jake Gardiner and John Ramage and … Read more
Fenway Park is renting the ice to various groups prior to the Jan. 1 Winter Classic between the Bruins and the Flyers and college hockey’s Frozen Fenway seven days later. While the first day of rentals on Dec. 20 was canceled due to issues with a snowstorm, Avon Old Farms and Taft School were able … Read more
The CCHA suspended Northern Michigan forward Ray Kaunisto for one game because of what it determined to be a blindside hit to the head and neck area. That hit, which did not go penalized in last Friday’s game at Lake Superior State, was reviewed by the league. Kaunisto, a senior, will sit out the Wildcats’ … Read more
Colorado College is back where it started — where it started last season, anyway. The Tigers moved up two spots to No. 3 in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll released Monday, matching their spot in the 2008 preseason poll. Since then, it has been an interesting ride for CC. CC head coach Scott Owens’ … Read more