On Wednesday, Minnesota-Duluth’s Shannon Miller was named Coach of the Year in women’s Division I by the American Hockey Coaches Association. Miller, a native of Melfort, Sask., led UMD to a third straight NCAA title, winning the championship with a 4-3 double-overtime victory against Harvard before a crowd of 5,000-plus in Duluth. For the season, … Read more
George Roll, who led Oswego State to a 25-7-1 record and a berth in the NCAA championship game for the first time since 1987, has been named the winner of the 2003 Edward Jeremiah Award, given annually to the coach of the year in men’s Division III. Roll accomplished this feat with a young team … Read more
St. Anselm’s College will add women’s ice hockey as a varsity sport for the 2004-2005 season. The school says a head coach will be named by this July and the team will compete as a club team in 2003-2004. Athletic Director Ed Cannon says the women will play in the ECAC, once the team attains … Read more
North Dakota defenseman David Hale became the second WCHA player to forego his senior season and turn pro, signing with the New Jersey Devils this week. Hale joins Peter Sejna, the Hobey Baker finalist who signed a free-agent deal with the St. Louis Blues. Hale was a first-round draft pick of New Jersey in the … Read more
Hobey Baker Award finalist Peter Sejna signed a free-agent contract with the St. Louis Blues on Sunday and quickly made an impact at the top level. Sejna, who played three seasons at Colorado College, scored a power-play goal in his first game for the Blues, beating Colorado goalie Patrick Roy in the second period of … Read more
Injured Merrimack goaltender Joe Exter has returned home after spending nearly four weeks in two hospitals in Boston. “Joe is making a remarkable recovery from the head injury. He will continue his rehabilitation from home,” said Heechin Chae, MD, associate medical director, Inpatient Brain Injury Program, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network. “It is too early to … Read more
Oswego has promoted longtime assistant Ed Gosek to head coach.
Alaska-Fairbanks coach Guy Gadowsky has dismissed two players from the team for unspecified violations of team rules during the 2002-03 season. The players are both freshmen, forwards Doug Auchenberg and Russell Spence. “They were dismissed for rules violations,” Gadowsky told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. “I don’t feel good about it. We lost two very talented … Read more
Ferris State forward Chris Kunitz, the leading scorer this year in the CCHA and a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award, signed a two-year deal with the NHL’s Anaheim Mighty Ducks. Kunitz was undrafted, and signed as a free agent. Kunitz, the CCHA Player of the Year, was second in the nation with 35 goals … Read more
For the third consecutive year, USCHO.com is sponsoring a Town Meeting to entertain and inform college hockey fans during the festivities at the NCAA Frozen Four. This year’s USCHO.com Town Meeting topic is “The Evolution of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament,” and the panel will include the NCAA’s Director of Championships Tom Jacobs, NCAA … Read more
Cornell ascended to the top of the college hockey heap, garnering 25 first-place votes and 583 points in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll, the last poll of the 2002-2003 season. The Big Red finished first in the ECAC regular season and the postseason tournament, and was rewarded for a 28-4-1 season with the … Read more
Joe Exter flashed a broad smile and thumbs-up sign to his surprised visitors yesterday during an impromptu walk from his hospital bed to a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center waiting room. A clear signal the worst appears to be over for the Merrimack College goaltender. Still dealing with complications brought on by a fractured skull … Read more
In what became a badly-kept secret, Clarkson has named George Roll men’s hockey coach, replacing the fired Mark Morris. He was formally introduced at a news conference on Monday. Roll, a former assistant at Clarkson under Morris, returns after seven years as head coach at Division III Oswego. Roll will begin his transition to Clarkson … Read more
Saturday, Harvard’s Jennifer Botterill became the first player in women’s hockey history to be so selected as a first-team All-American four times. In all, the four teams participating in the Frozen Four totaled nine selections to the first and second teams. Besides Botterill, Harvard placed defenseman Angela Ruggiero on the first team, and freshman Julie … Read more
A pair of WCHA teams earned top seeds for the NCAA tournament, but unlike the last 15 seasons, that doesn’t put them any closer to the Frozen Four than the rest of the field. Colorado College and Minnesota joined Cornell and New Hampshire as No. 1 seeds for the expanded 2003 national tournament, which opens … Read more
On the eve of the NCAA championship game, Harvard’s Jennifer Botterill received the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award for the second time in her career. The award, given annually to the top collegiate women’s ice hockey player by the USA Hockey Foundation, was also won by Botterill in 2001. Botterill becomes the first two-time Kazmaier winner … Read more
Boston University and New Hampshire could square off for a Frozen Four spot if each wins its first NCAA game. Also, comments from many of the coaches who’ll field teams in this year’s tournament, and some who won’t.
All four coaches of Frozen Four teams were among the eight finalists for the women’s Division I Coach of The Year. Minnesota-Duluth’s Shannon Miller, Harvard’s Katey Stone, Minnesota’s Laura Halldorson and Dartmouth’s Judy Oberting are all vying for the award, as well as the national championship. Halldorson, Oberting and Stone are all past winners of … Read more
The American College Hockey Coaches Association has released its Division II/III (College Division) All-Amercians for the 2002-2003. Eight players named were on teams competing for the NCAA Division III Men’s Hockey Championship at Norwich this weekend. Wisconsin-River Falls defenseman Adam Kragthorpe was named a first team All-Amercian for the third time. Norwich forward Kurtis McLean … Read more
Oswego State goaltender Tyson Gajda carried a towel into his team’s news conference after Saturday night’s NCAA Division III championship game. His coach was the one who needed it to wipe away tears. George Roll faced the media with red eyes minutes after the Lakers’ 2-1 loss to Norwich. The loss likely marked the end … Read more