The Franklin Pierce College men’s ice hockey team will upgrade to NCAA Division II status and has accepted an invitation to participate in the ECAC Northeast Division beginning in the 2002-03 academic year after nearly 30 years of competition as a club program.
Last year’s defending ECAC Champion, Dartmouth, was chosen as the favorite in the ECAC Women’s Hockey League – North Coaches’ Preseason Poll. The Big Green received six of the nine first place votes. The Big Green captured the ECAC Championship last season and lost in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament. The national runners-up, St. … Read more
USCHO.com added to its recent hardware list when it was named winner of this year’s Murray Kramer/Scarlet Quill Memorial Award by the Boston University Athletic Department during its annual Hall of Fame Banquet. USCHO.com’s Dave Hendrickson and Scott Weighart accept the Scarlet Quill Award at the recent Boston University Hall of Fame Banquet. The award, … Read more
Last year’s surprise CHA Champions, the Wayne State Warriors, were picked to finish first by the CHA Coaches in the Preseason Poll. The Warriors were picked by four of the six head coaches to finish first. The other two first place votes went to Alabama-Huntsville, the team picked to finish second. The inaugural CHA Champion, … Read more
Defending regular season and conference tournament champions RIT garnered the top rank in this season’s ECAC West preseason coaches’ poll.
Last year’s MAAC Tournament Champions, the Mercyhurst Lakers, were picked to finish first in the preseason MAAC Hockey League Coaches’ Poll.
Jayson Moy, general manager of U.S. College Hockey Online and radio voice for numerous Rensselaer sports, is the recipient of the 2001 ECAC Ice Hockey Media Recognition Award, the ECAC announced today.
Bruce McLeod was awarded a new contract by the WCHA that will keep him on as commissioner through at least 2006. McLeod, the former athletic director at Minnesota-Duluth has been at the helm for eight seasons.
The Providence Friars wound up in first place in the preseason coaches’ poll. The funny thing is that the Friars didn’t receive one single first place vote.
WCHA coaches selected Colorado College as the team to beat in this year’s race for the MacNaughton Cup. Minnesota, North Dakota, St. Cloud State and Denver rounded out the top five.
Monday, the ECAC Policy Committee passed two proposals to take effect in the 2002-03 season, increasing the number of allowable games in the regular season, and expanding the conference tournament to include all 12 teams.
Former Alabama-Huntsville player, Jean-Marc Plante, who had been working in the school’s athletic department, collapsed and died Sunday of an apparent heart attack. He was 31. Plante was playing a street hockey game in Madison, Ala., when he collapsed. Plante, the athletic marketing director for Alabama-Huntsville, had worked in the front office of the NHL’s … Read more
At least 38 games involving Hockey East teams will be telecast throughout New England in 2001-2002, highlighted by at least 23 on Fox Sports Net New England. The league’s “Fox Sports Net New England Hockey East Game of the Week” package, beginning in January, has been supplemented by a separate deal that Boston University also … Read more
Dave Hendrickson, U.S. College Hockey Online’s beat writer and columnist for Hockey East, has been named the recipient of the league’s 2001 Joe Concannon Media Award.
The athletic directors of the men’s Hockey East conference have voted to establish a Division I women’s ice hockey league under the Hockey East banner to begin play no later than the fall of 2004.
Union was scheduled to open the season with a flight to South Bend, Ind., for a two-game series against Notre Dame on Oct. 11 and 12. But in light of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, the Dutchmen have changed their mode of transportation. The team will now take the … Read more
The 2003 NCAA Frozen Four logo was unveiled at a ceremony Friday at HSBC Arena, site of the event, set for April 10-12, 2003. Representatives from the three hosts — the MAAC, Canisius College and Niagara University — were on hand for the event. The logo features an image of a waterfall, representing Niagara Falls, … Read more
The family of Maine coach Shawn Walsh has announced the following funeral arrangements: Friends may visit on Friday, Sept. 28 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at St. John’s Catholic Church on 207 York in Bangor, Maine. The funeral will take place Saturday, Sept. 29 at 10 a.m. at St. John’s. In addition, the University … Read more
According to a report in the South End, the Wayne State student newspaper, goaltender Marc Carlson has been diagnosed with testicular cancer and will miss the entire 2001-2002 season.
It was a somber CCHA media day this time around. The 12 coaches of the conference mourned the loss of Maine coach Shawn Walsh, while talking about the rest of the tragedy that has befallen the nation. But with practices starting up, the leaders of the CCHA agreed to honor their fallen comrades and then turn their heads towards hockey.