It’s been said that championships are won in the offseason. If Michigan teammates Mike Cammalleri and Mike Komisarek decide to stay on campus this summer, the Wolverines could prove that next April. While the Los Angeles Kings, who drafted Cammalleri in the second round of last June’s NHL Entry Draft, are content to leave the … Read more
St. Cloud named Bemidji State coach Jason Lesteberg as its new women’s coach, according to the St. Cloud Times. The newspaper said Lesteberg, 30, signed a four-year contract Tuesday morning, replacing Kerry Brodt Wethington, who said she would resign during the middle of last season. The school picked Lesteberg over Canadian Olympic assistant Melody Davidson, … Read more
There’s no question that Michigan State’s Ryan Miller wants to conclude the 2002-03 hockey season by playing in Buffalo’s HSBC Arena. All he has to decide is which team’s uniform he wants to wear. With top players and multi-million dollar contracts moving around the NHL’s free agent market in the weeks ahead, the Buffalo Sabres, … Read more
Minnesota State-Mankato right wing Tim Jackman will forgo his final two years in college after signing with the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets. The Hockey News last month named Jackman, 20, the fifth-best prospect in the Blue Jackets’ system. Terms of the multi-year contract were not released. Jackman, 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds, was fourth in scoring … Read more
The NCAA Championships and Competition Cabinet has approved the choices of the Men’s Division I Ice Hockey Committee to have Providence, R.I. and Minneapolis, Minn. host NCAA regionals in 2003. “We selected cities that have a tradition of hosting successful events,” said Jack McDonald, outgoing committee chairman and Quinnipiac athletic director. “We are very excited … Read more
Under a recommendation made recently by the NCAA Division III Men’s Ice Hockey Committee, all rounds in the national tournament would be single-elimination. That would reduce the quarterfinals from the current format of two games plus a possible mini-game, to one winner-take-all game. The committee also forwarded three recommendations to the Division III Championships Committee … Read more
[nl]Providence, R.I. and Minneapolis, Minn. have been chosen as sites for the expanded 2003 NCAA Division I men’s regionals, according to the official recommendation report filed by the Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Committee following its meeting in San Francisco earlier this month. They join Worcester and Ann Arbor, which were previously announced. The four … Read more
After no hockey players won the honor in its first 19 years, Minnesota defenseman Jordan Leopold became the second straight to capture the Jesse Owens Award as The Big Ten Conference’s Male Athlete of the Year. Leopold, the 2002 Hobey Baker Award winner as college hockey’s top player, follows Michigan State goalie Ryan Miller, who … Read more
In what was dubbed a weak year in prospects for the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, college hockey took advantage, sending four of its players to the top 14 picks on the draft board, and a total of 14 college or college-bound players in the first two rounds. At the top of the list, in no … Read more
Boston College (5) Ales Dolinar** Ben Eaves** Jeff Giuliano*** Tim Kelleher A.J. Walker*** Maine (4) Todd Jackson** Martin Kariya*** Gray Shaneberger*** Matt Yeats** Massachusetts (8) Samuli Jalkanen*** Mike Johnson*** Darcy King** Nick Kuiper** Jeff Lang Toni Soderholm+ Peter Trovato J.R. Zavisza** Massachusetts-Lowell (2) Laurent Meunier** Niklas Storm Merrimack (5) Joe Exter Lou Eyster** Brad Mills … Read more
Colorado College has signed head hockey coach Scott Owens to a new five-year contract effective through the 2006-07 season. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, other than it supercedes Owens’ previous pact, which had one year remaining. Owens “I very much look forward to the next five years and continuing to build upon a … Read more
The NCAA Men’s Frozen Four has sold out for the fourth consecutive year. The 56th annual event will be held at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York, April 10 and 12, 2003. It marks the sixth time in the last seven years that the event has sold out. “We are obviously thrilled that the … Read more
After 10 years at Lake Placid, the ECAC has decided to move its postseason tournament to Albany’s Pepsi Arena, a less historic, but more centralized arena. The move comes, however, with Lake Placid officials feeling mistreated.
The NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee took careful note during the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and noticed something it wants to add to the college game: speed. They’re not talking about better passing or quicker skating, but rather faster re-starts after whistles. Last week, during its annual meeting in San Francisco, the Committee voted … Read more
In a bold statement of its objection to regionalization, the Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Committee, along with the committees of 13 other sports, has submitted a report to the NCAA’s Championships and Competition Cabinet. In doing so, the committee also provided an outline to the Cabinet for how it believes the NCAA tournament should … Read more
With the interview process finally completed on Wednesday afternoon, Northern Michigan athletic director Dan Spielmann wasted no time naming 1981 alumnus Walt Kyle as the program’s second head coach. He fills the spot left vacant when Rick Comley resigned in March to become the head coach at Michigan State. For the past two years Kyle, … Read more
The ECAC will hold a press conference on Tuesday, June 18 at Pepsi Arena in Albany, N.Y., at 11 a.m. to discuss “information pertaining to the future placement” of the ECAC tournament.
The NCAA has formally reprimanded Maine defenseman Peter Metcalf and the University for comments Metcalf made in the postgame press conference following the Black Bears’ loss to Minnesota in the natonal championship game last April.
Tweaks to the NCAA tournament selection criteria and the selection of additional tournament regional sites were foremost on the agenda at the NCAA men’s ice hockey committee meetings, which concluded last week in San Francisco.
Four Division I and four Division III men’s hockey players have been named to the 2001-02 Verizon Academic All-America Men’s At-Large Teams by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Athletes in all varsity collegiate sports were eligible. Clarkson’s David Evans was named to the University Division First Team. The senior forward from Sand … Read more