Minnesota women’s hockey coach Laura Halldorson has suspended seniors Nadine Muzerall and Betsey Kukowski for this weekend’s series at MSU-Mankato due to an unspecified violation of team rules. Muzerall is the team’s all-time leading scorer and led the nation with 49 goals last season. She missed last weekend’s series with Ohio State due to a … Read more
Seven Plattsburgh State men’s players have been suspended from play and face school judicial action following an investigation by Plattsburgh University Police into a hazing incident at an off-campus party.
Jade Galbraith, a freshman wing for Alaska-Anchorage, has left school for the Western Hockey League after just four games, according to the Anchorage Daily News. Galbraith has joined the Saskatoon Blades of the WHL, part of Canada’s Major Junior system. Galbraith, 18, scored 35 goals and 101 points in 62 games for Drayton Valley in … Read more
Former St. Lawrence men’s and women’s ice hockey coach Bernie McKinnon died Sunday after a battle with bone cancer. The recent St. Lawrence Athletic Hall of Fame inductee, who was the men’s varsity coach from 1971-76, was considered a pioneer in women’s coaching.
Michael Barrett has been named the new women’s head coach at Sacred Heart. Barrett replaces Joy Woog, who became the interim head women’s coach at Northeastern on Sept. 14. Barrett was the head coach of Lyman Hall High School, and also runs the Mike Barrett Hockey School during the summer months. Sacred Heart is coming … Read more
The East Ice Hockey League coaches have selected 2000 NCAA Division III ice hockey champion Norwich as the league favorite in the 2000-01 preseason coaches’ poll.
Middlebury, which captured the first NESCAC men’s championship last year, is the coaches’ preseason favorite to win the 2000-2001 conference title. Middlebury edged Williams 3-2 in overtime in last year’s NESCAC championship game. The Panthers garnered four first-place and four second-place votes to finish with 60 points in the preseason poll. Three other teams received … Read more
Maine freshman Colin Shields has been declared ineligible for the season as a result of a standard eligibility check by the school’s compliance office.
Dartmouth College has been named the host of the 2001 ECAC Division I Women’s Ice Hockey Championship, to be held March 17-18. Dartmouth was selected by the ECAC Division I Women’s Ice Hockey Executive Committee. This is the first time Dartmouth will be hosting the Championship. Brown hosted the first-ever championships in 1994, then again … Read more
The ECAC Division III coaches selected last year’s national champion, Middlebury, as the league favorite in the 2000-01 preseason coaches’ poll.
Wentworth and St. Michael’s are the teams to beat in the Northeast Ice Hockey League according to league coaches.
On Thursday, one day before his debut as head coach, Minnesota State-Mankato’s Troy Jutting announced the suspensions of three players for violating unspecified team rules. Sophomore Jerry Cunningham and seniors T.J. Guidarelli and Ryan Severson — all forwards — will sit out the first six games of the season, a span that includes series at … Read more
Women’s hockey is about to get a major facelift, thanks to the announcement that the ECAC, at both the Division I and III level, will split and form two leagues for each division beginning in 2001-02.
Merrimack‘s Volpe Center renovation, though slightly behind schedule and expected to cost more than initial estimates, is still on track, according to school officials. The three phase project, originally announced in August, 1999, was slated to enter phase two this past summer, but construction elsewhere on campus and changes in plans forced the work to … Read more
In meetings held this week, the ECAC approved the realignment of two teams currently playing in the ECAC Northeast. Beginning with the 2001-2002 season, St. Michael’s will become a member of the ECAC East, while Tufts will join the NESCAC.
Wisconsin’s hockey team can say something its football and men’s and women’s basketball teams can’t — it came away from an athletics department scandal largely unscathed. Unlike the three other high-profile teams at the school, the hockey team was not hit with any suspensions stemming from athletes accepting unadvertised discounts at a Madison-area shoe store. … Read more
ECAC West athletic directors have accepted the applications of both Utica College and Neumann College for admission into the league, at league meetings being held on Cape Cod this week.
Last season’s NCAA tournament runner-up, Boston College, has been tabbed by Hockey East coaches as the preseason favorite to capture the league’s regular season championship. The voting was one of the closest in league history, with four teams receiving first-place votes from the coaches.
The defending NCAA champion North Dakota Fighting Sioux have been tabbed by the coaches of the WCHA as the conference’s preseason favorite. The Fighting Sioux received six first place votes and a total of 77 points in the annual polling.