(full list) NHL teams sent a clear message to college hockey at Saturday’s entry draft: we’re watching. With two rounds and 66 picks complete in the draft, ten current college players and one who will enter college next season had already been selected. Tops among these picks was the first overall collegian, Michigan defenseman Jeff … Read more
In a season that saw Eastern schools step to the forefront, placing three teams in the NCAA Frozen Four, it is perhaps ironic that the top-rated collegiate pick for the upcoming National Hockey League entry draft would come from the West. Jeff Jillson, a 6-foot-2 defenseman from Michigan, is the top collegiate prospect in the … Read more
Five college hockey players have been named finalists for the 1998 Humanitarian Award, presented annually to college hockey’s finest citizen. The finalists are Casey Hankinson, senior forward and two-year captain at Minnesota; Tyler Harlton, senior defenseman and captain of the nation’s second-ranked Michigan State Spartans; Steve Noble, senior forward and the first three-year captain in … Read more
Forty-two current or future NCAA Division I players were chosen by National Hockey League teams at the league’s 1997 Entry Draft. Defenseman Ben Clymer of Minnesota was the first college player selected, as the Boston Bruins made him the first pick of the second round, 27th overall. Boston College and Notre Dame led the way … Read more
Two proposals aimed at easing recruiting restrictions on ice hockey coaches passed at the recent NCAA Convention in Nashville, Tenn. Propositions 102 and 103 were hockey-only proposals that passed with little difficulty in a vote by school presidents. All presidents were allowed to vote, but, for the most part, only the presidents of hockey-playing schools … Read more
There will be two postseason all-star games this year in the college hockey world: one featuring the top U.S. born NCAA players against the top talent from the Canadian equivalent,the CIAU; the other featuring the best of the best from Hockey East and the ECAC, as well as players drawn from the best in NCAA … Read more