Kevin Margarucci has been named USA Hockey’s manager of player safety. Since 2001, Margarucci has served as head athletic trainer and teacher at Lewis-Palmer High School in Monument, Colo., and has also worked as an athletic trainer at Colorado College and for the United States Olympic Committee. he holds a master’s degree in athletic training … Read more
USA Hockey announced Friday that Nick Siergiej, coordinator of hockey operations at Notre Dame, will serve as video coordinator for the 2016 U.S. National Junior Team.
USA Hockey on Wednesday named Chris Chelios (Wisconsin), Danton Cole (Michigan State) and Kevin Reiter (Alaska-Anchorage) as assistant coaches for the 2016 U.S. National Junior Team that will compete in the 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship in Helsinki, Finland. The trio will work with Ron Wilson (Providence), who was previously announced as head coach.
USA Hockey has announced Jim Smith as the organization’s fifth president. Smith was elected at the organization’s Annual Congress on June 6 in Colorado Springs. Smith, an Illinois native who has been part of USA Hockey for the last 30 seasons, including 20 years on the executive committee, was unanimously elected to replace Ron DeGregorio, … Read more
USA Hockey announced Thursday that Ron Wilson has been named head coach of the 2016 U.S. National Junior Team that will play in the IIHF World Junior Championship from Dec. 26, 2015 to Jan. 5, 2016 in Helsinki, Finland. “We’re extremely pleased to have Ron guiding our National Junior Team,” said USA Hockey assistant executive … Read more
Ron DeGregorio will mark the end of a 12-year run as USA Hockey’s president on Saturday during the organization’s Annual Congress in Colorado Springs. “We’ve had so many great people involved in this organization,” said USA Hockey executive director Dave Ogrean in a statement. “It would be hard to come up with anyone that has … Read more
USA Hockey announced Tuesday that Ryan Hardy has been named director of player personnel at the National Team Development Program. Hardy worked for the past two years as the assistant director of player personnel at the NTDP after working for the NHL during the 2012-13 season as a regional amateur scout in the New England … Read more
Former Michigan State forward Chris Luongo has been named an assistant coach with the U.S. National Team Development Program in Ann Arbor, Mich. Luongo also coached in the NCAA ranks with Alabama-Huntsville and Wayne State.
When the first 17 players were named this week to the United States team for the 2015 IIHF World Championship that starts in May, four players were named that skated in the NCAA ranks during the 2014-15 season. Forwards Dylan Larkin (Michigan) and Jimmy Vesey (Harvard), defenseman Mike Reilly (Minnesota) and goaltender Alex Lyon (Yale) … Read more
Fourth-year coach leads alma mater to first national title in program history.
USA Hockey announced recently the roster for the U.S. Women’s National Team that will compete in the 2015 IIHF Women’s World Championship that will be held March 28 to April 4 at Malmo Isstadion in Malmo, Sweden. The 23-player roster features 13 members of the silver medal-winning 2014 U.S. Women’s Olympic Team. Reagan Carey, USA … Read more
The American Hockey Coaches Association announced on Tuesday its major awards for 2015. Eight individuals who contributed to amateur hockey in the United States will be recognized during the 2015 AHCA Convention in Naples, Fla., with the women’s hockey honorees being recognized on Friday, May 1, and the men’s hockey award recipients being honored on … Read more
MONTREAL — Canada topped the United States 5-3 Wednesday afternoon in both teams’ final preliminary game of the IIHF World Junior Championship at the Bell Centre. [scg_html_wjc2015]Boston College’s Thatcher Demko made 38 saves for Team USA and was named the U.S. Player of the Game. “It was a heck of a hockey game between two … Read more
MONTREAL — For the ninth time in the last 10 years, the United States opened the IIHF World Junior Championship with a win, beating Finland 2-1 in a shootout Friday at the Bell Centre. Chase De Leo scored the decisive goal in the shootout and Thatcher Demko (Boston College) stopped 28 of 29 shots to … Read more
The United States finalized its roster for the 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship on Thursday by releasing defenseman Steven Santini of Boston College. Santini has not played since Oct. 25 due to a wrist injury, but had the cast removed from his wrist on Monday. “We wanted to see where Steve was after he had … Read more
KINGSTON, Ontario — Alex Tuch (Boston College) tallied a hat trick, while Tyler Motte (Michigan) and Auston Matthews each scored twice to lead the U.S. National Junior Team to a 10-5 victory over Sweden Tuesday night in the final pre-tournament game for both teams prior to the IIHF World Junior Championship. Sonny Milano added five … Read more
USA Hockey on Tuesday named 30 players to the preliminary roster for the 2015 U.S. National Junior Team that will compete at the IIHF World Junior Championship Dec. 26, 2014 to Jan. 5, 2015 in Montreal and Toronto. The final U.S. roster will be named by Dec. 24. “We’re excited about the group of players … Read more
Bob O’Connor will be honored with the USA Hockey Builders Award as part of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremony and dinner on Dec. 4 in Minneapolis. “Bob has had an enormous impact in the on-going development of our coaching education program,” said USA Hockey president Ron DeGregorio in a news release. “He … Read more
Former Vermont forward Mike O’Connor has been named director of major giving for the USA Hockey Foundation. O’Connor played for the Catamounts from 1981 to 1985.
Joe Bonnett has been named an American Development Model regional manager by USA Hockey. Bonnett played at Western Michigan and had been an assistant coach at Colorado College from 2000 to 2014.