After a season that abruptly ended almost two weeks ago, Cornell finishes the year ranked No. 1 in the final USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll of the 2019-20 season with 25 first-place votes (photo: Omar Phillips).
On the morning of March 12, I got a text from Matthew McGreevy, assistant director of athletic communications at Denver. He simply asked, “Are you planning on coming if we play this weekend?” At that time, the plan was still for the NCHC tournament to hold its quarterfinal games sans spectators, and then do the same for the Frozen Faceoff in St. Paul, Minn., an announcement the conference made on March 11 (photo: Candace Horgan).
Sean Dhooghe, who played the past three seasons for Wisconsin, will play his final season of NCAA eligibility at Arizona State (photo: UW Athletics).
While Minnesota Duluth won’t have an opportunity to three-peat as National Champions, USCHO will simulate an NCAA tournament beginning this Friday. The Bulldogs are the top seed in the Loveland regional in this simulation (File photo: Jim Rosvold/2019)
“We’ll move forward and we’ll get everybody through it, hopefully. Maybe it’s nice to slow down a little bit. We’re so busy. We’re so caught up in everything” (photo: Jim Rosvold).
Computer simulations produced North Dakota as the NCHC Champion and top-seed in a simulated NCAA tournament. The computer predicted that the Fighting Hawks skated past Denver, 4-2, in the NCHC title game (File photo: Jim Rosvold/2016)
“Don’t get on the bus.” Those were the words the Connecticut coach Mike Cavanaugh heard on the other end of the phone from his athletic director. They were also the words that made Cavanaugh realize that his team’s hockey season was over.
UMass Lowell was one of a number of teams that a computer picked to pull off an upset in league semifinal action on Friday. The computer picked the River Hawks to advance over sister school, UMass, in overtime to face Maine in the Hockey East final. (File photo: Rich Gagnon)
Western Michigan junior forward Austin Rueschhoff signed a free-agent, entry-level contract with the New York Rangers on Friday afternoon, giving up his last season of NCAA eligibility (photo: Ashley Huss).
The Calgary Flames announced Friday that they have signed Minnesota State junior defenseman Connor Mackey to a free-agent contract, who will forego his senior season in Mankato (photo: David Faulkner/SPX Sports).
Coming off back-to-back seasons of not qualifying for the NCAA tournament, there were a lot of questions facing North Dakota this season. Perhaps the biggest revolved around offense. Who was going to score? (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
For Bowling Green, the 2019-20 college hockey season ended, not with a goal or a buzzer but, of all places, a mall parking lot (photo: BGSU Athletics).
For Saint Mary’s junior Delaney Wolf, the time she has spent volunteering and serving her community has helped her create a home in Winona.
Last June, the name Alex Newhook became internationally-known in the world of hockey when the 18-year-old was selected in the first round (16th overall) by the Colorado Avalanche in the 2019 NHL Draft. To say that Newhook entered Boston College with high expectations on his shoulders as part of a highly-touted freshman class would be an understatement (photo: Rich Gagnon).
It started out slowly, but then the hits kept on coming (photo: Jim Meagher).
For senior Dakota Keene from UMass Boston, the spirit of giving and helping others is spawned from a blue-collar upbringing and strong desire to stay very busy in creative and productive ways.
The Hobey Baker Memorial Award Committee announce Wednesday the top 10 candidates for the 2020 award honoring college hockey’s top player (photo: Jim Rosvold).
North Dakota finished the NCAA tournament-less season first in the PairWise Rankings. It was some season for the Hawks, recovering in a big way after missing back-to-back NCAA tournaments for the first time since the mid-1990s. Because of that turnaround, UND’s Brad Berry has been voted as USCHO Coach of the Year (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Words like “historic” and “unbelievable” get thrown around a lot in the sports world, often at things that aren’t really that historic or unbelievable. But in the case of the end of the 2019-20 college hockey season, they’re absolutely appropriate, along with “gut-wrenching,” “painful” and “devastating” (photo: Omar Phillips).
As a senior at Saint Anselm in New Hampshire, Amanda Conger takes the Benedictine principles of distinguishing one’s life with meaning, leadership and achievement to heart each every day as a student, hockey team captain and this year as an organ donor.