Efforts to grow the game of hockey have produced some innovative ideas, including how to increase scoring. One idea is a “two-point” arc, similar to the three-point arc in basketball (photo: Jim Rosvold/University of Minnesota).
Chatham announced Wednesday that Michael Gershon has been named the new men’s hockey head coach (photo: Justin Cohn/RMU Athletics).
St. Scholastica men’s coach Tim Madsen announced his resignation on Thursday “to pursue other opportunities,” according to a news release (photo: CSS Athletics).
Norwich senior goaltender Tom Aubrun has been chosen as the 2020 winner of the Sid Watson Award, given to the best NCAA Division III men’s hockey player (photo: Norwich Athletics).
After leading Norwich to a 24-2-2 record and the Cadets’ second straight NEHC tournament title, Cam Ellsworth has been named the winner of the Edward Jeremiah Award as the CCM/AHCA Division III Men’s Coach of the Year (photo: Norwich Athletics).
A total of 30 NCAA Division II-III men’s players have recognized as CCM Hockey/AHCA All-Americans for the 2019-20 season. Norwich and UW-Eau Claire lead the way with three honorees each (photo: UW-Eau Claire Athletics).
After a terrific season, that was unfortunately cut short by the current COVID-19 crisis, the difficult task of selecting three teams for this year’s All-USCHO lists was a very challenging project. Thirteen different teams across the country are represented with multiple players from Geneseo, Norwich, Utica, Wilkes and Wisconsin – Eau Claire. Repeating on the … Read more
St. Olaf announced recently that Cole Workman will not be retained as the permanent head coach of the men’s hockey team (photo: St. Olaf Athletics).
Standing at only 5’9” and weighing 175 pounds, freshman Brandon Osmundson played a big game for the Utica Pioneers as he led all freshmen in the country in scoring with 13 goals and 29 assists for 42 points. Osmundson fit right in with the veteran talent at Utica and quickly established himself as a very … Read more
Despite the abrupt end to the college hockey season and cancellation of the NCAA tournament, Utica and their head coach Gary Heenan can take great pride in the many achievements of their team this season despite some early challenges and team chemistry changes. Heenan led the Pioneers through those challenges on the way to the … Read more
Concordia (Minn.) junior forward Tyler Bossert has been named the winner of the MIAC Elite 22 award for academic excellence in men’s hockey (photo: Concordia (Minn.) Athletics).
Every so often there is a season and individual statistics amidst the trappings of the ultimate team sport that are truly astounding at every level. Such is the case for USCHO Player of the Year Tom Aubrun who completed his senior season for the Cadets riding a nine-game shutout streak and posting 13 shutouts overall … Read more
Brett Gravelle and St. Thomas could very easily be playing for a spot in the national semifinals this weekend. The Tommies became the first four seed in MIAC history to win the conference tournament and were set to play Lake Forest last week. The winner would have moved on to play Wisconsin-Eau Claire tonight … Read more
The NCHA men’s conference announced recently its three major award winners and all-conference and all-freshman teams for the 2019-20 season (photo: Mike Dickie/Adrian Athletics).
Jasen Wise, after eight years as the Concordia (Wis.) head coach, has decided to step down (photo: Megan Schmitz).
The Gridiron Club of Greater Boston announced Thursday that Wesleyan senior forward Walker Harris is the winner of the 20th Joe Concannon Award, presented annually to the best American-born college hockey player in New England at the Division II/III level (photo: Wesleyan Athletics).
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 12-team field was set and besides the seeded teams awaiting to learn who their quarterfinal opponent will be, there was a lot of suspense for the first round games where none of the pairings finds any prior game action between the combatants during the regular season. This should have made for some interesting action … Read more
NCAA president Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors canceled the Division I men’s and women’s 2020 basketball tournaments, as well as all remaining winter and spring NCAA championships on Thursday.
For the very first time ever in program history, Wesleyan has reached the summit of NESCAC hockey by winning the men’s hockey conference championship. With that comes the conference auto-bid, so in just one short week, the list of firsts grows with their first NCAA tournament appearance with a first round game against Babson on … Read more