Women’s D-I: AHA

Kazmaier trio a difficult choice

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The hardest job in hockey? Seems it might be a seat on the Kazmaier selection committee. Each year, the task of anointing just one woman as the best player in women’s hockey seems to get more daunting, with no slam dunk Patty Kazmaier Award winner to merely hand the honor to. That said, we do … Read more

Three returning nominees among record 25 up for Hockey Humanitarian Award

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A record 25 players have been unveiled as the nominees for the 2011 BNY Mellon Wealth Management Hockey Humanitarian Award. The list includes returning nominees Sam Kuzyk of Adrian, Mario Mjelleli of Augsburg and Brigid O’Gorman of Connecticut College. Finalists will be announced in mid-February, with the award scheduled to be presented on Friday, April … Read more

Wisconsin remains top team in women’s poll

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There is not much change in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll as the top five teams remain the same as last week, with Wisconsin on top having garnered all 15 first place votes. Cornell, Minnesota-Duluth, Mercyhurst and Boston University round out the top five in that order. Minnesota, up a notch to No. … Read more

Wisconsin still No. 1 in women’s poll

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Not much change in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll as Wisconsin is still perched atop the poll and the next five spots remain the same as last week. At the bottom, Minnesota jumps from No. 8 to No. 7, North Dakota flip-flops with Minnesota and Ohio State stays in the ninth spot. Harvard … Read more

Wisconsin stays at No. 1 in women’s poll

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Wisconsin remained atop the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll on Monday after sweeping No. 10 Ohio State over the weekend. Cornell remained at No. 2 after opening its season with two wins against Robert Morris. Little changed from the previous week. Minnesota-Duluth and Mercyhurst switched places, with the Bulldogs climbing to No. 3, and Boston … Read more

Erin Cody a force for Bemidji State

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Erin Cody can be glad she wasn’t born any time before 1988.You can bet her Bemidji State teammates are thankful for that, too. After all, she would have missed playing her senior season in the gleaming new Bemidji Regional Events Center. And they would have missed her contribution to what proved to be a most … Read more

Badgers climb to top spot in women’s poll

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Wisconsin is the new No. 1 team in the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll released today. The Badgers take over the top spot from Mercyhurst, which falls to No. 3. Cornell stays in the second spot, while Minnesota-Duluth comes in at No. 4 and Boston University rounds out the top five. The top four teams … Read more

Mercyhurst the Favorite in 2010-11 CHA Women’s Race

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Mercyhurst is the choice of CHA women’s coaches to win the league’s regular-season title in 2010-11. The Lakers, national semifinalists last season, took four of five first-place votes in the balloting. Syracuse got the lone remaining first-place vote to finish second, followed by Niagara, Robert Morris and Wayne State. The full results follow: Team (first-place … Read more

Mercyhurst Women’s Assistant Critically Injured in Crash

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Kristen Cameron, an assistant coach at Mercyhurst, was listed in critical condition Monday after she was hit by a car while riding her bicycle on Sunday, the Erie Times-News reported. Kristen Cameron was an All-American at Bowdoin. Cameron, 25, is in her second season on the Lakers’ coaching staff. According to the newspaper, citing police, … Read more

DeGregorio Tabbed as CHA Commissioner

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Robert M. DeGregorio Jr., already the commissioner for Atlantic Hockey, will add the same duties for the CHA women’s league. Atlantic Hockey commissioner Robert M. DeGregorio is adding the CHA women’s league to his resume (photo: Ed Trefzger). “We want to place the management of our league in the hands of an experienced leader,” Niagara … Read more

Former Wayne State Player Frakie Dies

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Former Wayne State forward Brandi Frakie has passed away. She was 22. Brandi Frakie played for Wayne State from 2006 to 2009 (photo: Wayne State Athletics). Frakie, who played for the Warriors from 2006 to 2009, died Wednesday, according to an obituary in the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. She had 22 points (11 goals, 11 … Read more

Robert Morris Women Add Bittle to Staff

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Robert Morris has hired former Colonials men’s player Logan Bittle as an assistant coach with the school’s women’s team. After four years at Robert Morris from 2004 to 2008, Bittle played professionally in the ECHL and EPHL. “I am very excited to have Logan joining our program,” Robert Morris coach Nate Handrahan said in a … Read more

Granato to be One of First Two Women in Hall of Fame

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Cammi Granato, three-time ECAC Player of the Year, two-time Olympian and 15-year member of the U.S. Women’s National Team, was today announced as one of the first two female members in the 65-year history of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Granato will be formally inducted into the Hall on Nov. 8 as part of the … Read more

Icing Rule Gets Icy Reception

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The rule proposal was released, the coaches were repulsed and that’s it, right? Wrong. Nothing is finished in the case of the controversial proposed change to the icing rule. Brian Sullivan reports on how we got to this point and what comes next.

Contact to Head Crackdown Among Rules Changes

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The NCAA is getting tough on contact-to-the-head penalties and getting creative in an effort to promote scoring when it comes to other rules changes. Contact to the head will result in a major penalty and either a game misconduct or game disqualification under proposals by the NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee unveiled Friday. The proposals … Read more

Rule Book Headed for Change, But by How Much?

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The NCAA men’s and women’s ice hockey rules committee gets this chance only once every two years, so there’s a little more emphasis to get it right. In the next month, leading up to and through the committee’s meeting June 8-11 in Indianapolis, the dialogue about potential rules changes will lead to debate and then … Read more