ECAC Hockey, ESPN+ announce eight-year extension for streaming rights through 2028-29 college hockey season

ECAC Hockey announced today it is extending its rights agreement with ESPN+ to stream more than 350 games each season through 2028-29. Every regular-season and post-season game (conference and nonconference) hosted at an ECAC Hockey venue will be streamed on ESPN+ with no blackout restrictions. That includes the annual women’s championship, and men’s championship in … Read more

LIU tabs Long Island native, Brown graduate Kromm to women’s hockey coaching staff

LIU announced Wednesday the addition of Erica Kromm to the women’s hockey coaching staff as an assistant coach. Kromm, a Long Island native, joins the program after a nine-year professional playing career in Canada and several coaching stints. “We are incredibly excited to have Erica join our coaching staff,” LIU head coach Rob Morgan said … Read more

Brown women’s hockey completes staff under Ruzzi, names Simpson, Newkirk assistant coaches

Brown has announced the addition of Justin Simpson and Makenna Newkirk as assistant coaches for the Brown women’s hockey team. Simpson comes to College Hill after serving the 2020-21 season as an assistant coach for RIT. Prior to coaching the Tigers, Simpson spent two seasons in the same role at Colby. Prior to Colby, Simpson … Read more

Women’s DI Hockey: 2020-2021 season preview

In the before times, the best case scenario for season previews was to give somewhat educated guesses. Those guesses came from watching teams last season, watching many of the incoming freshmen in U-18 World Championships and looking at how teams’ schedules might benefit or hurt them. Most of that isn’t available to us this year. … Read more

ECAC Hockey to start 2020-21 play with Clarkson, Colgate, Quinnipiac, St. Lawrence

Nearly nine months after the abrupt end to the 2019-20 college hockey season, ECAC Hockey will officially commence its 2020-21 campaign this weekend. Clarkson, Colgate, Quinnipiac, and St. Lawrence will represent the league this year, as the other eight ECAC Hockey members announced they will not compete due to COVID-19 concerns. RPI and Union announced … Read more

Ivy League, which includes men’s, women’s ECAC Hockey teams, cancels winter sports

The Ivy League released an announcement Thursday evening cancelling the hockey seasons for men’s and women’s hockey. Consistent with its commitment to safeguard the health and wellbeing of student-athletes, the greater campus community and general public, the Ivy League Council of Presidents has decided that league schools will not conduct intercollegiate athletics competition in winter … Read more