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This Week in Hockey East: BU shows no lack of scoring prowess as it opens league play

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Boston University started its season 2-0 after wins over both Holy Cross and Union (Photo: Boston University athletics)

Now a seasoned veteran, Boston University sophomore forward Shane Lachance is thrilled to share the ice with highly touted freshman Cole Eiserman, even if that means fearing for his own safety a little bit.

“Sometimes it’s a little scary — he shoots it pretty hard,” Lachance said about Eiserman, a 6-foot-0 forward from Newburyport, Mass. “So if I’m standing in front, it might hit me a couple times but (he’s) just a great threat over there.”

For Lachance, and presumably the rest of the Terrier team, it’s worth the risk. Boston University is off to a 2-0 start this season and will open Hockey East play Friday night at home against Connecticut (7 p.m., ESPN-plus).

In a 4-1 win over Union (ECAC Hockey) last Saturday, the Terriers got a goal from each of its four lines, with no goal scorer older than sophomore. The Terriers got a goal apiece from Lachance and Eiserman, as well as Alex Zetterberg (freshman) and Jack Harvey (sophomore).

“We have a lot of depth up front,” said BU third-year coach Jay Pandolfo. “We have a lot of good forwards, a lot of talented forwards. All four of our lines are capable of contributing offensively.”

The Terriers’ scoring prowess will take pressure off goalie Mathieu Caron, but then again Caron’s play so far will take pressure off the scoring lines. So far Caron has made 65 saves, for a save percentage of .956 in two starts. Last year, Caron started all 40 games with a .915 save percentage and a goals-against average of 2.35.

“He’s been excellent,” Pandolfo said about his senior goaltender. “He’s got a ton of confidence. He’s got really high expectations for himself. He’s been really good.”

Caron’s proficiency in BU’s two games, including a season opening 5-2 win vs. Holy Cross (Atlantic Hockey), has not gone unnoticed by his teammates.

“In both those games, if Chewy wasn’t on his game in the first period, we could be looking at two different outcomes,” Lachance said. “Chewy’s been rock solid so far. He’s going to have to be going forward. To go far, to have success later in the year, you need a goalie to step up for you, and he’s been awesome so far.”

It hasn’t been all smooth sailing for BU. Following the win over Union, Pandolfo lamented what he saw as a sluggish start by the Terriers. Despite leaving the ice with a 3-0 lead, Pandolfo didn’t like the fact his team allowed 17 shots in the frame.

“We have to make sure we’re having better starts,” Pandolfo said. “(We) definitely need to tighten up. I like some of the things we’re doing, but we’re a little loose out there as a group.”

Lachance said he’s confident improvement on defense will come, and he’s not all that worried about BU’s potential to generate offense.

“We just have to keep doing that,” Lachance said. “We have to clean it up defensively. I think we’ve had a couple mistakes that can definitely be fixed. But those are kinks that you gotta iron out the first couple weeks. As we get going here we have to stop making those mistakes. But I think we’re always going to be a team that’s not struggling to score. Or at least I hope not.”

Given the Terrier’s fast start, you can’t blame the newcomers for enjoying the results.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Eiserman said. “You play the game because it’s fun. When you get to college hockey, that makes it even more fun. That’s something I’ll never forget — however many college games I play. The next one could be the last one. You never know how the game works.”

TMQ: Rehashing a fantastic weekend of hockey while also exploring some of the biggest issues like the CHL and NIL

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Michigan State celebrates a goal on Saturday in a 4-3 victory over Boston College that earned the Spartans a weekend split with the Eagles (Photo: Michigan State athletics)

Paula: Dan, it’s great to be back with you to talk college hockey in this season’s second installment of TMQ. Even though the season is young, there’s a good deal to dig into, both on and off the ice.

Last week, Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger began a discussion about the implications of the NCAA granting eligibility to Canadian major junior players and I’d like to hear your thoughts on that later in the column, but for our first conversation of the season, I’m throwing out the word that so many fans despise and so many coaches use: parity.

And, honestly, the conversation about the NCAA’s proposal and the P-word intersect, especially when terms like “blue bloods” and “elites” come into play.

What transpired on the ice this past weekend brings me to it, though. One week after Stonehill upset Merrimack, Lindenwood – a team with six wins last season – split with Wisconsin, a 4-2 win Friday and a 3-2 overtime loss Saturday. The Lions didn’t trail in that series and only lost when Daniel Laatsch scored the game-winner with 18 seconds to spare in OT.

On the other end of the PairWise spectrum (so to speak), Boston College and Michigan State split a pair of games in Munn Ice Arena, with each team exploding for three second-period goals in its win: 3-0 for BC on Friday, 4-3 for the Spartans Saturday.

There were 16 games decided by a single goal and four OT ties, several come-from-behind wins, and some other notable results, like Omaha beating Minnesota 2-1 in overtime for the Ice Breaker title and Merrimack shutting out Minnesota State 1-0.

Is this an early harbinger of a season that will produce many surprises and upsets? Is this a sign of some teams – from up and down conference standings – starting where they left off at the end of 2024-25? Or is it too early to make much of anything here?

Dan: Based on the child-based crash emanating from the other side of the wall, talking about college hockey is exactly where I’d like to be right about now, so welcome back to another wonderful season where you and I get to play hooky from our responsibilities while we talk about the best and fastest game on Earth.

I admittedly think it’s still way too early to make some predictions about the entire season, but the results this weekend forced me to check the national scoreboard a little more frequently than I fully expected. The dreaded parity word – the one that we’ve all come to both respect and abhor – played itself out in too many different ways. I know, for example, that I didn’t expect Rensselaer to drop 14 goals on Canisius across two games, and I certainly didn’t expect my Bentley Falcons to take New Hampshire to overtime one week after badgering a UMass team that went to overtime against Omaha in this week’s IceBreaker first round. That’s not to say anything about AIC taking Ohio State to overtime and a shootout after losing a 6-0 score to Maine in the first weekend.
Fiddling with expectations is a big part of what we do over the course of the season, but it’s also pretty difficult to simply write off or salt away the first couple of weekends when we know that the race to the national championship is already starting for Pairwise bubble teams. One thing we don’t know is who exactly that impacts, but there are far too many teams that face the end of their season because they dropped an unexpected loss or tie in October. One point here, two points there…they make a difference in conference races, and while there’s a tendency to laugh about the Pairwise (Union was No. 2 this weekend and Stonehill outranked Boston College on Saturday morning), the “don’t look at the standings until February” mentality shouldn’t and doesn’t permeate coaches and players who are increasingly emphasizing the need to win games at the start of the year.
Bottom line: don’t sweat results that occur in October but absolutely sweat results that occur in October.
But back to your original point about the CHL because Ed and Jim did a fantastic job outlining the overall vote and its upcoming impact on college hockey’s future. In particular, they talked about roster sizes and the “blue chip” aspect of players matriculating into college hockey – as well as how it could expand the game. I’m going to look at this a different way because I think this is an unintended impact of NIL’s overall takeover. I’ve spoken with too many coaches who talk about how NIL isn’t going away and how we’re seeing it “seep” into college hockey, and I’m getting pretty tired of looking at it as a future thing. As we’re seeing the wall crumble between college hockey and NIL, where do you stand on this as an overall impact because I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that the biggest difference between amateurism and professionalism is no longer valid? And what, pray tell, is college hockey going to look like in five years as players from the CHL make their way south?

Paula: As someone living at a latitude nearly identical to Niagara Falls, Ont., and about 78 miles northwest of Windsor, Ont., I think it’s cute that you see Canada a strictly northern proposition, Dan.

I’m also an easy drive between two Ontario Hockey League teams that play right here in Michigan, the Saginaw Spirit and the Flint Firebirds.

All chiding aside, that geographic perspective that echoes a kind of Canadian invasion is a fascinating metaphor for this moment in college hockey. There is a two-camps mentality at play here that I fall victim too as well, but I’m not sure that an either-or model holds up to scrutiny.

Players in the major juniors are still college-aged kids, and I don’t think that giving them NCAA eligibility differs much from the way current NCAA players are allowed to be drafted and remain NCAA eligible.

Yeah, I know that players in the major juniors are playing professional hockey – but they’re not getting rich doing so, and in many cases, they’re not being developed well. The Canadian major junior leagues have histories of lying to players about pay, bonuses, and reimbursement for college tuition should they forego the NCAA route for the major juniors.

I really dislike seeing people – especially young people – exploited for the profit of others.

That is why I’m fully behind the NIL. I understand the relationship between big collegiate sports programs like football and how smaller programs (fencing, wrestling) are funded, but exploiting student-athletes to do so is wrong.

There are too many people profiting from the play of young athletes – in the NCAA, in major junior hockey – who are not the athletes themselves. That’s what it really comes down to for me.

One potential area of worry for me is the continued manipulation of players who come to the NCAA from major junior hockey. These are players who will have had greater exposure to all of the people who want to exploit their careers. Not only will those individual student-athletes need protection from such exploitation, but so will the programs they enter.

The lines between amateur and professional are already blurred in sports in so many ways, and as an old lady, I’m surprised by how little that bothers me. What does trouble me is money. From betting culture to access, there are too many ways in which sports culture can be corrupted to profit individuals at the expense of collegiate players.

There’s more to this in my mind, too, but I’m still working to articulate it accurately. I’m not sure this I followed the way you were steering things, Dan, but that’s where I went.

Dan: That’s an interesting take. I’m not really sure where I was heading with this, but I really like the idea of hashing out the CHL vote in the framework of the kids’ ages. Also, for the record, anything west of the 128-Mass Pike interchange for a Boston-area guy is New York. The fact that I moved outside that exit and live in the same county as where I grew up – with its multiple orange line MBTA stops – made me recalibrate my whole geographic orientation in Massachusetts.

Shoutout the 24 people reading this who understood that sentence… also shoutout the Big Ten and NCHC fans who just imploded at me waxing poetic over New England in the fall.

Like you, I support NIL under its pretense while also harboring fear of exploitation of a system that feels a bit like the Wild West. I maintain that hockey is more unique because its NIL has to be viewed within a separate construct. A multitude of schools that aren’t Division I have enormous hockey programs while other schools with smaller D-I athletics departments play this particular sport at an incredibly high level. That’s all aside from the power conference schools that have full-blown, high-powered collectives capable of doling out much higher numerical values for its revenue-rich sports.
I don’t want that lost in my snarky commentary about the difference between the illusion of amateurism or professionalism. In the end, more hockey players can’t be a bad thing, but I still have such a hard time fully grasping that college athletes might make more money than CHL athletes that were paid lower-end stipends despite playing “professionally.” It’s almost comical to me that it got to that point, and it’s funnier still that there’s a conversation about what happens when we break down the walls. Sometimes I feel like I’m in the early 1900s and the American League and National League won’t play each other because one side is considered superior to the other.
I don’t know. This whole thing is just strange, and we’ll never quite know its full impact because of additional money allotted through cost-of-attendance or anything else. It’s just wild that we’ve finally gotten to this point.
As we get rolling here into late October, what’s on the menu for you in the next coming weeks for events and tournaments or conference openers? Any games of note that you’re circling on your calendar?

Paula: I hear you, Dan. It’s a weird new landscape that we’re navigating. So much has changed in recent years – the COVID eligibility, the portal, NIL, now the prospect of major junior players – and it’s quite dizzying.

One more thing before I leave this topic altogether. I’ve been hearing the term “blue bloods” bandied about, with Ohio State coach Steve Rohlik talking about it a little on the record last week and whispers about the term in other places.

I’ve never liked the idea of the “elites” in college hockey, the implication that some programs are better because of something inherent to their identity rather than to certain very real circumstances, and the term “blue bloods” kind of shakes me. From covering the old CCHA, I remember the disparity among big name and lesser-known programs within the same conference. While some programs in our tenure of covering DI hockey have remained perennial powerhouses, programs wax and wane – and not all schools are endowed with equal resources.

That is all I’ll say about that.

I also want to circle back to the AIC-Ohio State series. I think that the college hockey world in general saw that as a challenge for the Yellow Jackets, but I saw it as equally challenging for the Buckeyes. I think that series alone got my brain thinking about parity.

But to answer your question: there are a few series right within the conference I cover that I’m anticipating pretty eagerly.

Because the Big Ten is so small and there’s quite a bit of nonconference play for B1G teams in the first half, what happens in December may count a lot toward March and April.

I’m really looking forward to the Michigan State-Minnesota series Dec. 13-14 to end the first half and then the Frozen Confines games Jan. 3-4 at Wrigley Field. I see the Spartans as national contenders this year, and I’m pretty certain that Bob Motzko and his staff will have the Gophers in shape in no time, so what happens in Minneapolis in December may impact the Big Ten conference race.

Six of B1G Hockey’s seven teams will play a total of four games in Wrigley Field, something that will certainly draw attention to college hockey. Outdoor games that count are always interesting, so there’s that.

One single game that I’m looking forward to is Michigan State vs. Michigan Feb. 8 at Little Caesars Arena. I don’t think that people outside of the area where I live understand how big a deal this game is between the Spartans and Wolverines on NHL ice. Even before Michigan State began its rebuild, this game routinely drew enormous crowds, often selling out. It’s an event – and it’s a more meaningful one now because of the excellent work that Adam Nightingale and his staff have done at MSU.

Down the stretch, too, Ohio State has a chance to play spoiler as the Buckeyes end their season with series against Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.

How about you? What are you looking forward to?

Dan: You know, I’m going to go off the board here because I genuinely enjoy the simplest form of tradition. For me, it’s the same thing week-in and week-out, so getting that cup of coffee before a broadcast is one of those things that I miss when I’m not at the rink. I live for the postgame meet-up and the decompression in equipment rooms, and grabbing that caffeinated beverage in between periods or ahead of the opening puck drop cleanses my soul from the outside world. I know it’s cliche, but I feel like I’m home when I do it, like the year never really ended even as it’s starting anew.

Bauer takes over as Augsburg women’s hockey coach

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Augsburg has promoted Elizabeth Bauer to be its women’s hockey coach.

Bauer, who was an assistant coach for the Auggies in the 2023-24 season, replaced Michelle McAteer in the head coaching role. McAteer left Augsburg after 14 seasons to become WCHA commissioner.

Elizabeth Bauer

“I am extremely excited about the opportunity to take over as head coach for the women’s hockey program at Augsburg,” Bauer said in a news release. “I have had a wonderful mentor in Coach McAteer, who has helped build this program into what it is today, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for her and what she has done here.”

A former player at Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Bauer spent two seasons as girls hockey director for MAP Hockey, an elite offseason training center for hockey players in Minnesota. She also spent a year as a sports performance trainer and facility director at St. Croix Acceleration, a training center in Hudson, Wis., and was an assistant coach for the Team Wisconsin under-16 girls team.

“I have always known I wanted to be a head coach and am so grateful for this opportunity,” Bauer said.

Denver stays No. 1, North Dakota moves into top 5 of USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll

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Denver and Boston College stayed in the top two spots of the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll (photo: Jim Rosvold).

Denver strengthened its hold on the top spot in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll on Monday.

The defending NCAA champion Pioneers got 47 of 50 first-place votes and stayed No. 1 after an off weekend.

No. 2 Boston College and No. 4 Michigan State stayed put after splitting a nonconference series in East Lansing. Boston University also stayed at No. 3 following a win over Union.

USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll — Oct. 14, 2024

North Dakota entered the top five and Minnesota fell to No. 6. The Gophers lost the championship game of the Ice Breaker tournament to Omaha, which moved up from 15th to 12th. The Fighting Hawks defeated Providence in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game, sending the Friars from 13th to 14th.

Wisconsin had the biggest fall of the week, from No. 9 to No. 16, after it lost its season opener at home to Lindenwood on Friday and had to rally for an overtime win on Saturday.

The USCHO.com Division I Men’s Hockey Poll is compiled weekly and consists of 50 voters, including coaches and media professionals from across the country. Media outlets may republish this poll as long as USCHO.com is credited.

A great BC/Michigan State series at Munn, the Icebreaker, an upset win for Lindenwood: Weekend Review college hockey podcast Season 7 Episode 2

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Hosts Jim Connelly, Derek Schooley, and Ed Trefzger review games of the weekend and news of the week.

In this episode, we start with the top-billed Boston College vs. Michigan State series, Omaha’s icebreaker victory in Las Vegas and disappointing attendance. Other notable performances included Michigan’s series at Arizona State, which included a humorous social media exchange.

We also look at surprise victories like Lindenwood’s over Wisconsin, Merrimack’s bounce-back win against Minnesota State, and we touch on teams with strong starts including Notre Dame, Ohio State, and St. Cloud State.

A discussion on rule changes surrounding face-offs and major or minor penalties concludes the episode.

Times are approximate:

00:15 Introduction and Hosts
00:25 Boston College vs. Michigan State Recap
05:04 Omaha’s Icebreaker Win in Las Vegas
12:08 Michigan vs. Arizona State Highlights
21:00 Biggest Upsets and Disappointments
27:00 Early Season Successes
33:52 Officiating Changes and Challenges
37:43 Conclusion and Sign-Off

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Find our podcast archive at USCHO.com/podcasts

Monday 10: Boston College, Michigan State split top-five series, Lindenwood upsets No. 9 Wisconsin, Michigan Tech sweeps Alaska, Omaha wins IceBreaker

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Michigan Tech swept Alaska on home ice this past weekend (photo: Michigan Tech Athletics).14

Each week, USCHO.com will pick the top 10 moments from the past weekend in our Monday 10 feature.

1. BC, MSU split top five showdown

The most anticipated matchup of the weekend featured a big-time top-five battle in East Lansing between No. 2 Boston College and No. 2 Michigan State. The Eagles beat the Spartans 3-0 in Friday night’s game at Munn Arena thanks to three goals in the second period–two by Will Vote and another by Oskar Jellvik. But the Spartans turned the tables on Saturday night, winning 4-3 to earn the split. MSU rallied from deficits of 2-1 and 3-2, scoring three goals in the second period to earn the program’s 600th victory at Munn, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this season. Charlie Stramel scored two goals while Red Savage and Daniel Russel scored one apiece for MSU.

2. Big win for Lindenwood in Madison

Lindenwood pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the weekend and was an overtime period away from pulling off the impressive sweep, as the Lions beat Wisconsin 4-2 on Friday night in Madison. Jaeden Mercier scored twice while Alexander Lundman and Artyom Borshyov each added another goal for the Lions, who never trailed en route to earning their first-ever victory against a ranked opponent. On Saturday night, Lindenwood nearly pulled off the stunning sweep. Ethan Zielke and David Gagnon scored the first two goals for the Lions to take a 2-0 lead, but Wisconsin woke up late in the second period. Quinn Finley scored with less than a minute left in the middle frame then tied it up late in the third to send the game to overtime, where Daniel Laatch gave Wisconsin the game-winner with 18 seconds left.

3. Omaha wins IceBreaker

Omaha won twice in overtime to take the IceBreaker tournament championship in Las Vegas. The Mavericks beat UMass 3-2 on Friday behind a pair of goals from Zach Urdahl–who scored the game-winner. In Saturday night’s title game against Minnesota–a rematch of last season’s NCAA Sioux Falls Regional Semifinal game–junior goaltender Simon Latkoczy withstood a blizzard of shots from the Gophers to make a career-high 53 saves to backstop a 2-1 win. Minnesota’s Mason Nevers had given the Gophers a 1-0 first-period lead but Omaha battled back. Sam Strange scored shorthanded in the second period to tie it up before Jacob Guevin scored 54 seconds to win it for the Mavericks. UMass won the consolation title with a 5-1 victory over Air Force.

4. North Dakota drops Providence

North Dakota and Providence opened their regular seasons with the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game, but it was the Fighting Hawks who came away with the 5-2 victory in Grand Forks. The Hawks, who were stunned by Augustana in their exhibition opener a week ago, looked like they meant business against the Friars. Dylan James scored two goals, Abram Wiebe had two helpers and UND goalie T.J. Semptimphelter made his North Dakota debut with a 22 save victory. Braiden Clark and Hudson Malinoski scored for Providence.

5. Quinnipiac beats Penn State

No. 8 Quinnipiac jumped out to a lead against Penn State but then held on late to avoid the upset, ultimately winning 3-2 in Hamden, Conn., for their season opener. Jeremy Wilmer and Andon Cerbone scored in the first before Wilmer added another in the second period to give the Bobcats a 3-0. It appeared the rout was on, but the Nittany Lions made it interesting in the third. Ben Schoen scored less than a minute into the frame and Danny Dzhaniyev made it 3-2 six minutes later. Penn State kept pressing but couldn’t find the game-tying goal.

6. Merrimack blanks Minnesota State, earns split

A week ago, Merrimack was without an eligible healthy goalie and needed a student manager to step in to give them a chance against Stonehill. They lost 3-2 in overtime despite a heroic effort from Spencer Marquis in net. What a difference a week makes. This time, with goaltender Max Lundgren active and able to play against CCHA powerhouse Minnesota State, the Warriors gutted out a 1-0 road win on Friday to pull off the upset. Lundgren, a freshman from Sweden, made 28 saves in his collegiate debut. Tyler Young scored the lone goal for Merrimack to help Lundgren’s shutout hold up. But a sweep was not to be, as Minnesota State’s offense clicked on Saturday for a 4-1 victory. Four different Mavericks scored (Brenden Olsen, Rhett Pitlick, Luigi Benincasa and Brian Carrabes) and Alex Tracy made 18 saves for the series split.

7. RIT splits with Mercyhurst

One conference is off to an early start. Atlantic Hockey play kicked off already this weekend, with Mercyhurst splitting the series with defending AHA regular season champion RIT in Erie, Pa. On Friday, the Lakers took a 4-2 victory behind goals from Dominik Bartecko, Barrett Brooks, Sean James and Ryan Coughlin. Coughlin’s goal, which happened 59 seconds into the third period, turned out to be the game-winner as RIT battled back from down 3-0 after goals from Gustav Blom and Dimitri Mikrogiannakis. James’ empty-netter gave Mercyhurst a cushion and helped seal the win. On Saturday, Simon Isabelle scored twice along with Philippe Jacques and Tyler Fukakusa as the Tigers were on the front end of a 4-2 scoreline. Mercyhurst scored both of its goals on the power play, including one by Mickey Burns with less than two minutes left which cut the score to 3-2; Fukakusa’s empty-netter sealed the deal for RIT.

8. Michigan gets win, tie in desert

Garrett Schifsky’s hat trick powered Michigan to a 4-1 win over Arizona State on Friday night before the Sun Devils battled back to earn a 3-3 tie on Saturday night. The Wolverines, who are now 7-0-2 all-time against ASU, managed to win Friday’s game despite being outshot 36-34 and finding themselves on the penalty kill five separate times. They dominated the special teams battle, however–two of Schifsky’s three goals were shorthanded, while Michael Hage added a goal on one of Michigan’s two power plays in the game. Logan Stein stopped 35 shots to earn the victory. In Saturday’s game, a wild third period say Michigan take a 3-1 lead with goals from Hage and Philippe Lapointe, but the Sun Devils battled back to tie it in in the final minutes of the game. Noah Beck scored on the power play to make it 3-2, then 16 seconds later Cullen Potter’s shot from behind the blue line somehow found its way past goalie Cameron Korpi to tie things up at 3-3, which ended up as the final scoreline.

9. Notre Dame sweeps North Country road trip

Notre Dame opened its season with a pair of wins in the North Country, beating St. Lawrence on Friday and Clarkson on Saturday. Against the Saints on Friday, Cole Knuble’s two goals highlighted a 4-1 win. A pair of transfers also had big games in their Notre Dame debuts: Minnesota Duluth transfer Blake Biondi scored in the second period while former Mercyhurst netminder Owen Say made 31 saves. In Saturday’s game, a four-goal third period helped the Irish rally past Clarkson 5-2. The Golden Knights took a 2-0 lead in the first period with goals by Jared Mangan and Tristan Sarsland. But Notre Dame scored five unanswered to earn the win. Knuble made it 2-1 in the second frame before the Irish exploded in the third. Michael Mastrodomenico, Hunter Nelson and Danny Nelson each scored in the first 11 minutes of the final period; Justin Janicke ended it with four minutes left when a Clarkson shot bounced off his shin and slid the length of the ice into the empty Golden Knights net. Nicholas Kempf stopped 30 shots for Notre Dame.

10. Michigan Tech starts off October right

After going 0-for-October in 2023, Michigan Tech started 2024 on a specific mission: Make sure they get off to a solid start on the season. This weekend’s results would indicate a success. The Huskies swept visiting Alaska with a pair of 2-1 victories in their nonconference series. On Friday night, Max Koskipirtti scored 15 seconds into the game for Tech, but the Huskies had trouble solving Nanooks goaltender Nicholas Grabko, who made 26 saves. Matt Koethe scored for Alaska in the second period and the 1-1 score held until overtime, when Elias Jansson scored three minutes into 3-on-3 overtime for a victory. On Saturday, the Huskies won by the same scoreline but this time no overtime was needed. Stiven Sardarian and Chase Pietila scored in the first period for Tech, as did Alaska’s Chase Dafoe, but that was all the offense in the game. Michigan Tech, after having All-American goaltender Blake Pietila in net for five years and 142 games, seems to have found a solid backstop this season in Max Vayrynen, who made 15 saves on Friday and 29 on Saturday to improve to 2-0-0.

Women’s Division I College Hockey: Weekend Wrap October 14, 2024

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(3) Minnesota Duluth at (1) Wisconsin 

Read Saturday’s recap here. On Sunday, the Badgers used the power of a three-goal second period to pull away from the Bulldogs and earn a weekend sweep. Lacey Eden opened the scoring, tapping home a loose puck after Tindra Holm made the initial save on an Emma Venusio shot from the blue line. Nina Jobst-Smith responded for the Bulldogs with a wrister from the high slot to tied the game 1-1. Early in the second, Maggie Scannell one-timed a drop pass from Hannah Halverson to extend the lead to 2-1. Marianne Picard’s stick handling earned her the third goal and KK Harvey added a shot from the point on the power play to extend Wisconsin’s lead to 4-1. A minute before the second intermission, Olivia Mobley found a spot similar to Jobst-Smith to net her own wrister and pull the game to 4-2. Scannell scored her second of the day, putting away her own rebound and Cassie Hall drove hard to the net just more than a minute later to put the Badgers ahead 6-2 before five minutes had elapsed in the third. Mobley scored a beauty of a shorthander to make it 6-3, but the Bulldogs could not close the gap. UMD had a long power play on a major that was 5-on-3 for a time and they pulled Holm, but could not cut into the deficit. Laila Edwards’ shorthander on the empty net closed out the 7-3 win and weekend sweep. 

(2) Minnesota at (4) Ohio State

The Buckeyes celebrated their 2024 National Championship before Friday’s game and after earning a 4-3 win, celebrated coach Nadine Muzerall’s 200th coaching win. Joy Dunne opened the scoring with a nice shot from the faceoff dot, but Abbey Murphy equalized for the Gophers less than two minutes later on a breakaway to make it a 1-1 game. It looked like that’s how the period would end, but Jocelyn Amos was able to bury a rebound with about 30 seconds left in the first to make it 2-1 Buckeyes at the first break. Kiara Zanon’s second period power play goal was a product of OSU’s puck movement and she lit the lamp to make it 3-1. Emma Kreisz made it a one-goal game early in the third and the Gopher looked to put the pressure on OSU, but Jenna Buglioni scored seven seconds into a power play to extend the lead to 4-2. Minnesota pulled their goalie and were able to capitalize with the extra attacker with nine seconds to play, but they ran out of time as the Buckeyes took the 4-3 win. Things were a little less offensive in the second game. Ohio State scored four minutes in when Jocelyn Amos made the Gophers pay for several missed attempts to clear the puck. But then the teams would play 40 minutes of scoreless hockey. Josefin Bouveng tied the game for Minnesota early in the third, but neither team could find an advantage in the incredibly even match that saw Minnesota make 14 blocks to Ohio State’s 14 and 29 shots to OSU’s 30. Overtime didn’t decide a winner and it took six rounds of the shootout for Amos to end the game to give the Buckeyes five of six points on the weekend. 

Robert Morris at (5) Clarkson

Clarkson swept their weekend, but left their scoring until late this weekend. On Friday, it was a three-goal third that led to the win as Baylee Kirwan, Andie Proulx, Jenna Goodwin and Shelby Laidlaw each lit the lamp to lead Clarkson to a 4-0 victory. In the second game, it was two goals in the final nine minutes that secured the win. Sena Catterall scored late in the second to make it 1-0. Goodwin added a power play goal midway through the third and Rebecca Morissette added the empty-netter to ensure the victory.  

(7) Colgate at RIT

It took the Raiders much of the first period to find their footing on Friday, but when they did, they were able to quickly build a lead. Avery Pickering and Kalty Kaltounková each scored late in the first to put Colgate up 2-0. Just 26 seconds into the second Kaia Malachino added to the lead to make it 3-0. RIT responded with a power play goal from Emma Pickering to cut the lead to 3-1, but that’s as close as it would get as Kaltounková scored her second and Sara Stewart lit the lamp to close out the 5-1 win. Things got more interesting on Saturday, with 15 penalties called. Elyssa Biederman served a five minute major midway through the second and Gwen Eichfeld was given a major and game misconduct later in the frame. All in all, the Raiders accumulated 30 minutes in penalties and played just 10 minutes of the first two periods with five skaters on the ice. But RIT was just 1-for-7 on the power play. The scoring opened with an extra attacker goal from Biederman to make it 1-0. Kylie Aquaro’s power play go in the second tied the game 1-1. Brac Kelley gave the Tigers their first lead of the weekend with an intercepted pass and backhanded shot for her first collegiate goal. Casey Borgiel replied for Colgate during another power play to tie the game 2-2 with about eight minutes left in regulation. An errant poke check proved fortuitous for Bronwyn Khangsar, who was trailing the play and was left a perfect opportunity that she one-timed into the net to give RIT a 3-2 lead. Addie Alvarez’s empty-netter secured the Tigers’ 4-2 upset victory.

(15) Mercyhurst at (8) St. Lawrence

Taylor Lum deflected a puck into the net in the second to give St. Lawrence the lead in the opening minutes of the second period and that’s all the Saints would need to take down the Lakers. Melissa Jeffries added to the lead in the third and Hillary Sterling’s empty-netter secured a 3-0 win. Mercyhurst came out strong in the second game as Vanessa Upson forced a turnover deep in Saints territory and fed Thea Johansson for an early goal. SLU was able to respond in the second as Claire Tyo picked off a puck in the neutral zone and sent it to a rushing Tori Verbeek, who carried it to the net and put it top shelf to make it a 1-1 game. The teams looked destined to head to overtime, but St. Lawrence captain Anna Segedi gave her team the lead with just 95 seconds left on the clock. Jeffries passed to Segedi in the slot and despite a fight for the puck with the Lakers’ defense, Segedi was able to backhand it into the net for not only the game-winner, but her 100th career point. 

(9) Connecticut at New Hampshire

UConn used four second-period goals to propel themselves to a 5-1 win on Friday. Jada Habisch scored the lone goal in the first. Brooke Campbell scored 86 seconds into the second, Claire Murdoch added another a few minutes later, Kyla Josifovic made it 4-0 later in the second and Habisch got her second of the game to send the Huskies to the locker room with a 5-0 lead. Addy Finn’s goal in the waning seconds ruined the shutout to get UNH on the board. Maya Serdachny and Murdoch scored in the second on Saturday and that’s all UConn needed to get the win and weekend sweep. 

(11) St. Cloud State at Bemidji State

Sophomore Alice Sauriol had a weekend, scoring two of St. Cloud’s goals on the weekend – both game-winners – to help the Huskies to their best start to a season in program history. SCSU is now 6-0 thanks to a 1-0 win Friday in which Sauriol scored short-handed, picking up a misplayed puck at the blue line and racing down the ice. On Saturday, freshman goaltender Emilia Kyrkkö earned her second shutout in her second career start. Sauriol’s goal in the second came on a rush with Sofianna Sundelin. Sauriol’s fore-hand, back-hand stick moves made it a 1-0 game. Avery Farrell’s empty-netter secured the 2-0 win and weekend sweep. 

(12) Penn State at Union

Seven different Nittany Lions tallied a point on Friday as PSU took a 4-2 win over Union. Katelyn Roberts scored the lone goal of the opening frame. Union responded early in the second to tie the game 1-1 on a goal from Stephanie Bourque, but the teams would trade goals all period. Alyssa Machado quickly put Penn State ahead again before Karianne Engelbert tied it at 2-2. From there it was all Tessa Janecke as the national team star scored late in the second and again in the third to earn the win for the Nittany Lions. On Saturday, PSU roared out to a 3-0 lead in the first with goals from Lyndie Lobdell, Nicole Hall and Maddy Christian. But Union’s Maddie Leaney was not ready to let Penn State walk away with it as she scored in the second and early in the third to cut the lead to 3-2. It was Machado who answered for the Nittany Lions, scoring twice in 14 seconds to stretch the lead to 5-2 and put the game out of reach. Engelbert scored once more for the Garnet Chargers, but Penn State took the win and sweep

Boston University vs. (13) Northeastern

The home team prevailed in this home and home series between two Boston foes. On Friday, Northeastern freshman Éloïse Caron scored twice while Holly Abella and Ella Blackmore each lit the lamp once to lead the Huskies to a 4-0 win. Paige Taborski had 26 saves in the shutout. On Saturday, the Terriers got their revenge as Lola Reid gave BU the lead in the first. Riley Walsh doubled it to 2-0 early in the third and then Sydney Healey and Clara Yuhn each scored on the empty net to secure the 4-0 win and weekend split. Boston University goalie Callie Shanahan made 25 saves to earn the team’s first shutout of the season. 

St. Michael’s at Post

Special shoutout to Julia Chedel and St. Michael’s. Her power play goal on Saturday was the only tally, giving St. Michael’s their first program win since February 2022. Post won the first game in the weekend series 4-0 thanks to goals from Julia Wysocki, Jodie Rose, Macy Peterson and Celena Mickevicius.

Rankings roundup: How the top 20 NCAA hockey teams fared, Oct. 11-12

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Omaha won two games in OT en route to the 2024 IceBreaker championship (photo: Omaha Athletics).

Here is a rundown of how the top 20 teams in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll of Oct. 7 fared in games over the weekend of Oct. 11-12.

No. 1 Denver (2-0-0)
Did not play.

No. 2 Boston College (1-1-0)
10/11/2024 – No. 2 Boston College 3 at No. 4 Michigan State 0
10/12/2024 – No. 2 Boston College 3 at No. 4 Michigan State 4

No. 3 Boston University (2-0-0)
10/12/2024 – Union 1 at No. 3 Boston University 4

No. 4 Michigan State (3-1-0)
10/11/2024 – No. 2 Boston College 3 at No. 4 Michigan State 0
10/12/2024 – No. 2 Boston College 3 at No. 4 Michigan State 4

No. 5 Minnesota (1-1-0)
10/11/2024 – Air Force 1 vs No. 5 Minnesota 7 (IceBreaker, Las Vegas, Nev.)
10/12/2024 – No. 15 Omaha 2 vs No. 5 Minnesota 1 (OT, IceBreaker, Las Vegas, Nev.)

No. 6 North Dakota (1-0-0)
10/12/2024 – No. 13 Providence 2 at No. 6 North Dakota 5 (US Hockey Hall of Fame Game)

No. 7 Cornell (0-0-0)
Did not play.

No. 8 Quinnipiac (1-0-0)
10/12/2024 – RV Penn State 2 at No. 8 Quinnipiac 3

No. 9 Wisconsin (1-1-0)
10/11/2024 – Lindenwood 4 at No. 9 Wisconsin 2
10/12/2024 – Lindenwood 2 at No. 9 Wisconsin 3 (OT)

No. 10 Michigan (2-1-1)
10/11/2024 – No. 10 Michigan 4 at RV Arizona State 1
10/12/2024 – No. 10 Michigan 3 at RV Arizona State 3 (OT)

No. 11 Maine (1-0-0)
10/12/2024 – Army West Point 0 at No. 11 Maine 5

No. 12 Colorado College (2-0-0)
10/11/2024 – Northern Michigan 3 at No. 12 Colorado College 4 (OT)
10/12/2024 – Northern Michigan 1 at No. 12 Colorado College 6

No. 13 Providence (0-1-0)
10/12/2024 – No. 13 Providence 2 at No. 6 North Dakota 5 (US Hockey Hall of Fame Game)

No. 14 Massachusetts (2-1-0)
10/11/2024 – No. 14 Massachusetts 2 vs No. 15 Omaha 3 (OT, IceBreaker, Las Vegas, Nev.)
10/12/2024 – Air Force 1 vs No. 14 Massachusetts 5 (IceBreaker, Las Vegas, Nev.)

No. 15 Omaha (2-0-0)
10/11/2024 – No. 14 Massachusetts 2 vs No. 15 Omaha 3 (OT, IceBreaker, Las Vegas, Nev.)
10/12/2024 – No. 15 Omaha 2 vs No. 5 Minnesota 1 (OT, IceBreaker, Las Vegas, Nev.)

No. 16 St. Cloud State (3-0-0)
10/11/2024 – RV Bemidji State 3 at No. 16 St. Cloud State 4
10/12/2024 – No. 16 St. Cloud State 3 at RV Bemidji State 2

No. 17 Western Michigan (2-0-0)
10/11/2024 – Ferris State 1 at No. 17 Western Michigan 4
10/12/2024 – No. 17 Western Michigan 5 at Ferris State 1

No. 18 Northeastern (1-0-0)
10/12/2024 – Stonehill 1 at No. 18 Northeastern 5

No. 19 Minnesota State (2-2-0)
10/11/2024 – Merrimack 1 at No. 19 Minnesota State 0
10/12/2024 – Merrimack 1 at No. 19 Minnesota State 4

No. 20 Notre Dame (2-0-0)
10/11/2024 – No. 20 Notre Dame 4 at RV St. Lawrence 1
10/12/2024 – No. 20 Notre Dame 5 at RV Clarkson 2

RV = Received Votes

Women’s Division I College Hockey: (1) Wisconsin takes 5-1 win over (3) Minnesota Duluth

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MADISON — The top-ranked Wisconsin women’s team survived their first tough test of the season, defeating (3) Minnesota Duluth in convincing fashion Saturday afternoon, skating away with a 5-1 win. 

The Bulldogs came into Saturday’s game with three wins over top 10 opponents already, including a sweep of then top-ranked Ohio State. They’d also won three of the last four meetings at LaBahn Arena.

UMD is very good at clogging up the front of the net and getting in passing lanes and showed that to still be the case in the first period, intercepting Wisconsin passes and keeping the Badgers from moving the puck at will.

But the Badgers were prepared and their final four goals came as the result of a more fast-paced, rush-based offensive push that was in stark contrast to the puck possession game that has been their standard for much of Johnson’s tenure. Instead of settling in the zone and tiring the defense out with long stretches of possession, the Badgers looked for long outlet passes and odd-player rush situations.

After a Laila Edwards power play goal midway through the first period opened the scoring, sophomore Laney Potter doubled Wisconsin’s lead on one such rush that started with a breakaway by Kelly Gorbatenko. Potter used her long stride to skate past the defense to catch up to Gorbatenko and be open in front of the net for the pass. Taking the pass on the backhand, Potter moved the puck to her forehead and picked the far upper corner to make it 2-0 Badgers.

Potter led the Badgers on Saturday with two goals and an assist. The young defender had just four goals and 16 points in 41 games last season, but has six points through five games to start her second year.

Coach Mark Johnson said Potter is playing more confidently after spending time this summer at US National Team camp. Potter agreed that feeling more comfortable has helped her trust her speed, size and instincts, which was evident in her first goal.

Johnson was overall fairly happy with his team and liked that they were challenged as well as how they responded, though he hopes his squad will do a better job of protecting the puck in Sunday’s second game of the series.

His team was occasionally shaky on the blue line, including a series of bad decisions by Katie Kotlowski and Ava Murphy that led to UMD’s goal, which cut the lead to 2-1 at the time.

Midway through the second, some up and down the ice play meant Grace Sadura was just outside the Bulldogs’ offensive zone as Hannah Baskin picked up the puck deep in her own end and sent a long outlet pass for Sadura. Kotlowski read the pass, but did not get enough of her stick on it. The loose puck fell to Danielle Burgen. UW’s Ava Murphy also missed the clear and that put Burgen and Sadura in alone on net. Burgen fed Sadura to make it a 2-1 game. 

Wisconsin responded quickly with another rush as KK Harvey carried the puck from her own end up the right side and threaded a pass through the slot to Cassie Hall who was at the back post to tap it in and make it 3-1.

Potter’s second came on what was initially an unsuccessful rush from Marianne Picard and Sarah Wozniewicz. Eve Gascon made the initial save, but the puck sat in the crease and Potter, who was trailing the play, used her long reach to push the puck in net past UMD defender Nina Jobst-Smith.

In the waning seconds of the game, Wisconsin made one last push as Potter intercepted a the puck in front of her own net. Gorbatenko picked it up and started down the ice, laying the puck off to Casey O’Brien, who drew the defender wide, leaving Gorbatenko open for the pass and easy redirect into the net to secure the 5-1 win.

Minnesota Duluth out-shot the Badgers 34-29 for the game. Gascon made 18 saves while UW’s Ava McNaughton had 31, including 17 in the third period.

The teams return to the ice at 2 pm central time Sunday. The game will be streamed on BTN+.

 

 

 

SATURDAY COLLEGE HOCKEY ROUNDUP: No. 4 Michigan State gains split with No. 2 Boston College, No. 6 North Dakota drops No. 13 Providence, No. 8 Quinnipiac edges Penn State, No. 9 Wisconsin gets by Lindenwood in OT, Arizona State rallies late to tie No. 10 Michigan

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Daniel Russell scored what proved to be the game-winning goal Saturday night for Michigan State (photo: Michigan State Athletics).

Michigan State avenged a 3-0 loss Friday night to Boston College as the No. 4-ranked Spartans came from behind Saturday night and downed the second-ranked Eagles 4-3 at Munn Ice Arena in East Lansing, Mich.

Charlie Stramel scored two goals for MSU, while Trey Augustine finished with 32 saves between the pipes in the win, also Michigan State’s 600th career win all-time at Munn Ice Arena.

Red Savage and Daniel Russell also scored for the Spartans and Isaac Howard added a pair of assists.

For BC, Gabe Perreault, Ryan Leonard and Lukas Gustafsson scored, with Oskar Jellvik chipping in two assists and Jacob Fowler stopping 25 shots in goal.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024-25, Munn has hosted 955 Spartans games, and MSU holds a 600-282-73 record in its home facility all-time. Members of the 1974-75 MSU hockey team – the first team to play at Munn – were on hand for the weekend festivities to kick off the anniversary year.

POLL | SCOREBOARD

No. 6 North Dakota 5, No. 13 Providence 2 (U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game)

Dylan James scored twice for North Dakota as the Fighting Hawks beat Providence 5-2 at the annual U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game from Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, N.D.

Cameron Berg, Jayden Perron and Sacha Boisvert added goals for North Dakota and TJ Semptimphelter made 22 saves in goal.

Braiden Clark and Hudson Malinoski netted the Friars’ goals and goalie Philip Svedebäck finished with 26 saves.

No. 8 Quinnipiac 3, Penn State 2

Jeremy Wilmer scored twice and Andon Cerbone a single gave the Bobcats a 3-0 lead by the 1:06 mark of the second period, and Quinnipiac held on for a 3-2 win over Penn State at the M & T Bank Arena in Hamden, Conn.

Ben Schoen and Danny Dzhaniyev scored for the Nittany Lions, Aiden Fink assisted on both, and Arsenii Sergeev made 19 stops in goal.

No. 9 Wisconsin 3, Lindenwood 2 (OT)

After losing 4-2 in the opener Friday night, Wisconsin rebounded with three unanswered goals in a 3-2 overtime win over Lindenwood at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis.

Quinn Finley scored at 19:25 of the second period and then at 14:29 of the third period before Daniel Laatsch won it for the Badgers at 4:41 of OT.

William Gramme made 15 stops between the pipes for the Badgers.

Ethan Zielke had a goal and an assist and David Gagnon also scored for the Lions with Owen Bartoszkiewicz finishing with 42 saves.

No. 10 Michigan 3, Arizona State 3 (XXX wins the shootout)

With goaltender Gibson Homer on the bench for the extra attacker, Noah Beck scored at 19:00 and then Cullen Potter 15 seconds later to bring Arizona State into a 3-3 tie on home ice at Mullett Arena in Tempe, Ariz.

The Sun Devils then won the shootout after nothing was settled in overtime.

Tyler Duke, Philippe Lapointe and Michael Hage found the net for Michigan and Cameron Korpi made 28 saves in goal for the Wolverines.

Dylan Jackson also scored for the Sun Devils and Homer stopped 31 shots in goal.

No. 16 St. Cloud State 3, Bemidji State 2

Austin Burnevik, Barrett Hall and Colin Ralph scored to lead SCSU to a 3-2 win and weekend home-and-home sweep over Bemidji State at the Sanford Center in Bemidji, Minn.

Isak Posch made 23 saves in goal for the Huskies.

Will Magnuson and Jackson Jutting scored for BSU and netminder Mattias Sholl turned aside 22 shots for the Beavers.

No. 3 Boston University 4, Union 1

Four different players scored for BU – Shane Lachance, Alex Zetterberg, Cole Eiserman and Jack Harvey – and Harvey added an assist for a two-point game as the Terriers defeated Union 4-1 from Agganis Arena in Boston.

In goal for BU, Mathieu Caron finished with 36 saves.

Parker Lindauer scored Union’s goal and Kyle Chauvette finished with 40 saves.

No. 12 Colorado College 6, Northern Michigan 1

Ty Gallagher posted a goal and two assists and Gleb Veremyev, Max Burkholder and Philippe Blais-Savoie each had a goal and an assist to lead CC to a 6-1 win over Northern Michigan at the Ed Robson Arena in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Noah Laba tacked on four assists and Stanley Cooley and Drew Montgomery also tallied for the Tigers, who got 11 saves from goaltender Kaidan Mbereko.

Ryan Duguay registered the lone Wildcats goal and Ethan Barwick made 30 stops in the NMU crease.

No. 17 Western Michigan 5, Ferris State 1

Western Michigan earned the weekend home-and-home sweep with a 5-1 win over Ferris State from Ewigleben Arena in Big Rapids, Mich.

Owen Michaels scored twice and Matteo Costantini, Cam Knuble and Grant Slukynsky also tallied for the Broncos. Hampton Slukynsky stopped 28 shots in goal for WMU.

Cole Burtch scored for Ferris State and goaltender Noah West made 27 saves.

IceBreaker Tournament

At the annual IceBreaker Tournament, held this year at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, the consolation game saw No. 14 UMass defeat Air Force 5-1.

Cole O’Hara scored twice, Nick VanTassell, Aydar Suniev and Lucas Olvestad one each and Michael Hrabal finished with 33 saves in goal.

Chris Hedden scored the Falcons goal and goalie Guy Blessing stopped 31 shots.

The championship game pitting No. 5 Minnesota against No. 15 Omaha was not complete as of this post. The Gophers and Mavericks were scoreless midway through the first period.

FRIDAY COLLEGE HOCKEY ROUNDUP: No. 2 Boston College blanks No. 4 Michigan State, Lindenwood upsets No. 9 Wisconsin, Merrimack shuts out No. 19 Minnesota State, No. 15 Omaha edges No. 14 UMass in OT at IceBreaker

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Will Vote scored two goals Friday night in BC’s 3-0 win at Michigan State (photo: Take Your Shot Photography).

Second-ranked Boston College scored three goals during the second period en route to a 3-0 victory over No. 4 Michigan State in its season opener on Friday evening at Munn Ice Arena in East Lansing, Mich.

Will Vote opened the scoring less than two minutes into the second period. Lukas Gustafsson took a shot from the point and Vote tipped the puck from the front of the net past MSU goalie Trey Augustine to put the Eagles ahead 1-0.

BC pushed the lead to two midway through the second when Vote tallied his second goal of the night. James Hagens forced a turnover in the neutral zone with Vote picking up the loose puck. Vote and Hagens did a quick give-and-go and Vote fired in his second goal of the game.

Oskar Jellvik made it 3-0 with under 30 seconds to go in the second frame. Ryan Leonard found Gabe Perreault, who immediately found Jellvik in front on the right side of the net to put it home.

Jacob Fowler made 24 saves in the contest to earn the shutout while Augustine made 26 for the Spartans.

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Lindenwood 4, No. 9 Wisconsin 2

Jaeden Mercier scored two goals to lead Lindenwood to a 4-2 upset win over Wisconsin at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis.

Artyom Borshyov and Alexander Lundman also scored for the Lions to back the 34-save outing from goaltender Owen Bartoszkiewicz.

Gavin Morrissey and Ryland Mosley scored the Badgers’ goals and Tommy Scarfone stopped 15 shots between the pipes.

Merrimack 1, No. 19 Minnesota State 0

Tyler Young’s goal at 16:51 of the first period was the game’s only goal as Merrimack downed Minnesota State 1-0 on the road at the Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center in Mankato, Minn.

Merrimack goalie Max Lundgren made 27 saves for the shutout.

For the Mavericks, Alex Tracy finished with 20 stops in goal.

No. 10 Michigan 4, Arizona State 1

Garrett Schifsky recorded a hat trick to lead Michigan over Arizona State at Mullett Arena in Tempe, Ariz.

Michael Hage also scored for the Wolverines and Logan Stein made 35 saves in goal.

For the Sun Devils, Ty Jackson scored and goaltender Gibson Homer turned aside 29 shots.

No. 15 Omaha 3, No. 14 UMass 2 (OT)

In the opener of the annual IceBreaker Tournament, Zach Urdahl’s second goal of the game at 4:05 of overtime gave Omaha a 3-2 win over UMass at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.

Aydar Suniev’s goal at 18:34 of the third period brought UMass into the 2-2 tie before Urdahl won it for the Mavericks in the extra session.

Jacob Slipec also scored for UNO and Simon Latkoczy made 24 saves in goal.

Lucas Mercuri tallied the other Minutemen goal with Michael Hrabal collecting 21 saves between the pipes.

The second game of the IceBreaker, No. 5 Minnesota vs. Air Force, was still in progress as of the time of this post.

No. 16 St. Cloud State 4, Bemidji State 3

Thor Byfuglien’s goal at 6:11 of the third period stood as the game winner and St. Cloud State held on the rest of the way to take a 4-3 decision over Bemidji State at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, Minn.

Auston Burnevik popped a pair of goals for the Huskies and Ethan AuCoin also scored in the win as goalie Isak Posch made 30 saves.

For the Beavers, Carter Randklev scored twice and Eric Martin added a goal of his own. Mattias Sholl finished with 19 saves in the Bemidji State crease.

No. 17 Western Michigan 4, Ferris State 1

In a battle of former (previous) CCHA foes, four different players scored for Western Michigan as the Broncos beat Ferris State 4-1 at Lawson Ice Arena in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Iiro Hakkarainen, Joona Väisänen, Ty Henricks and Zach Nehring found the net for WMU and Cameron Rowe stopped 17 shots in goal.

Caiden Gault netted the lone Ferris State goal and goaltender Noah West made 40 saves.

Looking at five non-conference matchups, ‘pizza money’ bet, as season gets rolling: USCHO Edge college hockey podcast Season 3 Episode 1

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USCHO Edge hosts Jim Connelly, Dan Rubin, and Ed Trefzger look at money lines and over/under for five games (plus one) on October 11, 2024:

  • Michigan -188 @ Arizona State +145; over/under 6.5
  • Boston College -135 @ Michigan State +105; o/u 6.5
  • Omaha -105 vs. UMass -125; o/u 5.5
  • Minnesota Duluth -195 @ UMass Lowell +150; o/u 5.5
  • American International +175 @ Ohio State -230; o/u 6
Our “pizza money” game:
  • Ferris State +450 @ Western Michigan -720; o/u 6

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Former St. Cloud State, Robert Morris women’s hockey player Hall tabbed new assistant coach for Union women’s hockey team

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Courtney Hall has been named an assistant coach with the Union women’s hockey team.

Prior to Union, Hall played with the Robert Morris women’s hockey team in 2023-24 as a graduate student and played in 29 games for the Colonials while receiving her master’s degree in business administration and a certification in project management.

Hall was a four-year member of St. Cloud State team from 2019 to 2023, skating in 86 games while tallying nine goals and 20 assists for 29 points.

Hall brings additional coaching experience, having worked the 18U national women’s development camp, as well as with Detroit’s Little Caesars, Selects Hockey, and the Husky Pups. She is a certified USA Hockey CEP Level 2 coach.

Hall graduated from St. Cloud State in 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in general business.

Omaha hockey coach Gabinet signs contract extension, will stay with Mavericks through 2027-28 college hockey season

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Omaha coach Mike Gabinet is a proponent of athletes having a routine (file photo: Omaha Athletics).

Omaha head coach Mike Gabinet has signed a contract extension, keeping the leader of the men’s hockey program tied to the Mavericks through the 2027-28 season.

The third head coach in Omaha hockey history, Gabinet enters his eighth campaign leading the Mavericks in 2024-25.

“We are excited to have reached an agreement with Coach Gabinet which will extend his time at UNO. During his tenure, Maverick hockey has become a staple in the national polls, appeared in multiple NCAA tournaments while achieving unprecedented feats in our program’s history over the past several seasons,” said Adrian Dowell, vice chancellor/director of athletics at Omaha, in a statement. “As our industry experiences unprecedented change, more than ever, our organization values this program’s productive stability built on competitive and academic success, development and culture. We look forward to the continued rise of Omaha hockey under Mike Gabinet’s leadership.”

A 2004 graduate of Omaha, Gabinet returned to his alma mater in 2016 as the associate head coach before becoming the bench boss in time for the 2017-18 season.

The first alumnus to serve as head coach of the storied hockey program, Gabinet has led the Mavericks to tremendous accomplishments on the rink, in the classroom and in the Omaha community.

“I am incredibly grateful for the continued support and belief Chancellor [Joanne] Li and Adrian [Dowell] have in myself and our program,” said Gabinet. “I take great pride in seeing the success our student-athletes have achieved on and off the ice and am excited to continue building on the momentum we have gained over the last few years. It takes a community to truly succeed in this ever-changing NCAA landscape and I would like to sincerely thank all of the donors, fans and staff who have stood alongside us on this journey. I am excited for this upcoming season on the new Kemp Ice at Baxter Arena.”

Under his tutelage, Omaha hockey has finished with a winning record in four-consecutive seasons, the most in program history. The team has earned berths in the NCAA tournament twice in the last four campaigns and last season, advanced to the NCHC Frozen Faceoff and conference championship game for the first time in program history.

A successful recruiter and proven developer of talent, Gabinet’s Mavericks have produced numerous alumni who have gone on to sign NHL contracts with three making their NHL debuts in the last two seasons.

A 2001 draft selection of the Los Angeles Kings, Gabinet played professionally in North America and Europe before turning to coaching in 2012.

This Week in NCHC Hockey: Former Omaha coach, administrator Kemp has ice surface at Baxter Arena named in his honor as ‘chills put down your spine’

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Mike Kemp, fourth from left, takes part in the Kemp Ice dedication ceremony last Saturday at Baxter Arena in Omaha (photo: Bonnie Ryan).

Strange as it sounds for someone who has been associated with Omaha hockey for nearly three decades, Mike Kemp briefly but purposefully stayed away from the Baxter Arena ice after it was put in for the new season.

The Mavericks’ former coach of 12 years and later an executive associate athletic director at UNO, Kemp retired in May. However, he has stayed on part-time as a special advisor for hockey and facility administration to Adrian Dowell, the university’s AD since 2021.

Among Kemp’s current duties are attendance at meetings with NCHC officials and liaising with organizers like those at the Ice Breaker Tournament this weekend in Las Vegas, where UNO will face Massachusetts on Friday and either Minnesota or Air Force on Saturday.

In April, it was announced that the Baxter Arena hockey playing surface would be named Kemp Ice. A dedication ceremony for that was held Saturday, ahead of the Mavericks’ exhibition game against Wisconsin.

“I’d been in town for a few days once they put the ice in, and I was in the arena but would not go out into the bowl of the arena to look at it,” Kemp said of the wording that includes his surname around the center circle, as well as his signature located on the ice near one of the blue lines.

“I wanted to wait until the day we were going to have a public scrimmage (on Sept. 22), and I took the elevator to the press box and looked down from there, and it put chills down your spine. You look at it and go, ‘Wow, this is really happening. This is really out there.’”

Around 40 of Kemp’s guests were at Saturday’s game and dedication ceremony. Among those in attendance were Kemp’s wife and two daughters as well as extended family, plus the widow of former Wisconsin coach Jeff Sauer, under whom Kemp served as an assistant before becoming Omaha’s first head coach. Also on hand was former Denver, Miami and Minnesota AD Joel Maturi, who was a sports administrator for hockey at Wisconsin when Kemp worked there.

“Everybody was at the same hotel, and we had a sneak peek for family and friends on Friday night at the arena, where my wife and daughters set up a big display in the club room,” Kemp said. “People could go out on the ice and take pictures, and we got the grandkids out and I skated there with them on Friday night. We did a lot of things to make it a whole weekend.

“It was incredibly humbling. It’s not something that happens to many people, and to have your name on the building like that, a part of the building that will always be there, it’s something that is extra special.”

Kemp is making the most of his extra free time these days. He visited his family’s lake house in northern Wisconsin this summer and got several rounds of golf in this week alone in Omaha before he and the Mavericks left for Nevada on Wednesday afternoon.

“I’ve been back in town since the middle of September, and I’ve been at the arena almost every day, but it’s show up, have a cup of coffee, talk with people, see what’s going on, maybe make a suggestion here and there, get in the car and go home,” he said. “It’s one of those things where, 48 years of working in college athletics, it’s kind of hard to quit cold turkey.

“And it was appropriate that Wisconsin was our exhibition opponent. (Current UNO coach) Mike Gabinet was working on getting an exhibition game, and certainly worked with (Wisconsin coach) Mike Hastings to make this happen. Mike (Hastings) had been in Omaha virtually the whole time I was coaching, he was coaching the (USHL’s Omaha) Lancers while I was coaching the Mavs, and he spent a couple years on our staff. It was so nice that he would do that for us and do that for me.”

Going forward, Kemp will continue to not take his longevity and legacy for granted.

“Guys in coaching don’t necessarily stay someplace this long, and I was just blessed with being able to be fairly consistent in coaching,” he said. “I had five years at Gustavus (Adolphus), one year at Illinois-Chicago, 14 at Wisconsin. We didn’t have to move around a lot, and didn’t have to uproot our family.

“Then, to have the opportunity here that I had when I stopped coaching to go into administration and still impact our athletic department as basically the AD for facilities and being able to have an impact on the conversion of our (former) football stadium into one of the best soccer pitches in the country, the development of our academic center in our fieldhouse and then the opportunity to be designing on Baxter Arena, how many times do you get to have that kind of impact on so many different levels?

“I’ve been very fortunate that way. We came here in 1996, not expecting that Omaha would be home for the rest of our lives, and lo and behold, it’s going to be.”

This Week in CCHA Hockey: Minnesota State prepping for league schedule with nonconference slate that ‘goes a long way to get us started’

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Brian Carrabes looks to be a go-to player for Minnesota State this season (photo: Kenzie Schmidt).

During the CCHA’s annual preseason video conference, Minnesota State head coach Luke Strand had stressed how important it would be for the Mavericks to go and challenge themselves in their nonconference schedule this season.

“Our out of conference play, it’s a tough schedule. It’s supposed to be that way. I made it that way for the idea that we don’t want to have a layup,” Strand said back in September.

And there are truly no layups on the Mavericks’ schedule this season. In addition to the tough CCHA slate, they also host Merrimack, North Dakota and Omaha in nonconference play. But the series on the schedule with the highest degree of difficulty was the season opener. The Mavericks would have to go into Yost Ice Arena in Ann Arbor for the first time in program history to take on Michigan, a perennial powerhouse coming off back-to-back-to-back Frozen Four appearances.

On paper it looked very tough: more like a deep three-pointer than a layup. But it turns out, the Mavericks have more than enough shooters to score from deep against the top teams. Minnesota State stunned the top-ten-ranked Wolverines with a 5-2 win in the first game of the series. Michigan got the Mavericks back 4-1 in the second game, but the final scores weren’t necessarily as important as the on-the-ice play.

“To start the year with that opponent and their program, it was very important for us to play against them,” Strand said of Michigan. “And you want to go and do well. I think interestingly enough, both coaches agreed, maybe they may play better Friday than we did and they didn’t get the win, and vice versa on Saturday. But for us to get off the right foot and just get going, get guys opportunities was really important.”

A quick look at the scoring sheet for Minnesota State perhaps proves that the Mavericks are more than ready to overcome the losses of Sam Morton and Lucas Sowder in the offseason. The two combined for 37 goals last season and were the two main cogs of the MSU offense. However, against Michigan last weekend the Mavericks managed to get goals from six different players. Not only that, but the scoring came in the form of forwards and defensemen, from Maverick veterans, from transfers and from freshmen.

“I really liked the depth scoring–really just the depth play in general. A year ago, maybe we landed on one or two guys, with Sam Morton and Lucas Sowder doing more of the heavy lifting on that side. But if we can keep getting scoring that is spread through our lineup, get the defensemen involved, it’ll just go a long way for our group. And he can’t check every line, so if you check one, somebody else can step up.”

The list of Minnesota State goalscorers against Michigan is as follows: senior forward Brian Carrabes, sophomore forward Brett Moravec, transfer forward Rhett Pitlick, freshman defenseman Luke Ashton, junior forward Adam Eisele and transfer forward Luigia Benincasa. In all, 11 players got on the scoresheet with either a goal or an assist offensively. Strand credits this mentality to a strong culture on a team that returned almost everyone with eligibility remaining.

“I think a lot of credit goes to our returning players. You know, it’s Year 2 for myself, I think the staff and I, we want to teach, and we really want to put an emphasis on our players coaching each other and helping one another,” Strand said. “I think when you get a returning group that’s quality people, but also guys that got their handful of opportunities a year ago, it goes a long way to get us started, and now we’ve got to keep stacking days to make sure we’re going the right direction and stay in the right direction.”

Another characteristic of this Mavericks team that Strand hopes to see much more of going forward: Being opportunistic with their scoring. A majority of MSU’s goals on Friday were scored as the direct result of capitalizing on Michigan mistakes. Any team that buries more of those chances has a much better chance of winning.

“On Friday, we were opportunistic with our opportunities, but we probably had better looks on Saturday and they didn’t go in the back of the net,” Strand said, noting that in Friday’s game the Mavericks were outshot 34-23, but in Saturday’s game they had the 25-18 shots advantage. But to beat good teams and go head-to-head with teams, you’re going to have to show some maturity and patience and take care of opportunities when they present themselves. That’s an important piece of how we want to play here, it showed up, fortunately for us on the score sheet on Friday, but unfortunately on Saturday, it didn’t.”

This Week in ECAC Hockey: Last season for Union at Messa Rink means visitors ‘going to have great memories’ with excitement brewing for new rink in 2025-26

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Messa Rink at Achilles Center is Union’s home rink (photo: Union Athletics).

College hockey rinks aren’t the same anymore.

They aren’t the old barns built during the 1970s.

They’re more antiseptic and devoid of character than the old buildings lacking heat or modern comfort, but they represent the soul and fabric stitched by generations of slap shots and millions of body checks. Even ones owned by corporations captured the no-frills of on-campus homes with wooden ceilings and austere bench seating.

Yet if you asked me – and nobody really did – those older arenas represent the best traditions of hockey’s more spartan-like days. They soaked and oozed the blood and sweat of players who skated hours in eras without opulent team rooms or electronic film studies. They were dirtier and dingier, but they were home to memorable characters at a time before the circus atmospheres of the modern day.

They remain imprinted on those of us who watched the game within their not-so-cozy confines, but they’re often remembered more for their nostalgia than anything else. Almost all of them are obsolete by modern college hockey standards, and they’re often replaced by bigger arenas with required trappings for the modern skater.

Old places are dying off, and even in ECAC, the conversation around a league with five of the oldest arenas in college hockey is unavoidable after Union College announced its intention to leave the 50-year-old Frank L. Messa Rink at Achilles Center after the 2024-25 season to occupy the new, 2,200-seat arena being built at the Mohawk Harbor Events Center.

“For me, my [college] career ended at that rink,” commissioner Doug Christiansen told Ken Schott of the Daily Gazette during the ECAC preseason conference call. “So I know a lot of people will be coming back through, [and] depending on how old they are, as they come back through that rink, they’re going to have great memories. But I will also say that having seen where the new building is going to be and seeing where it stands now, there’s a lot of things to look forward to.

“A new building in our league is great, and it’s obviously somewhere that everybody is going to look forward to playing in the future.”

ECAC is the home of college hockey’s most historic buildings, but Messa and Union in general illustrate the spirit and rhythm associated with growing a program from humble roots. Its grand reopening in 1975 started at the Division II level after Ned Harkness returned to the Capital District following a disastrous stint with the Detroit Red Wings, but the building’s first official game as the Achilles Center in December of that year came when the then-Dutchmen defeated Salem State with a 9-6 victory.

Ten years later, battles against RIT dotted six different postseason matchups across three different seasons, during which the burgeoning rivalry with the Tigers parried the ECAC West championship alongside the national title during Division II’s collapsing years in the mid-1980s. Having moved to Division III, Union hosted the 1985 championship round before Army’s departure from the Division I ECAC conference opened a void filled in 1991 by Bruce Delventhal’s Dutchmen.

“When they announced they were going to Division I, then-President Roger Hall said that they were not going to treat the program any differently, and it was going to be treated like all the other program on Union’s campus, which were all Division III,” noted Schott. “So that meant no scholarships and no help whatsoever, which is why it was amazing when Union made the postseason during its third year of Division I hockey. They took RPI to three games in the quarterfinals, but it wasn’t until Nate [Leaman] came in, having seen what Shawn Walsh did at Maine and what Mark Mazzoleni did at Harvard without scholarships that they started developing.”

Through it all, the Achilles Center remained a constant presence. In 1992, a 3-2 win over Vermont offered the first-ever home victory as a Division I team before the 1993-94 team sealed its aforementioned playoff berth with a 5-1-1 record in its last seven home games. Three years later, the 1996-97 team went 12-3-2 was undefeated after a mid-December loss to Harvard, after which the 2000-01 team went 10-5-2 opposite a 2-13-1 record in road games.

That level of periodic success proved to Union that the team could consistently compete, and a $1.5 million renovation gift from alumnus Frank L. Messa renamed the arena after its benefactor for the 2003-04 season. Handed a new lease and a new head coach in Leaman, a steady build finally brought a home playoff series to its ice sheet in 2004 before the upward trajectory and breakthrough handed Union its first-ever first-round bye in 2008. A first-time trip to the conference semifinals followed, and the first regular-season championship in 2011 dangled the first-of-its-kind national tournament banner from its rafters before Rick Bennett brought the team to the Frozen Four ahead of its national championship win in 2014.

“Nate had to educate the Union staff and faculty of what it took to be committed to Division I hockey,” Schott remarked, “and slowly but surely, they were able to get more help in the financial aid department. They were able to get more players, and they were able to start building them and helping them because they were treated like a Division I program.”

That level of investment finally outgrew the rink in the aftermath of college hockey’s exploding construction. Like so many other buildings throughout the landscape, an arena built in the 1970s failed to capture the infrastructure of the shiny, more glittery buildings. Since 2010, renovations across the entire ECAC landscape produced improvements at nearly every other school, with Cornell separately announcing construction of a new indoor sports facility after renovating Lynah Rink in the mid-2000s.

For its part, Union understood that it couldn’t stand still, but the exploration of a new building at the Mohawk Harbor facility created an offer capable of changing the program’s overall face after the NCAA voted to allow the Division III school to, like RIT, offer scholarships for its Division I hockey programs. Three options, according to university president David Harris, existed: build an on-campus facility, renovate the new building, or lease the new events center located just beyond the college’s geographic footprint.

“The Mohawk Harbor option provides us the best option,” he wrote in a 2022 letter to the campus community, “and because expenses are shared with other parties, it is also the most cost-effective option.”

Just like that – and with two years of efforts to ensure construction – the first new ECAC hockey arena since Colgate opened the Class of 1965 Arena in 2016 put its shovel into the ground. Like the Raiders’ exit from Starr Rink, an old friend serving a community for decades was left without a known future, and another relic from an older age of college hockey was lost to the history books.

In so many ways, a new arena benefits a community and an area, and the greater Schenectady area is teeming with open economic possibilities after reinventing itself over the past two decades. Yet to lose its older identity is, in a way, to say goodbye once more to a time when college hockey played its games along the boards and dashers of buildings with a wooden roof and dark, no-back stands. The old days are gone, even as opportunity peeks its eyes around the corner.

Former Geneseo player, Wisconsin-Stout assistant coach Vit hired at Omaha as Mavericks’ director of hockey operations

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Omaha has appointed Zach Vit as director of hockey operations.

Vit joins Omaha after serving as the associate head coach of the Bishop Kearney Selects 18U team for three seasons. During the 2021-22 season, Vit was the assistant coach for the Bishop Kearney Selects 16U team that won the USA Hockey national championship.

“I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to join Coach [Mike] Gabinet’s staff as the director of hockey operations at the University of Nebraska at Omaha,” said Vit in a news release. “I am excited to contribute to a program with a rich tradition and to work alongside passionate individuals dedicated to excellence in hockey and developing our student-athletes.”

“It has been great to have someone with his experience join our program,” added Gabinet. “He is a big addition to not only me, but our staff. We are excited to work with him beginning this season.”

Vit served as an assistant coach at Wisconsin-Stout in the 2021-22 season, played a year of professional hockey in France, and played collegiately at Geneseo, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in communication.

Former Long Island, Mercyhurst, UMass Lowell goalie Metcalf joins LIU men’s hockey staff as new assistant coach for Sharks

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Garrett Metcalf played goal for Mercyhurst, UMass Lowell and LIU during his NCAA career (photo: Ric Kruszynski/Mercyhurst Athletics).

The Long Island men’s hockey team has added Garrett Metcalf as an assistant coach.

The former 2015 NHL Draft pick of the Anaheim Ducks brings a bevy of experience to the growing program.

Originally from Salt Lake City, the former goaltender joins a hockey program that has increased its win total every season under head coach Brett Riley. Metcalf also was a member of the inaugural LIU men’s hockey team and picked up the win in net in their first game, a 3-2 overtime victory over Holy Cross.

“I’m very grateful for the opportunity to return to LIU as a member of Brett’s staff,” said Metcalf in a statement. “This program had a significant positive impact on my life and career and to see how far the program has come since its inception is incredible. I’m excited to bring my experience back to LIU and help these student-athletes become the best versions of themselves. It’s exciting to think about what the next five years will bring.”

During his playing days in college, the former Sharks goaltender was a Mike Richter Award nominee for the best goalie in college hockey. He was the first LIU hockey player to sign a professional contract, as well as reach the AHL and pick up wins in the AHL and ECHL. Metcalf is also the first previous player from the program to return as a member of the staff.

In addition to LIU, Metcalf played for UMass Lowell and Mercyhurst.

Arizona State’s Powers talks Sun Devils, CHL eligibility, roster sizes, series with Michigan: USCHO Spotlight college hockey podcast Season 7 Episode 1

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