College Hockey News

Chris Luongo has been named the new head coach at Alabama-Huntsville, replacing Danton Cole, who departed last month. Luongo has been the top assistant with the Chargers for the last two seasons, and becomes the fourth head coach in the program's history. “I am extremely excited about this opportunity and I want to thank Mr. Harris, and Dr. Williamsfor entrusting UAH Hockey to me,” ...

The controversial rule proposal that would call icing even when a team is shorthanded, has been pulled, according to the NCAA. However, the rule will be experimented with during exhibition games. The rule proposal, part of a complete package put forth by the NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee, was met with fierce opposition when it was announced, leading to the idea being revisited. All rules have ...

[[Michigan State]] has lost its third would-be senior this offseason after forward Corey Tropp signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Buffalo Sabres yesterday. Tropp had a comeback season in 2009-10, a year removed from a lengthy team suspension. He won team MVP honors and was named a second-team All-CCHA performer last season, with 20 goals and 42 points in 37 games. His numbers put him ...

Wisconsin defenseman Ryan McDonagh agreed to a contract with the New York Rangers on Tuesday, becoming the fifth Wisconsin Badger men’s hockey player to sign an NHL contract since the completion of the 2009-10 college season. McDonagh, who leaves school with one year of eligibility remaining, joins graduate Blake Geoffrion (Nashville) and three underclassmen – forward Derek Stepan (New ...

The NCAA has named the 2012 NCAA tournament Regional locations. Two of the sites will be repeats from the 2011 locations -- The Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Conn., and the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wis. Minnesota will host the West Regional, with the games being played at Mariucci Arena; and the Northeast Regional went to Holy Cross, with the games set for the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass. The ...

A Boston College student involved in a traffic accident with three members of the hockey team, has been absolved of the most serious charges against her. Jane Stanton was driving the hockey players and other students back to campus, when her SUV collided with an MBTA trolley on Boston's Commonwealth Avenue. Beer cans and vodka bottles were found in the vehicle, and the players fled from the scene. ...

No Americans were picked until No. 11, but with 11 of the last 20 picks in the first round, it broke the NHL Draft record for the United States. One-time Michigan recruit Jack Campbell, who helped lead Team USA to a gold medal at this year's World Junior Championships, was the first American or NCAA-bound player taken in this year's NHL Draft. He went No. 11 overall to the Dallas Stars. The ...

The case of prized recruit Matt Lindblad took another turn today. According to sources, Lindblad, making a lot of news in college hockey before ever playing an NCAA game, has decided to turn down [[Wisconsin]], and will attend [[Dartmouth]] after all. As widely reported last week (and commented on in our blog), Lindblad was a Dartmouth recruit who decided -- while being openly courted or not -- to ...

Most of the headlines about the 2010 NHL Draft will center on the battle for the No. 1 selection between Plymouth Whalers center Tyler Seguin and Windsor Spitfires left wing Taylor Hall. Assuredly it will be the toughest No. 1 selection since the 1987 NHL Draft when the Buffalo Sabres were forced to choose between Pierre Turgeon and Brendan Shanahan. However, lost in all the Tyler vs. Taylor hype ...

Alabama-Huntsville received another blow today when its head coach, Danton Cole, announced his resignation in order to be come head coach of the U.S. National Under-17 team in Ann Arbor. Cole, a Michigan State graduate and former NHL defenseman, has worked in the national program before, most recently as an assistant for the U.S. Under-18 Select Team at the 2009 Memorial of Ivan Hlinka Tournament ...

Paul Kelly is a few months now into his tenure as Executive Director of the fledgling College Hockey Inc., the marketing arm for college hockey -- its official ambassador, if you will. Kelly -- the former NHL Players Association boss, and a long-time trial lawyer in Boston -- deals with things that are too time-consuming, or too unwieldy, for the conference commissioners group to do. They have their ...

Don't expect the controversial new icing rule to become law. According to NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee chair Forrest Karr, avenues remain open that would remove that rule from the package of changes the Committee passed last week. And given the outcry that followed the announcement, expect those avenues to be taken advantage of. The feedback was forcefully and quickly negative last week, when ...

What may have seemed an interesting new wrinkle on the surface, will have widespread ramifications on the ice -- and coaches are not happy. You don't expect monumental landscape-changing rules to be enacted in college hockey, and the ones that have been proposed by the Rules Committee -- and likely rubber-stamped by the larger NCAA committee -- are mostly not, though they will have some interesting ...

The NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee will look to increase penalties for hits to the head, as part of this year's package of proposals it approved. The proposals get sent to the NCAA's Playing Rules Oversight Panel in July, which must consider and approve it before final implementation. One change that was not in the package, however, was one that would allow college hockey players to wear ...

The University of [[Michigan]], and its coach [[Red Berenson]], puts to rest any issue of Berenson's imminent retirement, announcing that they have reached agreement on a three-year contract that will run through the 2012-13 season. Berenson, who turned 70 last December, has coached at his alma mater for 26 seasons, winning national championships in 1996 and 1998. This past season, Michigan squeaked ...

For at least a couple of decades, the college hockey coaches have been essentially unanimous in their disapproval of full face shields or visors. First mandated in 1980-81 by the NCAA, the idea was to help prevent serious facial injuries. But coaches have long thought that it also made players more reckless, feeling they were invincible. That recklessness, the theory goes, has actually led to the ...

Wisconsin forward Derek Stepan is foregoing his final two years of college eligibility to sign with the NHL's New York Rangers. Stepan, who turns 20 next week, helped lead the Badgers to the NCAA Championship game last season as a sophomore, leading the team in scoring with 54 points in 41 games (12-42--54). He also captained Team USA to a gold medal in the World Junior Championships in January ...

Wisconsin forward Derek Stepan is foregoing his final two years of college eligibility to sign with the NHL's New York Rangers. Stepan, who turns 20 next week, helped lead the Badgers to the NCAA Championship game last season as a sophomore, leading the team in scoring with 54 points in 41 games (12-42--54). He also captained Team USA to a gold medal in the World Junior Championships in January ...

Maine goaltender Scott Darling will not be returning for his junior year, the Bangor Daily News reported. He intends to go to camp with the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes. According to coach Tim Whitehead, Darling, who was suspended late last season, failed to follow through on a number of "guidelines" the coaching staff had set for him to return. Darling, 21, performed well for the Black Bears ...

Miami forward Tommy Wingels has left school with one year of eligibility remaining, signing with the NHL's San Jose Sharks. Wingels, 22, was named the Best Defensive Forward in the CCHA last season, in helping lead Miami back to the Frozen Four. Wingels helped a defense that allowed a national low 1.95 goals per game. Wingels, a Wilmette, Ill., native, also had 17 goals this past season, and ...