Opening Shift: Andre Lee ‘turning into a complete player’ and more NCAA takeaways
Throughout his 11-year career as UMass Lowell’s head coach, Norm Bazin has constantly preached playing a hard-nosed, “Lowell Style” of hockey. The River Hawks strive…
College Confidential: Harvard ‘dying to get going’ as return to play nears
Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League finally will play games that count starting Friday. Coach Ted Donato, understandably, says his team is “dying…
College Confidential: Marc McLaughlin’s leadership bolsters stacked BC squad
Boston College’s Marc McLaughlin isn’t an in-your-face captain. He’s more of a lead-by-example guy. And that’s just what he did on Sunday, showing the way…
College Confidential: Nate Leaman faces a challenge at U.S. world juniors evaluation camp
Like nearly everything else in this crazy year, the evaluation process for the team that will represent the United States at the 2021 World Junior…
Defenseman Jack Rathbone leaves Harvard for Vancouver Canucks
Jack Rathbone’s signing with the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday represented the first real casualty of Harvard’s inability to compete in college athletics until at least…
Massachusetts vs. Minnesota, Part 3: Hope for Bay State hockey
In Part 2, we examined how one former Boston collegiate standout found greener hockey pastures for his family in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. In…
Massachusetts vs. Minnesota, Part 2: A ‘second wave’ of development
Burned by the system Mike Sylvia (Newton, Mass.) is a former Boston University hockey star. A three-sport athlete at Catholic Memorial, he came to BU…
Massachusetts vs. Minnesota, Part 1: A hockey model gone awry
How the mighty have fallen. Massachusetts, the once-proud breeding ground of Olympic, NHL and Division 1 college hockey stars, has lost its place atop the…
World juniors: USA Hockey adds Ted Donato, other coaching staffers
USA Hockey announced the four assistant coaches for the U.S. National Junior Team that will compete in the 2021 World Junior Championship in Edmonton and…
Providence hires Beal, Eagles land commit
The college hockey coaching carousel continues to turn this off-season. Providence College head coach Nate Leaman is set to hire Joel Beal as the new…
Around Campus: BU commit, Harvard hires assistant, coaching searches continue
We're still two months out from the 2018-19 college hockey season commencing, but New England-based programs are nonetheless making moves on the recruiting trail and…
2018 Hobey Baker Memorial Award finalists announced
The 10 finalists for this year’s Hobey Baker Memorial Award were announced Wednesday afternoon. The award, given annually to college hockey’s top player, will be…
