April 17, 2024
NCAA Adopts New NIL, Transfer Rules
Policy Does Little to Address Their 'Wild West' Nature
CHN Staff Report
The NCAA's Division I Management Council has adopted some new rules regarding NIL (name, image, likeness) deals.
It also adopted new transfer policy rules, ones that the courts had already said were required anyway. ...
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The NCAA's Division I Management Council has adopted some new rules regarding NIL (name, image, likeness) deals...www.collegehockeynews.com
Holy Cross, UMass Lowell, Michigan Tech, Omaha to play in inaugural Coachella Valley Cactus Cup in Palm Springs, Calif., Jan. 3-4, 2025
By USCHO Staff-April 15, 2024
Acrisure Arena, home to the AHL’s Coachella Valley Firebirds, an affiliate of the NHL’s Seattle Kraken, will host the Coachella Valley Cactus Cup 2025 men’s college hockey series.
Holy Cross, UMass Lowell, Michigan Tech and Omaha will play in Palm Springs, Calif., next Jan. 3-4.
The event starts Jan. 3 with Holy Cross taking on Omaha at 3:30 p.m. and Michigan Tech playing UMass Lowell at 7 p.m. PT. The action continues Jan. 4, with two more games starting at the same times. The losers of both Friday matches will compete at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, and the winners will face off at 7 p.m. on Saturday. ..
Presales will be open to the respective teams, students, and alumni from Tuesday, April 16, from 1o a.m. to Thursday, April 18, at 10 p.m. All other fans can participate in the presale from Thursday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Tickets go on sale to the general public starting Friday, April 19, at 10 a.m. PT at ticketmaster.com.
Notes from the Women's Portal: Ohio State starts its offseason reload
Fresh off winning the 2024 national title, the Buckeyes haven't wasted any time in recruiting from the transfer portal. Other teams have started to make a splash as well.
By Sydney Wolf
Today at 11:24 AM (Apr. 18, 2024)
While the men's transfer portal has been exploding in recent weeks with now over 300 current player entrants, the women's portal has been a bit quieter.
Almost all of the athletes that intend to transfer have already entered the portal on the women's side and the overall number of names on the list hovers around 120 on The Rink Live Portal Tracker. A few more players will definitely throw their names in the ring later, but a majority of players have entered, so now it's just simply a waiting game of seeing where these players end up. ...
Find out more about the latest commitments and entries from across the NCAA in Division I women's hockey ...
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That sounds like a condItion set by the NHL, not the NCAA.The Lightning board needs a clarification.
Eamon Powell plans to stay in school for his fifth year. CapFriendly is showing that Powell needs to be signed August 2024 in order to keep him.
Do teams get to keep the rights to players who opt for a fifth year?
I fairly certain that an NCAA player has to be signed within 3 years or they become a free agent, I think the timeframe for CHL is 2 years.That sounds like a condItion set by the NHL, not the NCAA.
And I'm fairly certain that the Lightning board denizens have long since become distracted by other essential matters. But we're here to help them, on a rare occasion.I fairly certain that an NCAA player has to be signed within 3 years or they become a free agent, I think the timeframe for CHL is 2 years.
NCAA rules panel approves tweaks to checking from behind, contact to head
The changes were proposed last month before being approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel on Thursday.
By Trent Singer
Today at 3:59 PM
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved an adjustment to the rules for checking from behind and contact to the head Thursday, providing game officials additional options when adjudicating these penalties in men's and women's hockey for the 2024-25 season.
The new adjustment provides guidance and additional levels of penalty options when enforcing them.
It strengthens rules regarding clear violations of contact to the head to include a major penalty and at least a game misconduct or disqualification. ...
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The changes were proposed last month before being approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel on Thursday.www.therinklive.com
June 21, 2024
Clarkson Turns to Alum J.F. Houle as Next Coach
by Mike McMahon/Staff Writer ...
Laval Rocket head coach Jean-Francois Houle, a Clarkson alum, has been named the next head coach of the program. Houle replaces Casey Jones, who resigned last week to become the head coach-in-waiting at Cornell.
Houle had been mentioned as a candidate, but he felt like a longshot only because he just signed a three-year extension to continue as the head coach of Montreal's AHL affiliate. Given his success in developing players for Montreal, he's been mentioned as a possible successor to Martin St. Louis at some point or as a future NHL head coach somewhere else. ...
Houle has a son who is playing lacrosse at nearby SUNY-Potsdam, and he's been living in Plattsburgh, N.Y., which commuting to Laval, in order to be in between. So all of that may have factored into Houle's decision.
Houle was an assistant at Clarkson from 2003-10, when he left to become the head coach of the Lewiston MAINEiacs in the QMJHL. Houle then spent three seasons as the head coach of the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada (QMJHL) from 2011-14. He was named the head coach of the Laval Rocket in 2021. ...
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June 26, 2024
Shyiak Returns to Northern Michigan as Head Coach
CHN Staff Report
MARQUETTE, Mich. — Dave Shyiak, a member of the 1991 Northern Michigan national championship team, is returning to his alma mater as head coach. ...
Shyiak comes back to NMU after serving as an assistant at St. Cloud State most recently, and at Western Michigan before that. Shyiak was head coach at Alaska-Anchorage from 2005-13.
Shyiak played four seasons with the Wildcats (1987-91), where he helped captain the 1991 National Championship team and was a member of both the 1989 and 1991 WCHA Playoff championship teams. Shyiak returned to Northern to begin his coaching career as an assistant (1995-2002) under Comley before being promoted to associate head coach for three seasons (2002-05).
Shyiak was in the mix the last time there was an opening, when Grant Potulny was hired in 2017. Potulny recently stepped down relatively late in the offseason, setting off an exodus of players and recruits that will at least temporarily set the program back ...
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Stefan Decosse promoted to head coach at Colgate
Decosse has already been with the Raiders for nearly 10 years, serving as an assistant coach. He'll take over for previous bench boss Greg Fargo, who recently took a job in the PWHL.
By Sydney Wolf
July 09, 2024 at 4:53 PM
HAMILTON, N.Y. — Colgate announced Tuesday that longtime assistant coach Stefan Decosse has been promoted to head coach of the women's hockey program.
Decosse, 37, started with the Raiders in 2015-16 as a volunteer assistant coach before taking over as a regular full-time assistant coach in 2016-17. He has remained with the program ever since. ...
A native of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Decosse amassed a 202-69-20 overall record during his time as an assistant coach with the Raiders, and he helped lead the team to two NCAA Women's Frozen Four appearances and four ECAC championships. During his time as a coach in New York, Decosse has worked in recruiting, player development and as a program liaison. ...
Read more at: Stefan Decosse promoted to head coach at Colgate | TRL
Laura Schuler finally getting her shot as head coach at UMD
Schuler has been named head coach of the Minnesota Duluth women's hockey program, the team her predecessor says 'she was made to be the head coach of' after a decade of service to UMD.
By Matt Wellens
July 10, 2024 at 1:32 PM
DULUTH — Nine years after being passed over for the job, Laura Schuler is head coach of the five-time national champion Minnesota Duluth women’s hockey team.
The interim tag was removed from Schuler’s title on Wednesday when the school named her the third head coach in the 25-year history of UMD women’s hockey. She was given the interim head coach position on May 31 after Maura Crowell announced she was leaving the Bulldogs after nine years to become head coach of Dartmouth. ...
Schuler returned to Duluth in 2021 to work under Crowell, and over the last three seasons has helped the Bulldogs to a 74-36-8 record with three NCAA tournament appearances. UMD was a win away from winning a sixth national championship in 2022. Schuler has helped UMD reach six NCAA tournaments and three NCAA Frozen Fours in her 10 seasons with the Bulldogs. ...
Read more at: Laura Schuler finally getting her shot as head coach at UMD | TRL
"That’s why we wanted to add another team when Augustana was coming forward because they’re a school that’s all in,” Lucia said. “They already have their rink built. They’re already eligible for the NCAA tournament. St. Thomas does not have a rink built, and they are not eligible for the NCAA tournament for a few more years.
“They’re a much more ready-made program today than what we’re losing."
I'm not picking up the bitterness that you're attributing to Mr. Lucia. I'm seeing Mr. Singer cherry-picking Lucia's words from a previous context to support the narrative of his TRL opinion piece.... Commissioner Don Lucia's comments are certainly bitter...
Army, Penn State to meet in Capital Hockey Classic in December
Ken McMillan
Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record
Published 2:36 p.m. ET July 17, 2024 | Updated 3:53 p.m. ET July 17, 2024
The Army hockey team will provide an outstanding appetizer to the annual Army-Navy football game.
In the shadow of The Pentagon military headquarters and two days prior to the football clash in nearby Landover, Maryland, Army will take on Penn State on Thursday, December 12, at Capital One Arena, home of the NHL's Washington Capitals. The event is the inaugural Capital Hockey Classic. ...
Time and ticket information for the Capital Hockey Classic will be announced in the coming months.
... Penn State is coached by Guy Gadowsky, whose son, Mac, plays for West Point and was an Atlantic Hockey all-rookie selection. ...
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Fair point, there is some editorial nature to the article.I'm not picking up the bitterness that you're attributing to Mr. Lucia. I'm seeing Mr. Singer cherry-picking Lucia's words from a previous context to support the narrative of his TRL opinion piece.