2022-23 NCAA Division I Hockey Thread

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Once the previous year's Frozen Four events are on the record books & the rink lights are turned off, it's never too soon to start the chat for the following Division I seasons (men AND women). But at least one-body has leaned forward while I was resting on my Div I forum laurels, so I will start this thread with links to '22-'23 posts in other threads to get the new party officially started ...
 
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On the women's DI news side, Northeastern has announced next year's team captains ...

Women’s Hockey Announces 2022-23 Captains​

5/5/2022

BOSTON— Head coach Dave Flint of the Northeastern women's hockey team has announced the captains that will comprise the 2022-23 leadership group for the team. Alina Mueller was named captain, while Mia Brown, Megan Carter and Maureen Murphy will serve as assistant captains. ...

All four Huskies have helped lead Northeastern to a remarkable stretch on Huntington Avenue, including back-to-back trips to the Frozen Four and five-straight Hockey East titles. ...

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I came off the Frozen Four fully expecting to enter the next season with a renewed interest in watching college hockey (especially with the Hawks likely stinking next year), but Illinois rained on that parade in a big way for me. I know that even without their announcement that a varsity program wasn't going to happen in the near future, but the definitive end to the search for the time being is a real bummer that shades everything else associated with it.
 
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From: College Hockey News
May 12, 2022

Between the Lines: Wrapping Up the Big Coaching Searches

How It's Going, How It Went

by Adam Wodon/Managing Editor

The coaching search for the big three is over. Never before had there been openings at Boston University, Boston College and Michigan State — three heavy hitters in college hockey lore — at the same time. Only once before was BU and BC open at the same time, 1972, when legends Jack Kelley and Snooks Kelley both stepped down.

This time around, BC is definitely replacing a legend in Jerry York, but the other two schools are replacing alums who didn't work out, after five and four years, respectively.

In all three cases, three alums were replaced with three other alums. All are first-time NCAA head coaches. A lot of the fireworks that were expected — or at least hoped for by some, just for the entertainment of it — didn't come to pass. That doesn't mean anything was done badly or wrong, necessarily. ...


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For those who follow players in NCAA DI men's hockey who turn pro or transfer or otherwise move on to other hockey/educational adventures in the off-season, CHN keeps a running list ... Player Moves 2022
 

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From: College Hockey News
May 20, 2022

NCAA Teams Allowed to Schedule Each Other for Exhibitions

CHN Staff Report

NCAA hockey teams will now be alllowed to schedule each other in exhibition games, according to new legislation passed this week.

This was allowed, via waiver, in the last couple of years in reaction to the pandemic, but the rule will now be permanent. A number of schools have had exhibition games on their schedule, unannounced, pending this rule change. ...

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From: USCHO.com > D-I Women > News
WCHA Final Faceoff events returning to Ridder Arena for 2023, 2024 tournaments

By USCHO Staff-May 18, 2022

The WCHA announced Wednesday that the 2023 and 2024 WCHA Final Faceoff championship tournaments are set to remain at the campus of the University of Minnesota and Ridder Arena. ...

The country’s first-ever facility built specifically for women’s hockey in the country, Ridder Arena is home to the seven-time national champion Minnesota.

Since its opening in 2002, Ridder Arena has been a 15-time host of WCHA championships (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022), a regular host for NCAA regionals, and has been home to four Frozen Fours (2010, 2013, 2015, 2018, and upcoming 2025).
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A noteworthy coaching promotion in women's DI hockey ...
Syracuse.com > Orange Women Sports

Syracuse hires Clarkson assistant Britni Smith to become its second women’s hockey coach

Updated: May. 26, 2022, 4:06 p.m. | Published: May. 26, 2022, 2:06 p.m.

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Fresh off the best season in program history, Syracuse University has hired Clarkson assistant Britni Smith to become its second women’s hockey head coach.

Smith will replace Paul Flanagan, who coached Syracuse for the first 14 years of the team’s existence and retired after winning the College Hockey America regular-season and postseason championships last year. The Orange advanced to the NCAA championships for the second time in program history. ...

Smith has been an assistant at Clarkson since the 2014-15 season, helping the Golden Knights to two national titles and four Frozen Fours during that time. She played collegiately at St. Lawrence from 2006 to 2010, including two years under Flanagan before his arrival at SU. ...

Smith played four years in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League from 2010 to 2014, serving as a captain of the 2014 CWHL champions, and has experience in Canada’s national program as both a player and coach. ...


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Sacred Heart's new ice arena opens next January, another reason to look forward to Pioneers hockey in 2022-23.

For Fairfield alumns, it's a vision of what could have been. Fairfield has a larger endowment and wealthier alumni base, but the administration decided to drop hockey. Stupid move. Now Sacred Heart will build a bigger profile both regionally and nationwide, especially with a rumored jump from Atlantic Hockey to Hockey East. Fairfield, meanwhile, will continue to struggle as a bottom-of-the-pack MAAC basketball school.
 

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From: College Hockey News
June 7, 2022

Upon Further Review ...

It's a 'Rules Change' Year, And Some Big Things Need Fixing​


by Adam Wodon/Managing Editor ...

Every two years is a "rules change year" in college hockey, and this is one of them. That means, if you want a rule changed, added or removed, it must be done this summer, or you need to try again two years from now.

The NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee is a singular body for all of college hockey, men and women, in all divisions. It will convene next week to discuss a series of rules change ideas, and recommend which ones it will forward to the NCAA's Oversight Committee for final approval. First, there will be a one-month discussion period, where the Rules Committee solicits feedback from the coaches.

There are a lot of relatively small changes that are being discussed, though some coaches may consider certain ones a bigger deal than others.

Wisconsin assistant coach Mark Osiecki and Canisius head coach Trevor Large are the only D-I men's coaches on the Committee. (Former Vermont assistant Joe Gervais is on there.) Both declined to be interviewed for this article. We talked to almost 20 other coaches to gauge their opinion on the other rules change proposals being discussed.

Brass Tacks

There are three main rules areas being discussed, and they are intertwined:
  • Whether to allow referee discretion on 5-minute majors / game misconducts
  • Re-assessing how video replay is applied on major penalties, and whether to institute a "coach's challenge"
  • Re-assessing how supplemental discipline is doled out ...

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Any thoughts on this? I realize it's not D1 hockey..



Universities that allow club sports to exist with little or no oversight, as it would seem that Iowa State did with its hockey club, are inviting hazing incidents to happen. That's not to say that it hasn't happened with NCAA programs - look at Vermont circa 2000. Problems come when you don't have oversight. If you do not conduct anti-hazing training with coaches, staff, and most importantly, student athletes every year during preseason you're asking for problems like this. Males between the ages of say, 13 and 25 can be particularly awful to each other when left to their own devices trying to establish a social order, as happens with any team in any sport.

The club clowns got a lawyer to issue a statement on their behalf trying to force the university to provide a full enumeration of the alleged hazing incident. The university probably avoided doing so because it will paint the school in a bad light (as if that didn't already happen with the incident in the first place), and now they're going to have to put it all out there, as Vermont did.

Based upon the statement, it's clear that the club clowns seem to think there was nothing coercive in what they did, but the problem is that the coercion doesn't have to be overt. You don't have to have the team captain or a well-liked senior saying, "Hey Schmelt, you've gotta chug this 40 in less than 10 seconds or you'll have to chug another one." All it takes is the perception on the part of the rookie party participant that his status will be diminished if he doesn't go along with what the group is doing. That's still coercion. It's also notable that while the addressed "The Mud Run," they didn't say anything about "Kangaroo Court" or booze-fueled rookie parties, likely because they know those actions are indefensible.

It may be true that the university wanted to restructure the club hockey program. They may have even planned to give the club enough rope to hang themselves, and it would appear that they did it.

Allow club clowns to play hockey, expect a whiny circus. Hazing is absolutely intolerable and has no place in college sports. Period.
 
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