Category: The Collegian

Amidst the excitement surrounding the expansion Vegas Golden Knights, the NHL joined NCAA hockey last week to announce a potential college equivalent: the intent to jointly explore expanding Division I hockey. With Penn State and Arizona State recently adding varsity programs, the University of Illinois will be the first in a group of colleges that will look to upgrade…

With every passing development bearing the imprint of Jack Parker, it makes more sense to organize an impromptu 30-year reunion of the 1986-87 Boston University hockey team. Wait, what? Those Terriers went a so-so 19-15-3, and failed to defend their first-ever Hockey East postseason title. They were the seventh of nine installments who failed to…

With the Nashville Predators’ fan base on full national display for the first time this week, College Hockey Inc. was apt to note the way the relatively new NHL market takes after the college hockey culture. Fittingly enough, this comes at a time when the Stanley Cup Final bears an unprecedented volume of NCAA influence…

Joe Shawhan should have the easiest time telling his pupils that ageless adage about letting an opponent hang around. The recipients of such an allowance have a way of capitalizing when the big break emerges, and the flavor of triumph is bolder for it. The 54-year-old Shawhan will replace Mel Pearson — aka Red Berenson’s…

In terms of the game-day experience, college hockey pep bands all but singlehandedly separate their level of the sport from the rest. They make that separation for the better and the worse in copious quantities. They punctuate the personal aspect of intercollegiate athletics that student and alumni rooters dearly clutch. They flaunt a flair and…

The American Hockey Coaches Association is at its annual retreat in Naples, Fla., this weekend. Though the Sunshine State has never housed a varsity program, it is a staple on the almanac through the late-April convention and the Estero-based Florida College Classic. Not to mention, Tampa has hosted two well-received Frozen Fours over the past…

Just five years ago, Penn State was taking its first steps into the college hockey world, stepping into a new on-campus arena and a new competitive frontier. Kim and Terry Pegula donated $88 million as part of the $100 million total that funded the university’s upgraded Division I men’s and women’s hockey programs. By the 10 year-mark of…

F. Scott Fitzgerald, the brain parent of polar personalities Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan, stands in bronze memoriam in the same vicinity as college hockey coaching legend Herb Brooks. The proximity of the tributes to those two Minnesotans in their native city of St. Paul is most fitting when the NCAA postseason comes and goes.…