Category Archives: College
Acton product Madsen grabs ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week award
November 23rd, 2016Harvard University junior goaltender Merrick Madsen has been named the ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week, for the week ending Nov. 20, 2016. The award is the first such honor for Madsen and the first weekly award bestowed upon a Harvard student-athlete this season. Going up against No. 3 Boston College, Madsen stopped a season-high…
Titans, OC Hockey Club alum Delia takes home weekly Hockey East honor
November 22nd, 2016After his efforts between the pipes backstopped Merrimack College to a 2-0 shutout victory on the road against Wisconsin on Saturday night, junior goaltender Collin Delia has been named the Hockey East Co-Defensive Player of the Week for the week ending Nov. 20, 2016. Delia, who becomes Merrimack’s first major weekly award winner from the…
Escondido native Ortega claims weekly NCHC honors
November 15th, 2016The National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) announced the Bauer NCHC Players of the Week for the week of Nov. 7-13 and among the honorees was a California connection. OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Austin Ortega, University of Nebraska-Omaha Senior Forward Escondido, Calif. Ortega led Omaha to its first sweep of the season and first ever…
Walnut Creek’s Durflinger makes NCAA plans with Denver
November 2nd, 2016“You blankety blank, blank, blank!” “Why, I ought to clobber you!” Jake Durflinger has just about heard it all during his four seasons of junior hockey, most of the past two with the Bloomington Thunder of the United States Hockey League (USHL). Through it all, the forward from Walnut Creek has done whatever it has…
Pacific Palisades’ Rivera named WCHA Rookie of the Week
October 24th, 2016Minnesota State University freshman forward Nicholas Rivera was tabbed WCHA Rookie of the Week on Monday after the Mavericks played to a split on the road in Alaska last weekend. Rivera tied for the NCAA lead among freshmen with four points, scoring a pair of goals with two assists as No. 9 Minnesota State split…
San Diego’s Slaker selected Big Ten First Star of the Week
October 18th, 2016The Big Ten announced its Three Stars of the Week on Tuesday and San Diego native Jake Slaker was named First Star. Jake Slaker, Michigan F – Fr. – San Diego • Registered points on both Michigan goals as the Wolverines skated to a 2-1 victory Saturday at Ferris State • Scored his first collegiate…
Whether books, pucks or waves, Drexler keeps her balance
October 11th, 2016If an opponent derisively asks Manhattan Beach’s Kara Drexler, “Where’s the surfboard?” she’d probably tell them, “In the garage ’til summer.” In addition to being a top-four defenseman for Yale University and a two-time ECAC Hockey All-Academic pick, the junior moonlights as a surf camp instructor during her summers at home in California. “I like…
College Hockey, Inc. returns to Southern California
September 25th, 2016With the abundance of emerging hockey talent coming out of the West Coast these days, players and their families are forced to make some tough decisions relating to their futures at a young age. Advocates of the college hockey experience – namely College Hockey Inc., an organization designed to ensure those players and their families…
Cal State Fullerton makes changes for ’16-17 campaign
September 20th, 2016The past campaign was not what Cal State Fullerton’s hockey team had hoped for. In a season in which the team went 6-14-1, the Titans felt that, at certain points, they spent more time in scrums than playing the game they love. “We had a lot of discipline issues as a team,” team VP Ethan…
College Hockey Experience takes players to another level
August 2nd, 2016You’ve got questions? College coaches have answers. The College Hockey Experience, a partnership between Smart Hockey and the Anaheim Jr. Ducks, was held at The Rinks-Anaheim Ice from May 19-22. “It was a great, well-run camp with some of the top programs in the country represented,” said Jr. Ducks director of coaches Craig Johnson. “It…