Of the 110 Europeans playing Division I hockey in the NCAA, only six are from the soccer-mad nation of Germany, and three of those six happen to be playing for Minnesota State. 

Minnesota State head men’s hockey coach Mike Hastings took a World Junior sabbatical for USA Hockey, leading Team USA to silver after a gold medal game for the ages. FloHockey got a chance to debrief Hastings up at Ferris State during a rare pause in his whirlwind hockey life. 

On Friday afternoon, the Minnesota State bus pulled up to the back side of Ewigleben Arena in Big Rapids, Michigan. The last man out was Mavs head coach Mike Hastings, last seen on Jan. 5 collecting a World Junior Championship silver medal in Vancouver, 2,200 miles away. 

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Bowling Green junior Lukas Craggs, who was recently named the Hockey Commissioners Association (HCA) National Player of the Month for December, visited with FloHockey’s Tim Rappleye before the Falcons’ big series with Michigan Tech. 

Philip Beaulieu and the Northern Michigan Wildcats are working on putting a regressive first half of the season behind them after stealing the WCHA spotlight in 2017-18.

RinkRap spans the hockey world this week, as we explore the latest trend in high-scoring defensemen, the flying nerves of Lake State tough guy Steve Ruggiero, a potential meltdown in Grand Forks and detecting a hockey pulse within in the heart of college football country.

A tough stretch on the schedule has turned into a rough patch in the standings as the Minnesota State Mavericks have gone winless in their past four.

When it comes to the Great Lakes Invitational, college hockey’s most heralded holiday tournament, these are the good old days for the revamped WCHA. Just after dinner time Sunday evening, when Lake State’s Diego Cuglietta buried Michigan State with an overtime thriller to advance to the championship game, WCHA commissioner Bill Robertson realized that his league, still searching for a new identity, was guaranteed to have back-to-back GLI champions. 

“New Year, new me” isn’t necessary for Arizona State, as the Sun Devils and NCAA leading goal scorer Johnny Walker head into 2019 leaning on experience in their second season of Division I hockey.