Seven months after playing its first league game, the CCHA announced an expansion from eight teams to nine, welcoming Augustana University of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, into the circuit as its latest member.

The Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) announced its 104-game conference schedule on Thursday. All eight CCHA teams will play a 26-game conference slate with the regular season champion being awarded the prestigious MacNaughton Cup, recognized as the premiere conference trophy in collegiate hockey.

The Atlantic Hockey Association Board of Directors has voted to reinstate former member Robert Morris University, the AHA announced Friday.

After a season of unprecedented team and individual success, one that brought the Minnesota State Mavericks within 20 minutes of their first national title, the bubble burst Saturday night in Boston. The Denver Pioneers won their 9th NCAA title Saturday night by scoring five unanswered goals in a stunning 5-1 comeback victory.

Minnesota State senior goaltender Dryden McKay has been named the recipient of the 2022 Hobey Baker Award as the top player in NCAA Division I men's hockey.

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For leading Minnesota State University into the 2022 Frozen Four, Mike Hastings has once again been chosen as the recipient of the Spencer Penrose Award as Division I Men’s Ice Hockey CCM/AHCA Coach of the Year by his peers. The honor is the third for Hastings, and his second consecutive selection. He joins only three other coaches who have won this award three times: Len Ceglarski, at both Clarkson and Boston College, Charlie Holt of New Hampshire and Jack Parker of Boston University

American International capped off an impressive spring semester with its third-straight Atlantic Hockey Championship, earning an automatic berth to the 2022 National Championship.

CCHA Commissioner Don Lucia, a guy whose coaching career ended after missing the NCAA tournament by one ten-thousandth of a point back in 2018, was finally in a position of power to execute postseason justice, inside or outside of the rules. He chose the latter, but he got it right.

UTICA, N.Y. – Top-seeded AIC and No. 6 seed Air Force will skate for the Jack Riley Memorial Trophy when the two squads meet in the Atlantic Hockey Championship Game on Saturday at the Adirondack Bank Center in Utica, N.Y.

After a season of more lows than highs, a season in which coach Tom Serratore saw his Bemidji State Beavers allow more goals than they scored, the veteran coach was finally in a position to relax Saturday night in Houghton. Serratore was enjoying the CCHA’s equivalent of a fireside chat after upsetting No. 2 seed Michigan Tech. The veteran coach was now front and center in a league press conference—his team sitting in the catbird seat, guaranteed a berth in the CCHA championship game while his opponents were still playing a timezone away in Mankato. Entering the night sub-500 was now a distant memory. His Beavers were on the precipice of making the NCAA tournament for the second year in a row.

The stage is set for the Atlantic Hockey semifinals and red-hot Mercyhurst will take on conference powerhouse American International for a trip to the championship game.

In January, Air Force coach Frank Serratore had one goal in mind: earn a first-round bye.

On paper, this game should be no contest. But it’s played on ice.

With his Northern Michigan Wildcats loudly celebrating their grueling three-game quarterfinal of Lake Superior a few steps away, Cats coach Grant Potulny soberly assessed the next round in the CCHA playoffs: a single-game semifinal against the nation’s premier team, Minnesota State.