With the first week of the NHL 2020-21 season in the books, it’s hard to ignore the reality of a second season affected by COVID-19.

The WCHA is celebrating seven decades of college hockey excellence the same year Michigan Tech is celebrating 100 years of hockey, creating a Venn diagram commonality located between pipes of red iron: the goal crease.

Ty Eigner has worn the orange and brown of the Bowling Green Falcons in four different decades: as a player, as an assistant coach, and as a head coach. 

This week on RinkRap, Bowling Green’s hockey program reaches a magic milestone as it unveils another Hobey contender, Minnesota State transfer Sam Morton punctures the scoresheet at last, and a bow to a hockey ambassador from the Land of the Rising Sun.

“In 2018-19 we were the only team in the country to win a regular-season championship, playoff championship, and an NCAA Tournament game. It was important for us to not be a one-hit-wonder.” 

Lake Superior State[ Finished Seventh In The [category last season, immediately following a 2018-19 campaign that earned the Lakers their best record in 22 years, and now they sit at the bottom of the conference again — for now.

Unlike its NCAA brethren hoops, baseball, and football, settling tie games in “sudden death” is a fixture in college hockey. The more appropriate moniker would be “sudden joy,” the raw emotion of 15 teammates hopping the boards for a dog-pile celebration on one end of the rink. Three such skate-off explosions occurred on WCHA ice this past weekend, as Huntsville, Bemidji, and Lake Superior State gained victories by working overtime. Each contest had its own poignant story-line; each ended in an instant.

Via ECHL press release.

PRINCETON, N.J. – The ECHL announced on Tuesday that the League’s Board of Governors has approved expansion applications for Coralville, Iowa, and Trois-Rivières, Quebec, to begin play for the 2021-22 Season.

As a method to navigate the unprecedented 2020-21 season, Atlantic Hockey made an effort to curb the travel and exposure of its athletes by splitting the 11-team conference into two “pods.”

Improbable as it may have seemed just three years ago, Danny Moynihan is keeping the family tradition alive.

Unless you were watching the live stream of last Saturday’s Minnesota State vs Northern Michigan game, you probably missed it. And because of the 9-0 goal differential in the series, Nathan Smith’s power play goal in the first period did not jump off the scoresheet. But those who saw it live saw something remarkable: a freshman treating Division I hockey like child’s play. 

Lawton Courtnall is used to it by now.

For another goaltender, one who lived more comfortably through the years, this might have qualified as a strange situation.

On the heels of a huge Saturday night performance, [team:Greenville Swamp Rabbits] netminder Ryan Bednard was named the Warrior Hockey / [category:ECHL] Goaltender of the Week on Tuesday afternoon.

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