Photo by Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images On Tuesday evening, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith released a statement, stating that senior forward Kamil Sadlocha is returning home and will not practice or compete with the team for an unspecified period of time after Sadlocha directed racial slurs at Michigan State’s Jagger Joshua. Here is Smith’s statement: Overall, a strong statement from Ohio State; much better than the hastily thrown together word salad on Monday night. Though it seems as if some of the timing here can be called into question. While Smith states this pro ..read more

Photo by Joseph Weiser/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Michigan State senior Jagger Joshua posted a statement on Monday evening via his Twitter account that he had been the recipient of multiple racial slurs from a player in a November 11th game against Ohio State. Acts of racism do not belong in hockey.. pic.twitter.com/nm9AnIjSgV — Jagger Joshua (@jaggerjoshua8) November 21, 2022 Joshua also stated that an official heard what was said and the player was given a game misconduct penalty. The Ohio State player was not named by Joshua, but here is the box score from that game. Ohio State rel ..read more

Matt Christians Goofy stuff happens in hockey games. Usually once or twice in a season, an unfortunate team will end up giving up a goal while possessing the puck during a delayed penalty, either thanks to a bad bounce or errant pass will find its’ way into a vacated goal. That happened twice on Friday evening. But that’s not the strangest part. Adding to the already astronomical improbability is that in both instances, the player credited for the goal was the player that the delayed penalty had been called for. In Kalamazoo last night, Western Michigan’s Cam Knuble was found guilty of a holdi ..read more

Photo by Bailey Hillesheim/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Big Ten has announced a one-game suspension for Minnesota’s Logan Cooley stemming from a hit in last night’s 5-2 Minnesota victory over Michigan. Cooley was assessed a five-minute major for cross-checking at 6:35 of the second period last night for a hit on Michigan’s Eric Ciccolini. Cooley was initially escorted off the ice, but after video review, Cooley was brought back and just given a five-minute major penalty with no misconduct attached. Here is the hit in question: Here's the Logan Cooley hit that earned him a suspension ..read more

Photo by Bailey Hillesheim/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The battle between #2 Minnesota and #3 Michigan was expected to be one of the marquee match-ups of the Big Ten season between two of the conferences preseason favorites, but illness running through both teams cast a pall over the series. Minnesota was without starting goalie Justin Close and forward Aaron Huglen, who did not travel to Ann Arbor due to illness, but that was nothing compared to Michigan, who was without six players, including the nation’s leading scorer Adam Fantilli, and defenseman Steven Holtz, who was reportedly hosp ..read more

Photo by Richard T Gagnon/Getty Images After a shaky start to the Greg Brown Era for Boston College that included a loss to Holy Cross and a sweep at the hands of Merrimack, the Eagles continued to show steady improvement on Tuesday night, following up a four-point weekend against Northeastern last weekend with a victory over a ranked opponent, defeating UMass Lowell 3-2 at Conte Forum. With the team’s leading scorer, junior Trevor Kuntar out of the line-up serving a one-game suspension for an incident that occurred at the end of BC’s Saturday night win, it was the Eagles’ youngsters that step ..read more

Sacred Heart Athletics It was an important day for the Sacred Heart men’s and women’s hockey programs yesterday as work crews began putting in ice on the brand new Martire Family Arena, which is set to open up in two months. The new 4000-seat on-campus arena will be a major upgrade for both Pioneers programs. The men currently play at Total Mortgage Arena, one of the doddering cavernous tombs that the NCAA keeps selecting for NCAA regionals, eight miles off campus, while the women have been playing 10 miles off campus at Sports Center of Connecticut. The lead donor on the $75M project was Sacr ..read more

USA Hockey has announced the roster for the 2023 IIHF Women’s World U18 Championship, which will take place January 8-15 in Ostersund, Sweden. It’s a short turnaround from the 2022 tournament, which took place this past June in Madison, Wisconsin after being rescheduled due to Covid, giving the US a quick opportunity to avenge their loss to Canada in that tournament’s gold medal game. Six skaters along with goalie Annelies Bergmann return from the 2022 roster for the United States. Holy Cross head coach Katie Lachapelle also returns as head coach of the team. In the 14-year history of the tou ..read more

Photo by Justin Berl/NCAA Photos/NCAA Photos via Getty Images #7-ranked Northeastern took the ice at historic Matthews Arena for a Friday afternoon Veterans Day matinee against Boston College in a nationally-televised game on ESPNU. And with the bigger stage of a national TV audience, Northeastern’s star forward Alina Mueller shone brightest, scoring two goals and two assists to lead Northeastern to a 4-0 victory in the first game of their weekend series against the Eagles. Boston College got off to a fast start, building an early lead in shots on goal in the opening half of the first period ..read more

Monday evening, St. Cloud State faced off against top-ranked and undefeated Minnesota in the US Hockey Hall of Fame Classic, played in front of a sold-out crowd at Andover Community Center in Andover, Minnesota. The Huskies were able to build an early lead with a pair of first period goals and carried that to a 4-1 victory over Minnesota, handing the Golden Gophers their first loss of the season. The victory was a major upset for the Huskies, and also significant in a historical context. St. Cloud State’s last win against Minnesota prior to Monday came almost 13 years ago, on February 13, 201 ..read more