Reposted with permission of the College Of The Holy Cross Holy Cross Men’s Hockey junior Thomas Gale was named Atlantic Hockey Goaltender of the Week, as announced by the league on Monday. Gale backstopped the Crusaders to their back-to-back shutouts of Bentley University this weekend, tallying his second and third collegiate shutouts. Gale recorded 23 […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com  Wayne, New Jersey’s own Mickey Burns loves the home he has made in Erie, Pa., as a student and hockey player for Mercyhurst University, where he has resided since 2021. Of course, two years might not seem like a long time when you think of the first 20 years of […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    It’s never a bad idea to up the level of your goals once initial goals have been attained. That is certainly an approach that has paid dividends for former Boston Junior Bruin and current College of the Holy Cross Crusader Mack Oliphant.  “Coming into the season last year, I […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Mo., may be a long and convoluted trip from Bedford, N.H., but for Cade DeStefani, it is the path that paid great dividends in his hockey career thus far.  Growing up in New Hampshire, it’s no surprise that he and his family were attracted […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    College hockey players all over the United States are deeply indebted to a former Yale tennis player, and probably 99 percent of them don’t even know it. It was Malcolm Greene Chace who was introduced to hockey on a tennis trip to the border city of Niagara Falls, N.Y. […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    When Jake Stella arrived in North America in 2017-18 to begin a new chapter in his hockey career, he knew little of what he was getting into.  After all, not only was he new to the way the game is played outside of Europe, but he was joining the […]

Photos Courtesy of Union College Athletics Department   By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com   Former Jersey Hitmen goaltender Connor Murphy has gone country. Canadian country to be exact. Come this fall, he’ll be in the heart of one of the world’s rodeo capitals, in Calgary, Alberta, as he works to land a spot with the […]

NCAA 2022-23 Season Also Saw Alumni Honored With 80 Captaincy Positions;172 Alumni Win Championships By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    The National Collegiate Development Conference and the United States Premier Hockey League as a whole is looking forward to another huge NCAA hockey season in 2023-24, especially after research has shown that it is truly […]

By Pittsburgh Penguins Staff / Re-published With Permission The Pittsburgh Penguins have re-signed forward Drew O’Connor to a two-year contract, it was announced Thursday, Aug. 2, by President of Hockey Operations Kyle Dubas. The deal runs through the 2024-25 campaign and carries an average annual value of $925,000. O’Connor played in the inaugural 2017-18 NCDC […]

By Joshua Boyd / NCDCHockey.com    From a young age, Pearl River, N.Y., native Liam McLinskey found himself drawn to the Jersey Hitmen and their multi-tiered development program.  The Hitmen brought McLinskey in as a 15-year-old and brought him along slowly, giving him a chance to be a leader at each of the 15, 16U […]