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Hockey East is currently advertising a job opening for a full-time officiating coordinator, a new position to the league.
According to the job posting, the function is to “develop, implement and supervise all activities associated with officiating for Hockey East.”
The description also says that the candidate will work with the league in all matters of officiating, including assignment, training and discipline (for players). The coordinator will also meet with league coaches to gain feedback and perspective on the officials while serving as the point of contact between the coaches and Hockey East office.
Currently, Richard DeCaprio serves as “supervisor of officials,” which is a part-time position. He just completed his fourth season in the role and has a long history as a coach, player and official throughout New England for four decades.
Robert Polesello has decommitted to Boston University after the Terrier coaching staff asked the forward to play an extra year of junior hockey, according to a USHL source. Polesello, who finished with 31 points in 58 games this season for the Indiana Ice (USHL), believes he will be able to play collegiate hockey beginning this fall at another school.
St. John’s Prep forward Sam Kurker will move up to the 2012 class, meaning he’ll make the jump from Massachusetts’ high school hockey directly into Hockey East. It’s a leap that, to my knowledge, hasn’t been made since Matt Greene went from B.C. High directly to Boston College in 2004; Kurker was originally slated for the 2013 class. Greene finished his BC career with 22 points (11 goals, 11 assists) in 118 career games.
Kurker is ranked as the No. 36 North American skater in next month’s NHL Draft, according to the league’s Central Scouting Service.
Highly coveted goaltending recruit Jon Gillies has committed to Providence College, according to a report by the Maine Hockey Journal.
Gillies, who was previously committed to Northeastern, received a release from his National Letter of Intent this past March. According to the report, he chose the Friars over the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League after visiting both teams last week.
The 18-year-old finished with a 31-11-9 record for the Indiana Ice (USHL) this past season, posting a 2.77 goals-against average and a .915 save percentage. He is ranked as the sixth best North American goaltender in next month’s NHL Entry Draft.
“They both used the term. ‘it’s your net’,” Gillies told Nathan Fournier of the Maine Hockey Journal. “Until you give it up and stop earning it, it’s going to be still your net.”
Merrimack has announced the formation of a radio partnership with WGAM ‘The Game’ in New Hampshire to broadcast all regular season and playoff games.
An ESPN Radio affiliate, all of Merrimack’s 36 regular season games and all playoff games will be broadcast live across Northern Massachusetts and all of Southern New Hampshire on 1250 and 900 AM or 1590 AM and will also stream online and on the station’s smartphone application.
“WGAM ‘The Game’, southern New Hampshire’s home for sports, is so proud to be the new home for Merrimack College Hockey for the 2012-13 season,” said Matt Perrault, General Manager of WGAM. “We are always looking to carry the best local sports in Southern New Hampshire and Northern Massachusetts and without a doubt, Merrimack College Hockey has become one of the premier athletic programs in the region.”
“We’re really excited to partner with WGAM for the upcoming hockey season,” said Director of Athletics Glenn Hofmann. “This partnership continues to increase our coverage area and visibility and will help us promote not only Merrimack hockey, but more importantly, Merrimack College.”
With the exception of four Friday games in October and November, all games will be broadcast live on 1250 AM (based in Manchester) and 900 AM (based in Nashua) and online at wgamthegame.com. The four Friday games will air live on WSMN-Nashua 1590 AM and online at wsmnradio.com.
An all-sports radio station, Merrimack will also be featured during WGAM’s “Hometeam with Matt Perrault” show, which airs Monday-Friday at 4 p.m.
“Merrimack fans everywhere will be able to hear the games for free off our two separate radio signals, online off our website and through our WGAM smart phone application,” said Perrault. “We are so excited to get started this fall.”
The Warriors will also take part in the Catamount Cup this December, where they’ll play Union and Princeton at Gutterson Field House on Dec. 28 and 29.
Merrimack non-conference schedule includes: Home — Harvard, Colgate, Army, UConn, NTDP (exhibition); Road — Union (season opener), Alaska Fairbanks (tourney), Alaska Anchorage (tourney), Princeton (Catamount Cup in Vermont), Union (Catamount Cup in Vermont)
Boston College has received a $5 million gift from an anonymous donor to endow its head men’s ice hockey coaching position, held by Jerry York.
In addition to being the largest gift to a BC Athletics team, it is the first coaching endowment received at any Hockey East school. The donor cited a long love for BC Hockey, admiration for Jerry York and his leadership, and the commitment that BC has to student-athletes as demonstrated by its high graduation rates as the catalysts for his gift.
York is one of the most successful coaches in all of NCAA sports, with five NCAA championships and 913 wins during his storied career.
“I am humbled and honored to lead a program where its alumni care so deeply about our commitment to excellence and developing our student-athletes as men and women for others,” said York. “This gift signals that BC Hockey will continue to be competitive for years to come. It is certainly our hope that others will follow this lead and help BC Hockey to become fully endowed.”
Merrimack 2013 recruit Wade Murphy of the Penticton Vees capped a spectacular season with the Royal Bank Cup championship on Sunday night. The RBC Cup is awarded yearly to the Canadian Junior A National Champion.
He joins Kyle Bigos (’09 Vernon Vipers) and Mike Collins (’09 and ’10 Vernon Vipers) as recent Merrimack players who have won the title.
It caps an incredible season for Murphy, in which he scored a total of 109 points (45 goals, 64 assists) in 75 games.
The Vees, trailing 3-2 in the third period after a by the Woodstock Slammers, tied the score with 8:50 remaining in the period and then St. Cloud recruit Joey Benik scored the game-winning goal with 0:51 left in regulation.
Avon Old Farms defenseman Colin Sullivan, a draft choice of the Montreal Canadiens, will join Boston College this coming fall.
A 6-foot-2, 180-pounder, Sullivan was a New England Prep All Star this past season. Before Avon, he played for Fairfield Prep in Connecticut, his home state.
Sullivan was previously committed to Yale but decommitted in January after the Yale coaching staff approached him about playing a year of junior hockey. Sullivan reportedly wanted to come in as a freshman in 2012.
There were four Massachusetts players as well as one Rhode Islander selected in the USHL Futures Draft earlier this week.
Topsfield’s Ara Nazarian, a freshman at Malden Catholic, was taken in the sixth round by Des Moines. Maine recruit Liam Pecararo of Canton (he plays for Boston Advantage) was taken as the second overall pick.
Conor Garland of the Junior Bruins went to Muskegon in the third round and Bryan Lemos, a standout at La Salle Academy (Rhode Island) was picked by Youngstown in the fourth round. Ryan Donato, son of Harvard head coach Ted Donato, who plays at the Dexter School, was also taken in the sixth round by the Omaha Lancers.
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Team USA will open the IIHF World Championships tomorrow (Friday) morning at 5 a.m. EST when they face France, which boasts just one NHL player on its roster, former Merrimack center Stephane Da Costa.
The game will be televised live in the United States on the NBC Sports Network.
In 16 career games at the World Championships, Da Costa has six points (1-5-6). In overall international competition, including juniors, he has 38 points (13-25-38) in 31 games.
Da Costa split this past season, his first as a pro, between the Ottawa Senators (NHL) and Binghamton Senators (AHL), posting five points (3-2-5) in 22 NHL games and 36 points (13-23-36) in 43 AHL games. He was recalled to the Senators as one of their Black Aces for the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs during their series with the New York Rangers.
