Dumont Hired as Meagher's Replacement at Bowdoin
Before the 2015-16 season, Bowdoin head coach Terry Meagher announced that his 33rd season as Polar Bear bench boss would be his last. After an NBC Sports Hockey Day in America Segment and a loss in the NESCAC Quarterfinals, Meagher took a golf vacation to Hawaii before being honored at an event in May mced by NHL announcer and Bowdoin alum Dale Arnold.
Before the 2015-16 season, Bowdoin head coach Terry Meagher announced that his 33rd season as Polar Bear bench boss would be his last. After an NBC Sports Hockey Day in America Segment and a loss in the NESCAC Quarterfinals, Meagher took a golf vacation to Hawaii before being honored at an event in May mced by NHL announcer and Bowdoin alum Dale Arnold.
An honor to emcee the retirement ceremony for @BowdoinCollege hockey coach Terry Meagher. pic.twitter.com/2Tu4zISnX3— Dale Arnold (@DaleEArnold) May 8, 2016
The next week Bowdoin announced that assistant Jamie Dumont would slide up the bench to take over the head coaching position. In between stints as Meagher's assistant (2001-2005; 2011-2016), the 1998 Oswego State graduate knotched head coaching experience in Europe and North American Juniors as well as assistant coaching experience at the DI NCAA level at Bowling Green. Dumont, a Lewiston,ME native, becomes just the third Bowdoin coach since 1959 (Meagher and Sid Watson). He is also the only member of the current 'Cac coaching brethren that earned an internal promotion to the head coaching position. Neil Sinclair, who took over for another legend in Bill Beaney at Middlebury last year, had been a Panthers assistant but was most recently the head coach of Skidmore before taking over Middlebury.
The vacancy at the assistant coaching position left by Dumont's promotion was filled earlier this month by Eric Graham, a former University of Southern Maine Player, who spent the last four years coaching prep school (North Yarmouth Academy).
Stanley Cup in Brunswick? ...Or Waterville?
Bowdoin blueliner Matt Sullivan's dad, Mike Sullivan, started the 2015-16 season as the head coach of the Penguins AHL affiliate Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Penguins. Mike had a 12 year professional career in pro hockey, including stints with the Sharks, Flames and Coyotes, before moving on to coaching. The Marshfield, MA, native helmed his hometown Bruins from 2003-2005 and proceeded to a slew of assistant gigs in the NHL. He spent 2014-15 as a player development coach for the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks in the same organization as former Conn College player Adam Rogowin ('03), the 'Hawks Director of Public Relations.
Fast forward to December 2015 when the underachieving Penguins fired head coach Mike Johnston and replaced him with Sullivan. The 'Cac dad helped the flightless birds soar into the playoffs all the way to the franchise's fourth Stanley Cup title last month with a six game series win over the San Jose Sharks. Pretty safe to say that a NESCAC player's dad will be coaching an NHL team next season #JobSecurity.
And so, the Stanley Cup will be making an appearance in Central Maine on August 2nd at a NESCAC school...in Waterville. Andy Saucier, Waterville native and grandson of Colby coaching legend Jack Kelley, is the Penguins video coach and has decided to share the Cup with the Colby community next Tuesday. The hallowed hardware will be on display from 1- 3 PM at Alfond Rink. Speaking of the rink, looks like Colby has some plans for a new building.
— Colby Hockey (@ColbyHockey) July 29, 2016Former Tufts Coach Passes Away
Former Tufts coach (1994-97) Steve Hoar passed away earlier this month. Hoar was the head coach of Becker's men hockey team at the time of his death. An age and cause of death were not included in the Becker College release, found here.
NCAA OT Rule Change Walked Back
In June, the NCAA Rules Committee reccommended that overtime in NCAA hockey be changed to a mandatory four-on-four format, a move that mirrors the junior and pro-ranks (the NHL actually went down to three-on-three last season) designed to reduce the number of ties in the sport.
But there was a six week gap between the proposal and the final vote by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel on July 20th to make it official. And apparently a fair number of NCAA coaches weren't too pleased with the tinkering of the format. So the new rule was abandoned, though the experimental rule to allow for three-on-three overtime after the normal five-on-five minute overtime in conference games was approved. The extra period (shootouts are already allowed) would only be to determine conference standings or in-season tournaments and the game would still go down as a tie. You won't see the NESCAC taking advantage of this option anytime soon.
A rule requiring players and refs to wear helmets on the ice at all-times on the ice, besides the national anthem, was also passed. The change comes after D-I ref Butch Mousseau died tragically in March from head injuries suffered from a fall in pre-game warmups for the WCHA Final Five.
Linls, Links Links
Alex Walsh ('16) talks about his time at Colby.
Former Conn College captain Keith Veronesi ('14) reflects on his relationship with the recently departed Gordie Howe
Incident in wee hours of morning leads to arrest of Colby MIH senior hours before he was set to graduate.
Trinity Athletics recaps their 2015-16 season, which included a NESCAC MIH title and an end to their NCAA title defense in the NCAA Tournament opening round.
Former Wesleyan assistant Rick McKenna earns head coaching job at UW-Superior
Middlebury alum Robbie Donahoe ('14) will be back with the ECHL's Manchester Monarchs next season
Tufts goalie Mason Pulde named to CoSIDA Academic All-America Team
Six NESCAC schools make 32 team field, Hamilton makes it to Elite Eight of Sports Illustrated's Great Mascot Bracket
No comments:
Post a Comment