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Jun 29, 2020

On June 3, 2019, Jennifer Flowers was named vice president and women's commissioner of the WCHA. Needless to say, it's been quite a year.

Wisconsin won the conference's regular season title and then Ohio State beat the Badgers 1-0 in the conference championship game. But before the NCAA Division I playoffs could...


Jun 24, 2020

Regardless of when the 2020-21 college hockey starts, this will be the longest offseason for programs in The Rink Live's area for many years. The coronavirus pandemic has guaranteed that.

But that does not mean that college hockey news has stopped happening. Reporters Mick Hatten (St. Cloud State), Austin...


Jun 22, 2020

Jessi Pierce covers the Minnesota Wild for NHL.com and also has a podcast called Bar Down Beauties that she does with Alexis Pearson.

Pierce joins The Rink Live's Jess Myers and Mick Hatten and talks about the playoffs, the first season under general manager Bill Guerin, how she got her current position, her career path...


Jun 18, 2020

Don Lucia was a men's head hockey coach at the University of Alaska, Colorado College and the University of Minnesota.

Lucia retired from coaching two years ago, but was approached about applying to become the commissioner of the new CCHA, went through an extensive interview process and was named to his new position on...


Jun 15, 2020

Minnesota State University-Mankato men's hockey coach Mike Hastings' team was sitting at No. 2 in the PairWise Rankings when the 2019-20 season abruptly ended because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Hastings talks about that team, what his team is going to look like in 2020-21, what he is hearing about college hockey...