St. Cloud State Sports Properties has announced the radio broadcast team for SCSU men’s hockey for the 2016-17 season and it will include veteran sports radio announcer Jim Erickson and long-time Husky hockey announcer Dave Reichel. Erickson, a native of Braham, MN will do play by play and has a sports resume that includes doing…
The St. Cloud State University coaching staff has added another forward to the shopping cart with the commitment of Norweigan-born Christoffer Karlsen. Karlsen, an 18 year old right-handed forward from Sarpsborg, Norway announced via Twitter on June 25 that he has committed to the SCSU Huskies of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference. “It’s a…
Maybe it was the strong second half of the 2015-16 season or maybe it was the pipeline of success the LA Kings have found in SCSU players. Regardless, in his third year of draft eligibility, sophomore forward Mikey Eyssimont was selected in the 5th round as the 142nd pick by the Kings in the 2016 NHL…
SCSU recruit Dennis Cholowski made Husky hockey history even before donning a St. Cloud State University sweater having been selected by the Detroit Red Wings as the 20th pick in the first-round of the 54th annual NHL Entry Draft. The highest drafted SCSU player previously was Matt Cullen who was selected as the…
The 2016 NHL Entry Draft will be held on June 24 and 25 at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, NY. This will be the 54th installment of the draft. Eligible players are those that are born between January 1, 1996 and September 15, 1998. Technically, the Huskies have seven players eligible for this…
After losing six forwards and 219 points of offense, the Huskies need to rebuild depth at the forward position. They took another step in that direction with the commitment of Junior hockey and BCHL veteran Garrett Forster who announced his choice of the Huskies via twitter on June 20. The 21 year-old 5’10” 176 pound…
Reprint Courtesy of St. Cloud State University Dear colleagues at St. Cloud State University, It is with tremendous sorrow that I write to share the tragic news that Earl H. Potter III, President of St. Cloud State University, died Monday evening in an automobile accident en route to the Twin Cities for a meeting…
Flashback three years to May of 2013. A 5’6″ 126 pound defenseman was drafted 200th in the 10th round by the Prince George Cougars of the Western Hockey League in their annual bantam draft. The WHL draft allows the league to stockpile players on their “Protected Player List” between the ages of 14 and 20.…
In 1975, a relatively unknown 16 year-old, 5’8″ 180 pound defenseman from the Pas,Manitoba arrived on the campus of UMD.for his freshman season with the Bulldogs. With fellow defensemen Dave Langevin at 6’2″ and 215 pounds and Keith Hendrickson at 6′ 0″ 205 pounds he certainly didn’t fit the physical stereotype of defensemen on the…
Things tend to find their state of equilibrium.On May 9th, sophomore forward Patrick Russell announced he would be signing an entry-level contract with the Edmonton Oilers of the NHL. On May 11th, SCSU recruit Ryan Poehling announced he would accelerate his high school education, forgo his senior year at Lakeville North High School and join…
Wishful thinking had Junior-to-be forward Patrick Russell returning to help re-build the SCSU Huskies offense in 2016-17. However, it was not to be as Russell was signed to a two-year entry level contract by the Edmonton Oilers of the NHL on May 9. Having performed well in the Anaheim Ducks summer camp in 2015, word was that the…
One of the “Crown Jewels” of coaching amateur hockey is to be named the head coach of the US National World Junior team. This week, SCSU head coach Bob Motzko was bestowed with that honor being named to skipper the 2017 team that will compete in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario from 12/26/16 to 1/5/17.…
