ECAC Hockey commissioner Steve Hagwell on this season, NCAA tournament, 2020-21 overtime: USCHO Spotlight college hockey podcast Season 3 Episode 15

A conversation with incoming Hockey East commissioner Steve Metcalf: USCHO Spotlight college hockey podcast season 2 episode 20

No men’s D-I hockey conference was more impacted by COVID-19 than ECAC Hockey, which saw eight of its 12 teams elect not to play this season.

Commissioner Steve Hagwell joins hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger for a wide-ranging discussion, including how the remaining four teams have adapted, what short- and long-term outcomes there may be from pandemic protocols and student-athlete transfers, about the 2020-21 overtime changes, room for future growth of college hockey, and his conference’s NCAA bid prospects.

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American International’s Eric Lang on building the Yellow Jackets program, this season: USCHO Spotlight college hockey podcast Season 3 Episode 14

A conversation with incoming Hockey East commissioner Steve Metcalf: USCHO Spotlight college hockey podcast season 2 episode 20

American International clinched its third consecutive Atlantic Hockey regular season championship – no small feat for a team that few had heard of five years ago.

Head coach Eric Lang joins hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger to talk about the growth and success of the program, a team that lost 10 seniors but which didn’t skip a beat, the recovery of Eric Otto from cancer, mentoring others, and keeping sharp in a season filled with cancellations and pauses.

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American International at Arizona State preview with USCHO’s Greg Cameron: Game of the Week episode 18

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Arizona State is on the brink of an at-large bid in the NCAA tournament while visiting American International is one of the surprise stories of the season, sitting atop Atlantic Hockey. USCHO.com Arizona State correspondent Greg Cameron joins hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger to preview the weekend series. Saturday’s game is the USCHO Game of the Week.

We also preview No. 7 Denver at No. 4 Minnesota Duluth for a weekend NCHC series, ECAC Hockey single games pitting No. 6 Quinnipiac at No. 20 Union and No. 18 Harvard at No. 11 Clarkson, and a Hockey East home-and-home between No. 13 Providence and No. 10 UMass Lowell.

This episode is sponsored by the 2019 NCAA Frozen Four, April 11 and 13 at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, N.Y. Visit ncaa.com/frozenfour for more information.

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Coach of a truly international team, American International’s Eric Lang looks at this year’s Yellow Jackets: USCHO Spotlight episode 17

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Eric Lang’s American International Yellow Jackets stand atop Atlantic Hockey with four league games left on the schedule (photo: Driscoll Photography).

One of the great stories of the 2018-19 college hockey season is American International’s success under third-year head coach Eric Lang. The Yellow Jackets are in first place in Atlantic Hockey with four regular-season conference games left. Hosts Jim Connelly  and Ed Trefzger talk with Lang about this year’s team, recruiting talent from both North America and Europe, playing at an AHL facility, and why AIC is such a good third-period team.

This episode is sponsored by the 2019 NCAA Frozen Four, April 11 and 13 at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, N.Y. Visit ncaa.com/frozenfour for more information.

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