Mel Pearson named a finalist for college hockey Coach of the Year
Pretty self-explanatory, The Wolverines' first-year head coach is one of nine finalists for the American Hockey Coaches Association Spencer Penrose Award, given annually to the Division I Coach of the Year.
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As he should be.
Holy cow, look where we are. Unbelievable.
Congrats to Mel, I hope he wins. Im so happy that he is here . I wish he would have came back sooner, but Red earned the right to go out on his own terms .
Just started following college hockey after I was lucky enough to go to a game at Yost. Why is there almost two weeks in between advancing to the Frozen 4 and the actual Frozen 4. Is that normal or is it to avoid conflicts with basketball’s Final 4?
for the two weeks before the frozen four. I do believe it's to keep from being in conflict with the final four.
Guess it will be spread out to basketball/basketball then hockey/hockey the next weekend.
Probably better for my health anyways, last weekend almost killed me.
The regionals end on Sunday, and hockey insists on having Thursday-Saturday finals. Back when there wasn't a week off, that only gave teams and fans 3 days between qualifying for the Frozen Four and actually playing in it. It wasn't very convenient for the fans who wanted to follow their team.
If they went to Saturday-Monday finals, like basketball does, this wouldn't be a problem and they could move the second round of the tournament to this off week, and have the first two rounds on separate weeks.
I don't understand how Jerry York is on the list this year. I think Pearson is the early favorite, but since three of them are in the Frozen Four, I doubt it's sewed up. Maybe it should be, but OSU has been impressive as well.
The finalists for the award all qualify automatically by either being named their conference's coach of the year, or by qualifying for the Frozen Four. York was Hockey East coach of the year this year. Pearson wouldn't have been a finalist if Michigan lost to BU last weekend.
Guess I don't really have a feel for the size of the available D1 hockey coaching pool. Regardless, good luck Coach Pearson.
To have nine finalists but it is the NCAA....
Not an objective view but this is a no brainer....from a program in a bit of a downward spiral to one of the better teams in the NCAA since the 1st of the year.....Mel definitely deserves this one.
March 27th, 2018 at 11:17 PM ^
"Duh."
March 27th, 2018 at 11:32 PM ^
Great year, Not done yet.
Seems like Mel has the early edge here. OSU has been great, but for Mel to go from 0-60 with essentially the same talent is a testament to his skill as a coach.
March 28th, 2018 at 10:37 AM ^
OSU was supposed to be good. ND was supposed to be good. MN-Duluth was in the playpoffs last year.
No other coach took a team from nowhere to the Frozen Four.
Just give Mel the damn COTY award already.