Merrimack College's ice hockey team went pretty deep into its bench for a starting goalie this week. The Division I hockey program started student manager Spencer Marquis against Stonehill on Sunday.

It was 1997 and his first job in hockey was as a student manager, having never handled a stick or laced up a pair of skates. After four years of undergraduate training and six weeks as a civil ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Name the only member of the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders organization who has been in the National Hockey League. The answer isn’t obvious. You have to know quite a bit about everyone. Team ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — In the Grand Rapids Griffins locker room, players are always coming and going. Equipment manager Brad Thompson stays. “I have friends for three or four years and then they ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The dull whir of the skate sharpening machine sets a fitting background noise. Masked up in an ...

PEORIA — Matty Schwegmann's path into hockey started with playing in the Peoria Youth Hockey Association and watching Peoria Rivermen games. Now that path has taken the East Peoria resident and former ...

Scott Jess is not your typical equipment manager. He has been a member of the Bowling Green hockey program for 24 years, longer than anyone currently associated with the team. Scott -- or Scooter, his ...

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin men’s hockey equipment manager Nate LaPoint is heading the 2022 Winter Olympics to be an equipment manager for Team USA. Since joining the Badgers in 2009, LaPoint has ...

It's not uncommon to see a friendly, energetic Labrador retriever by the name of Al wandering about in Oceanside Ice Arena. Al, in all his glory, belongs to ASU men's hockey equipment manager Jon ...

Knock on wood, Chris Garner has been healthy this winter. He hasn't missed a day of work since returning as the Minnesota Duluth men's hockey equipment manager Nov. 15. Garner, 33, underwent a bone ...