Daily Skate: Next generation of UND coaches rising the ranks

GRAND FORKS — The checklist of Gino Gasparini’s former UND gamers who become glorious hockey coaches is in depth.

Two of them rose to be NHL head coaches — Dave Hakstol and Dave Tippett. Others have filtered throughout all ranges of hockey, together with current NCAA males’s hockey nationwide championship-winning coaches Brad Berry (UND) and Scott Sandelin (Minnesota Duluth).

The subsequent technology of coaches — gamers who skated below Hakstol — have now began rising the ranks.

This week, former UND ahead Bryn Chyzyk was named america Hockey League’s Normal Supervisor of the 12 months after serving to the Waterloo Black Hawks to a 40-win season, tying for essentially the most victories within the league.

This was Chyzyk’s second 12 months as Waterloo’s basic supervisor.

Whether or not Chyzyk’s path is finally on the administration, scouting or teaching facet, he’ll probably be a scorching commodity after this season.

Final 12 months’s USHL Normal Supervisor of the 12 months, Andy Johnson of Sioux Metropolis, instantly landed a job with the Los Angeles Kings. The 2020-21 winner, Ryan Hardy of Chicago, instantly landed a job with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Different winners within the final 15 years embrace present NHL personnel comparable to San Jose Sharks scout Jon Hull, Boston Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery and Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper.

Two earlier UND gamers have received the USHL’s Normal Supervisor of the 12 months honor — Cary Eades with Dubuque in 1991 and Steve Johnson with Lincoln in 2001.

Additionally this week, former UND ahead Evan Trupp was employed as an assistant coach for the Muskegon Lumberjacks within the USHL. He’ll coach a pair of UND recruits subsequent season in forwards Cody Croal and Sacha Boisvert.

Trupp served as head coach of the Anchorage Wolverines within the North American Hockey League this season. In 2021-22, he was an assistant coach for Anchorage, which made a run to the Robertson Cup Finals.

Because the NCAA opens the door to pay a 3rd assistant coach starting subsequent season, two different former UND gamers are going to get curiosity — Waterloo Black Hawks head coach Matt Smaby and Sioux Metropolis Musketeers affiliate head coach Colten St. Clair.

Smaby, who has led the Black Hawks to back-to-back playoff appearances, obtained school affords in earlier summers. Smaby additionally might be a candidate for professional jobs.

Of curiosity: Matt McIlvane, who gave Smaby his first full-time teaching gig in Salzburg, was named head coach for the San Diego Gulls within the American Hockey League this week.

St. Clair received a Clark Cup because the affiliate head coach in 2022 with Sioux Metropolis. The top coach of that Musketeers group, Luke Strand, was just lately named the pinnacle coach at Minnesota State-Mankato. Strand has not but named any assistant coaches.

Nick Oliver, a Roseau Excessive graduate who performed school hockey at St. Cloud State, was named the USHL’s Coach of the 12 months this week.

In his first 12 months behind the bench for the Fargo Power, Oliver led the Power to their first Anderson Cup in franchise historical past. The Anderson Cup goes to the group with the most effective regular-season report.

Fargo is presently up 1-0 on Lincoln in a best-of-five Western Convention Finals sequence.

Previous to taking the job in Fargo, Oliver was an assistant coach at St. Cloud State for 4 seasons.

Three present NHL head coaches are earlier USHL Coach of the 12 months winners — Hakstol, Cooper and Derek Lalonde of the Detroit Pink Wings.

Former UND captain Dillon Simpson was named the Cleveland Monsters’ AHL Man of the 12 months.

Simpson’s

off-the-ice work included

Simmer’s Sidekicks, Particular Olympics, A Particular Want, Hockey For Heroes and hospital excursions.

Minot’s Mason Morelli, who performed school hockey at Omaha, was named the Hershey Bears’ AHL Man of the 12 months.

Former UND ahead Rocco Grimaldi is headed to the IIHF Males’s World Championship, which will probably be held Could 12-28 in Tampere, Finland.

The People additionally will play a preliminary recreation towards Germany in Munich on Could 9.

Grimaldi performed the 2022-23 season within the AHL for the San Diego Gulls and Rockford IceHogs.

Grimaldi completed third within the AHL in objectives with 33 and sixth in factors with 73.

The 5-foot-6 winger has beforehand received gold medals with Group USA on the worldwide stage. He received two golds on the IIHF World Beneath-18 match and one on the 2013 World Junior Championship.

Two-time UND nationwide champion and present volunteer assistant coach Jason Ulmer went viral this week on social media.

Somebody on TikTok took on a problem to determine what hockey recreation was taking part in within the background of a scene from the tv present, ‘How I Met Your Mom.’

The man tracked it right down to UND’s 2000 NCAA quarterfinal recreation towards Niagara, because of recognizing Ulmer’s jersey.

The Alberni Valley Bulldogs have reached the finals within the British Columbia Hockey League, sweeping Chilliwack within the semifinals.

UND goalie commit Hobie Hedquist was off to an ideal begin within the playoffs, posting a .925 save share by eight video games, however suffered an harm and didn’t play in any respect towards Chilliwack.

It is unknown whether or not he will probably be out there within the BCHL finals — the Bulldogs will not be divulging a timeline on Hedquist’s return — however sources say it isn’t anticipated to be one thing critical sufficient to trigger UND worries.

Hedquist is anticipated to be certainly one of three UND goalies on the roster within the fall. The others are Miami switch Ludvig Persson and junior Kaleb Johnson.

• Six UND recruits are taking part in within the USHL convention finals — Fargo’s Mac Swanson, Youngstown’s Andrew Strathmann and Chicago’s Jayden Perron, Michael Emerson, Jake Livanavage and Grayden Slipec. Fargo leads Lincoln 1-0 in its best-of-five sequence. Chicago and Youngstown start their sequence Friday night time.
• Wisconsin affiliate coach Todd Knott of Pink Lake Falls, Minn., signed a three-year contract with an annual base wage of $275,000 with the Badgers. He handed on a suggestion to turn into Minnesota State-Mankato’s head coach and as an alternative adopted Mike Hastings to Wisconsin. The Mavericks are paying Strand, the brand new head coach, $340,000 yearly.
• The Idaho Steelheads of the ECHL turned the league’s first group ever to win 4 consecutive extra time video games within the playoffs. The Steelheads went down 2-0 of their first-round sequence towards Idaho, however received the following 4 in extra time — all of them ending inside 4 minutes. Idaho has a number of UND connections in Idaho, together with Jordan Kawaguchi, Casey Johnson, Adam Scheel and Wade Murphy. It additionally has two different space gamers in Minto’s Jade Miller and Fargo’s Cody Haiskanen.
• Cam Johnson, the reigning MVP of the ECHL’s Kelly Cup Playoffs, is off to a scorching begin. He completed Florida’s first-round sequence with a .947 save share and two shutouts.