MSU head coach and alumnus Danton Cole was relieved of his duties earlier this week after five seasons at the Spartan helm. Cole, 55, a 1989 MSU graduate who won a national championship with the Spartans as a freshman player, went 58-101-12 from 2017 to 2022 as coach at MSU after succeeding fellow alumnus Tom Anastos. Cole also coached with the U.S. National Team Development Program, the University of Alabama-Huntsville, and several professional teams following along a longtime pro playing career that saw him win the Stanley Cup with the NHL's New Jersey Devils in 1995.
At BC, longtime head coach and alumnus Jerry York has called it a career after 50 seasons of coaching college hockey. York, 76, who mentored players at Clarkson University, Bowling Green State University, and BC from 1970 to 2022, won an NCAA record total of 1,123 career games. A former All-America forward and Walter Brown Award winner as a senior with BC in 1967, York later led five teams to NCAA titles as a coach, including four at his alma mater (2001, 2008, 2010, 2012), while also leading the Eagles to 651 wins in all from 1994 until now. He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2019.
Both schools are now searching for successors, as is Boston University, which let alumnus Albie O'Connell go last month after four seasons in charge of the Terriers.
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