Ivy League Ups Hockey Limit to 30 Games

The Ivy League last week announced that its member ice hockey schools (Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Yale) will be allowed to play 30 games starting this season, up from 29 games. 

According to collegehockeynews.com, the NCAA limit for non-Ivy schools will remain at 34 games. Those allowable numbers, for all schools, do not include exemptions such as for games played in Alaska, or contests such as the NCAA tournament.

All six hockey-playing Ivy League schools, on both the men's and women's sides, play predominantly in ECAC Hockey.  

Gorman Earns ECAC Hockey, All-Ivy Accolades

Princeton University junior forward Brendan Gorman has earned ECAC Hockey Third Team accolades for the 2024-25 season. He also garnered All-Ivy First Team honors.

A 6-foot-1, 172-pound  center from Arlington, Mass., Gorman led Princeton in scoring this past season with 12 goals and 14 assists for 26 points in 30 games, setting new personal highs in goals and points. In three seasons with the Tigers, he has collected 24-45—69 points through 90 career outings, including six game-winning goals and five power-play tallies. Gorman, 22, is the third member of his family to play for the Princeton men's hockey team, following older brother Liam (2019-23) and father Sean (1987-91).

Princeton went 12-15-3 overall in NCAA play and finished eighth in ECAC Hockey this season with a 7-12-3 mark, while also going 3-5-2 in the Ivy League. The Tigers concluded their 2024-25 campaign, their first under new head coach Ben Syer, with a first-round 3-2 ECAC Hockey tournament loss at Ivy League rival Brown on March 7.

Princeton Falls to Brown in ECAC First Round

Princeton University's 2024-25 men's hockey season has come to a close. The Tigers fell, 3-2, at Ivy League rival Brown University tonight in the first round of the 2025 ECAC Hockey championship to finish their first campaign under new head coach Ben Syer.

Princeton took a 1-0 lead in the first period at Meehan Auditorium on a goal by Jayden Sisson, before Ryan St. Louis tied it in the second stanza for the Bears. Two goals by Brown's Tyler Kopff in the third period, the second one an empty-netter, spelled the difference, while Princeton's Kevin Anderson closed out the scoring in the final seconds of regulation with an extra-attacker tally. 

Ethan Pearson made 22 saves in his final appearance for the Tigers, while Lawton Zachler finished with 20 stops for the Bears. Brown outshot Princeton, 25-22, and also won 28 of 54 total faceoffs on the night. Both teams went 0-for-3 on the power play. 

Brown (14-13-3 overall, 9-11-2 ECACH) moves on to face third-seeded Colgate in the best-of-three second round of the ECACs next weekend, while Princeton (12-15-3, 7-12-3) will return to NCAA action at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink in the fall for the 2025-26 season.

Princeton Knots Yale in Home Finale

Princeton closed out its 2024-25 regular-season home slate with a 2-2 tie against ECAC Hockey/Ivy League rival Yale last night. The Tigers claimed the ensuing shootout, 3-2, to earn an extra point in the conference standings, although it is officially a tie game according to the NCAA.

Nick Marciano and Miles Gunty staked the Tigers to a 2-0 lead just past the midway point of regulation, but Micah Berger and Kalen Szeto scored under five minutes apart for the Bulldogs to tie the game by the end of the second period. After a scoreless third frame and five-minute overtime, Princeton won the shootout as Alex Konavalov, Noah de la Durantaye and David Jacobs tallied in the extra session, while Berger and Zach Wagnon connected for Yale. Ethan Pearson finished with 17 saves in net for Princeton, and stopped 3-of-5 attempts in the shootout, while Luke Pearson made 33 stops for Yale. Both teams combined to go 0-for-7 on the power play.

Konavalov, de la Durantaye, Pearson and Jack Cronin were honored pre-game on Senior Night at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink. The Tigers (10-14-3 overall, 5-12-3 ECACH) remain two points ahead of last-place Yale (6-18-3, 5-12-3) in the ECAC Hockey standings, with both schools to wrap up their respective regular seasons next weekend.

Princeton Wins Fourth Straight

After six straight losses, Princeton University men's hockey has now won four straight NCAA contests. 

Following a home sweep of Bentley in non-conference action on Jan. 25-26, the Tigers closed out the first month of the new calendar year with a 4-3 overtime victory at ECAC Hockey/Ivy League rival Harvard on Jan. 31. Kai Daniells notched the game-winner in the extra session, while David Ma recorded a goal and two assists in regulation. Princeton then opened February with a 3-1 win at Dartmouth the next night, also in ECAC Hockey/Ivy League play. Brendan Gorman led the Tigers with a goal and an assist, while Ethan Pearson stopped 19 shots following a 32-save effort at Harvard.

Princeton (10-10-1 overall, 5-8-1 ECAC Hockey) returns to ECAC Hockey action this weekend at home at Hobey Baker Rink, when it faces Clarkson on Friday and St. Lawrence on Saturday.

Princeton Falls for Fifth Straight Time

Princeton's NCAA men's hockey losing streak reached five games with Friday's 6-2 setback to visiting Cornell in ECAC Hockey and Ivy League action. The Tigers got goals from Kai Greaves and Brendan Wang, who each tallied the first of goal of his college career, but sandwiched in-between were five goals by the Big Red, before Cornell's Dalton Bancroft closed out the scoring with his second goal of the evening late in the third period. 

Remington Keopple, making his first start of the 2024-25 season, stopped 23 shots for the Big Red, who also got a goal and two assists apiece from Ryan Walsh and Jake Kraft. Arthur Smith had 25 stops for Princeton before a crowd of 2,432 at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink. The Tigers (6-9-1, 3-7-1 ECACH) will host Colgate on Saturday, while Cornell (7-5-4, 4-3-2) will visit No. 13 Quinnipiac.

ADDENDUM: Princeton fell to Colgate, 6-4, while Cornell won in a shootout following a 2-2 tie in regulation at Quinnipiac.

Big Green Remains Perfect at Princeton

Dartmouth College continued its winning ways with a 5-1 rout of host Princeton University on Saturday night at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink. The Big Green (4-0-0 overall, 3-0-0 ECAC Hockey) remains one of two unbeaten and untied NCAA Division I men's teams in the nation, along with defending national champion and top-ranked Denver.

No less than 10 Dartmouth players recorded at least one point in Saturday's win, with Sean Chisholm scoring two goals, including a power-play marker, with both tallies set up by Nikita Nikora. Emmett Croteau finished with 16 saves in net before losing his shutout bid with less than five minutes to go on a goal by Princeton's Ian Devlin, while Arthur Smith made 21 saves for the Tigers (0-2-0, 0-2-0). The two Ivy League rivals will meet again on Feb. 1 in Hanover, N.H. to close out their 2024-25 season series.

Princeton Tabs Syer as New Men's Hockey Coach

Long-time ECAC Hockey assistant/associate head coach Ben Syer has been named the new head coach of the Princeton University men's ice hockey team. He becomes the 18th head coach in the history of the program, and succeeds Ron Fogarty, who helmed the Tigers over last 10 years.

A graduate of Western Ontario, Syer spent the last 12 years as an associate head coach at Cornell University, following one year as an assistant. He helped the Big Red to an ECAC Hockey tournament championship last year, its first Whitelaw Cup since 2010, while mentoring a defense that allowed a nation-low 1.86 goals per game. He also helped Cornell to seven NCAA tournament appearances, seven Ivy League crowns, and three ECAC Hockey regular-season titles in his 13 years in Ithaca, and posted a 13-6-4 record overall while serving as interim head coach on several occasions.

Prior to coaching at Cornell, Syer served nine seasons as an assistant coach at Quinnipiac University, the last two as associate head coach. In his tenure he helped the Bobcats in their move from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference/Atlantic Hockey to ECAC Hockey, and from the community-based Northford Ice Pavilion to the on-campus M&T Bank Arena. Quinnipiac won 151 games in all in his time in Hamden, while also posting a winning record each season and garnering two conference regular-season titles and one NCAA tournament berth.

A native of Kitchener, Ontario, Syer, 49, began his college coaching career at Ohio University (ACHA) while earning his master's degree. A first-time college head coach, he takes over a Tigers' team that finished 10-16-4 overall last season, and last qualified for the NCAAs in 2018.  

  

Cornell's Daniel Wins 2024 Kazmaier Award

Izzy Daniel (Cornell) was honored last week as the 2024 winner of the Patty Kazmaier Award, which is bequeathed annually on the top player in NCAA Division I women's hockey. A native of Minneapolis, Daniels is the 27th winner of the award, the third one to hail from Minnesota, and the first Ivy League recipient since Sarah Vaillancourt (Harvard) in 2008.

A 5-foot-5 forward, Daniel led the Big Red in scoring this season with career highs of 21 goals and 38 assists for 59 points in 34 games overall, which placed her sixth among the top scorers in the nation. She began the 2023-24 campaign on a 14-game point-scoring streak, and ultimately posted 20 multiple-point outings on the year. 

Daniel also helped Cornell to a 25-8-1 overall record (17-5-0 ECAC Hockey), the Ivy League championship, and an NCAA tournament berth. Cornell's captain this season, she was also named Ivy League Player of the Year, and was a unanimous All-Ivy First Team selection. In four years in Ithaca, Daniel recorded 51-107—158 points in 125 appearances, and also tallied 11 power-play goals and four shorthanded goals in her collegiate career.

The award is named for former Princeton University hockey standout Patty Kazmaier, who passed away in 1990 at the age of 28 from a rare blood disorder.

Princeton Parts Ways with Fogarty

Ron Fogarty's tenure as head coach of the Princeton University men's hockey team has come to a close after 10 years. It was announced today by athletic director John Mack that Fogarty will not return behind the bench at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink next season. 

Fogarty fashioned a 90-169-27 overall record as head coach of the Tigers since the 2014-15 campaign (the 2020-21 Ivy League season was canceled by COVID-19). In 2018, he led the Tigers to the Whitelaw Cup as ECAC Hockey postseason champions, and also Princeton's first NCAA tournament berth since 2009. This season, Princeton went 10-16-4 overall, and finished ninth in ECAC Hockey with an 8-11-3 mark. The Tigers fell at Harvard, 1-0, in the first round of the 2024 ECAC championship on March 8 in what was Fogarty's final game. 

Prior to his time at Princeton, Fogarty built the NCAA Division III program at Adrian College in Michigan from scratch, beginning in 2007-08. The Bulldogs went 167-23-10 in seven seasons under Fogarty and earned four NCAA Division III tournament berths, including a national runner-up finish in 2011. He also led Adrian to six Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association regular-season championships, and five MCHA playoff titles.

A native of Sarnia, Ont., Fogarty, 52, played four seasons (1991-1995) as a forward at Colgate University, where he scored 51 goals and added 90 assists for 141 points for the Raiders, while making the All-ECAC Rookie team as a freshman. After playing professionally for several years, he went on to become an assistant coach at Clarkson University and Bowling Green before taking the reins at Adrian.

Fogarty's combined NCAA head coaching record with the Tigers and Bulldogs stands at 257-192-37. Princeton is now expected to conduct a national search for his successor.

Princeton Tops Harvard, 5-2, in 2023 Finale

Nick Carabin tallied a goal and two assists, and Nick Seitz set up three goals as Princeton rebounded for a 5-2 win over visiting Ivy League and ECAC Hockey rival Harvard yesterday at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink It was Princeton's first victory over Harvard since Nov. 2019, and also marked the completion of the two-game 2023-24 season series between the two schools, who played to a tie in Cambridge, Mass. in early November (with Princeton winning a subsequent shootout).

After Jack Bar and Joe Miller staked Harvard (1-6-3 overall, 1-4-3 ECACH) to a 2-0 lead just over 16 minutes into Saturday's contest, Princeton (6-5-2, 5-3-1) then rebounded with five unanswered goals spanning the last two periods for the win. Jaxson Ezman got the Tigers on the board with a shot from the slot 3:30 into the middle stanza to make it 2-1, before Adam Robbins and Kai Daniells tallied power-play goals just under 12 minutes apart to give Princeton a 3-2 lead after 40 minutes.

Ezman salted away the contest on his second goal of the afternoon, with just over five minutes remaining in regulation, before Carabin scored shorthanded into an empty net less than two minutes later for the final margin, with Harvard's goaltender pulled for an extra attacker. Princeton outshot Harvard, 31-30, on the afternoon, while the Crimson won 32 of 61 faceoffs in all. The Tigers also went 2-for-3 on the power play, while killing off all four Harvard man-advantages, including a 5-on-3 in the first period.

Arthur Smith finished with 28 saves for the Tigers, while Derek Mullahy made 26 stops for the Crimson. Princeton will return to NCAA action on Jan. 5-6 at Hockey East opponent New Hampshire, while Harvard will visit Hockey East's UConn today to close out the calendar year.

Princeton's Hobey Baker Rink Celebrates 100 Years

Princeton University certainly made famed alumnus Hobey Baker proud⁠—and Patty Kazmaier, also.

On the weekend where Princeton's venerable Hobey Baker Rink was celebrated for the passage of a century since the facility first opened its doors on Jan. 5, 1923, the Tigers men's and women's hockey teams combined for three wins in four games against ECAC Hockey/Ivy League opponents Dartmouth and Harvard. 

On Saturday, the Stanley Cup was on display at a fan fest held outside the arena. Also in attendance were the Hobey Baker Award and the Patty Kazmaier Award, both named for Princeton hockey alumni, and annually awarded to the top NCAA Division I men's and women's player in the nation, respectively. 

The Princeton women blanked Harvard, 3-0, Saturday afternoon behind Taylor Hyland's 32 saves and Issy Wunder's two goals, in front of 1,544 spectators. The men's team topped Dartmouth, 4-2, that night before 2,300 on-lookers as Ian Murphy scored twice, Nick Seitz notched the game-winning goal shorthanded, and Ethan Pearson made 22 stops. The ceremonial opening faceoff for the men's game against Dartmouth was conducted with Princeton athletic director/alumnus John Mack and U.S. Army General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Princeton hockey alumnus. Fellow Tiger hockey alumni 

George Parros and Kevin Westgarth appeared Saturday night with the Stanley Cup, with Parros having won it in 2007 with the Anaheim Ducks and Westgarth in 2012 with the Los Angeles Kings. Many other Princeton hockey men's and women's alumni were in attendance over the weekend, with the men's program dating back to 1900 and the women's program having begun in 1979.

Friday afternoon saw head coach Cara Morey's Tiger women topple Dartmouth, 5-2, as Annie Kuehl tallied two goals and Jennifer Olnowich made 15 saves in net. Ron Fogarty's The Tiger men saw a three-goal lead evaporate later that night in a 4-3 overtime setback to 10th-ranked Harvard, despite 37 saves by Pearson. Princeton's Adam Robbins made ESPN SportsCenter's Top 10 highlights list with his penalty-shot goal.

The Princeton women (8-7-1 overall, 5-5-0 ECAC) return to action this weekend at Cornell and Colgate, while the Princeton men (8-9-0, 6-7-0) will host independent LIU on Friday and No. 11 Providence on Jan. 17.

Cornell Blanks Princeton in Regular-Season Finale

Cornell men's hockey wrapped up its 2021-22 regular season on Saturday night at Princeton with a 4-0 victory over the host Tigers at Hobey Baker Rink.

A goal by Cornell's Sullivan Mack just 46 seconds into the contest stood up as the game-winner. It was also the first career collegiate goal for the freshman from Anchorage, Alaska.

The score then remained unchanged until late in the second period, when Sebastian Dirven scored for the Big Red, with one of the assists going to New Jersey native Jack Malone. Liam Motley and Kyle Penney (empty-net goal) then closed out the scoring in the third period.

Ian Shane made 23 saves for Cornell in earning his third shutout of the season, while Jeremie Forget had 30 stops for the Tigers. Cornell outshot Princeton, 34-23, on the night, while the two Ivy League teams combined to go 0-for-8 on the power play.

Associate head coach Ben Syer again ran the bench for Cornell on game night, as longtime head coach Mike Schafer continues to recover from COVID-19 complications and cardiac stent surgery.

The 18th-ranked Big Red did not allow a goal on the weekend, having beaten ECAC Hockey frontrunner Quinnipiac the night before by a 1-0 count, thanks to an early goal by Malone and 42 saves in all from Shane. Quinnipiac still finished in first place in the final ECAC Hockey standings, while Cornell wound up in fourth place.

Cornell will be idle next weekend, thanks to a first-round bye in the 2022 ECAC Hockey tournament for finishing in the top four, while Princeton will travel to Union for a best-of-three first-round elimination series.

Ivy League Cancels 2020-21 Ice Hockey Seasons

There will be no Ivy League winter sports contested for the 2020-21 season, including men's and women's ice hockey, as announced today by the NCAA Division I conference.

Spring sports for the eight Ivy League institutions—Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Yale—are also postponed through Feb. 2021 due to the ongoing and now increasing COVID-19 pandemic, which had originally canceled the end of the 2019-20 NCAA hockey season(s) and also the various NCAA hockey tournaments in March and April.

Six Ivy League schools—Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and Yale—are members of the ECAC Hockey conference, for both men's and women's hockey. Cornell won both last season's Ivy League men's and women's hockey regular-season titles, and was also in first place in ECAC Hockey in both divisions before their respective campaigns were terminated by COVID-19.

Three Ivy Leaguers Turn Pro

Several more Ivy League hockey players with NCAA eligibility remaining have instead signed professional contracts.

Morgan Barron (Cornell), who led the Big Red to the ECAC hockey title and a No. 1 national ranking in the COVID-abbreviated 2019-20 season, has signed with the NHL's New York Rangers after three winters in Ithaca, N.Y. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Barron, 21, was drafted 174th overall by the Rangers in 2017. In three seasons at Cornell, the 6-foot-3 center posted 34 goals and 50 assists for 84 points. He was a first team Division I All-America selection and a Hobey Baker Memorial Award finalist last season, and was also a two-time Ivy League First Team choice and two-time ECAC Hockey First Team pick.

Jack Drury (Harvard) has passed up his final two campaigns with the Crimson to join Vaxjo (Sweden). The son of former Harvard standout Ted Drury, and the nephew of 2001 Stanley Cup champion Chris Drury (Boston University), the youngest Drury collected 29-34—63 points in two seasons in Cambridge, including a 20-goal campaign last year. A six-foot center from Winnetka, Ill., he was drafted 42nd overall by the Carolina Hurricanes in 2018, and was a second team selection in both the Ivy League and ECAC Hockey last year. He also skated for the United state sin teh last two World Junior Championships.

Henry Bowlby (Harvard) decided three years with the Crimson was enough, as he inked an entry-level contract with the Florida Panthers as a free agent. A 6-foot-1 center from Edina, Minn., the undrafted Bowlby, 23, registered a total of 21-24—45 points in his tenure at Harvard,  which included a 2019 NCAA tournament berth.

The Ivy League has canceled all fall sports due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed back the start of the 2020-21 hockey season to at least Jan. 1.

Gaudet Retires From Dartmouth After 32 NCAA Seasons

Longtime college head coach Bob Gaudet (Dartmouth) has called it a career.

Gaudet, who has mentored his alma mater since the 1997-98 campaign, has announced his retirement, effective at the end of June, after serving as head coach at first Brown University and then Dartmouth College since 1998-99. He departs with a 424-482-112 overall record amassed over 32 NCAA seasons.

Gaudet coached in his 1,000^th career contest in a 4-3 win at Princeton on Jan. 3. He coached his final career game in the Big Green’s 5-4 overtime loss to Princeton on March 7 in the first round of the 2020 ECAC Hockey championship.

”It blows me away, the doors that Dartmouth opened for me in my life, and to have the chance to come back as a coach … it was a natural progression,” said Gaudet to New York Hockey Journal in late 2018. “I owe so much to this school, and I try to repay it in some small way as a coach.”

Gaudet, from Saugus, Mass., became the all-time leader in hockey victories at his alma mater when the Big Green defeated Cornell, 3-2, on Nov. 30, 2018. It was Gaudet’s 309th win at Dartmouth, which pushed him past school legend Eddie Jeremiah.

In 23 seasons in Hanover, N.H., Gaudet posted a school-record 331 victories. The 2005-06 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year when he guided the Big Green to the conference regular-season title, he also led Dartmouth to the 2006-07 Ivy League crown, and was personally inducted into the New Hampshire Legends of Hockey Hall of Fame in 2018.

A 1981 graduate of Dartmouth, Gaudet backstopped the Big Green for four seasons as a goaltender, including NCAA semifinal appearances in both 1979 and 1980. After signing a contract with the Winnipeg Jets and playing professionally with Fort Wayne (IHL), he began his coaching career as an assistant at Dartmouth in 1983-84 before moving on to Brown in 1988-89 as the head coach for eight years. He led the Bears to a 1993 NCAA tournament berth before returning to Dartmouth for good four years later.

Coronavirus Cancels Cornell's Stellar Season

No. 1 Cornell's 2019-20 men's hockey season is over, two steps short of a fourth straight trip to the NCAA tournament, and a possible return to the Frozen Four for the first time in 17 years.

The Big Red lost only two games all season, won both the ECAC Hockey regular season and Ivy League crowns, and were undefeated in their last nine outings overall before COVID-19 emerged earlier this month. Read more here.

Coronavirus Chases Out NCAA Tournament Crowds

First it was Rensselaer, followed by Cornell in banning spectators, and then the Ivy League as a whole canceling its entire spring season.

Now, no spectators will be allowed at any of the games of the 2020 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament, or any NCAA tournament in any sport this spring, as stipulated by the college governing body today in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

That includes the Division I men's ice hockey regionals in: Albany, N.Y.; Allentown, Pa.; Loveland, Col., and; Worcester, Mass., on March 27-29 There will also be no spectators allowed at the 2020 Frozen Four at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit in April, the first time the championship is being held in that building, and the first time in the Motor City since Ford Field hosted the 2010 NCAA Frozen Four.

According to USCHO.com, "only credentialed institutional personnel, student-athlete family members, credentialed media crews and official team party members will be allowed to attend games."

The 2020 ECAC Hockey men's championship quartefinals have also been re-worked, as Harvard and Yale will no longer participate. Princeton will now play at Quinnipiac, and Colgate will vist Rensselaer this weekend, while top-seeded Cornell and No. 2 Clarkson will receive byes to the league semifinals in Lake Placid the following weekend.

ADDENDUM: The remainder of the 2020 ECAC Hockey championship through Lake Placid has been canceled., along with the rest of the men's WCHA championship. The NCAA Tournament has also been canceled.

No. 1 Cornell Outlasts Princeton, 5-3

One night after suffering a five-goal defeat at No. 18 Quinnipiac, top-ranked Cornell rebounded for a 5-3 victory in Ivy League men’s hockey action at Princeton on Saturday night.

Ben Tupker’s backhand goal in front just under six minutes into the third period stood up as the game-winner, with Tristan Mullin collecting his second goal of the game with 50 seconds remaining in regulation to ice it for Cornell (14-2-4 overall, 9-2-2 ECAC Hockey). Princeton had closed to within 4-3 just over two minutes after Tupker’s tally.

The Big Red led, 2-0, after 20 minutes of play, before the host Tigers scored twice in the second period to knot matters, 2-2, after 40 minutes. Cornell also got goals from Max Andreev and Alex Green, while all three of Princeton’s scores—from Mark Paolini, Spencer Kersten and Liam Grande—came on power plays. Cornell finished 3-for-8 on its power plays, while Princeton went 3-for-6 with a man advantage.

Jeremie Forget stopped 31 shots for Princeton, while Matthew Galajda made 12 saves for Cornell, which outshot Princeton (3-12-14, 1-9-3) by a 36-15 margin on the night at a sold-out Hobey Baker Rink. The Big Red also swept the season series, having topped Princeton by a 5-1 count in Ithaca, N.Y. earlier this season.

Harvard's Fox Signs with NHL's Rangers

Adam Fox (Harvard) won’t be returning to college for his senior season after all.

The 5-foot-10 defenseman and three-time All-America selection, whose NHL rights were traded earlier this week from the Carolina Hurricanes to the New York Rangers, has signed an entry-level contact to skate on Broadway, according to multiple sources.

The Jericho, N.Y. native notched 22 goals and 94 assists for 116 points through 95 career collegiate outings for the Crimson. His totals as a junior in 2018-19 included nine goals and 39 assists for a career-high and team-leading 48 points in 33 outings as Harvard finished 19-11-3 overall. His accolades included ECAC Hockey Player of the Year, ECAC Hockey First Team, and Ivy League Player of the Year.

Fox played in his final collegiate contest in a 4-0 loss to UMass in an NCAA Northeast Regional semifinal in Manchester, N.H., on March 29. He was also one of three finalists for the 2019 Hobey Baker Memorial Award, annually bestowed upon the top player in NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey, and won the 2019 Walter Brown Award as the top American-born player in New England college hockey.

Originally drafted by the Calgary Flames in the third round of the 2016 NHL Draft, Fox’s rights were later traded to Carolina on June 23, 2018 as part of the Dougie Hamilton/Noah Hanifin deal.

A product of the U.S. National Team Development Program in Michigan, he helped the Americans to both gold and bronze medals in separate World Junior Championships. As a freshman at Harvard, he was named First Team ACHA/CCM All-America; First Team All-ECAC Hockey; First Team Ivy League; ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team; ECAC Hockey All-Tournament; NCAA East Regional All-Tournament, and; a Walter Brown Award semifinalist as the Crimson made the NCAA Frozen Four. As a sophomore, he earned First Team CCM/AHCA All-America, First Team All-ECAC Hockey and First Team All-Ivy League recognition.