News from the AMERICAN HOCKEY COACHES ASSOCIATION For immediate release: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 Minnesota State’s Mike Hastings Is Voted CCM/AHCA Division I Men’s Coach of the Year Second Spencer Penrose Award for Mavericks’ Coach For leading Minnesota State University into the 2021 Frozen Four, Mike Hastings has been chosen the recipient of the 2021 Spencer Penrose Award as Division I Men’s Ice Hockey CCM/AHCA Coach of the Year. The honor is the second for Hastings, who was also the recipient in 2015. The 2020-21 Mavericks have enjoyed tremendous success this season and look to extend that when they take on St. Cloud State Thursday at 5:00 p.m. in the first NCAA Semifinal in Pittsburgh. They were able to advance to the Frozen Four by virtue of two victories at the NCAA Regionals in Loveland, CO. In the first game, the Maver- icks trailed Quinnipiac, 3-1, late in the third period but rallied to tie the game and win it in overtime, 4-3. In the Regional Final, MNSU rode the goaltending of Dryden McKay to down the University of Minneso- ta, 4-0. The Mavericks, who bring a record of 22-4-1 into the weekend, captured the WCHA regular season title this past season, going 13- 1-2 in league play. It was the sixth MacNaughton Cup in Hastings’ nine seasons with Minnesota State. Overall, MNSU leads the NCAA in team defense with a 1.52 goals allowed average. They are also averaging 3.56 goals per game, fifth best in the NCAA. Their power play, at 25.8, is fourth best in the country. Entering the Frozen Four, Hastings has a career record of 236-89-24. His winning percentage of .711 is the best among all active NCAA Division I men’s head coaches. The fourth coach in the history of the Maverick men’s hockey program, Hastings arrived at Minnesota State following a three-year stint as the associate head coach at Nebraska-Omaha. He also served as an assistant coach with the men’s hockey program at the University of Minnesota for one season and before that had a 14-year run as head coach of Omaha of the United States Hockey League. He left the USHL as the league’s all-time winningest coach, compiling a 529-210-56 record with the Lancers, never had a losing season and led Omaha to three Clark Cup titles as the USHL’s play-off champions. He was named USHL Coach of the Year three times and as the team’s general manager, earned league GM of the Year honors five times. Hastings was an assistant coach for the U.S. national junior team at the 2003 and 2005 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championships and served twice as head coach for the U.S. junior select team that competed in the Viking Cup, earning gold medal honors in 2000. A 1993 graduate of St. Cloud State, Hastings played two years for the Huskies (1986-87 and 1987-88) before a back injury ended his career. Assisting Hastings this season were Todd Knott, Darren Blue and Brennan Poderzay. The runner-up for this year’s Spencer Penrose Award was Greg Carvel of the University of Massachusetts. The Spencer Penrose Award is named in memory of the Colorado Springs benefactor who built the Broadmoor Hotel Complex, site of the first 10 NCAA championship hockey tournaments.The CCM AHCA COACH of the YEAR AWARDS are sponsored by CCM HOCKEY and chosen by members of the AMERICAN HOCKEY COACHES ASSOCIATION. CCM is the legendary hockey brand dedicated to the endless pursuit of performance by delivering game-changing, head-to-toe innovative hockey equipment to players worldwide. -More- JOE BERTAGNA CASEY JONES BRUCE DELVENTHAL Executive Director President Treasurer 7 Concord Street Clarkson University 7298 Salerno Court Gloucester, MA 01930 Potsdam, NY 13699 Naples, FL 34114 (978) 376-5494 (315) 268-3874 (518) 420-7479 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 2021 Spencer Penrose Award Winner/April 6, 2021/Page Two Recipients of the Spencer Penrose Award Division One Coach of the Year 1951 Edward Jeremiah, Dartmouth 1987 John “Gino” Gasparini, North Dakota 1952 Cheddy Thompson, Colorado College 1988 Frank Anzalone, Lake Superior 1953 John Mariucci, Minnesota 1989 Joe Marsh, St. Lawrence 1954 Vic Heyliger, Michigan 1990 Terry Slater, Colgate 1955 Ralph “Cooney” Weiland, Harvard 1991 Rick Comley, Northern Michigan 1956 William Harrison, Clarkson 1992 Ron Mason, Michigan State 1957 Jack Riley, Army 1993 George Gwozdecky, Miami 1958 Harry Cleverly, Boston University 1994 Don Lucia, Colorado College 1959 John “Snooks” Kelley, Boston College 1995 Shawn Walsh, Maine 1960 Jack Riley, Army 1996 Bruce Crowder, MA-Lowell 1961 Murray Armstrong, Denver 1997 Dean Blais, North Dakota 1962 Jack Kelley, Colby 1998 Tim Taylor, Yale 1963 Tony Frasca, Colorado College 1999 Richard Umile, New Hampshire 1964 Tom Eccleston, Providence 2000 Joe Marsh, St. Lawrence 1965 Jim Fullerton, Brown 2001 Dean Blais, North Dakota 1966 Amo Bessone, Michigan State 2002 Tim Whitehead, Maine Len Ceglarski, Clarkson 2003 Bob Daniels, Ferris State 1967 Edward Jeremiah, Dartmouth 2004 Scott Sandelin, Minnesota Duluth 1968 Ned Harkness, Cornell 2005 George Gwozdecky, Denver 1969 Charlie Holt, New Hampshire 2006 Enrico Blasi, Miami 1970 John MacInnes, Michigan Tech 2007 Jeff Jackson, Notre Dame 1971 Ralph “Cooney” Weiland, Harvard 2008 Red Berenson, Michigan 1972 John “Snooks” Kelley, Boston College 2009 Jack Parker, Boston University 1973 Len Ceglarski, Boston College 2010 Wayne Wilson, RIT 1974 Charlie Holt, New Hampshire 2011 Nate Leaman, Union 1975 Jack Parker, Boston University 2012 Bob Daniels, Ferris State 1976 John MacInnes, Michigan Tech 2013 Norm Bazin, UMass Lowell 1977 Jerry York, Clarkson 2014 Rick Bennett, Union 1978 Jack Parker, Boston University 2015 Mike Hastings, Minnesota State 1979 Charlie Holt, New Hampshire 2016 Rand Pecknold, Quinnipiac 1980 Rick Comley, Northern Michigan 2017 Jim Montgomery, Denver 1981 Bill O’Flaherty, Clarkson 2018 Jeff Jackson, Notre Dame 1982 Ferny Flaman, Northeastern 2019 Greg Carvel, Massachusetts 1983 Bill Cleary, Harvard 2020 Brad Berry, North Dakota 1984 Mike Sertich, Minnesota-Duluth Mike Schafer, Cornell 1985 Len Ceglarski, Boston College 2021 Mike Hastings, Minnesota State 1986 Ralph Backstrom, Denver.