It's easy to forget Rick Gotkin isn't the only head coach in the history of Mercyhurst University men's hockey. Fred Lane was behind the Lakers' bench for the program's NCAA debut in 1987. Gotkin, ...

Mercyhurst University announced plans Friday, March 27, to cut men’s ice hockey from its NCAA Division I athletics program. Effective upon completion of the 2025-26 academic year, Hurst will no longer ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Mercyhurst University, a school well known by many in Western New York for its athletic programs, announced it plans to cut its Division I men’s hockey program. The announcement ...

That was the 1988 mindset for 28-year old Brooklyn native Rick Gotkin when Mercyhurst University hired the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute men’s hockey assistant to coach the Lakers’ nascent program.

A tower of pucks on the side of the Mercyhurst Ice Arena. Mercyhurst closed their Men’s hockey program with little notice to the players and coaches, causing a reaction among the college hockey ...

Mercyhurst will drop its Division I men's hockey program at the end of the academic year as part of a university-wide master plan, the 2,600-student private school announced on Friday. The Lakers ...

Sad news for college hockey in Pennsylvania. On Friday, Mercyhurst University announced that the school is going to be cutting its men’s Division I hockey program, effective at the end of the 2025-26 ...

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Mercyhurst will drop its Division I men's hockey program at the end of the academic year as part of a university-wide master plan, the 2,600-student private school announced Friday.