The MSU hockey program didn’t receive any National Letters of Intent on Wednesday, but assistant coach Tom Newton said there was “no problem” with MSU’s recruiting class expected to sign this week.
Left wings Kevin Estrada and Mike Lalonde and center Ash Goldie are still expected to sign with MSU this week, bringing the Spartans’ recruiting class for the 2001-02 season to seven players.
NCAA rules prohibit MSU officials from speaking about players until the school has received National Letters of Intent.
MSU head coach Ron Mason is out of town and Newton said he hadn’t heard of any letters that have arrived at the Office of Compliance Services yet.
“The players will probably put them in the mail (Wednesday) and we should have them by Friday,” Newton said.
Lake Superior State hires former coach
Frank Anzalone will return to Lake Superior State - the team he coached to the 1988 national championship - the school announced Tuesday.
Anzalone replaces Scott Borek, who was fired after the team’s last-place CCHA finish this season. The Lakers went 76-94-17 in five years under Borek, and struggled to a 13-22-0 record this season - missing the CCHA playoffs for the first time since 1983.
That was the year Anzalone took over the Lakers in midseason. He coached the team from 1983-90 and took the Lakers from last place in the league in 1982-83 to the national title in only five years.
His contract was not renewed following the 1989-90 season and Anzalone left Sault Ste. Marie to coach minor league and high school hockey.
“I’m obviously very happy to get back into college hockey,” Anzalone said in a released statement. “When I left the Sault in 1990, I was deeply saddened. I left behind a stable program and a legion of loyal players.”
