Friday, October 4, 2019

NHL.com Introduces ‘On Campus’

Award-winning journalist Mark Divver to feature college hockey on league web site.

NHL.com Introduces ‘On Campus’
Scott Perunovich was one of 10 draft picks highlighted in the first edition of ‘On Campus’ (Photo by Matt Dewkett).

On the eve of the 2019-20 NCAA hockey season, NHL.com introduced a new feature as “On Campus” spotlights some of the future NHL stars playing at the college level.

Award-winning journalist Mark Divver is writing the feature, which opened with a look at 10 drafted players to watch in college hockey this season.

“The 2019-20 NCAA Division I hockey season starts Saturday,” Divver writes, “and its importance to the NHL has never been more pronounced.”

Each of the 10 players profiled is a sophomore, junior or senior, and only two – Wisconsin’s K’Andre Miller (Minnetonka, Minn./U.S. NTDP/NYR) and North Dakota’s Jacob Bernard-Docker (Canmore, Alta./Okotoks-AJHL/OTT) – were first-round NHL draft picks.

Divver, a longtime journalist with the Providence Journal, also writes for USCHO.com. He was the 2019 recipient of Hockey East’s Joe Concannon Media Award.