Implications from the coronavirus cancellations continue to wreak havoc on Ivy League hockey programs. Over the past two days, Yale and Harvard have lost a current player and a recruit, respectively. Yale lost a top-pairing defenseman when Jack St. Ivany entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, likely to head to Boston College. The Manhattan Beach, Calif.,...
Implications from the coronavirus cancellations continue to wreak havoc on Ivy League hockey programs. Over the past two days, Yale and Harvard have lost a current player and a recruit, respectively.
Yale lost a top-pairing defenseman when Jack St. Ivany entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, likely to head to Boston College. The Manhattan Beach, Calif., native would be eligible to play for the Eagles once the first semester is over. St. Ivany was a fourth-round pick of the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2018 NHL draft.
St. Ivany, who will be a junior eligibility-wise, scored seven goals and 23 assists for 30 points in 62 games during his two seasons at Yale. He came to the Bulldogs as somewhat of a late bloomer. St. Ivany played youth hockey for the Los Angeles Junior Kings before spending two seasons of junior hockey in the United States Hockey League with the Sioux Falls Stampede.
Defenseman Ryan Tverberg has switched his commitment from Harvard to Connecticut. The ’02 from Richmond Hills, Ontario, was picked by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the seventh round of the 2020 NHL draft.
Tverberg spent the past few seasons with the Toronto Junior Canadians, moving from the organization’s Midget program in the GTHL to spending last season in the Ontario Junior Hockey League. Tverberg is slated to play this season for the Alberni Valley Bulldogs in the British Columbia Hockey League.
There are multiple other players from across the Ivy League’s six hockey-playing institutions who are in the transfer portal. Another ECAC Hockey player in the transfer portal is Boxford, Mass., native Jack Adams. According to multiple reports, Adams has interest from Big Ten, Hockey East and NCHC programs.
In two seasons at Union, another school that has canceled the 2020-21 season, Adams scored 14 goals and 21 assists for 35 points in 66 games. Adams played high school hockey at Malden Catholic before heading to the USHL’s Fargo Force. He was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the sixth round of the 2017 NHL draft.
