About CHN
College Hockey News is published with the goal of providing the most comprehensive news, statistics, information and analysis of college hockey available anywhere.
CHN's staff includes professionals who have worked in journalism for decades, and who have covered college hockey for over 20 years.
The CHN staff includes:
Executive Staff
Adam Wodon -- Managing Editor -- Wodon has been covering college since 1988, and has since spent time as the play-by-play broadcaster for Princeton and Cornell, as well as professional hockey. He has worked on Westwood One's Frozen Four broadcasts since 2011. He worked at USCHO.com for nine years, and on College Sports Television's regular college hockey coverage for three years. He has also worked for ESPN, including the 2004 Frozen Four game broadcasts, and 2003-05 NCAA Tournament Selection Shows. Other work includes television for CN-8 and the ECAC, as well as various radio, newspaper and television assignments since 1992.
Mike Machnik -- Technical Editor -- Machnik has been covering college hockey since 1986. In 1989 he started the first ever Internet resource devoted to the sport, HOCKEY-L, and followed that in 1996 by helping to start the first web site for college hockey, USCHO.com. He has also spent 16 years broadcasting Division I hockey on radio and television, receiving a regional award from the Associated Press for mid-market radio coverage and another award from the Associated Press for television coverage in 2008. In 2011, he won the Hockey East media award (the Jon Concannon Award). He has broadcast NCAA regional and Frozen Four games in the late 1990s and hosted Frozen Four pregame shows in 2001 and 2002.
Avash Kalra -- News Editor / CCHA Writer -- Kalra is a 2005 graduate of Cornell University. He has been covering college hockey since 2006 as a features and game writer, and coordinates a staff of news writers.
Luke Rajnoha -- Agate Editor
Senior Writers
Joe Meloni -- Hockey East / Associate Editor -- Meloni has covered college hockey since 2007, when he had the UMass beat for The Daily Collegian. Joe has also covered UMass for USCHO and has covered Hockey East for College Hockey News since 2008. He is an annual contributor to CHN's NCAA Tournament, Hockey East Championships and Beanpot coverage. Originally from Stoughton, Mass., he currently lives in Brookline, Mass., and is also a business and technology writer in Boston.
Dan Myers -- WCHA -- Myers has covered college hockey since 2003 but has grown up as a fan of the game since the early-1990s. Dan graduated from Minnesota State in 2007, where he covered the Mavericks for USCHO and the MSU Reporter for five seasons. He started covering the WCHA for College Hockey News in the spring of 2008, and is a veteran of 10 straight WCHA Final Fives, several NCAA Regionals and one Frozen Four. A lifelong Minnesotan, he currently lives in the St. Paul area and is a freelance journalist and high school football coach.
Photography Staff
Josh Gibney
Karen Winger
Neil Ament
Ryan Coleman
Scott Pierson
Brad Olson
Bradley Pettingill
Regular Contributors
Tom Douglis. The former editor of College Hockey Magazine and former public relations coordinator for USA Hockey, he has also freelanced for UPI, ESPN, WFXT-TV, USCHO.com, The Sporting News, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press, the Milwaukee Journal, Hockey Canada and the Rocky Mountain News.
Scott McLaughlin
Michael King
Matthew Conyers
Mike McMahon
Timothy O'Donnell
Cara Spilsbury
