Tag: Danton Cole
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Spartan Hockey Captains Announced for 2017-18 Season
Michigan State hockey head coach Danton Cole announced on Thursday (May 18) the team captains for the 2017-18 season. Junior Mason Appleton will serve as team captain, while senior Carson Gatt, junior Brennan Sanford and sophomore Sam Saliba were elected assistant captains.
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Chris Luongo and Joe Exter Added to Spartan Hockey Coaching Staff
Michigan State hockey head coach Danton Cole has completed his coaching staff with the hiring of Chris Luongo and Joe Exter as assistant coaches, it was announced on Wednesday. Both Luongo and Exter will begin their roles with the Spartan hockey program immediately.
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Danton Cole takes the helm of his alma mater’s Spartan hockey program
Danton Cole, an 18-year coaching veteran with international, professional and collegiate experience, is the new head coach of the Michigan State hockey program. Cole, who was a key member of some of the most successful Spartan hockey teams in program history, comes to Michigan State from USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program where he has mentored some of the nation’s top young players on the U-17 and U-18 teams for the past seven seasons.
Source: The Spartan Podcast
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Q&A With … Danton Cole
Last week, Danton Cole was named the new coach at Michigan State, his alma mater.
Source: College Hockey New
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Spartan Speak: Miles Bridges, Danton Cole, MSU football
After a two-week break, Lansing State Journal columnist Graham Couch and Detroit Free Press/LSJ Michigan State beat writer Chris Solari are back! The duo kicks things off by discussing Miles Bridges’ decision to return to MSU, the Party at Sparty, and the long-term ramifications. They then move on to discuss new hockey head coach Danton Cole (22:45) and cap things off with a discussion of more bad news for the Spartan football team (33:00).
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Inside MSU Athletics – April 18, 2017
We are joined by Hockey Head Coach Danton Cole, Women’s Golf Coach Stacey Slobondnik-Stoll and Women’s Soccer Head Coach Tom Saxton throughout the show
Source: Spartan Sports Network
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The Danton Cole Era is Underway
New Spartans Head Hockey Coach Danton Cole made sure in his introductory press conference to make it clear that this job means a lot to him. Cole is a Spartan through and through. Not only is the new bench boss fortunate, this program is fortunate. The thought of Cole going to the now vacant job in Ann Arbor and beating MSU in the future is almost unbearable. Luckily, we’ll never have to know what that feels like. Cole has the feel of a guy who could be here for a long, long time.
Source: The Only Colors
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Couch: Danton and Debbie Cole’s long road between Waverly and MSU
Of the many things that attracted Debbie Fox to Danton Cole all those years ago, hockey wasn’t one of them. Danton liked that. Still does. “I think she understands the business of hockey,” Michigan State’s new hockey coach said of his wife. “But, I don’t want this to come out the wrong way, I don’t think hockey is that important to her.
Source: Lansing State Journal
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Behind the Mask S4E21: There’s a new coach in town
Danton Cole is the new coach of Spartan hockey, and a new era dawns in East Lansing. In the final podcast of the season, Jason, Jacob, and Andrew give their thoughts on the hire and what Cole brings to the table. In addition, the guys break down Cole’s recent press conference and look at how Cole will achieve the four points of his plan to resurrect Spartan hockey.
Source: Impact Sports
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Cole Took the Winding Path Home
Cole had a lengthy playing career, then got into coaching, first in the minor leagues in the AHL and even lower levels. When he was with Grand Rapids, he said he told a reporter that one day he wanted to wind up back in East Lansing. “It’s been on my mind. The timing has to be right, sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t,” Cole said. “That’s a lesson you have to learn. And when great things happen, it’s a wonderful thing.”
Source: Cole Took the Winding Path Home : College Hockey News
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MSU hockey excited for future with new head coach Danton Cole
It took 21 days, but the new face of the MSU ice hockey program has been chosen.MSU alum and Pontiac, Mich. native Danton Cole was announced the seventh head coach in program history in a press conference on Tuesday. After a dismal, dispiriting 2016-17 season, one where the Spartans won just a mere seven total games, the MSU hockey team is excited for what is to come.
Source: The State News
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Neil’s Notebook: Cole Back Home With His Dream Job
Danton Cole has his share of different hockey coaching jobs. There have been stops in Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Grand Rapids again, Fraser, Bowling Green, Ohio, Huntsville, Alabama, and Ann Arbor. Now, he has his dream job: Head coach, Michigan State University his alma mater.
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Spartans who played for Cole at USA NTDP say he’ll kick butt
Danton Cole stood at the podium on Tuesday in the Huntington Club at Munn Ice Arena after being introduced as the seventh head hockey coach in the program’s history outlining some of the expectations he had for the rejuvenation of the program going forward. But before he got more in-depth as to how he hopes to return a program once known as a national power, one that hasn’t been to the NCAA Tournament since 2012, back to not just respectability but as a regular participant in the postseason, Cole talked ab
Source: SpartanMag.com
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New hockey coach Danton Cole hopes to find right recruiting mix for MSU
“We’ll identify, recruit and sign elite players to come here and to join the guys that are already here, and the pressure will be on them to get that momentum going and teach those young guys when they come in so they can take over for them,” Cole said during his introductory news conference Tuesday. “That excellence on and off the ice is very important.”
Source: Detroit Free Press
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The Only Podcast: Ice, Ice, Baby
TOC hockey contributor Jeremy Dewar joins Chris for a short episode on new MSU hockey head coach Danton Cole.
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Danton Cole joins The Drive
Jack Ebling and Chip Mundy are joined by, Danton Cole, new head hockey coach at Michigan State, former Spartan National Champion as a player, Stanley Cup winner with the New Jersey Devils and coach of the U-18 USA National Team Development Program, on his return to E.L. and his alma mater.
Listen to “Danton Cole, MSU Hockey Coach, joins The Drive -11-17” on Spreaker.
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Couch: Danton Cole must rescue MSU hockey from the abyss
Who knows where Michigan State’s hockey program would be if Danton Cole had been hired as its coach six years ago. He wanted the job then. He’s always wanted the job. And always might be understating it. Cole was a more logical choice than Tom Anastos in 2011. He was the fan’s choice — one of them, at least — and the hockey world’s suggested choice. In hindsight, probably a better choice.
Source: Lansing State Journal
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Michigan State officially introduces Danton Cole as new men’s hockey coach
Danton Cole was officially introduced as the new leader of Michigan State’s hockey program on Tuesday afternoon. It was reported Cole, a former Michigan State player and Stanley Cup champion with the New Jersey Devils, was set to take the job on Monday. The team welcomed him with a press conference. “Everybody wants to be a part of something great, and that’s what Michigan State hockey is,” Cole said after being introduced.
Source: Land of 10
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Michigan State to introduce alum Danton Cole as hockey coach today
Athletic director Mark Hollis is expected to announce Danton Cole as Michigan State’s new hockey coach at a 3 p.m. news conference today at Munn Arena.Two hockey sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed Cole’s hiring to the Free Press.
Source: Detroit Free Press