The Nichols Bison are a Men’s Division III ice hockey team representing Nichols College, located in Dudley, Massachusetts from the Conference of New England. The team is based out of Levy Rink, which is located in Burrillville, Rhode Island. The men’s program was elevated to the varsity status for the 1959-60 season, after playing as a club team for most seasons since 1931-32.

 

Quick Hits

• School: Nichols College
• Location: Dudley, Massachusetts
• School Founded: 1931
• Enrollment: 1,570
• Colors: Black, Green, & White
• Home Arena: Levy Rink
• Arena Capacity: 1,250
• Rink Dimensions: 200′ x 85′
• Conference: Conference of New England (CNE)
• Head Coach: Alex Gasek
• Conference Titles: 4 (1971*, 2009, 2014, 2015)
• Conference Tournament Titles: 6 (1970*, 1971*, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2018)

Conferences

• ECAC (1959-1966)
• Worcester Collegiate Hockey League (1966-1972)
• ECAC Division II (1967-1971)
• ECAC Division III (1971-1985)
• ECAC North (1985-1998)
• ECAC Northeast (1995-2016)
• Conference of New England (2016-present)
  • formerly named the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) until 2024

Arenas

• Levy Rink (1959-present)

Head Coaches

• P. Reynolds (1959-1960) 7-6-0 (.539)
• E. Kerr (1960-1961) 7-5-3 (.567)
• Bill Kane (1961-1965) 33-23-4 (.583)
• Dick Logueil (1965-1969) 28-37-2 (.433)
• Bayard Maxwell (1969-1972) 38-22-4 (.625)
• John Kelly (1972-1975) 25-32-1 (.440)
• Allen Kubicki (1975-1979) 40-36-1 (.526)
• Mark Bombard (1979-1982) 14-45-0 (.234)
• Michael Correa (1982-1984) 3-28-0 (.097)
• Joseph Ouellet (1984-1988) 15-77-2 (.170)
• Richard Metro (1988-1991) 15-45-3 (.262)
• Bob Lavin (1991-1998) 41-103-5 (.292)
• John Carter (1998-1999) 8-15-1 (354)
• John Snyder (1999-2000) 0-21-0 (.000)
• Mark Jago (2000-2004) 19-69-3 (.225)
• Lou Izzi (2004-2012) 117-82-13 (.583)
• Kevin Swallow (2012-2015) 55-20-7 (.713)
• Parker Burgess (2015-2020) 73-51-13 (.580)
• Mike Parnell (2020-2023) 18-34-1 (.349)
• Alex Gasek (2023-present) 26-43-9 (.391)

Year by Year Results

Season	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts	Finish	Conference Tournament	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
NCAA College Division Independent										Overall Record
1959-60	13	7	6	0						13	7	6	0
1960-61	15	7	5	3						15	7	5	3
1961-62	11	6	1	4						11	6	1	4
1962-63	13	6	7	0						13	6	7	0
1963-64	19	12	7	0						19	12	7	0
1964-65	17	9	8	0	65	75				17	9	8	0	65	75
1965-66	15	9	6	0						15	9	6	0
Worcester Collegiate Hockey League										Overall Record
1966-67	8	6	2	0	41	28		2nd	W, SF 8-5 (Worcester St.) L, F 4-3 (Holy Cross)	13	7	6	0	62	53
ECAC Division II/(Worcester Collegiate Hockey League)										Overall Record
1967-68	10 (8)	1 (2)	9 (5)	0 (1)	24 (24)	55 (30)		23rd (?)	Did not qualify/L, SF 3-0 (Assumption)	20	4	15	1	59	105
1968-69	6 (9)	0 (3)	5 (5)	1 (1)	15 (36)	51 (43)		23rd (?)	Did not qualify/L, SF 5-2 (Holy Cross)	20	8	11	1	74	102
1969-70	8 (8)	5 (4)	2 (2)	1 (2)	44 (44)	29 (31)		9th (?)	Did not qualify/W, SF 5-3 (Holy Cross), W, F 7-2 (Worcester St.)	19	13	4	2	106	52
1970-71	13 (6)	8 (5)	4 (0)	1 (1)	62 (42)	52 (24)		6th (1st)	Did not qualify/ W, F 9-5, 2-4 (WPI)	24	16	7	1	132	93
ECAC Division III/(Worcester Collegiate Hockey League)										Overall Record
1971-72	13 (6)	4 (4)	9 (2)	0 (0)	44 (38)	86 (27)	8	4th (2nd)	Did not qualify/L, F 8-5 (Worcester St.)	21	9	11	1	70	63
ECAC Division III										Overall Record
1972-73	15	7	8	0	96	87	14	4th	Did not qualify	19	10	9	0	127	92
1973-74	11	4	6	1	42	58	9	12th	Did not qualify	19	5	13	1	71	122
1974-75	13	6	7	0	62	75	12	12th	Did not qualify	20	10	10	0	111	117
1975-76	9	1	8	0	30	52	2	14th	Did not qualify	21	8	13	0	104	110
1976-77	8	3	5	0	35	43	6	12th	Did not qualify	19	9	10	0	94	93
1977-78	11	6	5	0	56	51	12	8th	Did not qualify	17	11	6	0	102	75
1978-79	14	9	5	0	71	55	18	8th	Did not qualify	20	12	7	1	95	96
1979-80	16	4	12	0	53	87	8	20th	Did not qualify	19	5	14	0	67	105
1980-81	18	5	13	0			10	20th	Did not qualify	21	7	14	0	82	123
1981-82	14	1	13	0			2	22nd	Did not qualify	19	2	17	0	46	136
1982-83	17	2	15	0			4	22nd	Did not qualify	19	1	18	0	54	175
1983-84	21	2	19	0	78	176	4	27th	Did not qualify	12	2	10	0	78	176
1984-85	19	2	17	0	48	147	4	2th	Did not qualify	21	2	19	0	51	165
ECAC North										Overall Record
1985-86	21	3	17	1	74	153	7	16th	Did not qualify	25	5	18	2	91	169
1986-87	16	5	11	0	59	104	10	13th	Did not qualify	24	6	18	0	90	188
1987-88	23	2	21	0	70	165	4	15th	Did not qualify	24	2	22	0	80	178
1988-89	21	7	13	1	82	121	15	9th	Did not qualify	21	7	13	1	82	121
1989-90	19	3	14	2	61	104	8	13th	Did not qualify	20	4	14	2	73	115
1990-91	19	3	16	0	73	131	6	14th	Did not qualify	22	4	18	0	86	151
1991-92	19	2	16	1	52	138	5	14th	Did not qualify	20	3	16	1	58	138
1992-93	17	2	15	0	56	125	4	8th	Did not qualify	24	4	20	0	95	187
1993-94	16	3	13	0	70	136	6	9th	Did not qualify	23	4	19	0	105	197
1994-95	15	8	7	0	71	73	16	3rd	L, QF 11-3 (UMass-Dartmouth)	23	11	12	0	95	133
1995-96	14	7	7	0	68	59	14	4th	Did not qualify	19	8	11	0	84	81
1996-97	12	3	8	1	42	75	7	6th of 7	Did not qualify	20	4	13	3	74	119
1997-98	16	7	9	0	83	76	14	7th of 9	Did not qualify	20	7	12	1	90	105
ECAC Northeast										Overall Record
1998-99	17	6	10	1	56	118	13	12th of 18	Did not qualify	24	8	15	1	81	171
1999-00	13	0	13	0	22	103	0	1th of 18	Did not qualify	21	0	21	0	44	173
2000-01	17	2	15	0	50	99	4	18th of 18	Did not qualify	23	4	19	0	72	120
2001-02	15	2	13	0	34	95	4	15th of 16	Did not qualify	21	4	17	0	58	124
2002-03	16	3	13	0	41	102	6	15th of 17	Did not qualify	23	4	17	2	70	138
2003-04	16	5	10	1	45	82	11	12th of 17	Did not qualify	23	6	16	1	55	107
2004-05	15	2	11	2	46	96	6	14th of 16	Did not qualify	23	4	17	2	76	144
2005-06	15	10	3	2	87	34	22	4th of 16	W, QF 6-5 OT (Wentworth) L, SF 6-2 (UMass-Dartmouth)	27	18	7	2	152	89
2006-07	15	8	6	1	69	54	17	8th of 16	L, QF 7-2 (Curry)	26	13	11	2	104	103
2007-08	16	12	4	0	72	44	24	3rd of 17	W, QF 5-1 (Becker) W, SF 4-2 (Suffolk) L, F 5-3 (UMass-Dartmouth)	28	20	7	1	127	85
2008-09	17	16	1	0	89	36	32	1st of 18	W QF, 8-1 (Westfield St.) W, SF 4-2 (Fitchburg St.) W, F 4-3 (Wentworth)	29	25	4	0	128	69
2009-10	14	7	6	1	49	54	15	6th of 8	L, QF 5-4 OT (Becker)	26	13	10	3	93	100
2010-11	14	6	8	0	52	52	12	5th of 8	L, QF 5-2 (Becker)	26	12	13	1	101	95
2011-12	14	9	4	1	60	43	19	3rd of 8	W, QF 3-2 (Becker) L, SF 7-2 (Curry)	27	12	13	2	89	96
2012-13	14	9	4	1	41	31	19	2nd of 8	L, SF 3-2 (Salve Regina)	26	16	9	1	82	64
2013-14	14	9	3	2	51	40	20	1st of 8	W, SF 4-3 (Curry) W, F 3-2 OT (Wentworth)	28	18	7	3	110	82
2014-15	14	11	1	2	60	25	24	1st of 8	W, SF 3-2 Curry W, F 3-0 (Salve Regina)	28	21	4	3	114	59
2015-16	16	11	5	0	59	43	22	2nd of 9	W, QF 5-0 (Becker) L, SF 3-0 (Salve Regina)	27	17	10	0	94	64
Conference of New England (née CCC until 2024)										Overall Record
2016-17	18	11	3	4	62	38	26	2nd of 10	W, QF 3-1 (Becker) L, SF 6-3 (UNE)	27	15	7	5	89	69
2017-18	18	9	6	3	57	51	21	5th of 10	W, QF 4-3 (Curry) W, SF (Salve Regina) W, F 8-3 (UNE)	30	18	9	3	110	84
2018-19	17	9	6	2	57	42	20	4th of 8	L, QF 4-3 OT (Endicott)	26	11	12	3	78	74
2019-20	18	8	8	2	62	56	26	5th of 8	W, QF 5-4 OT (Salve Regina) L, SF 3-2 OT (Endicott)	26	10	13	2	80	80
2020-21	Season cancelled January 21st due to COVID-19 pandemic									4	2	2	0	14	17
2021-22	21	6	15	0	49	77	19	6th of 8	W, QF 6-3 (Salve Regina) L, SF 4-1 (UNE)	25	8	16	1	62	90
2022-23	21	5	16	0	55	118	14	7th of 8	Did not qualify	25	6	17	2	46	85
2023-24	18	4	10	4	36	52	18	6th of 8	L, QF 6-3 (UNE)	26	6	16	4	52	86
2024-25	18	5	9	4	44	60	18	5th of 8	L, QF 4-0 (Suffolk)	26	9	13	4	66	78
2025-26	20	7	12	1	46	64	23	5th of 9	W, QF 4-1 (Curry) L, SF 10-0 (UNE)	27	11	15	1	64	84

NCAA Tournament Appearances

Season	First Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Championship
2009	L, 3-0 (Hobart Statesmen)	--	--	--
2014	L, 3-2 (Geneseo Knights)	--	--	--
2015	L, 4-2 (Trinity Bantams)	--	--	--
2018	W, 3-1 (Fitchburg State Falcons)	L, 4-3 (Salve Regina Seahawks)	--	--
4 appearances

See Also

• Nichols Bison men’s ice hockey website
• CNE men’s hockey website