{"id":64551,"date":"2015-04-08T11:17:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=64551"},"modified":"2020-08-24T18:41:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T23:41:45","slug":"minnesota-states-hastings-wins-spencer-penrose-award-as-top-division-i-mens-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2015\/04\/08\/minnesota-states-hastings-wins-spencer-penrose-award-as-top-division-i-mens-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota State&#8217;s Hastings wins Spencer Penrose Award as top Division I men&#8217;s coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"ps_captionIns\" aria-describedby=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015022821-38-311857.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hastings led Minnesota State to the WCHA regular season and postseason titles (photo: Jim Rosvold).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Minnesota State coach Mike Hastings has been named the winner of the Spencer Penrose Award as the top coach in Division I men&#8217;s hockey, the American Hockey Coaches Association announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hastings led the Mavericks to the No. 1 overall seed for the 2015 NCAA tournament after claiming the WCHA regular season and playoff championships.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks were 29-8-3 and lost to Rochester Institute of Technology in the first round of the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota State has made the NCAA tournament all three years that Hastings has been head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Hastings is the first Minnesota State coach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/faq\/awards\/#penrose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to win the Spencer Penrose Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Boston University&#8217;s David Quinn was the runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>Hastings and assistant coaches Darren Blue and Todd Knott will be honored at the AHCA convention in Naples, Fla., on May 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota State coach Mike Hastings has been named the winner of the Spencer Penrose Award as the top coach in Division I men&#8217;s hockey, the American Hockey Coaches Association announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":117645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minnesota State&#039;s Hastings wins Spencer Penrose Award as top Division I men&#039;s coach - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Minnesota State coach Mike Hastings has been named the winner of the Spencer Penrose Award as the top coach in Division I men&#039;s hockey, the American Hockey Coaches Association announced Wednesday.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64551\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minnesota State&#039;s Hastings wins Spencer Penrose Award as top Division I men&#039;s coach - College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minnesota State coach Mike Hastings has been named the winner of the Spencer Penrose Award as the top coach in Division I men&#039;s hockey, the American Hockey Coaches Association announced Wednesday.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64551\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-04-08T16:17:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-24T23:41:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015022821-38-311857.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"499\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"333\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Todd D. 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