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Written By Noah Cusack-Margolis Warrior Interview #3 It seems that the Merrimack College Men's ice hockey team has been able to get commitments from players who have been shown a lot of interest from the big name D1 schools. We have not seen this for a few years now but ever since Scott Borek has been hired as head coach we have been able to see a lot more top recruits commit to Merrimack College. Yesterday the Merrimack College ice hockey team continues to show that the big name recruits are starting to realize that Merrimack has the potential to become something big. Mark Hillier verbally committed to Merrimack College yesterday via Twitter. Hillier who is an '02 forward and a Newfoundland native currently plays for St. Andrews College. During his time playing in the CAHS and CISAA, Mark finished off last season with 23 goals and 22 assists as the only 15 year old on the varsity roster during the 2017-18 season. During his time playing in bantam hockey in the 2017 se...

Written By: Noah Cusack-Margolis Warriors go D1 What was once a dream for most people in the Merrimack College community the day has finally come and that dream has finally became a reality. On Monday September 10th 2018 Merrimack College and the NEC (Northeast Conference) announced that the warriors will be making that long awaited jump to division one in all of Merrimack's varsity sports by joining the NEC, which was predicted for a long time by many sources over the past couple of years. Merrimack College has been dreaming of going division one in all sports for some time now and they have just been patiently waiting for the call saying that they are being offered a spot to join a division one conference. Although they have been talking about being a division one school for some time they also had to think logically. When Merrimack first started to talk about going D1 in all sport's they certainly were not the school  that they are today. Merrimack has been a powe...

Written By Noah Cusack-Margolis Warrior Interview #2 When it comes to finding good recruits one must have his or her eye on the for a while sometimes even before you switch coaching jobs from one school to another, and that's exactly what Merrimack Head coach Scott Borek did. Another top recruit Merrimack received comes from an 01 forward Casey Severo a very good hockey player with a very good hockey IQ. Casey who recently played with Noble & Greenough School and played in 28 game for Noble and Greenough ending with a total of 29 points (14 Goals, 15 Assists). One independent scout described Casey as " One of the top uncommitted players in prep hockey" obviously this statement was made before Casey committed to Merrimack College. Casey who also has taken part in the USA hockey select camps the last 2 seasons. Casey also appeared in the select 16 camp last season and the select 17 camp this season. Neutral zone rated Casey 3.75 stars out of 5 in terms of a recrui...