Column: Hockey’s new era begins with high expectations

Taylor Schneider takes a faceoff against Peter Kreiger of Minnesota Duluth.BGSU hockey has seen a multitude of changes to the program over the past six months.

In April, the program saw Chris Bergeron, who has collected the second-most wins as a head coach in program history, return home to Oxford and begin tenure as head coach at Miami University. Shortly after, Lukas Craggs and Ryan Bednard both gave up senior seasons to sign NHL contracts on top of an already departing senior class. Despite all this, BGSU hockey should have high expectations for itself this upcoming season.

One of the larger credits to Bergeron’s legacy was the culture change around the hockey program. He was able to build…