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MSU's new hockey coach makes more than predecessor, rival at UM

New Michigan State hockey coach Adam Nightingale has signed a five-year rollover contract that will extend automatically every June unless the school provides him with written word that the annual extension will cease, according to his contract, obtained by The News.

If the school provides such written word, the contract will revert to a five-year deal from that point.

Nightingale's annual salary is $470,000, up from his predecessor, Danton Cole, who also signed a five-year rollover deal when he was hired in 2017 and earned slightly more than $385,000 a year before he was fired in mid-April after five seasons, a 58-101-12 record and no NCAA Tournament appearances.