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Mike Machnik has been named the recipient of the Concannon Media Award |
BOSTON - Hockey East Commissioner Joe Bertagna announced on Tuesday at the league's annual media day that
Merrimack's Mike Machnik has been named the 20th recipient of the prestigious Joe Concannon Hockey East Media
Award. Machnik will start his 19th year in his affiliation with Merrimack College this coming season. Machnik is the first
media member affiliated with Merrimack College to be bestowed with the honor.
Machnik, who has been involved in college hockey since 1985, joined the Merrimack radio team with Dan Roche in
1991 and has done radio with Merrimack from 1991-94, 1996-05, 2009-present for a total of 14 seasons to date.
He also helped launch U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO.com) in 1996, planning and building out site infrastructure
and worked for them for nine years through 2005, writing, broadcasting and providing technical support for the
website.
He then joined College Hockey News (CHN) and helped to launch that site in 2005, and has handled duties that include
writing, editing, podcast interviews, and consultation for site building and infrastructure.
Machnik has also done some TV and radio work with Northeastern University, the University of New Hampshire and
the University of Maine. Machnik was the recipient of two AP Broadcaster Association Awards in 1994 with Merrimack
Radio and in 2008 doing UNH games on New Hampshire Public Television (NHPTV).
Machnik resides in southern New Hampshire with his wife Kelly and four children, Katie, Tommy, and twins Ally and
Abby.
The award was renamed in memory of long-time Boston Globe Sportswriter Joe Concannon in 2001. Each recipient
has demonstrated a superior body of work in covering and promoting Hockey East over an extended period.
The Hockey East Association is a 10-team Division I college men's hockey conference founded in 1984 and an eightteam
Division I women's league which began play in 2002-03. The men's league has won seven NCAA championships
in the past 19 years.
HOCKEY EAST MEDIA AWARD WINNERS |
| 1992 |
Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News |
| 1993 |
Bob Whitelaw, New England Sports Network |
| 1994 |
Bob Monahan, Boston Globe |
| 1995 |
John Connolly, Boston Herald |
| 1996 |
Charles Scoggins, Lowell Sun |
| 1997 |
Bob Norton, New England Sports Network |
| 1998 |
Joe Concannon, Boston Globe |
| 1999 |
Dick Osborne, UNH Sports Network |
| 2000 |
Bill Doherty, Huskies Radio |
| 2001 |
Dave Hendrickson, U.S. College Hockey Online |
| 2002 |
Roger Brown, Portsmouth Herald |
| 2003 |
Bernie Corbett, Giant Sports Associates |
| 2004 |
Rob Rudnick, Huskies Radio |
| 2005 |
Eric Frede, NESN / CodRock Media |
| 2006 |
Dan Hannigan, Maine Radio / CodRock Media |
| 2007 |
Allen Lessels, New Hampshire Union Leader |
| 2008 |
Mike Logan, Providence College Radio |
| 2009 |
Bob Ellis, UMass Lowell Radio |
| 2010 |
Brock Hines, UMass Sports Network |
| 2011 |
Mike Machnik, Merrimack Radio, CHN & USCHO |
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