Hockey East Staff

Brian Smith Smith enters his seventh season with the Hockey East Association and fourth as Associate Commissioner in 2020-21 after Associate Commissioner spending three years as Director of Communications. In his role, he is responsible for external operations from the league office, including all marketing and public and media relations efforts. During the summer of 2019, Smith engineered and negotiated Hockey East’s first-ever multi-media rights deal, aggregating all Hockey East content within the linear television and digital space. Under the multi-faceted agreement, Hockey East cemented its relationship with NESN as the league’s premier television partner while also joining forces with one of the most highly-trafficked streaming services in the country, CBS All Access. With Hockey East’s rights centralized, live and on-demand content from the league’s 12 member institutions became more accessible to fans across the league, and North America, than ever before. During his time with Hockey East, Smith has revitalized the digital presence of the conference by revamping the league website, HockeyEastOnline.com, multiple times and growing its social media channels to develop the most heavily followed accounts in all of college hockey. Smith also served as the main media contact for the 2015 Frozen Four, hosted by Hockey East and the TD Garden, and has assisted in the successful execution of the Friendship Four Tournament in Belfast, Northern Ireland and Frozen Fenway events. Smith has been involved with numerous other endeavors during his time with Hockey East, including assisting with NCAA Ice Hockey Officiating Department programs, serving on the media relations team at multiple Frozen Fours, directing the 2015 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, aiding with the media operations of the American Hockey Coaches Association, and serving as Assistant Venue Press Officer for Gillette Stadium during the 2016 Copa América Centenario. Prior to joining the conference in July 2014, Smith spent two years with USA Hockey as the Brian Fishman Intern, a prestigious program that develops young professionals in the athletic communications business. Dividing his time with USA Hockey between the national office in Colorado Springs, Colorado and the National Team Development Program, then located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Smith traveled extensively while assisting in numerous international tournaments as the main media contact for U.S. national teams. While with the NTDP, Smith served as the main media contact for both the U.S. National Under-17 and Under-18 teams. Additionally, Smith played an integral role in the execution of the 2012 and 2013 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies.

Smith also has spent time working with the Boston Bruins and New England Revolution in various roles. With the Bruins from 2010-12, Smith worked alongside a communications staff that received the Dick Dillman Award and was charged with media relations duties during the 2011 Stanley Cup Final. With the New England Revolution, Smith oversaw all aspects of the New England Revolution Charitable Foundation and assisted with all match day operations, including international friendlies at Gillette Stadium. A former high school hockey player at Woburn Memorial High School, Smith is a 2012 graduate of Boston College with a degree in English and Communications. He earned four varsity letters in track and field while competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference during his time with the Eagles.

Kate McAfee McAfee was named Associate Commissioner of Hockey East in April 2020. She was appointed a member of the NCAA

Associate Commissioner Women’s Ice Hockey Committee in November 2019. She previously served as Associate Athletic Director for Event Management at the University of New Hampshire, working as the on-site administrator for multiple intercollegiate athletics events at UNH, including men’s and women’s ice hockey, football, field hockey, men’s soccer, and women’s lacrosse.

McAfee has extensive experience managing high-visibility hockey collegiate tournaments, as she served as the Tournament Manager for the 2016 NCAA Women’s Frozen Four Tournament, Assistant Tournament Manager for the NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey Regional five times between 2011 and 2019, and was a Quarterfinal Site Representative for the National Collegiate Women’s Ice Hockey Tournament in 2018 and 2019.

In addition to her role on the NCAA Women’s Ice Hockey Committee, McAfee was previously a member of the NCAA Lacrosse Rules Committee from February 2013 to September 2017. She was awarded the President’s Cup by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Association in November 2018 for her work to promote, develop, and enhance intercollegiate women’s lacrosse. The Hampton Falls, New Hampshire native was a field hockey and lacrosse letter-winner at Western New England College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History in May 2000.

McAfee earned a Master of Science: Kinesiology Sport Studies degree from the University of New Hampshire in May 2017. Since then, she has been an adjunct instructor for the Department of Recreation Management and Policy.

She currently resides in Hampton Falls with her husband Bryan and their children Amelia and Fiona.

Madelyn McAteer Graduate Assistant

Madelyn McAteer joins the staff as a graduate assistant for the 2020-21 season. McAteer is a 2020 graduate of the University of New Hampshire and majored in Business Administration - Marketing and minored in Kinesiology. At UNH, McAteer worked as an intern for the Athletic Communications department, specifically focusing on men’s ice hockey and soccer. Her responsibilities included managing UNH Wildcats’ social media accounts, reporting on games, and writing feature stories on the student-athletes. She also worked with WMUR Channel 9 on a weekly basis to interview student-athletes on camera.

While a member of the UNH field hockey team, McAteer was part of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and worked with the America East conference on their Better Together campaign in effort to erase the stigma surrounding mental health.

In 2019, McAteer was selected as part of the media assistant team for the NCAA DI Men’s Ice Hockey Northeast Regional Tournament, where she served as a liaison to the media covering the event and provided them with quotes of coaches and players from the press conferences. A native of Annapolis, Maryland, McAteer attended St. Mary’s High School and lettered in field hockey, swimming, and track.

Dave Lezenski Supervisor of Officials

Dan Parkhurst Website Coordinator

16th year with the conference. Dave Lezenski begins his 13th season as Supervisor of Women’s Officials for Hockey East. Named to the position in the Fall of 2007, Lezenski had previously served for four years as assistant supervisor of officials and is in his

Since his hiring, Women’s Hockey East has become one of the top league’s for officiating in the NCAA. Lezenski’s staff of officials has worked the Women’s Frozen Four semifinals nine times and the championship game five times since he has been with the league. Lezenski has also hired 15 female officials to work within the league, one of the highest totals in collegiate sports.

In addition to his role with Hockey East, Lezenski also maintains a large body of work for the NCAA during the men’s and women’s national tournaments, working as a video replay official and assisting with the evaluation of officials for the previous nine seasons.

In his full-time profession as Director of Athletics for Lowell (Mass.) Public Schools, Lezenski is in charge of overseeing the athletic department of the fourth largest public school system in the state of Massachusetts and the second largest public high school east of the Mississippi River. He formerly served as Director of Athletics, Physical Education and Health in Billerica Public Schools for nine years. Lezenski is also actively involved with the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association.

Lezenski has been involved with hockey at all levels, playing high school hockey at St. John’s Prep and attending Boston College before moving into the officiating ranks. The former NIHOA and ECAC veteran official has also coached a number of hockey teams throughout his career.

A native of Lynn, Massachusetts, Lezenski currently resides in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Parkhurst enters his 23rd year of affiliation with Hockey East as the league’s web site designer and coordinator. Dan assists in the league’s public relations efforts with multimedia solutions and day-to-day online efforts, including game-night services, video editing and statistical enhancements. In November of 1997, Parkhurst helped bring Hockey East into the digital age with the launching of HockeyEastOnline. com, the official web site of Hockey East. Since then, he has constantly sought to improve the site through innovations and multiple re-designs including the most recent overhaul in the summer of 2018. A former play-by-play voice for UNH hockey on radio and television. He has also worked behind the mic for ESPN, NBCSN and other national and regional television networks. Parkhurst is a 1993 graduate of UNH, where he served as the Wildcats’ team manager. He now resides in Conway, New Hampshire, with his wife Lynn. They have two children, Jonny (25) and Riley (19), an aspiring musician.

Roster of Officials

Name

Chris Aughe Shane Belanger Tim Benedetto

Years of Service

7 11 7

Alexander Bergeron Jenny Cameron Ryan Chauvin Ryan Coccoluto Evan Cookie Kelly Cooke Tim Daley Nicklaus Deblois 1 4 1 1 1 6 7 5

Andrew DiFusco 11

Bill Doiron 15

John Dunn Kevin Duross 6 1

DJ Farnham Thomas Fyrer Daniel Gauvin Dean Gilbert

CJ Hanafin

Dan Hanafin

Bob Hawkes, Jr. Marty Hughes Charly Hurley Rachel Hutchinson Charles Ikeda Tim Kerrigan Sam Kline Danika Korpacz Pavel Kozhokin 1 6 1 17

7

4

12

8 1 1 1 10 1 1

1

Fay Lahue Don Langelier 4 17

Name

Chris Leavitt Larry Legault Rob Lemnah

Years of Service

10 11 1

Jeremy Letourneau Benjamin Lord Ian McEwen 9 7

4

John Mulroy Jason Noury Crystalle Parent Nick Payeur Max Perkins Scott Prim Thomas Quinn Chelsea Rapin Ryan Rice Paul Sacco Rick Santilli Steven Saul Kevin Shea Mike Sheeran Patrick Silva Bob Sloper Jeremy Smith Russell Tedford 5 1 7 2 1 10 7 1 1 12 6 5 7 7 17 9

5 1

Peter Terreri 11

Jason Therrien James Troup Greg Twogood Josh Weiand Mackenzie Welter 1 2 2 1 5

Jason Williams Derek Zuckerman 6 10