TEMPE – It was 10 years ago when Joey Daccord sat in coach Greg Powers’ office at Oceanside Ice Arena while on an official visit to Arizona State. At the time, the Sun Devils hadn’t played a game of Division I hockey, and the rink they played at was far below Division I standards.

Daccord grew up in the Boston area and knew what a great college hockey program was supposed to look like. He could easily have been turned off by what he saw at Oceanside and looked for a school in the East, but Daccord was able to look beyond the dusty, cramped arena. ×

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