Jonathan (Jon) Ambrose MacDonald, age 52, devoted father, son, brother, and beloved friend, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, in Carlsbad, CA.

Born on October 27, 1972, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Michael John and Kathryn Mary (McFadden) MacDonald, Jon was raised in Madison, Wisconsin where he cherished his Midwest upbringing spending his winters playing ice hockey and downhill skiing and summers water skiing at the family cabin in Minocqua, Wisconsin. Jon attended Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic School and graduated from Edgewood High School in Madison in 1991. A highlight of his time at Edgewood was winning three Wisconsin Private School State Hockey Championships alongside his lifelong best friends as well as leading his team as captain his senior year. Jon continued his hockey career at Choate Rosemary Hall and at Union College before transferring to Boston College for his sophomore year. At BC, he dedicated himself to his studies, formed additional lifelong friendships, and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1996. He went on to earn his JD from Duke University School of Law in 1999 and subsequently relocated to the San Diego area where he built a successful career in real estate law.

Above all, Jon’s greatest love and most cherished role was as a father to his four beautiful children: Sydney (17), Peter (15), Emily (15), and Benjamin (13), all of Carlsbad, CA. Jon is also survived by his devoted parents, Michael and Kathryn MacDonald of Madison, WI and Naples, FL; his sister, Michelle Eigner (Troy Eigner) of Edina, MN; his brother, Kevin MacDonald (Amy Ostendorf MacDonald) of Seattle, WA; as well as many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

Jon will be deeply missed and forever remembered for his kind heart, gentle smile, humble manner, and unwavering character by all who loved him.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday, July 26 at 11am with visitation at 10am at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church, 401 S. Owen Drive, Madison. A luncheon will follow at Nakoma Country Club 4145 Country Club Road, Madison.

Memorials may be made in Jon’s name to Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic School, Edgewood High School or Boston College.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. –  The 2025 World Junior Summer Showcase, which will include teams from the U.S., Canada, Finland and Sweden, begins Sunday (July 27) and runs through August 2 at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis. 

The Showcase serves as an evaluation for athletes seeking to make their respective national teams for the 2026 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship which will take place Dec. 26, 2025, through Jan. 5, 2026, in Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota.

SHOWCASE FEATURES 11 GAMES

The World Junior Summer Showcase features 11 international games and tickets are available by clicking HERE. In addition, all games from the Showcase will stream live at USAHockeyTV.com.

“We’re excited to bring the World Junior Summer Showcase to Minnesota” said John Vanbiesbrouck, general manager of the U.S. National Junior Team and also assistant executive director of hockey operations for USA Hockey. “It provides us a great opportunity to evaluate our players, and is also a chance for fans to see so many of the future stars of the NHL.”

FABER, LaCOMBE TO SERVE AS ALUMNI AMBASSADORS

Brock Faber (Maple Grove, Minn./Minnesota Wild) and Jackson LaCombe (Eden Prairie, Minn./Anaheim Ducks) will be on the ice for select practices and also behind the bench for select games during the Showcase, serving as Alumni Ambassadors. Both Faber and LaCombe were part of the gold medal-winning 2021 U.S. National Junior Team in the IIHF World Junior Championship. LaCombe also helped Team USA win gold in the 2025 IIHF Men’s World Championship, only the second gold medal ever won by the U.S. in the event and first since 1933. Faber was part of the 2022 U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team and also played for Team USA in this past February’s 4 Nations Face-Off.

“We’re excited to have Brock and Jackson be around our players and staff,” said Bob Motzko(Austin, Minn.), head coach of the 2026 U.S. National Junior Team and also the head men’s ice hockey coach at the University of Minnesota. “They know what it takes to win on the international stage and I know our group will enjoy engaging with both of them.”

For the full Showcase schedule, click HERE.

NOTES: Tickets for the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship are on sale now and can be purchased by click HERE. The event will be staged at the Xcel Energy Center, home of the NHL’s Minnesota Wild, and 3M Arena at Mariucci, home of the University of Minnesota men’s ice hockey team … The 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship will mark the 50th anniversary of the tournament … Team USA has won the last two gold medals in the World Juniors and has medaled in eight of the last 10 tournaments … A total of nine players from the gold medal-winning 2025 U.S. National Junior Team have an opportunity to return in 2026, including defenseman Logan Hensler (Woodbury, Minn./University of Wisconsin), Cole Hutson (North Barrington, Ill./Boston University) and Adam Kleber (Chaska, Minn./University of Minnesota Duluth), along with forwards Trevor Connelly (Tustin, Calif./Providence College), Cole Eiserman (Newburyport, Mass./Boston University), James Hagens (Hauppauge, N.Y./Boston College), Max Plante(Hermantown, Minn./University of Minnesota Duluth), Teddy Stiga (Sudbury, Mass./Boston College) and Brodie Ziemer (Hutchinson, Minn./University of Minnesota) … The 43 players invited by USA Hockey to the World Junior Summer Showcase include nine first-round NHL draft picks, 13 second-round choices and five third-round picks. All but three players have been drafted.

The University of Maine men’s hockey schedule is now available for the coming season, though it has yet to be officially released by the school.

The schedule was first reported by Eastern Maine Sports on Monday. A UMaine athletics official confirmed to the Bangor Daily News that the reported schedule is accurate at this point, pending unresolved game contracts.

UMaine will open the season by hosting reigning Atlantic Hockey America regular season champion Holy Cross on Oct. 10-11. The Black Bears will play Colgate on Homecoming weekend on Oct. 24-25 and Lindenwood University on Dec. 13-14.

UMaine will open its 24-game Hockey East schedule by hosting NCAA runnerup Boston University on Oct. 31, Nov. 1. Arch-rival University of New Hampshire will be in Orono for a two-game series Dec. 5-6.

College hockey teams typically enter into game contracts with their opponents that outline terms for game details like team travel and accommodations, cancelation dates, responsibility for providing officials, and the allocation of game proceeds.

Schools may also enter into contracts with outside facilities that host games. UMaine will formally release its schedule once the unresolved contracts are finalized, the athletic department official said.

UMaine will travel for two-game series against two of Division I college hockey’s elite programs, Quinnipiac University and the University of Denver, as part of its 10 non-conference games. The Black Bears will also host Colgate from the ECAC, Holy Cross from Atlantic Hockey America and Division I independent Lindenwood from Saint Charles, Mo.

Lindenwood is in its fourth season as a Division I program after moving up from club status and will be playing UMaine for the first time.

ECAC powerhouse Quinnipiac, which has earned six consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and won its first NCAA title in 2022-23, will entertain the Black Bears on Oct. 17-18 and Denver, which has averaged 31 wins the past four seasons and won national championships in 2023-24 and 2021-22, will host UMaine on Jan. 2-3.

UMaine swept Quinnipiac at Alfond Arena 2-1 and 6-5 in overtime last season and split 2-1 games with visiting Denver.

Quinnipiac was 24-12-2 last season. The Bobcats won the ECAC regular season title before losing to Cornell, 3-2 in overtime, in the ECAC tournament semifinals and to UConn, 4-1, in the NCAA’s Allentown Regional.

Rand Pecknold’s Quinnipiac team has gone 117-33-10 over the last four seasons.

Denver has reached the Frozen Four three times over the past four seasons. David Carle’s Pioneers went 31-12-1 last season, losing to National Collegiate Hockey Conference rival and eventual national champion Western Michigan 3-2 in double overtime in their Frozen Four semifinal.

UMaine is 12-9-1 all-time against Quinnipiac and 12-10 vs. Denver.

UMaine went 24-8-6 a year ago and won the Hockey East Tournament title for the first time since the 2003-04 season. UMaine also earned its second consecutive NCAA Tournament berth and that’s the first time th Black Bears have done that since the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons.

UMaine lost to Penn State 5-1 in the first round of the Allentown (Pa.) Regional.

This season, the Black Bears will play Boston University, Providence College, Vermont and UMass Lowell three times each and the other six Hockey East schools twice apiece.

UMaine is slated to play UMass Lowell in a Hockey East game at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland on Wednesday, Dec. 10.

The Black Bears’ series against Holy Cross from Worcester, Mass. will be the first time the schools have met since the Black Bear shut out the Crusaders 7-0 on Oct. 18, 2003.

UMaine holds a 4-2 lead in the all-time series.

Holy Cross is coming off a 24-14-2 campaign, 19-5-2 in Atlantic Hockey America. Holy Cross lost to Bentley 6-3 in the AHA tournament championship game.

The Crusaders went 21-14-4 two years ago.

Colgate went 18-15-3 overall and, for the second straight season, went 13-7-2 in league play.

UMaine and Colgate have met four times over the past three seasons and each posted a win and tie in its home series.

Colgate leads the all-time series 8-6-4.

Lindenwood went 8-22-2 a year ago including road wins over Wisconsin, Nebraska-Omaha and Notre Dame. Eleven of the Lions’ losses were by one goal.

In Hockey East play, UMaine will travel for two-game series against UMass (Nov. 6-7), Boston College (Nov. 21-22), Providence (Jan. 9-10), UMass Lowell (Jan. 23-14) and Northeastern (Feb. 27-28) and one game at BU (Feb. 6) and at Vermont (March 7).

The Black Bears will host two-game series against BU (Oct. 31, Nov.1), Vermont (Nov. 14-15), New Hampshire (Dec. 5-6), UConn (Feb. 13-14) and Merrimack (Feb.20-21) and single games with Providence (Jan. 31) and the Portland game against UMass Lowell (Dec. 10).

UMaine will return seven of its top 10 scorers off last year’s team although top two point-getters Harrison Scott (18 goals, 17 assists) and Taylor Makar (18 & 12) have departed.

UMaine will return a veteran defense corps and All-Hockey East second team goalie Albin Boija.

The Black Bears will have 13 newcomers including five National Hockey League draft choices.

HANOVER, N.H. – On Tuesday, Head Coach Maura Crowell announced the Big Green’s complete 2025-26 schedule. Dartmouth will play 30 total games, eight nonconference games and 22 against ECAC Hockey opponents.
 
The Big Green will kick off the season on the road, facing nonconference opponent Holy Cross. Dartmouth and the Crusaders will play two games, one on Friday, October 17 at 6 p.m. and the series finale on Saturday, October 18 at 7 p.m.
 
On Friday, October 24 and Saturday, October 25, Dartmouth will play its first home games and conference games of the season, welcoming Colgate and Cornell. The last time the Big Green hosted the Cornell Big Red, the two teams skated to a 2-2 tie with the then No. 6 ranked team in the country.
 
The following weekend, the women’s hockey team will head to North Country, taking on the Saint Lawrence Saints on Friday, October 31 at 3 p.m. and Clarkson on Saturday, November 1 at 3 p.m.
 
The Big Green upset the then No. 7 St. Lawrence Saints in the teams’ last meeting, as Dartmouth earned a 2-0 victory off the back of a 36 save shutout by Michaela Hesová.
 
Dartmouth will return home for their lone game at Thompson Arena in the month of November on Friday the 7^th. The Big Green will host the Harvard Crimson at 3 p.m. before the men welcome the Colgate Raiders for the first doubleheader of the season. On Saturday, November 8^th, Dartmouth and Harvard will complete the regular season home and home series at Bright Landry Hockey Center with a 3 p.m. puck drop.
 
The Big Green will remain on the road on Friday, November 14 and Saturday, November 15 for an ECAC Hockey and Ivy League matchups against the Brown Bears and Yale Bulldogs.  Friday’s game is set for 6 p.m. while Saturday’s game will begin at 3 p.m.

Dartmouth will spend its Thanksgiving in Minnesota, prepping for two games against the Minnesota State Mankato Mavericks. The two teams will faceoff on Friday, November 28 at 1 p.m. before playing the series finale on Saturday, November 29. The time for Saturday’s game is still to be announced.

 

After five games away from Thompson Arena, the Big Green will return to the comforts of home for four straight games, two conference games and two nonconference games. Dartmouth will host RPI and Union on Friday, December 5 and Saturday, December 6. Both games will be at 3 p.m. as the Dartmouth men will also play at home, facing off against Brown and Yale with 7 p.m. puck drops on Friday and Saturday.

 

The following weekend, Dartmouth will play nonconference opponents St. Anselm and St. Michael’s. The Big Green will look to make it two straight against the Hawks on Friday, December 12 at 3 p.m. after defeating them on the road, 9-1, in January. Stick around after the women’s game as the Big Green men will also play a nonconference game against Army.

 

On Saturday, December 13, the Big Green and Knights will face off for the first time in program history. Puck drop is set for 2 p.m.

 

Nonconference competition will continue and wrap up for the Big Green on Friday, January 2 and Saturday, January 3, playing a home and home series with the Vermont Catamounts. The two teams will play in Burlington at 6 p.m. on Friday with a 3 p.m. puck drop at Thompson Arena on Saturday.

 

Dartmouth will remain at Thompson Arena for two more games, welcoming Yale on Friday, January 9 at 3 p.m. and Brown on Saturday, January 10 at 3 p.m.

 

Over the next five weeks, the Big Green will wrap up conference play in the 2025-26 season, alternating weekends at Thompson Arena and on the road.

 

On Friday, January 16 and Saturday, January 17, Dartmouth will head to Quinnipiac and Princeton. The Big Green will faceoff with the Bobcats on Friday at 6 p.m. followed by the Tigers on Saturday at 3.

 

The next weekend, St. Lawrence and Clarkson make its way to Hanover. The matchup with the Saints is set for Friday, January 23 at 6 p.m. and the Big Green will play Clarkson on Saturday, January 31 at 3 p.m.

 

Dartmouth will wrap up the regular season series with the Cornell Big Red at Lynah Rink on Friday, January 30 at 6 p.m. and Colgate at Class of 1965 Arena on Saturday, January 31 at 3 p.m.

 

February will begin with the Big Green’s final regular season games at Thompson Arena. Dartmouth will host Princeton on Friday, February 6 at 6 p.m. and Quinnipiac on Saturday, February 7 at 3 p.m.

 

The 2025-26 regular season will conclude the weekend of Friday, February 13. Dartmouth will first play Union on Friday at 6 p.m. before closing the regular season against RPI on Saturday, February 14 at 3 p.m.

 

For more information on tickets or to put down your deposit for 2025-26 season tickets click here.