Hockey East announced via press release Monday afternoon that longtime commissioner Joe Bertagna will be stepping down from his position effective at the end of the 2019-20 hockey season.
Bertagna’s final season will be his 23rd with the league, and 38th in a leadership capacity, as he worked for ECAC Hockey prior to the schism in 1984.
Bertagna’s tenure was one of ups and downs. On the one hand, under Bertagna’s leadership, Hockey East developed into one of the premier collegiate hockey conferences in the nation, with various programs constantly in the mix for hardware each year.