TEMPE — Arizona State hockey’s interim coach said people are forgetting the human side of the staff’s experience after the Sun Devils lost 2-1 to Holy Cross on Saturday in their first home game since player Matthew Mayich collapsed during a workout, Arizona Sports reported.
Mayich, a transfer, collapsed during a military-style workout on Aug. 20 and remains in critical condition, according to Arizona Sports. Head coach Greg Powers has been placed on administrative leave.
Players and coaches wore yellow ribbons with Mayich’s No. 27, and his jersey hung in the locker room at Mullett Arena. ASU led 1-0 with less than two minutes to play.
“People can say what they want to say about the coaching staff or me personally,” assistant coach Mike Corbett, acting as interim head coach, said. “We hurt too. We are human beings, too. We were there, too, and we hurt.”
“This is a young man I recruited,” Corbett said. “We know this kid and we hurt just like everybody else.”
On Sept. 28, seven ASU players anonymously wrote a letter asking that the entire coaching staff, including Corbett, be replaced and disputing the findings of the university’s initial review, Arizona Sports reported.
Sources: Arizona Sports. Thee Arizona Times uses AI-assisted reporting reviewed against the sources listed.
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