Brian Halverson

Emotions will be running high in Madison, Wis., on Friday night but it will have little to do with Wisconsin’s return to the ice after a bye week to host No. 10 Denver. When the first puck drops, the game will be secondary in the minds of UW fans as they pay tribute to one … Read more

The jockeying for position in the WCHA standings raged forward this weekend with a dramatic leap, a couple of tweaks, and a pair of harmful sweeps. Only six conference games remain on the docket for all but Minnesota State and Alaska-Anchorage leaving minuscule room for error over the next three weekends. Two points is all … Read more

Nebraska-Omaha (12-11-5, 9-7-4 WCHA) at Michigan Tech (13-13-2, 10-8-2 WCHA) Tyler:  The hotels will be full in Houghton this weekend with the annual Winter Carnival, but the Mavericks won’t be lodging in them. UNO will stay 45 minutes away in Baraga, Mich., according to the Omaha World Herald. The Huskies haven’t exactly derived any kind of an … Read more

From top to bottom, the only sure thing is that there are no sure things in the WCHA Especially considering the WCHA’s bottom three teams heading into the weekend ended up going 3-2-1 with wins over the second (Minnesota-Duluth by Alaska Anchorage), sixth (Nebraska-Omaha by Bemidji State) and seventh (Michigan Tech by Minnesota State) place … Read more

As always, we leave you with a few things which stood out from the weekend’s action across the WCHA. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard Cliché as it is, the adage applies to Michigan Tech’s dismantling of Minnesota-Duluth over the course of the final 100 minutes of their series in Duluth this … Read more

Clinging to a one-goal lead over St. Cloud State with less than six minutes to play, No. 3 Minnesota gave its guests every opportunity to score the equalizer. But the Huskies were not the capitalists their hosts were on this night. Not only did St. Cloud State (10-13-4, 7-9-3 WCHA) fail to score on either … Read more

The following are a few things (among many) which stood out over the weekend in the WCHA. Anyone have fingernails left? With this past weekend’s slate of games behind us, only six weekends remain on the schedule to sort out postseason positioning. As the race is heating up, the games are getting tighter. Of the … Read more

Although a bevy of offensive firepower was on hand at Mariucci Arena in the form of Minnesota’s Nick Bjugstad and Kyle Rau, along with the brothers Schwartz (Jaden and Rylan) for Colorado College, it was, ironically, a pair of unlikely heroes who were the difference makers on Saturday night at Mariucci Arena. Nate Condon scored … Read more

When attending a game featuring a matchup of two of the nation’s top three scoring offenses, most fans would anticipate witnessing a high-scoring “shootout” of a game. In a manner of speaking, Friday night’s patient crowd at Mariucci Arena got what they came for, although they were made to wait 58 minutes for it in … Read more

Nebraska-Omaha (11-9-4, 8-5-3 WCHA) at Minnesota State (7-16-1, 3-12-1 WCHA) Tyler: The goaltending job at UNO should be Ryan Massa’s to lose going into this weekend after his last two performances, holding Quinnipiac to one goal on 25 shots and Minnesota-Duluth to one goal on 44 shots. Minnesota State’s offense is not all that explosive … Read more

No. 1 Minnesota-Duluth (14-3-3, 10-2-2 WCHA) at Nebraska-Omaha (10-8-4, 7-4-3 WCHA) Tyler: The CenturyLink Center is a big building that’s going to be packed and wild this weekend to greet the nation’s No. 1 team. So was Western Michigan’s barn but the Bulldogs went in and pushed the Mustnags around in UMD sweep last weekend. UNO’s top … Read more