Dan HicklingIt wasn’t exactly an unintended consequence. However there was a tinge of irony attached to the Wisconsin’s wildly successful “Fill the Bowl” promotion for last Saturday’s game with rival Minnesota. Not only did the Badgers pull in 10,668 spectators to the Kohl Center — thereby smashing to smithereens all women’s college hockey attendance records — … Read more
The French call it “potpourri” while the Hungarians call it “goulash”. Me, I call it this week’s column, a collection of odds and ends from the world of women’s Division I pucks. There is a common thread among those items; see if you can find it. Pour example’, in Madison, Wis., we see the Badgers … Read more
Isabel Menard has a knack for boiling hockey down to its basics, just as she has a nose for the net. Both involve the simplest route: straight to the heart, and pity the poor defenseman who gets in her way. While the sophomore sniper from Syracuse has talent to burn, it’s her motor that makes … Read more
It takes a lot of guts to step in front of an opponent’s slap shot, just like it does to ask for the privilege of doing so. Melissa Perry knows that as well as anyone. Perry, a junior defenseman at Quinnipiac, has gone from being a walk-on hopeful to being a key member of the … Read more
A more positive thinker in college hockey than Sacred Heart coach Tom O’Malley, you’re just not gonna find. Rain pours in through a leaky roof, and he’s likely to collect the drips to water the office plants. That wellspring of optimism has carried him well through his coaching career, which is a darned good thing. … Read more
It wasn’t exactly freshman orientation, not the sort that all newcomers to Northeastern University undergo, anyway. It was more of a reorientation for NU coach Dave Flint. After all, a season away to help guide Team USA at the Vancouver Olympics did net Flint a silver medal, but it also left him feeling a little … Read more
Success on the ice can beget buzz in the rink. So it is in Ithaca, where the No. 1 Big Red drew a record crowd (2,326) to Cornell’s Lynah Rink. The throng was rewarded, too, with a 3-0 blanking of Clarkson. Brandton Thomas of the Ithaca Journal was there to see it all. Time was … Read more
Success on the ice can beget buzz in the rink. So it is in Ithaca, where the No. 1 Big Red drew a record crowd (2,326) to Cornell’s Lynah Rink. The throng was rewarded, too, with a 3-0 blanking of Clarkson. Brandton Thomas of the Ithaca Journal was there to see it all. Time was … Read more
She was grafted by the marriage of her brother into North Dakota hockey royalty. Even so, there were still a few family secrets that Madison Kolls was not yet privy to. Such as the traditional games of shinny fought out by the six hockey-playing Lamoureux siblings out on the frozen pit behind the house in … Read more
There was a battle royale in Madison this weekend between No. 4 UMD and No. 1 Wisconsin. The teams earned a split, with the host Badgers eking out a 3-2 overtime win on Friday. That set the stage for a revenge match, and a whale of one it was, with the Bulldogs quieting a large … Read more
There was a battle royale in Madison this weekend between No. 4 UMD and No. 1 Wisconsin. The teams earned a split, with the host Badgers eking out a 3-2 overtime win on Friday. That set the stage for a revenge match, and a whale of one it was, with the Bulldogs quieting a large … Read more
UMaine may have polished off one of the most significant wins in its history on Tuesday, a 4-1 upset of New Hampshire. But there was little time to savor it. The Black Bears were back on skates and on the ice early (if not bright) on Wednesday. Still, there wasn’t a grumble to be heard, … Read more
Mash the names “Amanda” and “Mazzotta” together, and you get one word. Amazing. Such was the weekend performance of second ranked Cornell’s junior goaltender, who put up a pair of whitewashes against ECAC foes Princeton and Qunnipiac. Jimmy Xi of the Cornell Daily Sun spins the tale. In recent seasons, Maine has taken its show … Read more
Mash the names “Amanda” and “Mazzotta” together, and you get one word. Amazing. Such was the weekend performance of second ranked Cornell’s junior goaltender, who put up a pair of whitewashes against ECAC foes Princeton and Qunnipiac. Jimmy Xi of the Cornell Daily Sun spins the tale. In recent seasons, Maine has taken its show … Read more
Hard to believe it, but we’re nearly two months into the 2010-11 season. That’s more than enough time to assess the impact of returning Olympians on their college teams, don’t you think? At first blush, it would appear to be enormous. After a year-long Olympic layoff, Canadian Meghan Agosta is again filling the nets with … Read more
There’s no limit to what can be accomplished when the whole heart is involved. Or as it played out at Ingalls Rink, over a thousand hearts. That was the big and good news coming out of Yale’s “White Out for Mandi” effort on Friday. Chelsea James of the Yale Daily News fills us in on … Read more
There’s no limit to what can be accomplished when the whole heart is involved. Or as it played out at Ingalls Rink, over a thousand hearts. That was the big and good news coming out of Yale’s “White Out for Mandi” effort on Friday. Chelsea James of the Yale Daily News fills us in on … Read more
Before there was the Frozen Four and the Kazmaier Award, and before there was the Women’s Hockey East and the NCAA (and even the AWCHA), even before the full kick in of Title IX, and the quadrennial chasing of Gold Medals, there was one towering figure on skates (but not on figure skates). That would … Read more
The odd tidbit of the week is that No. 7 North Dakota has yet to win a shootout in the three years since the WCHA brought it into league play. The latest toe stub came this weekend against No. 9 Ohio State, in what was otherwise a fine weekend for the Sioux. Brad Elliott Schlossman … Read more
The odd tidbit of the week is that No. 7 North Dakota has yet to win a shootout in the three years since the WCHA brought it into league play. The latest toe stub came this weekend against No. 9 Ohio State, in what was otherwise a fine weekend for the Sioux. Brad Elliott Schlossman … Read more