Dan Rubin

Dan Rubin joined USCHO in 2013. Originally a columnist for Atlantic Hockey, he now covers ECAC while providing podcast host duties. He is also the play-by-play broadcaster for Bentley and a podcast host at Boston College.

This Week in ECAC Hockey: For Brown, ‘the conviction that you win and lose with your best players’ all about trust

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Brown coach Brendan Whittet understood the importance of what he saw at the start of the 2023-2024 season. His Bears were trending younger after turning over their roster, and virtually everyone predicted a last-place finish for a team reliant on newcomers in all three phases. Nearly every metric pointed towards a reboot after the team … Read more

Back into conference play, there are some interesting lines: USCHO Edge college hockey podcast Season 2 Episode 10

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USCHO Edge hosts Jim Connelly, Dan Rubin and Ed Trefzger look at five key college games.

Games this week:

  • Providence +150 @ Boston College -195; over/under 5.5
  • Michigan State -125 @ Penn State -105; o/u 7
  • Cornell -105 @ Arizona State -125; o/u 5.5
  • Omaha +230 @ North Dakota -315; o/u 5.5
  • St. Cloud State +124 @ Denver -160; o/u 6.5

This episode is sponsored by the NCAA Division I Men’s Frozen Four, April 11 and 13 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Visit ncaa.com/mfrozenfour

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This Week in ECAC Hockey: Yale seniors the ‘backbone of the success we had this past weekend and the success we might have moving forward’

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The semester break often sits silent for college hockey teams. The World Junior Championship ramps into gear around the holidays, but aside from the occasional four-team tournament, movement almost never occurs within conferences until players return from their individual and collective layoffs. Standings don’t change, and only the limited game offers the rare opportunity for … Read more

TMQ: Talking parity, growth within NCAA Division I hockey circles, lots to be impressed with in latest United States World Junior title

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Each week during the season, we look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback. Dan: A hearty good morning to you all, and an especially happy Tuesday to my good buddy Ed, to whom we’re sharing TMQ duties this week. It was a wild, incredible … Read more

Looking at money lines for the WJC gold medal game, four college matchups: USCHO Edge college hockey podcast Season 2 Episode 9

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USCHO Edge hosts Jim Connelly, Dan Rubin and Ed Trefzger look at four college games plus the World Junior Championship 2024 gold medal round.

Games this week:
  • Wisconsin -145 @ Notre Dame +114; o/u 5
  • Harvard +120 @ ASU -150; o/u 5.5
  • Lowell -121 vs. Omaha -106; o/u 5.5
  • Clarkson +116 @ RIT -153; o/u 5.5
  • USA +117 vs. Sweden -141; o/u 5.5

This episode is sponsored by the NCAA Division I Men’s Frozen Four, April 11 and 13 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Visit ncaa.com/mfrozenfour

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This Week in ECAC Hockey: Rensselaer improving daily as Engineers aiming to ‘strengthen some other links and take steps forward’

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The holiday season is a relatively dead period in the hockey world, but it felt exceptionally low-key this past week when Buffalo Sabres head coach Don Granato missed a pair of games with an undisclosed illness. It wasn’t contagious per his own admission in the interim period after the team’s loss to Boston, but a … Read more

Looking at movement of national championship futures, revisiting Colorado College’s wins: USCHO Edge college hockey podcast Season 2 Episode 8

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USCHO Edge hosts Jim Connelly, Dan Rubin and Ed Trefzger look at 2024 championship futures – money lines on teams winning the national championship – and compare them to where they stood in late October. They also revisit last weekend’s wins by Colorado College over North Dakota, which paid off handsomely.

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This Week in ECAC Hockey: First-year commissioner Christiansen says ‘it’s been great to see the parity’ over first half of ’23-24 season

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College hockey was never built to stay in one place for an extended period of time, but the difficulty in finding stability over the past two decades was largely reinforced by two major sides of the same argument. The unprecedented and positive expansion of teams exploded in recent years because of the unprecedented popularity of … Read more

Interesting lines, over/under in key NCHC, Big Ten tilts: USCHO Edge college hockey podcast Season 2 Episode 7

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USCHO Edge hosts Jim Connelly, Dan Rubin, and Ed Trefzger look at money lines and over/under as well as providing further analysis of five weekend college hockey matchups. Plus a little curiosity and conjecture as to why there are no lines for any eastern games this week.

This week’s games;
  • Minnesota (-220) at Ohio State (+170); over/under 6
  • Denver (-150) at Western Michigan (+120); o/u 7
  • Notre Dame (+124) at Michigan State (-160); o/u 5.5
  • Penn State (+150) at Wisconsin (-195); o/u 6
  • Colorado College (+300) at North Dakota (-425); o/u 5.5

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This Week in ECAC Hockey: Slow start to 2023-24 season now in past, Union gaining confidence, ‘starting to hit our stride as a team’

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The first month of the season wasn’t necessarily the best of times for the Union hockey program. The Garnet Chargers had a new logo, a new name and a new identity, but they also had four losses in their first six games. They’d been wildly inconsistent in their results, and they bookended flashy scoring in … Read more

Rivalries, revenge, close lines highlight this week’s five games: USCHO Edge college hockey podcast Season 2 Episode 6

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USCHO Edge hosts Jim Connelly, Dan Rubin, and Ed Trefzger look at money lines and over/under as well as providing further analysis of five weekend college hockey matchups.

This week’s games:

  • New Hampshire (+170) @ Maine (-220); over/under 5.5
  • Boston University (-166) @ Merrimack (+130); o/u 6
  • Michigan (-130) @ Notre Dame (+100); o/u 6
  • Minnesota (-150) @ Penn State (+120); o/u 6.5
  • North Dakota (-105) @ Denver (-125); o/u 7

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This Week in ECAC Hockey: Defending national champion Quinnipiac ‘doing well’ so far in ’23-24, but Bobcats still ‘a work in progress’

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It was almost unfair how the start of the college hockey season saddled this year’s Quinnipiac team with the expectations and overarching shadow cast from last season. In a way, it was ironic because it built requisite pomp around a situation that this iteration never experienced. For the first time in program history, the Bobcats … Read more

Wisconsin at Michigan State is razor thin, other games have distinct favorites: USCHO Edge college hockey podcast Season 2 Episode 5

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USCHO Edge hosts Jim Connelly, Dan Rubin, and Ed Trefzger look at money lines and over/under as well as providing further analysis of five weekend college hockey matchups.

This week’s games:

  • Penn State (+154) at Michigan (-210); over/under 7
  • Cornell (+135) at Quinnipiac (-175); o/u 5.5
  • Wisconsin (-120) at Michigan State (-110); o/u 6
  • Maine (+154) at Boston University (-200); o/u 6
  • Minnesota Duluth (+145) at St. Cloud State (-190); o/u 5.5

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This Week in ECAC Hockey: For Princeton, late start a moot point as Tigers ‘going to play the same amount of games that we do every year’

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Ron Fogarty didn’t mind waiting another few days to start his season. It was the first weekend in November, but the appearance of Fogarty’s Princeton Tigers on Harvard’s Bright-Landry Hockey Center ice sheet marked the team’s first appearance of the 2023-24 season. The previous weekend, before Halloween, had been the first games for five of … Read more

This Week in ECAC Hockey: Dartmouth finding ways to pick up points with team-first mindset, confidence in compete level

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It’s impossible to win a college hockey championship in November. A hot start doesn’t translate to the March postseason, and plenty of gelling rosters don’t reveal their true potential or greatness until league schedules buckle down for the post-New Year’s Eve second semester schedule. Ask any coach or player throughout college hockey about when they … Read more