David De Remer

I was just thinking as I watched Michigan State celebrate its Frozen Four win over Boston College — wasn’t that exciting last year when the Wisconsin men and women both took home NCAA titles in the same season? Why was that “double” not repeated this season? The Michigan State women did not have the same … Read more

Wisconsin State Journal Capital Times Duluth News Tribune Boston Globe Adirondack Daily Enterprise New England Hockey Journal Harvard Crimson Daily Cardinal  Badger Herald And of course, check the USCHO.com women’s page for all of our tournament coverage.

For more women’s hockey coverage from around the nation. Chu wins the Kazmaier: Boston Globe Capital Times New England Hockey Journal Adirondack Daily Enterprise NCAA final game previews: Capital Times Wisconsin State Journal Duluth News Tribune

Here are some other views of the NCAA semifinals from around the nation: Boston Globe — Wisconsin-SLU Recap Boston Globe — Schaus and Stack Feature Duluth News Tribune Wisconsin State Journal New England Hockey Journal — Wisconsin-SLU New England Hockey Journal — BC-Wisconsin

USCHO will have a recap of Wisconsin’s epic quadruple overtime win over Harvard sometime today. Here are some other links in the meantime: Recapand Quotes from Wisconsin Athletics Recap from Harvard Athletics Wisconsin State Journal Wisconsin Journal Sentinel A few other thoughts: There seems to be plenty of confusion about save records out there, due … Read more

Entering Saturday’s NCAA quarterfinal, New Hampshire had the home ice and the momentum from winning Hockey East, while St. Lawrence had been humbled – humbled by getting blown out 4-0 by the Wildcats back in November, humbled by getting run over by Dartmouth 7-3 in the ECACHL final last Sunday. But the best programs learn … Read more

So the pairings are up: Harvard at (1) Wisconsin St. Lawrence at (4) New Hampshire Boston College at (3) Dartmouth Minnesota-Duluth at (2) Mercyhurst As mentioned in previous editions, this was the best bracket in terms of avoiding intraconference matchups, but not the best in terms of bracket integrity. This is the first time the NCAA had to … Read more

In the end, all the drama between the BC-UMD selection turned out to be irrelevant, as all the top seeds won their conference tournaments. As discussed in earlier posts, given the closeness of BC-UMD and Wisconsin-Mercyhurst, I see no reason why the NCAA committee would not swap the two teams, leaving a bracket as follows: … Read more

For anyone looking for recaps of the Hockey East Semifinals and CHA Final: From Foster’s: UNH 2, UConn 0 Providence 3, BC 2 From Erie Times-News: Mercyhurst 4, Wayne State 1 USCHO will have writers at the Hockey East and WCHA finals on Sunday.

It may seem counterintuitive that Boston College jumped Minnesota-Duluth in the Pairwise Rankings for the No. 7 spot after BC lost to a Providence and UMD lost to Minnesota, given that Minnesota is a higher-ranked team than Providence. But UMD’s lead over BC was really an aberration — a result of an advantage in Records … Read more

Now that we’re one week away from NCAA selections, I’ll go team-by-team across the top eight, and examine the best and worst each team can do in the Pairwise Rankings, which mimic the NCAA selection criteria. As mentioned last week, aside from NCAA autobids given to conference tournament winners, the top eight is set. I’ll … Read more

Much has changed since my last NCAA Selection discussion two weeks ago.The biggest development — there is now a gap between the top eight teams and everyone else. Minnesota, a top eight team for most of the season, is now in the same situation as Princeton, Ohio State, UConn — the Gophers have to win … Read more

I missed one playoff tiebreaker scenario that was realized on Saturday. Clarkson would have won the tiebreaker for sixth place in the ECACHL against Yale had Colgate stayed ahead of Princeton. However, Princeton passing Colgate meant that Yale, who beat Princeton, took the sixth seed ahead of Clarkson, who had only tied Princeton. So the ECACHL Quarterfinal … Read more

This post will contain a run-down of all the conference tiebreakers. For the ECACHL and WCHA, who conclude play next weekend, I’ll run down who would win some of the key tiebreakers for playoff seedings. I’ll wait until next week to discuss Hockey East and the CHA. ECACHL St. Lawrence vs. Harvard (2nd-3rd place) — … Read more

So here’s the current state of the PWR, with about a month left to go before the NCAA selections: Rk Team                GP  W- L- T  Win%  Rk     RPI  Rk  PWR 1 Mercyhurst          28 25- 1- 2 0.9286  1 | 0.6208  1 | 16 2 Wisconsin           30 25- 1- 4 0.9000  2 | 0.6105  2 | … Read more

So here’s the current state of the PWR Rk Team                GP  W- L- T  Win%  Rk     RPI  Rk  PWR 1 Mercyhurst          24 21- 1- 2 0.9167  1 | 0.6272  1 | 17 2 Wisconsin           26 22- 1- 3 0.9038  2 | 0.6090  2 | 16 3 Dartmouth           21 15- 4- 2 0.7619  6 | 0.5995  … Read more

It’s a common line when teams become No. 1 in December — it’s being No. 1 in March that matters. But is being No. 1 in December a good predictor of being No. 1 in March? We’ll take a look at the history.  Here are the No. 1 teams in the last November poll, since the USCHO poll … Read more