Jayson MoyThe selections are out and they differed from the brackets that we had projected on Saturday evening. We had all 16 teams picked correctly, but had some of them in the wrong spots. So what happened? Here was our bracket projected on Saturday evening with a .003-.002-.001 bonus: West Regional: 13 Maine vs. 4 Minnesota … Read more
So it’s down to one last day. After two days of games, there are some certainties that we can count on. • 14 teams are now locks for the tournament. • Ohio State and Wisconsin took two of those spots after the last two days. • There are two spots left in the tournament, one … Read more
The ECAC Hockey League has named Steve Hagwell its commissioner with a three-year deal, and removed the “acting” tag from his title. Hagwell was named the Acting Commissioner last April after the members of the league decided to break away from the larger structure of the ECAC. At that time, it was said that a … Read more
It’s time once again for what we like to call Bracketology — college hockey style. It’s a weekly look at how the NCAA tournament might look if the season ended today. More than that, it’s a look into the thought process behind selecting and seeding the NCAA tournament teams. This is the penultimate installment of … Read more
It’s time once again for what we like to call Bracketology — college hockey style. It’s our latest investigation of how the NCAA tournament might look if the season ended today. More than that, it’s a look into the thought process behind selecting and seeding the NCAA tournament teams. Here are the facts: • Sixteen … Read more
It’s time once again for what we like to call Bracketology — college hockey style. It’s a weekly look at how the NCAA tournament might look if the season ended today. More than that, it’s a look into the thought process behind selecting and seeding the NCAA tournament teams. This is a special installment of … Read more
It’s time once again for what we like to call Bracketology — college hockey style. It’s a weekly look at how the NCAA tournament might look if the season ended today. More than that, it’s a look into the thought process behind selecting and seeding the NCAA tournament teams. This is the eighth installment of … Read more
The shuffle on the bubble continues, as Jayson Moy examines this week’s seeds — and takes a look at some quantum leaps and drops.
It took until overtime of the last home game of the regular season but Kevin Croxton scored his 100th point for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Croxton’s 100th point of his career was a goal to give RPI a 3-2 win over Yale on Senior Night. Yale took a too many men on the ice penalty with … Read more
Princeton scored five times in a span of 8:41 to take a 5-1 lead and defeat Rensselaer, 5-2, to move past the Engineers in the standings. The first period saw the Engineers on their heels in allowing four power plays to Princeton, but the Engineers played strong. They allowed only four total shots, and only … Read more
Bracketology is back for its seventh weekly edition. How did last week’s results affect the race for the NCAA tournament?
In this week’s edition of Bracketology, Jayson Moy lays out the latest state of affairs, and examines the difference one game can make.
The best that Rensselaer had to offer Friday was just not enough against No. 10 Harvard. The Engineers outshot and controlled most facets of the game except for the scoreboard. The Engineers generated many opportunities, but never put one past Harvard goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris as he made 32 saves and the Crimson defeated RPI, 3-0. … Read more
It’s the little things that matter, in Bracketology as in life. And right now, one of those things is St. Cloud State’s RPI rating. Take a look.
A wild weekend moves teams around, as the race to the NCAA tournament continues in Week 4 of Bracketology.
The third installment of Bracketology contains some twists, including an interesting conference breakdown and hair-splitting decisions.
The Rensselaer Engineers did something that they have not done in 20 years on Saturday night. They finished a weekend sweep in the North Country with a 4-3 win over Clarkson. The Engineers have not swept a North Country weekend since the 1985 NCAA Championship season. The Engineers scored four goals in four different ways … Read more
Who’s in and who’s out? Jayson Moy takes his second weekly look at how the NCAA tournament is shaping up.
Tyler Burton scored two of the Raider’s three goals in the second period to take a 4-1 lead, and then kept the Engineers at bay in the third to come away with a 4-2 victory. It was a game of special teams, as the Raiders scored two shorthanded goals and a power-play goal, while the … Read more
The PairWise Rankings are back, and you know what that means — it’s time for our first weekly edition of Bracketology.