Jim Connelly
They are calling it the “super conference.” Personally, I’ll hold judgment on just how super the new conference featuring North Dakota, Denver, Colorado College, Nebraska-Omaha, Miami and Minnesota-Duluth will be. Notre Dame and another school — quite possibly Western Michigan — might also become members. So you won’t hear that term for the remainder of … Read more
ST. PAUL, Minn. — In 2007, college hockey had a banner year at the NHL Entry Draft with a record 11 collegians selected in the opening round. If that was college hockey’s shining moment, this weekend might be considered college hockey’s draft disaster. In Friday’s opening round, only four college or college-bound players heard their … Read more
Teammates Adam Clendening and Matt Nieto were selected in the first half hour of Saturday’s second round. Jim Connelly reports.
Injuries limited the defenseman to just 11 games over the last two seasons. Jim Connelly reports.
The excitement of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft was tempered a bit on Friday night as the NHL remembered longtime head of Central Scouting E.J. McGuire, who lost his battle with cancer on April 7. The letters “EJ” in a black circle donned the upper right corner of the draft board, and most of the … Read more
It was a long night of waiting for college hockey fans watching the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. And once the waiting ended, the floodgates didn’t exactly open. Northeastern sophomore-to-be Jamie Oleksiak was the top collegian selected on Friday, going 14th overall to the Dallas Stars. Oleksiak was also the first U.S. player (he holds dual … Read more
Jim Connelly takes a shot at predicting the first 30 picks.
But college hockey should be represented in Friday’s first round. Jim Connelly reports.
The defenseman’s size helps him stand out to NHL teams, but he knows he has to work on his offense. Jim Connelly profiles the draft’s top-ranked college player.
The goaltender led Vermont to its first Frozen Four in 1996, but his road to the Stanley Cup and the Conn Smythe Trophy was anything but easy. Jim Connelly reports.
A pair of goals in the critical Game 4 helped the ex-Saints standout make his coach look good. Jim Connelly reports.
Dealt to Vancouver at the trade deadline, the forward has a chance to get his name on the Stanley Cup. Jim Connelly reports.
The Massachusetts-Lowell River Hawks announced their sixth head coach in school history on Thursday, and for the first time they are turning to an alum to lead the program. Norm Bazin, who played for the River Hawks from 1990 through 1994 and was a part of the senior class that led Lowell within a goal … Read more
The Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs made history on Saturday night, and it was a hometown boy who will forever be remembered as the hero. Kyle Schmidt, who grew up just minutes outside of Duluth in Hermantown, Minn., scored the overtime game-winning goal 3:22 into the extra session, setting off an explosion of the 19,222 fans at the … Read more
Michigan and Minnesota-Duluth are the last teams standing in the race for the 2011 NCAA championship. Jim Connelly reports.
Minnesota-Duluth’s quest to make history and win the school’s first-ever national championship lived on Thursday, as the Bulldogs used near-perfect special teams and a remarkable effort in net from goaltender Kenny Reiter to edge Notre Dame, 4-3, in the opening game of the 2011 Frozen Four. Minnesota-Duluth will face Michigan in Saturday’s championship game. The … Read more
Both the coach and the goaltender grew up in single-parent households. Jim Connelly reports.
National title, please head west. With a 2-1 victory by Notre Dame over New Hampshire in the NCAA Northeast Regional final at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, N.H., the national championship will be claimed by a team from the WCHA or CCHA for the first time since 2007, after three straight Hockey East teams … Read more
It was billed as the battle of the Bulldogs, and in the end it was the less aggressive dog — at least in terms of banging bodies around the rink — that prevailed. Minnesota-Duluth placed its opposition, Yale, into a massive hole by capitalizing on power plays generated from undisciplined penalties in the middle period … Read more
When the field for the East Regional was announced last Sunday, there was a lot of talk about the power play units for three of the participants: Union, Yale and Air Force. It was the one team that wasn’t mentioned — Minnesota-Duluth — whose power play was successful at the right time, scoring twice on … Read more