Matthew Semisch

OMAHA, Neb. — It’s not very often Denver backup goaltender Evan Cowley sees playing time. In fact, the only game he’d appeared in coming into Saturday was way back on Oct. 19. When Pioneers coach Jim Montgomery gave him the nod Saturday, however, partly to send the rest of his team a message to stop … Read more

OMAHA, Neb. — Whenever Nebraska-Omaha has needed a big goal this season to give the Mavericks a boost, forward Josh Archibald and his extraordinary speed have come very much in handy. Archibald came up big twice for UNO Friday against No. 18 Denver, scoring his NCHC-leading 22nd and 23rd goals of the season en route … Read more

Nebraska-Omaha’s Saturday games have been becoming more and more, well, interesting. One could make the argument this pattern began with the Mavericks’ 5-1 win Jan. 18 at Miami, the first time UNO had routed anyone since beating the RedHawks 6-3 at home nearly two months before that on Nov. 22. Fast-forward to Feb. 1, then, … Read more

Geography dictates that it’s tough for western college hockey teams to put on something similar to the Beanpot, the tournament that brings together Boston’s four big men’s – and women’s for their own annual version – college hockey programs to determine local bragging rights. That said, Minnesota’s five Division I programs seem to be onto … Read more

Candace and I both went 3-1 Friday, which looks pretty good when you consider we both went 2-3-5 last week. Now, though, we’ve got two more North Star College Cup games today to call. Yesterday at St. Paul, Minn.’s Xcel Energy Center, Minnesota-Duluth outlasting Minnesota State 5-4 in overtime Friday before top-ranked Minnesota bested No. … Read more

Although we’re starting to see more daylight open up between the NCHC’s sets of leaders and trailers, it appears to be time to start thinking about adding Minnesota-Duluth to the former category. Duluth spent the first half of the season putting up a decidedly mediocre record and splitting series almost as though that was the … Read more

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[photoshelter-gallery g_id=”G00001obH90eWmhA” g_name=”20140110-Omaha-Duluth-MBishop” f_show_caption=”t” f_show_slidenum=”t” img_title=”casc” pho_credit=”iptc” f_link=”t” f_bbar=”t” fsvis=”f” width=”500″ height=”375″ bgcolor=”#AAAAAA” bgtrans=”t” btype=”old” bcolor=”#CCCCCC” crop=”f” trans=”xfade” tbs=”4000″ f_ap=”t” linkdest=”c” f_fullscreen=”f” f_constrain=”f” twoup=”f” f_topbar=”f” f_bbarbig=”” f_htmllinks=”f” f_enable_embed_btn=”f” f_show_watermark=”f” f_send_to_friend_btn=”f” f_smooth=”f” f_mtrx=”f” f_up=”f” target=”_self” wmds=”llQ6QNgpeC.p1Ucz7U.Y6oFk3KTlvmoIA8WORtFORwBjd4_PLXgwxP0kG5ul1qXzmfIkTg–” ]OMAHA, Neb. — Minnesota-Duluth hadn’t played a non-exhibition game since Dec. 14, but not enough rust showed Friday to keep … Read more

This season’s St. Cloud State team appears to be one that gets the job done on the road, no matter how hairy any given scenario might be for the Huskies. Last Friday’s game at intrastate rival Minnesota-Duluth proved a perfect example. Playing its first home game since Oct. 26, UMD bossed large parts of its … Read more