Paula C. Weston

What a wild weekend in the Big Ten. While other conferences were engaging in playoff hockey, B1G teams were playing their second-to-last weekend of regular-season play and showing us that nothing is predictable for this league this season. Congratulations to Ohio State for completing its first sweep of Michigan since 2011, and congrats to Wisconsin … Read more

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Coming into tonight’s game, the Buckeyes already knew that they could score against the Wolverines in Yost Ice Arena. After all, Ohio State had scored six against Michigan in an 8-6 loss Jan. 17. Friday night, the Buckeyes scored seven – six unanswered between the first and second periods – and … Read more

We are getting down to it. Last week, I was bitten by the wrong-way split in the Michigan-Minnesota series. Drew Claussen, however, was not. Last week Drew: 2-1-1 (.400) Paula: 1-2-0 (.400) Season Drew: 72-47-18 (.555) Paula: 73-46-18 (.599) This week Everyone plays in this penultimate week of the regular season. Minnesota still holds first … Read more

We are getting down to it. Last week, I was bitten by the wrong-way split in the Michigan-Minnesota series. Drew Claussen, however, was not. Last week Drew: 2-1-1 (.400) Paula: 1-2-0 (.400) Season Drew: 72-47-18 (.555) Paula: 73-46-18 (.599) This week Everyone plays in this penultimate week of the regular season. Minnesota still holds first … Read more

There are two B1G series this weekend and one begins tonight. First, how Drew Claussen and I are doing with the picks: Last week Drew: 2-3-0 (.400) Paula: 2-3-0 (.400) Season Drew: 70-46-17 (.590) Paula: 72-44-17 (.605) Both of us couldn’t have been more wrong about last week’s Michigan State-Wisconsin series, but props to Drew … Read more

With three weeks to go in a six-team league, maybe things are more fluid than they seemed just a few short weeks ago. With Minnesota idle and Michigan playing nonconference, Penn State couldn’t take advantage of the situation to completely close the gap with the second-place Wolverines, but the standings are a lot more interesting … Read more

For Ferris State, tonight’s 5-2 loss was a game of mistakes. For Michigan, the score of the 5-2 win wasn’t indicative of how close the game actually was. “Four of the five goals came directly off of turnovers, and you know that’s the difference in playing them,” said Ferris State coach Bob Daniels. “With different … Read more

Minnesota leads the league with 33 points, but the Gophers are off this week. Michigan trails Minnesota by a point, but the Wolverines play a single nonconference game this week. That makes for an interesting weekend for our six-team league. First, though, Drew Claussen and I share our picks percentages, which were a wee bit … Read more

Happy Valentine’s Day! Last week, Drew Claussen and I were both bitten by the wrong-way split. Last week Drew: 1-3-0 (.250) Paula: 1-3-0 (.250) Season Drew: 65-42-15 (.594) Paula: 68-39-15 (.619) This week Everyone plays and everyone plays on Friday and Saturday. Michigan at Wisconsin Drew: I think that Michigan has the best chance of … Read more

It was an interesting weekend in Big Ten hockey for many reasons, not the least of which is that there’s still a deadlock for first place Monday morning. 1. The Spartans capture the Iron D. To be frank, the outcome of Friday’s game between Michigan State and Michigan in Joe Louis Arena is one of … Read more