Paula C. Weston

Can we just be happy that the Big Ten/Hockey East Challenge is over? I mean, it was great to have such high-level nonconference action early in the season. Did we really need a reminder of Hockey East’s dominance over teams formerly affiliated with the CCHA and WCHA? Last week Drew: 6-3-2 (.636) Paula: 4-5-2 (.454) … Read more

It was a very interesting weekend in Big Ten play. I was lucky enough to see Boston University play against Michigan and Michigan State — and I’m thinking that coach David Quinn may pay me to stay out of the building when his team plays. Here are three things I took away from the weekend. … Read more

For Boston University, tonight was like the replay of a bad, bad scene. Leading Michigan State 1-0 late in the third period, the Terriers found themselves down a goal as the Spartans scored twice within a single minute late in the third and eventually went on to win 3-1. In Ann Arbor against Michigan last … Read more

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Boston University sophomore goaltender Matt O’Connor was the story of this game for two periods tonight. Through the first 40 minutes of play, O’Connor was flawless, stopping 30 shots and shutting down through four penalty kills a Michigan power play that was converting at over 37 percent coming into tonight’s contest. … Read more

I don’t know about you, but I am jonesing for some college hockey. Last week Drew: 4-5-1 (.450) Paula: 6-3-1 (.650) Season Drew: 12-6-1 (.658) Paula: 13-6-1 (.675) This week Everyone but Wisconsin plays this week. It’s all nonconference play as league games don’t begin for another month. Boston College at Minnesota Drew: The Hockey … Read more

Happy Friday, everyone! Last week Drew: 8-1-0 (.842) Paula: 7-3-0 (.700) The total number of games differs because I posted a pick for Tuesday’s OSU-BGSU game and Drew did not. As last week was the first week we picked, those are also our season totals. This weekend Five Big Ten teams are in nonconference action … Read more

There’s a game tonight. I should make a prediction. For those of you new to the way I do things, I’ll give a running record of my picks every Friday, regardless of how many games there were between that Friday and the previous one. That means you’ll know how I’m doing on Friday. Unless I … Read more

Michigan State was the only Big Ten team to sit out the first weekend of Division I play. 1. Big Ten teams were either scoring a lot — or allowing a lot of goals. Going back to Thursday’s Boston College-Michigan game, the Big Ten went 7-2-0 in the first weekend of nonconference play. In the … Read more

Hey! It’s a big new world! It’s a B1G new world! Okay. I’ll stop now. This season, Drew Claussen and I are sharing Big Ten Hockey duties and every Friday, one or the other of us will post our picks. Drew is new to this game, so he doesn’t have a record from last year. … Read more

As season tune-ups go, this one was a dandy. Michigan senior Luke Moffatt scored twice on the power play and sophomore Andrew Copp had a goal and two assists to lead the Wolverines past Boston College 3-1 in the Big Ten’s first official Division I game, a contest that coaches of both teams said will … Read more

Is it wrong for me to be so excited about tonight’s Boston College-Michigan game that I can barely sit still? The Wolverines are 4-0-0 versus the Eagles in Yost Ice Arena and 11-6-0 all-time against Boston College. Michigan beat BC in their last meeting, 4-2, a semifinal game at the 2011 Great Lakes Invitational at … Read more