Todd D. Milewski

If you’re headed to the Frozen Four a day early and want to check out the Verizon Center and the four competing teams, check out the free practice sessions. Not only do you get the chance to see how the hockey-covering media lives (note the tongue planted firmly in cheek there), but teams usually make … Read more

If you have no particular rooting interest in this year’s NCAA tournament (or even if you do but can separate that from an overall view of things), answer this question: Is this year’s tournament the best in recent memory, or maybe just the one with the most parity? How else does the Frozen Four feature … Read more

Enrico Blasi paused, perhaps to think about everything that happened. Asked to sum up his feelings about what surely ranks up there among his accomplishments in hockey, the Miami coach finally threw a question right back. “You guys have some time?” he said. In terms of time left in the season, Blasi and the RedHawks … Read more

I wanted to get this post up Friday, but then the games started and, well, there went the rest of the night at Mariucci Arena. With 37 entries in an informal NCAA tournament poll I conducted, some interesting things developed: ** Only 8 percent did not have either Boston University or Notre Dame winning it … Read more

The tales of this Minnesota-Duluth postseason run won’t need much in the way of embellishment. The honest truth is pretty amazing on its own. The latest entry involves a pair of goals in the last 40 seconds of regulation to force overtime and a power-play goal to win it and earn a spot in the … Read more

When Miami’s representatives arrived for their news conference with the media on the day before the NCAA tournament, they had to talk to themselves because no one showed up to listen. People are listening now. An enthusiastic start, a solid defense and an unusual bounce Friday made the RedHawks the second No. 4 seed to … Read more

By this time, we’re all looking ahead to the NCAA regionals next weekend, but there were some amazing things that took place in the conference tournaments this weekend that need to be revisited. ** Of the 19 games played, eight were shutouts. Four of those came in Saturday’s championship games, with Minnesota-Duluth, Yale, Boston University … Read more

There were two forms of consolation that Wisconsin could enjoy after a second-period surge sparked a victory in the WCHA Final Five third-place game Saturday. The Badgers could walk out of Xcel Energy Center with heads high a day after they were pretty low. Jordy Murray scored twice, the first one part of a three-goal … Read more

Denver’s line chart for today’s semifinal game against Wisconsin at the WCHA Final Five is a little thin down the middle. With Tyler Bozak and Tyler Ruegsegger out injured, the Pioneers have only three centers listed, and one of them is hurting, too. Jesse Martin, who’s listed on the top line between Rhett Rakhshani and … Read more

The formula is seemingly not complicated. The success is not exactly overwhelming. But Minnesota-Duluth keeps plugging away in the WCHA playoffs, and it has earned a chance at becoming the league’s ultimate bracket buster. Alex Stalock celebrates UMD’s semifinal win over North Dakota (photo: Jason Waldowski). Already having dispatched the WCHA’s fourth and fifth seeds … Read more