Todd D. Milewski

Just a heads-up that the NCAA convention is next week in Washington, D.C., and during it, the WCHA will hold meetings that could change the college hockey landscape. The league meetings on Thursday include a discussion of the moratorium on expansion that has been in place since Minnesota State joined in 1999. Six of the … Read more

What you find when you talk to people around hockey is that, no matter how many leagues bring the shootout into being, it doesn’t look like the concept will even gain full acceptance. After his team lost a shootout 1-0 for the championship of the Badger Hockey Showdown last Sunday, I asked Lake Superior State … Read more

Every year, maybe just for my own amusement, I compile the rankings of college hockey’s holiday tournaments in order of combined winning percentage. It started as a quest a few years back to track how many tournaments there were on a yearly basis — it seemed like the number was getting out of hand — … Read more

I tried to deflect the question I knew was coming by saying right at the top of a radio interview the other day that I thought trying to pick who’ll end up with the MacNaughton Cup as WCHA regular season champions three months from now is a futile effort. Didn’t work. Still got the question. … Read more

For all the Sean Avery stories there are in hockey, you know there are 10 more stories like this that don’t get the attention they deserve. Or maybe they don’t get attention because those responsible for them just know it’s what they should be doing. The Chicago Blackhawks are being celebrated around the Internet, and … Read more

There was a pretty good ad campaign from the NHL last season (not sure if it’s still running), throwing out the rhetorical question, “Is this the year?” It was to get you thinking about the possibilities, and the fact that you never know when there’s going to be a record set. Spinning that line toward … Read more

As I stared at the legal pad on which I detail how the teams in last week’s USCHO.com/CBS College Sports poll fared last week, the debate in my head went something like this: Point: Air Force has the best record in the country. Counterpoint: Who have the Falcons played? Point: They’re leading all the number-driven … Read more

Is the College Hockey Showcase positioned on a bad weekend? Michigan State coach Rick Comley thinks so. Comley would like to see the games between Big Ten teams Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota and Wisconsin moved away from the Thanksgiving weekend, when attendance is off. “I think they’re prime games and they should be played at … Read more

You have to give Air Force credit. They’ve played 11 games and won them all. That being said, it’s hard to put the Falcons near the top of the college hockey rankings yet because of a factor that, admittedly, is mostly out of their control. They haven’t yet played a team with a winning record, … Read more

With Minnesota losing a 2-0 lead in the third period today at Mariucci Arena, the top 10 teams in this week’s USCHO.com/CBS College Sports poll went 2-5-3 in their opening games of the weekend. That should make the ballot interesting to fill out on Sunday. It should be noted that Notre Dame won a shootout … Read more