Todd D. MilewskiThe challenge came in the second intermission, delivered to a team that had fought off most of the charges made against it, but it still needed a surge to overcome a pesky barrier. St. Cloud State coach Bob Motzko laid it out for his team as it faced a one-goal deficit with 20 minutes remaining: … Read more
Matt Bailey scored twice for Alaska-Anchorage, which broke an eight-game losing streak by upsetting No. 1 Minnesota-Duluth 3-2 on Saturday. Rob Gunderson stopped 27 shots for the Seawolves (7-17-2, 4-17-1 WCHA), who also got a first-period goal from Corbin Karl. J.T. Brown scored his fifth goal of the weekend and Mike Seidel added a goal … Read more
J.T. Brown scored all four goals for No. 1 Minnesota-Duluth, which beat Alaska-Anchorage 4-1 on Friday. It was the second hat trick of the season for Brown, who scored three against Nebraska-Omaha on Jan. 13. He is the 12th Bulldogs player to score four goals in a game. Travis Oleksuk posted four assists and Kenny … Read more
Princeton and Dartmouth traded goals three times and played to a 3-3 tie on a wild Friday night at Hobey Baker Rink. Michael Sdao opened the scoring just 42 seconds into the game to give Princeton an early lead. Dartmouth’s Eric Neiley tallied his first of two goals midway through the first period, and then … Read more
If you haven’t seen, heard or met Jim Scherr in the past three weeks, you haven’t been paying much attention to Division I hockey. The former United States Olympic Committee chief executive officer, announced as the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference’s first commissioner on Jan. 4, has hit the airwaves for more than 15 TV … Read more
North Dakota women’s coach Brian Idalski served a one-game suspension last Saturday for knowledge of a player’s violation of an NCAA rule last season, according to a school spokesperson. UND forward Michelle Karvinen played for a team in Denmark last season while she was taking online classes at North Dakota, a school spokesperson said. As … Read more
UPDATE, Jan. 25: Neumann said because it is no longer offering the grant in question, it is eligible for this postseason. An NCAA spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday that, after hearing from school officials, the national organization indeed considers Neumann to be eligible for the 2012 tournament. The original story follows. Morrisville and Neumann committed major … Read more
Over the years, we’ve become all-too-familiar with NCAA bylaw 14.5.5.2.6, for some unfortunate reasons. That line in the NCAA’s Division I manual is better known as the Discontinued/Nonsponsored Sport Exception, and it comes into play when a school drops a sport. So it has come up a few times in the last decade — Wayne … Read more
Over the years, we’ve become all-too-familiar with NCAA bylaw 14.5.5.2.6, for some unfortunate reasons. That line in the NCAA’s Division I manual is better known as the Discontinued/Nonsponsored Sport Exception, and it comes into play when a school drops a sport. So it has come up a few times in the last decade — Wayne … Read more
Special teams provided the opportunities Saturday, and Wisconsin had the final answer. Forced to kill the entire two minutes of a Rochester Institute of Technology power play with the same four players on the ice, the Badgers blocked and scrapped their way out of the jam. Given a two-man advantage early in the third period … Read more
Lefty Smith, who formed the modern Notre Dame team and was its coach for 19 seasons, died Tuesday. He was 81. Smith, whose name is on the rink at the new Compton Family Ice Arena, died of natural causes at his South Bend, Ind., home. “It is difficult to imagine Notre Dame without Charles ‘Lefty’ … Read more
The Colorado Springs (Colo.) Gazette reported Tuesday morning that former United States Olympic Committee chief executive officer Jim Scherr of Colorado Springs will be announced as the first commissioner of the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference Wednesday morning. The newspaper said an anonymous source close to the hire had confirmed the hire. Scherr was unavailable … Read more
Who has the toughest schedule left? Tyler Buckentine and Brian Halverson break down that and more in This Week in the WCHA.
A quick look at the holiday-season tournaments for the 2011-12 season.
It looks like Alabama-Huntsville will be around next season, after all, but what will be the lasting effects of the turmoil? Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski talk about that, a first half of mediocrity, which teams are breaking out of that and the week ahead in Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
The new National Collegiate Hockey Conference may have its first commissioner hired by Christmas, Colorado College athletic director Ken Ralph said Wednesday. The top choice of the three finalists, a group that includes former United States Olympic Committee chief executive officer Jim Scherr of Colorado Springs, will get an offer letter from the league soon, … Read more
It stands to reason that the new Penn State men’s and women’s hockey programs will be affected in at least some way by the sex abuse scandal that has enveloped the school and athletic department. The school’s president, Graham Spanier, who appeared at the introductory press conference for the program last September, is out. Athletic … Read more
It stands to reason that the new Penn State men’s and women’s hockey programs will be affected in at least some way by the sex abuse scandal that has enveloped the school and athletic department. The school’s president, Graham Spanier, who appeared at the introductory press conference for the program last September, is out. Athletic … Read more
Alabama-Huntsville’s time as a Division I program is coming to an end, and a school administrator is citing finances as a reason. The 2011-12 season will be the Chargers’ final one as a varsity program, the school announced Monday. It will revert to a club program next season. The news was initially reported by The … Read more
If the response provides more insight than the initial action, a series of events Saturday may have provided a glimpse into Wisconsin’s path this season. The Badgers had a quick answer to a first-period deficit. They came back after seeing a two-goal lead evaporate. And, in the ultimate response to a weekend gone bad, Wisconsin … Read more