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Last Week: 5-5-1 On the Season: 132-56-24 (.679) This Week’s Picks: Thursday, Feb. 9 and Saturday, Feb. 11 Rochester Institute of Technology vs. Canisius – The Golden Griffins defeated the Tigers earlier this season, snapping an eight-game winless streak against the Tigers. I think RIT, coming off a pair of stinging losses at Air Force, … Read more
By sweeping Bethel this weekend, No. 7 St. Thomas was the first team in the West Region to clinch its conference. St. Thomas wrapped up the MIAC regular season title and home ice advantage in the MIAC playoffs. No. 6 St. Norbert and No. 8 Wisconsin-River Falls grabbed their own home ice advantage, but no … Read more
Well if we learned anything from another terrific Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, it is that it may not be that the entire of body of work over a season that counts, but that the team that gets it right when it matters most. The Giants, deservedly, won the … Read more
The MASCAC shuffle continues, and by virtue of a pair of wins over the weekend, Plymouth State finds itself in first place in the conference, as three weeks remain in the regular season. The Panthers earned four points with a pair of home wins: a 4-2 win Thursday over Westfield State and a 4-3 win … Read more
Some settled, some unsettled in SUNYAC Here are the quick facts: — Oswego and Plattsburgh have clinched a bye. Who finishes first will most likely be settled when they meet on February 17. — Buffalo State, Fredonia, Potsdam, and Geneseo will be fighting it out for a home spot in the play-in round. Potsdam with … Read more
We may be experiencing some turbulence If at any point you don’t like the prospective composition of the NCAA at-large field, then wait five minutes, because it will probably change. Thanks to the volatile nature of the PairWise Rankings, teams are bouncing around like an unfrozen puck. Boston University’s rebound in particular started a ripple … Read more
Here’s a look back at the past weekend in the ECAC on Beanpot Monday: 1. Saints in last no more: A four-point weekend is hard enough by itself, but even harder when you haven’t won in almost a month and hit the road for a pair of games. Greg Carey’s overtime goal Friday gave the … Read more
Neumann continued its slide last weekend as Hobart came into Aston, Pa., and took three of four points. The Knights climbed back into Friday’s contest twice, the second time when Cory Park scored his 10th goal of the season with less than four minutes remaining to tie the game 2-2. Neumann had a power play … Read more
From top to bottom, the only sure thing is that there are no sure things in the WCHA Especially considering the WCHA’s bottom three teams heading into the weekend ended up going 3-2-1 with wins over the second (Minnesota-Duluth by Alaska Anchorage), sixth (Nebraska-Omaha by Bemidji State) and seventh (Michigan Tech by Minnesota State) place … Read more
With just three weekends of play remaining, nothing will be decided until the very end. Three things from this most recent weekend of play. 1. The Ferris State-Western Michigan series at the end of February will determine the regular-season champion, unless … 2. …the Wolverines have something to say about it. Okay, so this is … Read more
Last Tuesday, we lost our lone remaining unbeatean team in Division III women’s hockey, as the Gustavus Adolphus Gusties fell, 5-1, to Wisconsin-Superior. That started a string of surprising results out west this week, as Superior went and tied Marian 3-3 in its very next game. Gustavus also struggled in its next two games, but … Read more
These are three things I think I learned from this past weekend. 1. Only one Hockey East Beanpot team was thinking about Monday on Friday. Coaches and fans of Beanpot teams always worry about the Friday night before the Beanpot. Will their team be looking ahead to the contest three nights ahead at the Garden when they should be … Read more
Three things I learned from Atlantic Hockey play this weekend: – The third period has been a killer for Sacred Heart. The Pioneers have been the victims of third period comebacks several times this season, and it happened again on Saturday. Bentley’s Brent Gensler scored with 0.2 seconds to play for force a 3-3 tie. … Read more
Weekend picks are back this week after a far too long absence! Although there are no games between two top-10 ranked teams this weekend, there are some interesting matchups that should lead to some good games and some tough games to predict. Friday, Feb. 2nd – Salve Regina/UMass-Boston Here’s an interesting game between two ECAC … Read more
It’s the beginning of the end — of this season, anyway. Here’s how I’m doing: Last week: 6-3-1 Season to date: 95-63-23 (.588) Remember that adage about a broken clock and the frequency of its accuracy? Yeah. Like that. This week Everyone plays this weekend. All series are Friday-Saturday, single site. The games in Ann … Read more
Finlandia and Wisconsin-River Falls each scored overtime goals on the road that knocked my predictions under .500 for the week. Wis.-River Falls broke a 0-for-18 streak at St. Norbert with a 4-3 victory on Friday, and Finlandia came through with its own overtime goal at Marian for an identical 4-3 win on Saturday. Officially, I … Read more
February is here, and the leap year that is 2012 isn’t going to help team that can’t get it going in the next three weeks. Last week I finished 3-1-2 for the weekend, which takes my season record overall to 41-16-8 (.692). Still not quite at that 70 percent success rate, and time is running … Read more
From here on out, it will be imperative to keep an eye on both the ECAC Northeast and MASCAC standings. Entering this weekend’s slate of games, three points separate first place (Curry) from second (Johnson and Wales) in the ECAC Northeast, while two points separate first place (Salem State) from third (Plymouth State) in the … Read more
Game of the Week Had Brockport not let two points slip through its fingers last week against Cortland, this week’s contest against Geneseo would have been an even bigger deal. Nonetheless, I’m still selecting the Geneseo at Brockport game as the game of the week. It is still a huge game for both teams, coupled … Read more
We had kind of a rough week last weekend, but Arlan gained ground by successfully picking Boston University to beat Harvard. I went 10-6 (.625) to move to 143-52-20 (.711) on the year, while Arlan went 11-5 (.687) to move to 141-54-20 (.702) .Can I hold him off? After discussing some of the final spots … Read more