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The weather may be cooling down, but the on-ice action is heating up in the Midwest. The last weekend before Thanksgiving may clarify the standings as to who will be the contenders in the MCHA, MIAC, and NCHA conferences. Here are some picks for this weekend’s upcoming action. NCHA St. Norbert at Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 7:00 … Read more
Flipping a coin worked pretty good last week, as I went 4-0. However, I heard some grumblings about my picks when I visited Hobart on Saturday. It is hard to make everyone happy. This week, a bit of a bonus as I’m making picks through the Thanksgiving weekend, as teams hit the holiday tournaments. I … Read more
An equally mediocre week for Dave and me led to the old man maintaining a two-game lead. Jim last week: 5-4-1 Dave last week: 5-4-1 Jim’s record-to-date: 35-21-7 Dave’s record-to-date: 37-19-7 Here are this week’s picks: Friday, November 18 Vermont at Boston University Jim’s pick: Despite Vermont typically playing well at BU, the Terriers are playing well enough right now I have … Read more
Yes, I’m here, I’ve posted! Records so far: Josh: 29-19-10 Brian: 26-15-7 Princeton at Cornell Josh: It looks pretty simple right off the bat. Cornell is a multi-faceted weapon that can rack up the goals and stop you dead the other way. Teams need to learn to take the point shot away from player of … Read more
No. 19 Nebraska Omaha (6-5-1, 5-2-1 WCHA) at No. 11 Denver (4-3-2, 3-2-2 WCHA) Tyler: Nebraska-Omaha’s goaltending situation, between John Faulkner and Ryan Massa, has held the Mavericks back but Adam Murray hasn’t exactly put a lid on Denver’s net either. This weekend will see a couple of high-offense shootouts out on the range. Neither … Read more
There’s nothing quite like calling the score of a single game on a single night correctly, as when I said Notre Dame would beat Western Michigan 3-2 Tuesday — and the Fighting Irish did just that. It was a fluke. Surely, you know this. Paula’s picks Last week, including Tuesday: 7-4-2 (.615) Season to date: … Read more
Last Week: 5-5-1 On the Season: 48-22-6 (.654) This Week’s Picks: Friday, Nov. 18 Army at American International – Both teams are having trouble scoring goals, so this one is a tossup. I’m going with the Yellow Jackets at home. AIC 2, Army 1. Saturday, Nov. 19 Connecticut at Yale – The Huskies are coming … Read more
Okay, so the headline is a little dramatic. How else was I going to get you to read a Tuesday blog entry? There’s a pick at the end for the Western Michigan-Notre Dame game. I’m bound to be wrong. I have a couple of other things on my mind, too. Football, hockey and the future … Read more
This past weekend didn’t really feature any marquee matchups across the country. There were no top 10 matchups and every single one of the top 10 teams in the latest USCHO.com Poll rolled to victories. Since it was a rather predictable weekend, let’s take a look at the early returns on conference races. ECAC East: Defending … Read more
Where Do We Start? This past weekend produced quite an array of results, surprises, and comebacks. Let’s first set up the game of the week I selected, which was Plattsburgh at Buffalo State on Saturday, with the respective games each team played on Friday. Buffalo State did not start out the weekend properly, despite opening … Read more
Canada, Finland, Sweden, and the United States met in Nyköping, Sweden, last week to compete for the Four Nations Cup. As has always been the case with this event and its three-nation predecessor, Canada and the United States met in the final; the Americans emerged with a 4-3 win in a shootout. Occurring while the … Read more
There was a full schedule on conference games in the west this weekend, as MCHA, MIAC, and NCHA teams started the heart of their respective conference battles. There were two series featuring ranked teams, as No. 4 Adrian traveled to No. 11 Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), while No. 12 Wisconsin-River Falls played host to … Read more
You had to wonder when it was going to happen for Salve Regina. Last week, I wrote that Salve had won its first game in nearly nine months, as the Seagulls defeated Franklin Pierce, 4-2, last Tuesday, November 8. Four nights later though, the Seahawks lost 10-2 to Curry in their ECAC Northeast opener, and … Read more
Denver coach George Gwozdecky may have said it best on Saturday night. “It wasn’t a goaltender night for either team,” said Gwozdecky in reference to the performances of DU’s Adam Murray and Colorado College’s Joe Howe in the Pioneers’ hang-on-from-ahead 5-4 win at Denver’s Magness Arena. But Gwozdecky didn’t necessarily have to stop at that … Read more
Every weekend of CCHA hockey brings something even more surprising than the last. This is a most unusual season. First, Lake Superior State is still No. 1. Technically. The Lakers now share first place in league play with Notre Dame and Ohio State, and the prevailing preseason theories put only one of those three teams … Read more
The headscratchers of the world got no relief over the Nov. 11-12 weekend as the ECAC Hockey league’s two undefeated teams from the previous weekend (Union and Dartmouth) didn’t get a single win. Instead, previously struggling St. Lawrence joined preseason favorite Yale and rising force Cornell as the big winners on the weekend. The magic … Read more
Although we now know the injury St. Cloud State junior goaltender Mike Lee suffered last month in preparation for the Huskies’ series at North Dakota will require surgery, the precise location of Lee’s lower body injury, despite a report to the contrary, remains in question. In St. Cloud State beat writer and St. Cloud Times … Read more
After a solid sweep at home of Providence on October 28 and 29, Maine has dropped four straight Hockey East games to drop below the .500 mark. Losses at Boston College and New Hampshire last weekend don’t seem too bad. But two losses at home to Massachusetts-Lowell could be cause to raise the red flag. … Read more
Three things I learned from Atlantic Hockey this weekend: Things can change in a New York (and Pennsylvania) minute. First place Air Force was undefeated in league play and riding a seven game unbeaten streak heading into games at Rochester Institute of Technology and Mercyhurst. But the Falcons suffered a rare weekend sweep at the … Read more
A rash of upsets left both of us with only so-so results last weekend. This week will be better. Dave last week: 5-3-1 Jim last week: 5-3-1 Dave’s record-to-date: 32-15-6 Jim’s record-to-date: 30-17-6 Here are this week’s picks: Friday, November 11 Merrimack at Boston University Dave’s pick: The absurdly inconsistent Terriers, who’ve been playing as if they have … Read more