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And then there was one… It may be hard to believe but this is the final week of the regular season and a lot is riding on the final two games for many teams in both conferences. Everyone at the D-III level (no St. Anselm or St. Michael’s) is in the ECAC East conference tournament … Read more
Last week Theresa: 3-7-2 Season Theresa: 113-70-20 Last week Tyler: 5-5-2 Season Tyler: 118-48-16 Some weeks go well. Some weeks … don’t. Obviously last week was fairly unpredictable. This weekend, once again, we’ve got all 12 teams playing each other. I also get the feeling that things might start staying unpredictable as the race toward … Read more
Jim and I both had a tough time with last week’s picks, allowing him to maintain his gargantuan lead. I would have narrowed the gap by a game if not for a desperation pick, but that would have just been a snowflake off the top of a glacier. Dave last week: 5-4-1 Jim last week: 5-4-1 Dave’s record-to-date: … Read more
And doooowwn the stretch they come; will Union falter? Will Yale leapfrog to the front again? Will I finish with a .667 prediction percentage? All these questions and more, to be answered in the coming weeks! Prediction precision Season: 121-57-20 (.662) This week All times Eastern Friday, February 18 Brown at Princeton – 7:00 Brown … Read more
First, a thanks and an apology Thank you to my friends and colleagues, Bob Miller and Jeff Svoboda. Bob is USCHO’s arena reporter at Yost, and Jeff covers Buckeye hockey for the Buckeye Sports Bulletin. In yesterday’s column, I used quotes from OSU head coach Mark Osiecki that Bob forwarded to me by email and … Read more
Last week: 4-7-1 On the season: 89-59-22 (.588) While Rochester Institute of Technology has locked up first place, the other 11 positions in Atlantic Hockey are still up for grabs, with some key series ahead. Thursday, February 17 and Saturday, February 19 Niagara vs. Canisius – The Battle for the Bridge series may also determine … Read more
This weekend saw two WCHA teams that have struggled to score goals lately, come close to wearing out the bulb in the red lamp. St. Cloud State went up to Duluth and put eight goals (scored by seven different players) on the board against No. 3 Minnesota-Duluth in what turned out to be one of the … Read more
This’ll be a quick-hitter, without the usual feature material in the middle due to a crunched-up week… the Beanpot and Clarkson-St. Lawrence kinda accordioned my standard pace and schedule. Players of the Week Player of the week: Alex Killorn, Harvard The Crimson’s most consistent (or perhaps only consistent) player this year scored three goals and … Read more
Can we agree on this much? It’s time for drug testing the Hockey East coaches if they don’t unanimously select Merrimack coach Mark Dennehy as their Coach of the Year. If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you know the score. The year before Dennehy arrived on campus, the Warriors finished 1-21-1 in Hockey … Read more
Things had to break just right last weekend for Rochester Institute of Technology to clinch the regular season Atlantic Hockey title, and that’s exactly what happened. Niagara and Air Force split a pair of wild games, and Robert Morris had a win but also had to settle for a tie (in a wild comeback), opening … Read more
The Oswego State hockey team’s goal heading into the 2010-2011 season was a breakout season. On Saturday, the Lakers got their crowning acheivement victory in the five-year history of the program when they stunned top-ranked and undefeated RIT 2-1 to not only hand the Tigers their first loss of the season, but also stop them … Read more
As Valentine’s Day hit us yesterday, I got to thinking about the guys in the CCHA who wear No. 14 and how they may have fared on the ice this past weekend. Alaska sophomore forward Adam Henderson did not play Feb. 11-12. His only goal this season was the third in a 4-1 win over … Read more
On the fly Friday, February 11 Brown 1 at Clarkson 4 The Golden Knights didn’t score on either of two power plays, but they did keep Bruno off the board on eight Bears advantages to grit out the victory. Frosh Allan McPherson and Will Frederick scored for ‘Tech, as did seniors Scott Freeman and Tom … Read more
What Does It All Mean? First, let’s talk about what we do know after the penultimate weekend of the regular season. Oswego will finish first, but we knew that last week. Fredonia will finish sixth — yes, Cortland can tie them, but Fredonia won both match ups this year, and thus would win the tiebreaker. … Read more
Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you hopeless romantics out there! If your social calendar is a little light and your Facebook page isn’t popping with friend requests, status updates or notifications on the trendiest party, then maybe your fondness and affinity for your favorite hockey team will help their cause this week entering the … Read more
A shutout sweep by Rochester Institute of Technology over Canisius allowed the Tigers to claim their fourth regular season title in five years. Two other sweeps in the East pod have moved Holy Cross and Connecticut into the driver’s seat for a first-round bye. To recap: Canisius scored the first goal of this three-game series … Read more
The playoff races are going down to the wire, spring training kicks off today, and of course it’s Beanpot Monday. Here’s a look back at the past weekend on this busy Monday. The MASCAC standings straightened out a bit, while Johnson and Wales and Curry remain tied atop the ECAC Northeast entering the final week … Read more
The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference faces the prospect of a four-way tie for first place as the regular season concludes this weekend. St. Thomas’ two-game sweep over Bethel pulled the Tommies into a first-place tie with Hamline (13-5-5, 8-2-4) on 20 points. However, St. Thomas (14-9-2, 9-5-2) is idle this weekend, which means the Pipers … Read more
Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all. Whether or not you celebrate, take today as an excuse to eat chocolate. Unless you hate chocolate. In which case … I don’t know. Anyway, I don’t think many of us correctly predicted what would happen this past weekend. I know I didn’t. Oops. Minnesota State and Colorado College split – … Read more
The weekend now in back of us led to some very interesting shuffling in the Hockey East standings. So let’s get started figuring out what happened when the dust settled. We can start with a very interesting fact about Friday night. A rare occurrence as all 10 teams were in action and in each of … Read more