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Happy Valentine’s Day, CCHA fans! The Universe delivered a Valentine to me with some increasingly rare prescience for this past weekend’s picks. Last week: 8-2-2 (.750) Season to date: 95-62-23 (.592) The Fighting Irish and Wolverines showed themselves a little love, too, with sweeps of visiting opponents, while the two points the RedHawks lost at … Read more
Merrimack’s leading scorer Stephane Da Costa will not play Saturday when the Warriors host New Hampshire in the second game of a home-and-home series. Da Costa locked knees with UNH’s Phil DeSimone late in Friday’s 4-2 win over the Wildcats and had to bee helped from the ice. He did not return to the game. According … Read more
Last week: 5-5-1 On the season: 85-52-21 (.604) This week, the third last in the regular season, features more intra-pod matchups with half the series using a home-and-home format. Friday, February 11 and Saturday, February 12 Niagara at Air Force – Air Force won the earlier meeting, 7-4 at Niagara. The former CHA members have … Read more
It’s not even the weekend yet and already the standings have flipped in both conferences thanks to some pre-weekend games Thursday. In the ECAC Northeast, Curry topped Nichols 6-1 to move into a tie with Johnson and Wales for first. The lose marks the third in a row for the Bisons, who slip into fifth. … Read more
After a 5-0 week, I’m feeling sassy. However, in reality, the superlative channeling performance was probably due more to a case of even a blind squirrel finding a nut once in awhile. The overall pick’s record is 30-19-4 with only a weekend or two – depending on the league – left to predict. The clairvoyance … Read more
Last week Theresa: 7-2-1 Season Theresa: 110-63-18 Last week Tyler: 8-1-1 Season Tyler: 113-43-14 This weekend is a busy one in the conference, as all 12 teams face off against each other. That also means that this weekend is important for position jockeying, as both the top of the league and the middle of the league … Read more
So, I don’t make a habit of simply re-releasing PR pieces by individual teams, but this video from Michigan deserves a bigger audience. Senior Louie Caporusso is hilarious, and according to my esteemed colleague Jeff Arnold, this was done in one take. Caporusso looks so slick and silly at the same time. I don’t know … Read more
We’re getting down to it and the league is becoming less predictable – for me at least, apparently. Last week: 2-7-1 (.250) Season to date: 87-60-21 (.580) With three weekends left in the regular season, every series this week is bound to be hotly contested. Every team plays this weekend; Ferris State welcomes Alabama-Huntsville for … Read more
It might as well be the playoffs now as every game remaining is of critical importance for teams making a push to either get in the playoff picture or improve their lot come seeding time in two weekends. Lots of intriguing match-ups this week with a battle for the top spot in the ECAC East on Friday … Read more
Dave picked up a game on me last week but that’s kind of like saying he climbed the first mile of Mt. Everest. Dave last week: 8-1-1 Jim last week: 7-2-1 Dave’s record-to-date: 77-29-22 (.688) Jim’s record-to-date: 89-23-20 (.750) Here are this week’s picks Friday, February 11 Vermont at Maine Jim’s pick: I have a feeling that Vermont … Read more
Geez, 19 blogs devoted to picks already? Crazy. Onto the madness! Prediction precision Season record: 116-51-19 (.675) This week All times Eastern Friday, February 11 Yale at St. Lawrence – 7:00 Good heavens, Yale is mortal… on the road at least. Away from home, the Bulldogs are 5-4-0 overall, 4-3-0 in conference. Unfortunately, the Saints … Read more
I had a smoking week last week, going 16-3-2 (.809), including correctly picking the Beanpot winners, to improve my record on the year to 134-47-17 (.719). It’s hard to believe there are only three weeks left in the season. Let’s dive into this week’s picks. Friday-Saturday, February 11-12 Mercyhurst at Syracuse: The Orange have emerged … Read more
A message to Terrier nation: If you want to see Boston University play in next Monday’s Beanpot, you best show up early. Even earlier than usual, in fact, as for the first time in 59 years, the Beanpot “bronze medal” game will be played at 4:30 p.m. But, as a second message to BU fans, … Read more
Players of the Week Player of the Week: Joe Devin, Cornell The Scituate, Mass. senior earns Player of the Week honors this time around for his three-goal, five-point contribution to Cornell’s four-point weekend. He led off with Friday’s power-play game-winner over Clarkson, but finished even stronger with two goals – including the equalizing extra-attacker strike … Read more
With just three weeks left in the regular season, it’s time to start some serious scoreboard watching. I’ll be using this space over the coming weeks to break down each team’s playoff possibilities. RIT – The Tigers can clinch the regular season title with three wins in their last five games. Two wins will be … Read more
After Mike Connolly recorded a natural hat trick less than two minutes into the second period, it felt like a career game that couldn’t get much better. “I can’t even remember the last time I had three goals,” Connolly said. “When the puck went in I thought it was going to be a pretty good … Read more
RIT Keeps Roaring Along RIT is now just three games away from undefeated regular season as the Tigers picked up their first ever win at the Murray Athletic Center on Friday with a 3-1 win over Elmira College. Kolbee McCrea wasted little time in giving RIT the lead as the freshman forward put the Tigers up … Read more
Friday, February 4 Clarkson 2 at Cornell 5 Cornell scored three power-play goals as well as one short-handed, sealing Clarkson’s fate. Sophomore John Esposito, junior Sean Collins, and seniors Tyler Roeszler and Mike and Joe Devin scored for the Big Red in front of junior goalie Mike Garman (23 saves). Freshman David Pratt and senior … Read more
Streaks and ends of streaks of note: Western Michigan carries a 13-game (8-0-5) unbeaten streak, the best in the nation, four shy of the school record of 17, set in 1973-74. Bronco senior goaltender Jerry Kuhn (8-1-5, 1.94 GAA, .921 SV%) has been the goalie of record during that streak. Kuhn’s win percentage (.750) eclipses … Read more
Plattsburgh leapfrogs into third After Friday’s action, the scene was set for the Plattsburgh at Morrisville showdown. The Mustangs had 13 points while Plattsburgh had 12 points, as did Buffalo State. Morrisville started the game with Nick Kulas scoring 2:24 after the opening faceoff. Then Plattsburgh scored three unanswered goals in a 6:03 span — … Read more