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Players of the Week Player of the week:Chase Polacek, Rensselaer Chase makes it two weeks in a row, as the senior striker opened the weekend with a power-play game-winner against Brown (plus a first-assist on the second goal), and wrapped it up with another power-play goal and two assists in the big win against Yale … Read more
We now have one month left in the 2010-2011 regular season and the conference playoff pictures are starting to shake out. In the ECAC East, Norwich has a five-point lead over Manhattanville and looks to have home-ice advantage throughout the playoffs locked up for the first time in program history after the Valiants were swept … Read more
A First For Cortland “It’s like the WCHA of Division III, where everyone can beat anyone.” Fredonia coach Jeff Meredith said that last week before his game against Buffalo State. How prophetic he turned out to be, but not for his team. Cortland had never beaten Plattsburgh in Plattsburgh. These two schools have been playing … Read more
It’s official — scoreboard watching season has opened and now will be in full swing entering the final three weekends of the regular season. As if things weren’t hotly contested enough in the conference standings, this past weekend’s action clearly tightened the races and has teams wondering about how to get as many of the … Read more
A pair of sweeps highlighted ECAC West play last weekend. At the top of the standings, Elmira continued its success at Manhattanville’s Playland Ice Casino, beating the Valiants 3-1 and 4-3. Friday night saw Elmira score a goal in each period, with the last going into an empty net with 30 seconds remaining as Manhattanville … Read more
Five of the 12 games in Atlantic Hockey this weekend went to overtime, with four ending in draws. For the second straight weekend, there were three ties on Saturday. But Holy Cross and American International came though with sweeps, with the Crusaders grabbing a firm hold on a playoff first round bye. Holy Cross swept … Read more
With a win and a tie over St John’s, Concordia (Minn.) streaked into second place behind No. 11 Hamline in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The three points earned sets up a battle between the MIAC’s second and third place teams, as the Cobbers (9-8-4, 5-3-4) host Gustavus Adolphus (11-6-2, 5-3-2) on Friday and Saturday. … Read more
Another weekend, and another shift in conference standings, as the MASCAC has a new top dog this Monday morning. Here’s a look at all that went down this weekend. Saturday, Jan. 29 Nichols 5, Salve Regina 4: A four-goal outburst by Nichols in the second period broke a scoreless tie and seemed to wrap a … Read more
Very interesting weekend that just passed in Hockey East as the results of the games shuffled the Hockey East standings a bit with just four weekends remaining. The marquis series of the weekend didn’t disappoint. Boston University went up to Orono and walked away with three of four points against Maine, despite two nailbitter games … Read more
On the fly Friday, January 28 Brown 0 at Rensselaer 3 Despite out-shooting the Engineers 36-20, Brown took the goose-egged L as RPI won the special-teams game. Senior Chase Polacek and Bryan Brutlag potted power-play goals late in the first period to pace the ‘Tute, and classmate Tyler Helfrich added the empty-netter in support of … Read more
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about the CCHA this season, it’s that league play in any given weekend is unpredictable. This week, no one knows that better than I. Last week: 2-5-2 (.333) Season to date: 85-53-25 (.598) Ouch. I knew the Lakers and Falcons would split, but I thought each team would win … Read more
In which we have a few shake-ups in the standings and in the PairWise … which we should probably start paying attention to at this point in the season. Nebraska-Omaha and Alabama-Huntsville split – Speaking of PWR, this series dropped UNO to a tie for 16th, which isn’t good if you’re looking for an auto-bid into … Read more
Last week: 6-3-3 On the season: 76-44-16 (.618) This weekend marks the home stretch as teams play their remaining 8-10 games against schools in their regional scheduling pod. Friday, January 28 and Saturday, January 29: Canisius at Air Force – These teams are 5-5-3 all-time against each other, but I think that Air Force comes … Read more
Manhattanville @ St. Anselm The Valiants need a win to keep pace with Norwich in the race for the ECAC East regular season title. St. Anselm is 9-1 in its last 10 games with the lone loss coming to two-time defending national champion Amherst. Manhattanville is still trying to make up ground on Norwich after … Read more
Once again, this weekend sees a bevy of games being crammed into Saturday. Here’s a look at what’s on the schedule for this weekend, as well as a quick glance back at the several midweek games that took place. Saturday, Jan. 29 Nichols at Salve Regina: The Bisons have won three staight, all in conference … Read more
With back-to-back 4-2 weeks, the overall prognostication record has crept over the .500 mark at 23-19-2. My downfall continues to be my misplaced faith in the underdog as I expected Lawrence and St. Scholastica to at least snag one game on home ice in their respective series last weekend. However, No. 8 Adrian swept the … Read more
Dave and I only picked one game differently last week (UMass vs. Vermont on Saturday) and I got it right. Let the lead expand. Dave last week: 5-3-1 Jim last week: 6-2-1 Dave’s record-to-date: 63-27-19 (.655) Jim’s record-to-date: 75-21-17 (.739) Here are this week’s picks: Friday, January 28 Vermont at Merrimack Jim’s pick: Vermont has played well … Read more
What a week. Rick Comley announces his retirement at the end of the season, Jim Roque is fined on top of his one-game suspension from last weekend. And I am barely above .500. Last week: 5-3-2 (.600) Season to date: 83-48-23 (.614) Here are my picks for games this week. I did not pick for … Read more
Only four weekends remain in the regular season. Eight or nine games, and the corresponding points, are up for grabs for the teams trying to improve their lots in the conference standings. Now is not the time to go into a slump or tailspin. If you are going to play your best hockey of the … Read more
I, for the most part, righted the ship last week, going 11-3 (.785). I’m calling Wisconsin’s shootout win a win, so there it is. One thing I think that we can take away from last weekend is that Minnesota is one of the hottest teams in the country right now. For a while, the Gophers … Read more