Weekend Rewind – Jan. 31

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

SUNYAC wrap: Jan. 31

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

ECAC East/NESCAC weekend wrap: Jan. 31

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

ECAC West weekend wrap: Jan. 31

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

MCHA, MIAC and NCHA weekend wrap: Jan. 31

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

The weekend that was: Week 17

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

Weekend work-up: Jan. 31, 2011

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

Weekend of Jan. 28-29

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

Predictons for 1/28-2/1

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

Hockey East Picks – Jan. 28-29

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