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The first half of the season hasn’t gone the way that the Northeastern Huskies expected. The team reached the break with a 3-9-4 record and has earned just nine points in Hockey East. With an experience goaltender and some depth on defense, head coach Greg Cronin expected more of his club. Thus far, Northeastern has … Read more
Players of the Week* *These are my selections; ECAC Hockey’s can be found here. Player of the Week: Brandon DeFazio, Clarkson DeFazio led by example against SHU, scoring the hat trick – including a much-needed power-play goal and the game-winner – and adding an assist with a plus-3 rating in Clarkson’s rout. One of the … Read more
What struck me this week in the CCHA was the minutiae, the things that don’t draw a lot of attention but that matter in small ways. Perhaps it’s a Big Chill hangover – so much of it seemed ridiculous and overblown to me – but I found hockey beauty in the little things last weekend. … Read more
Oswego Finally Losses It was only a matter of time before Oswego finally lost a game. Going undefeated these days in college hockey is a near impossibility. The Lakers dropped a game against always tough Hobart, at the always tough “Cooler” in Geneva, N.Y., 5-2. Hobart outshot Oswego, 42-27, taking 1-0 and 3-1 leads before … Read more
I was perusing youtube today looking for a WTOP video and I came across this gem of a video series that is currently being produced about the Oswego State Lakers women’s hockey team. Senior goaltender and I believe communications major, Emi Williams, is the executive editor of the series that is going behind the scenes … Read more
There’s been some lean years recently at Worcester State, but not any more. In what can considered one of the shockers of the opening portion of the season, the Lancers knocked off Salem State 5-4 Saturday to move into a first place tie with Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Worcester State hasn’t had a winning season since 1997-98, but … Read more
To say that parity has swept the D-III women’s hockey world by storm is an understatement. After the first semester, three teams are left undefeated and then there is a pack of 10 or so teams that have all had impressive victories to date and can be considered contenders to make the NCAA Tournament. Just … Read more
UW-Superior’s Stauber collects 200th victory UW-Superior Coach Dan Stauber notched his 200th coaching victory in a fashion that was emblematic of his 11 years at the helm. After losing Friday’s contest to visiting St. Scholastica, No. 15 Wisconsin-Superior showed resiliency by bouncing back to win Saturday’s rematch 7-3. Such consistency has been the hallmark of … Read more
As we wind down towards the holiday break, games are getting scarce. There were just four league games played last weekend, with RIT picking up four points in a sweep of Mercyhurst, and Army and Connecticut getting wins in single game affairs. RIT continued its dominance of Mercyhurst in Erie, expended its unbeaten streak to … Read more
All but one of the remaining games before the holidays took place this past weekend. (The lone exception is Vermont at St. Lawrence on Saturday.) The big winner was New Hampshire, which came from behind to topple Maine at Alfond Arena, 4-3 in overtime. This has become a huge rivalry so bragging rights all by … Read more
Oh where, oh where have the super teams gone? We have just come to the semester break for the holidays and just take a look at the league standings and USCHO Poll – where are the juggernauts this year? Sure, there are a lot of the usual names up top, like Oswego, St. Norbert and … Read more
On the fly Friday, December 10 American Int’l 1 at Union 8 The Dutchmen boasted as many multi-point scorers as they did goals in the blowout, with sophomore Jeremy Welsh leading the way with a hat trick. Senior Justin Pallos scored twice, and frosh Mat Bodie, sophomore Wayne Simpson and junior Kelly Zajac also chipped … Read more
Thank you Nanooks and Bulldogs. Thank you. While I realize that neither of you is entirely pleased with last weekend’s split, you did win on the nights that I picked for each of you to win. Two other series split with each team winning on nights opposite of my picks for their wins. You’d think … Read more
Despite being an all-league weekend, it was still kind of odd – a Thursday/Friday series, games being postponed due to snow … crazy. Speaking of that snow … if any of you in Minnesota want to ship that out here to Colorado, it would be much appreciated. Thanks. – Michigan Tech may be scrappy, but … Read more
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Some video from during and after the Big Chill at the Big House on Saturday: Michigan goaltender Shawn Hunwick, part 1: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGH-GhtvR3E Hunwick, part 2: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LI9X-TybDI Michigan coach Red Berenson, part 1: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DgQEMi717Q Berenson, part 2: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tsxILuPG-Y Michigan’s Carl Hagelin, part 1: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpY_DyVLcIY Michigan State coach Rick Comley: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vOKtPu-074 The crowd … Read more
Forgive me, Wisconsin-Eau Claire Blugolds for having doubted you. I mistakenly attributed your back-to-back wins over No. 7 Adrian and No. 9 SUNY Geneseo to tryptophan-laced turkey and inertia-inducing giblets on your opponents’ Thanksgiving dinner plates. I picked Wisconsin-Stout to prevail. But you showed me, didn’t you? By sweeping Stout last weekend, you cast further … Read more
Clearly, I am not someone you can take to the bank, so to speak. My picks last week: 2-5-3 Overall this season: 54-27-15 And I thought Thanksgiving week was bad. I did call MSU-FSU, ND-Miami and OSU-UM to split. Unfortunately, only the Buckeyes and Wolverines won and lost on the predicted nights. Ouch. I’m now … Read more
Well well well, we finally found somebody with the cajones to step into the ring with The Prognosticator. Welcome Tom Rodbell, a life-long ECAC fan from the Nutmeg State. Don’t try to push your Bobcats or Bulldogs fervor on him, though – he’s from a family of Engineers fans, who considers Brian Pothier his favorite … Read more
Last Week: 6-3-2 On the Season: 45-33-8 (.560) This Week’s Picks: There’s only four league games on tap with the schedule winding down towards the holiday break. Friday, December 10 and Saturday, December 11: Rochester Institute of Technology at Mercyhurst – The Tigers are 5-0-1 in thier last six games in Erie, but I think … Read more
The final weekend of 2010 is here, at least in terms of Division III hockey. (OK, so Johnson and Wales plays Thursday, but for all intents and purposes, the next few days will put the lid on the calender year in terms of hockey.) There’s some potential for change in the MASCAC entering the New … Read more