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Alright, I think I am feeling like a lot of teams out there that just haven’t felt the magic in the first half of the season but know it’s in there just ready to break out. If anything, this final weekend headed into the semester break is going to have a lot of teams talking … Read more
Both of us had solid weeks, but Jim stayed a nose ahead (or in the case of us two, a beer belly). Dave last week: 7-2-2 Jim last week: 7-2-2 Dave’s record-to-date: 44-18-18 (.663) Jim’s record-to-date: 42-14-15 (.697) Here are this week’s picks: Friday, December 10 New Hampshire at Maine Dave’s pick: On a neutral … Read more
Well, I had a pretty good week last week, going 10-2-1 (.807). I think we learned last week that Wisconsin may be even better than we thought, and Bemidji deserves mention as one of the top teams in the WCHA. The only really surprising result last week was St. Cloud pulling a tie with Minnesota-Duluth. … Read more
Last week Theresa: 7-5 Season Theresa: 55-37-9 Last week Tyler: 9-3 Season Tyler: 51-25-5 Note: Somehow missed that the MTU/UNO series was Thursday/Friday. Otherwise this blog would have been up much earlier. HOWEVER, I have not looked at what’s going on in that game and our picks were made well before the game started. I just … Read more
When it came time for the top two teams in last season’s WCHA standings to wipe the slate clean and start over before this season, some doubted if Denver and Wisconsin would be able to find the offensive firepower they needed to retain prominence atop the league. Without 50-point scorer and Hobey Baker Award semifinalist … Read more
From the home office in Wakefield, Massachusetts, here are the top 10 surprises in Hockey East this year. (Full disclosure: the original post of this blog contained a different item for number six that was based on an incorrect statistic.) 10. Massachusetts freshman Michael Pereira leads the Minutemen in scoring. Hey, we all knew there would be new names … Read more
Light blog entry this week; look for more on Yale’s historic achievement in the column Thursday morning. Players of the Week* *These are my selections; ECAC Hockey’s can be found here. Player of the Week: Andrew Miller, Yale The 5’9″ sophomore out of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan only scored once this weekend, but increased his point … Read more
Atlantic Hockey has announced its November award winners, and they come as no surprise: Player of the Month for November: Paul Zanette, Niagara The senior from Nobleton, Ontario led all of Division I in goals per game in November (.93). His three shorthanded goals are also first in the nation. He had at least a … Read more
For its 50th anniversary in 2004, Sports Illustrated named the fiercest sports rivalry in each of the 50 U.S. states. No one familiar with college hockey was surprised when Michael Farber wrote about the intensity of what happens on the ice when Michigan and Michigan State meet. Not football. Not basketball. Not croquet. Men’s Division-I … Read more
Oswego increases its lead The SUNYAC schedule is now half over, and Oswego has been the story this semester. The Lakers are undefeated both in the conference (8-0) and overall (11-0), and they are now a unanimous number one pick in the USCHO.com national poll. “It’s a credit to these guys,” Oswego coach Ed Gosek … Read more
It’s not even New Year’s yet, but the conference races in the ECAC Northeast and MASCAC are shaping to be a tightly contested battle down the stretch. Much of the flux in the standings over the last few weeks can be attributed to the lack of games in hand, but much of the change is … Read more
I am finding the teams in the conferences have the same issue as I do so far this season. Case in point, picking 10 games on Friday night I go 3-6-1 while picking 10 games on Saturday, I go 6-3-1. And if I had just reversed a couple of the split weekend picks I had made for … Read more
And Then There Were Four. With Gustavus Adolphus, Trinity, and Wis.- Stevens Point all falling from the ranks of the unbeaten this week, only four now remain. RIT didn’t show any signs of complacency in its first week as the nation’s No. 1 team. The Tigers took care of Neumann 7-1 and 6-1 to improve … Read more
The first-ever Frozen Faceoff outdoor game Saturday left those involved sporting rosy cheeks and beaming smiles as well as lifetime memories. Long after the final whistle in Adrian’s 3-0 victory over Concordia (Wis.), players remained on Michigan Stadium makeshift ice rink while family members and girlfriends snapped photos. Everyone wanted to luxuriate in the outdoor … Read more
On the fly Friday, December 3 Alabama-Huntsville 1 at Cornell 3 Sophomore John Esposito broke the ice, and seniors Patrick Kennedy and Tyler Roeszler followed through the breach as the Big Red scored three second-period goals to take Game 1. Junior netminder Mike Garman stopped 24 of 25 for his second win of the year, … Read more
Success on the ice can beget buzz in the rink. So it is in Ithaca, where the No. 1 Big Red drew a record crowd (2,326) to Cornell’s Lynah Rink. The throng was rewarded, too, with a 3-0 blanking of Clarkson. Brandton Thomas of the Ithaca Journal was there to see it all. Time was … Read more
I’m still in Vegas as of writing this, thanks to a partial weekend off for running, but work is always calling, so here we go. – Props to Tyler for going with some history and calling a Mankato sweep. Let’s hope the Mavericks have the same kind of success this time around as they did … Read more
Welcome to the CCHA, a.k.a. Splitsville. Everyone split points this weekend in the CCHA, although not everyone did so evenly. In three series, teams split wins and losses. One series produced two tied games, and another a split and a tie. When the closest thing to a sweep in a given league weekend is the … Read more
Four points again proved to be elusive in Atlantic Hockey. Robert Morris and Air Force were able to get three each, while every other team in league play was able to pick up at least one. The most dramatic ending came at Air Force, where Jacques Lamoureux scored with one second remaining in regulation to … Read more
It was a weekend (well, week for some) of highs and lows for Hockey East teams with a few surprise outcomes along the way. We’ll start out with a mention of the most surprising results, in this author’s mind, of the weekend and that’s Boston College’s dominating sweep of Boston University. With BU giving a … Read more