Trips to penalty box have Maine, Northeastern coaches seeing red

Discipline and having your players stay out of the penalty box can always be a challenge for college coaches. Particularly early in the season when referees and players are getting used to one another – and what is and isn’t a penalty – you often see penalty totals that are, shall we say, a bit … Read more

Weekend of Oct. 15-17

In our first full weekend of play, it was exciting as always, in both the conference and the non-conference series. Here are a couple quick thoughts on what happened. BC sweeps Denver – Denver looked sloppy … but they did play the number one team in the country and BC definitely looked the part. – … Read more

Monday morning press mess

If the rest of the season turns out to be anything like last weekend, with its plethora of unthinkable upsets (and on the road, no less), we will be in for a wild ride. Heading the list is the two-game sweep performed by North Dakota over Minnesota. As Brad Schlossman of the Grand Forks Herald … Read more

A quick look back at the weekend: Oct. 15-17

If ties truly are like kissing your sister, Hockey East is one very disturbed family. Other than at the very top (Boston College), middle (Merrimack) and bottom (Providence College), every league team engaged in sister-kissing last weekend with Lowell double-dipping. (Thank me for avoiding the temptation to torture the metaphor further in the case of … Read more

The weekend that was: Week 3

On the Fly Friday, October 15 Bowling Green 0 at Clarkson 4 Junior Jake Morley and senior Brandon DeFazio registered a goal and an assist each as the Golden Knights blanked BGSU in Clarkson’s home opener. The Knights scored twice in the first and twice more in the third, as junior Paul Karpowich made 31 … Read more

Glimpsing the weekend

The game that stands out to me this weekend is tonight’s non-conf Providence College at Syracuse tilt. Both teams could challenge for their conference titles and could be there in March when the NCAA’s are set. It should be a heck of a lot of fun. Also, as an addendum to this week’s column, I … Read more

Candace’s Picks, Oct. 15

Like my fellow D-I columnists, I’ve decided to highlight picks for the big women’s games each week. I’ll track them too, to see how I do against the other writers. I’ll post my picks for the week every Friday morning. Here’s what we have on tap for the week. Friday-Saturday October 15-16 BC at Vermont: … Read more

WCHA picks Oct. 15

Note: Usually we’ll have Tyler’s picks here too; however, outside circumstances prevented him from getting his picks in this week. Friday, October 15 and Saturday, October 16 North Dakota @ Bemidji State: Split. Bemidji takes the arena opener and the Sioux come back the next night. Minnesota State @ Michigan Tech: Split. The Huskies continue … Read more

ECAC Hockey picks: Week 3

Let’s get down to business. Friday, Oct. 15 Bowling Green at Clarkson — 7 p.m. Eastern Clarkson has to be feeling good after kicking St. Cloud State to the curb last Saturday. The North Country is never a fun road trip, and the Falcons are still licking their wounds after taking the broom against Michigan … Read more

15 things for 15 years

As USCHO enters its 15th season, you’ll notice a few changes around the site. This blog is one of them. I’ll be blogging three times regularly, every week: once on Sundays or Mondays to chat about the doings of the previous weekend; once late Tuesday or early Wednesday to chat about something else; once on … Read more

Looking up

Northeastern got off to a rocky start this weekend, dropping its first two games, both of them within Hockey East.  The Huskies lost to Providence, 3-2, and Boston College, 2-0. At the same time, however, they got a good look at the freshmen who project to be instrumental in the team’s success this year.  Seven … Read more