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With Wednesday’s tie between Bentley and Air Force in the books, there are ten games left in the Atlantic Hockey regular season. Here are each team’s chances heading into the final weekend, updated with Wednesday’s tie: 1. Robert Morris Games left: at Canisius, home against Canisius Can finish: 1st-4th Outlook: The Colonials control their own … Read more
Last week: Dan: 5-3-2 Chris: 3-5-2 On the season: Dan: 109-72-26 (.589) Chris: 122-59-26 (.652) This Week’s Picks: Wednesday, February 24 Bentley at American International Dan: This game is incredibly critical to the rest of the weekend. If Bentley wins, they’ll need only a tie against Army West Point to assure themselves of home … Read more
Quinnipiac wins ECAC for first time No. 4 Quinnipiac secured its first ECAC Hockey title with a 9-0 drubbing of Union on Friday. Taylar Cianfarano scored four of the goals and assisted on another, Nicole Kosta had a goal and three assists, while Nicole Connery and Emma Woods had three-point games that included two goals … Read more
Here are three things learned from ECAC Hockey play over the weekend.
A busy weekend of NCHC hockey gave us plenty of talking points. Here are three of the bigger ones that stood out: UND takes all six points at home North Dakota is in a tight race with St. Cloud State atop the NCHC standings, and the Fighting Hawks kept up their end of the bargain … Read more
The seven regular-season Division III women’s conference champions are now official, as the season wrapped up Saturday. Four conferences were already mathematically decided last week — Colonial Hockey (Stevenson), ECAC West (Plattsburgh), NEHC (Norwich) and WIAC (Wisconsin-River Falls). That left us with just the MIAC, NCHA and NESCAC this past weekend. Bethel wrapped up its … Read more
Some of the Eastern conferences didn’t even wait for the playoffs to create some drama this past weekend. A first-year program took a giant step in winning the regular-season title and all of the seeded teams took care of business in the opening rounds of the playoffs in the NE-10 and NEHC tournaments. Needless to … Read more
This is my favorite time of the year. All of the WCHA teams are even on games played (finally!), there are two weeks to go and there are wide-open races throughout the standings. A few thoughts from the weekend … 1. MacNaughton chase is on First-place Minnesota State was idle this weekend and stayed that … Read more
Bye Bye The penultimate weekend of the regular season is in the rear view mirror now, and the road ahead is clearing. The eleven Atlantic Hockey teams have formed around three clusters: Those with byes, now jockeying to avoid fifth place and the road quarterfinal series that comes with it. A gang of four teams … Read more
It looked as if the Notre Dame Fighting Irish might be headed to their first Hockey East regular season title, in just year three in the league, heading into last weekend. And for about 53 minutes on Friday, there was plenty of reason to believe that might happen. That changed quickly and leads the three … Read more
With three weeks to go in a six-team league, maybe things are more fluid than they seemed just a few short weeks ago. With Minnesota idle and Michigan playing nonconference, Penn State couldn’t take advantage of the situation to completely close the gap with the second-place Wolverines, but the standings are a lot more interesting … Read more
Four conference championships have been decided so far; all others come down to the final weekend. For this weekend’s picks blog, Candace and Matt will predict what each conference’s last weekend of the regular season will yield in terms of regular-season champions. Colonial Hockey Candace: This is one of the conferences that is decided alrady. … Read more
Minnesota leads the league with 33 points, but the Gophers are off this week. Michigan trails Minnesota by a point, but the Wolverines play a single nonconference game this week. That makes for an interesting weekend for our six-team league. First, though, Drew Claussen and I share our picks percentages, which were a wee bit … Read more
Last week: Dan: 4-5-2 Chris: 4-5-2 On the season: Dan: 104-69-24 (.589) Chris: 119-54-24 (.665) This Week’s Picks: Friday, February 19 and Saturday, February 20 Robert Morris at Air Force Dan:The two best teams in the league are going head to head, with RMU as the team that’s been on top tape-to-tape for a … Read more
Good grief, I only got one game wrong last week but made up no ground on Jim. Dave last week: 10-1-2 Jim last week: 10-1-2 Dave’s record-to-date: 154-60-35 Jim’s record-to-date: 158-56-35 Friday and Saturday, February 19-20 Because every team except Massachusetts and Massachusetts-Lowell is playing a two-game series against the same opponent, we will list picks for each series … Read more
Hey guys, Jack checking in. Home stretch here, and there are some great series this weekend. However, one weird thing I’ve noticed that I don’t like: Too many teams have off weekends in the last month of the season. This week, Minnesota State takes is idle and Ferris State plays a single nonconference game. Last … Read more
Last call Five teams will conclude their 2015-16 season this weekend. Four of those are already known, while the other one will become apparent as the ECAC schedule concludes on Friday and Saturday. In Hockey East, Merrimack wraps up its first varsity season when it hosts Vermont for a series. These are big points for … Read more
Last week: 8-3-1 Overall: 46-26-14 It might be the second-to-last regular season weekend in ECAC Hockey, but it’s my final weekend of picks for the 2015-16 regular season, as colleague Josh Weinreb will handle the blog next week. I had a good time last time out; let’s see if that continues this weekend. All games … Read more
It’s hard to believe the regular season is over already. I had an amazing picks week last week, going 28-3-3 (.867). On the year, I am 359-99-52 (.754), way better than Vegas odds. Here is to the last weekend in the regular season. Friday, Feb. 19 Brown at Clarkson Clarkson should clinch second place with … Read more
Matthew gained a game back on me last week, as I thought Western Michigan might win one against Omaha. I went 3-2 while Matthew went 4-1. On the year, I am 95-45-14, while Matthew is 91-49-14. Thursday, Saturday, Feb. 18, 20 No. 10 Denver versus Colorado College (Saturday: Coors Field) Candace: I think I’ll give … Read more