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Last Week: Dan: 5-6-1 Chris: 7-4-1 On the season: Dan: 144-78-23 (.635) Chris: 147-75-23 (.647) This Week’s Picks Friday, March 7 – Sunday, March 9 (Best of three series): No. 12 Army at No. 5 Robert Morris Dan: My problem with this series is that it’s ripe conditions for a trap series for RMU. Army … Read more
Let’s get right to the action… all games start at 7:00, unless otherwise noted. 12 Princeton at 5 Clarkson Note: Saturday’s game begins at 7:30 Clarkson swept the season series against beleaguered Princeton, winning 4-3 in Jersey and 3-1 in Potsdam. Forgive my bluntness, but the Tigers look like dead meat: They have only scored … Read more
It’s time to crown the 2014 Division III conference tournament champions and what better people to prognosticate these important games than our D-III columnists. The nine teams that take home the titles will have earned them and will taste victory as they never have before. So who wins? Read on, people. Read on. ECAC East … Read more
Friday, March. 7 NCHA (semifinals) Adrian at Lake Forest Lake Forest has won the last two meetings between the two teams; the latest a 6-4 home win in mid-February. The Bulldogs are led by junior, Kelsey Kusch, who tops the nation in scoring with 47 points and 22 goals. The Foresters counter with Michelle Greeneway … Read more
Here’s how Drew Claussen and I are doing with two weeks to go. Last week Drew: 2-1-1 (.625) Paula: 2-1-1 (.625) Season Drew: 78-39-13 (.650) Paula: 80-36-15 (.668) This week In the final two weeks of Big Ten conference play, there are three Friday-Saturday series with each team playing. Michigan State vs. Michigan Drew: Like … Read more
Just when I began getting cocky, karma put me back in my place last week. Jim last week: 4-4-1 Jim to-date: 147-66-28 (.668) Dave to-date: 123-65-24 (.637) Friday, March 7 #10 Massachusetts at #7 Vermont Jim’s pick: I think that Vermont has enough of the depth at each position to win this game and advance. … Read more
Unlike the WCHA standings, there’s no question how this regular season pick ’em battle will end. First place: Shane Frederick. Last place: Matt Wellens. Unlike the last place team in the WCHA standings, however, I still get to make the playoffs for redemption. Here is how Shane and I predict the final weekend of the … Read more
Well, I didn’t get off to that great a start in my postseason picks. The ECAC really messed with my percentages, but overall, I did well, and correctly picked all but two series. I went 18-9 (.666). Let’s see how I can do this weekend. If my semifinal picks are wrong, I will update this … Read more
Last week, thanks to the Nebraska-Omaha sweep of Colorado College, Matthew and I both went 4-4 (.500), as we got the split dates wrong for Denver and Western Michigan. Overall on the year, I am 87-63-22, while Matthew is 84-66-22. Looks like I will win our picks contest, unless we decide to keep it going … Read more
The ECAC Northeast and MASCAC tournament semifinals go down this week, with championship hardware to be decided this weekend. ECAC Northeast Wednesday, March 5 Curry at Nichols Curry is playing very good hockey right now, beating Johnson and Wales in the final game of the regular season and Salve Regina in the ECAC Northeast quarterfinals. … Read more
The elite teams are rising to the top as the number of participants continues to dwindle down through advanced rounds of the conference playoffs. There are conference championship games on the horizon along with the highly-coveted NCAA tournament auto-bids that come with the titles. Here is a recap of the great action across the country … Read more
Heading into the last week of the regular season in the WCHA, here is what I think I learned from last weekend. You couldn’t ask for a more exciting final weekend From the MacNaughton Cup, to the pursuit of home ice in the first round of the WCHA playoffs, to just making the league playoffs, … Read more
Happy Oscar Sunday (for those who don’t know, I’m freakishly into awards shows for some unknown reason). Now that the show is over and I’ve composed myself after Leo went another year without winning best actor, let’s take a look at what happened in the Big Ten this weekend. 1. Minnesota’s seniors shine on Saturday … Read more
The NESCAC was the focal point for a pair of major upsets, while other favorites were taken to the brink in similar fashion. NESCAC Top-seeded Middlebury’s bid to return to familiar territory, an NCAA tournament slot, came to an unforeseen halt at the hands of unheralded Connecticut College in the NESCAC quarterfinals Saturday at Kenyon … Read more
Notre Dame upsets No. 1 Boston College while Providence wins two at Maine. These two teams are playing their best hockey heading into the playoffs. That leads the three things I learned this week: 1. Irish upset Eagles to take six-game unbeaten streak into playoffs Notre Dame pulled off an impressive upset of the top-seeded … Read more
Underdogs denied as conference playoffs commence There were a few tense moments along the way, but in the end, the higher-seeded, home teams advanced from all 14 quarterfinal pairings across the four conferences. Five games went to overtime, and three series required a deciding third game. Hockey East follows form The playoff structure used in … Read more
Coming into the inaugural season of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC), it was anticipated that the league would be ultra-competitive, and that the teams might be very close together in points. If that was what the league honchos wanted, they certainly have it. Heading into the final weekend of play, the only positions in … Read more
Three (O.K. four) things from the weekend in Atlantic Hockey Wrapping up the regular season For a change, very little came down to the final game of the regular season in Atlantic Hockey. Seeds 1,6,7,8 and 12 were already settled before the puck was dropped on Saturday as well as three of the four teams … Read more
The matchups First, congratulations to Cleary Cup champion Union, who took the regular-season crown for the third time in four years (2010-11, ’11-12, and this season). The Dutchmen are joined in their well-deserved bye week by second-place Colgate, third-place Quinnipiac, and fourth-place Cornell. Kudos, especially, to the Big Red for a tenacious rally against arch-rival … Read more
On the final day of the Atlantic Hockey regular season, here’s what we know: 1. Mercyhurst, Bentley and Connecticut have sewn up three of the four first-round byes. Mercyhurst will be the top seed. Bentley can finish no lower than third; Connecticut no lower than fourth. 2. Robert Morris and Air Force are competing for … Read more