Columns, excluding “This Week” columns
With the regular season over in three leagues, Jim Connelly and Scott Brown find the PairWise still open to change. Also: the potential return of the “Colorado College rule” picks for the remaining leagues and the second-half force of nature that is North Dakota.
Playoff Fever As we enter the final week of February, playoff fever will be in full swing as every conference begins their league tournament this weekend. Although all five conferences begin their tournaments, only one of them will crown their tournament champion this weekend, the NCHA. The NCHA’s O’Brien Cup will be back on the … Read more
Tragedy struck college hockey this week with the losses of 16-year-old Brandon Gordon and Notre Dame play-by-play man Mike Lockert. Dave Starman offers his thoughts.
A note to anyone reading this. This is the annual column where the word “I†will be used. Sparingly to be sure, but used none the less. I’m an old married guy (20-plus years of connubial bliss) and never experienced the pleasures (or is that pressures) of speed dating. Yet I feel as though I … Read more
It’s time once again to do what we like to call Bracketology — College Hockey Style. It’s our weekly look at how the NCAA tournament might shape up if the season ended today. It’s a look into the possible thought processes behind selecting and seeding the NCAA tournament teams. This is the latest installment of … Read more
Scott Brown is a fan of the PairWise Rankings, but that doesn’t mean the system is perfect. In fact, some things about the PairWise don’t make much sense at all.
With the regular season coming to an end, Jim Connelly and Scott Brown take a shot at predicting champions, then review teams in trouble and PairWise predicaments.
Cadet’s On The Rise With R.I.T.’s departure two seasons ago from the ECAC East, many people, myself included, figured penciling Manhattanville in as the conference champion was going to be a forgone conclusion for the next few years. Somebody forgot to tell Norwich that. The second year Norwich Cadets have quickly scaled up the ECAC … Read more
Playoff bound though it is, as it heads into the final weekend of the WCHA regular season, St. Cloud State isn’t going anywhere. They ain’t movin’ up and they ain’t movin’ down. They are staying right there in fourth place behind that trio of juggernauts, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Duluth. “I keep telling our kids,†said … Read more
Another week of games, another set of NCAA projections. Jayson Moy steps up with the latest edition of Bracketology.
Upsets ruled the weekend out East last weekend, while the West saw a little less of the unexpected. Jim Connelly and Scott Brown look over the results and take a crack at the Hobey Baker race as well.
If two years constitutes a tradition, then the ECACHL has inured itself in a fine one with it’s Pink at the Rink program. The annual initiative, held in consort with the American Cancer Society, will visit ECAC venues at Cornell and Yale during games this weekend. It’s purpose is to raise funds for cancer research, … Read more
With just two weeks remaining in the regular season, the race for the NCAA Tournament is as wild as ever. After all the game games are over, the NCAA committee will convene in their yearly conference call and announce the seven teams that will make it to the 2009 Division III women’s ice hockey NCAA … Read more
Jayson Moy rolls out the latest edition of Bracketology, including games to watch and an interesting observation about the current autobid projections.
Beanpot shakeout, the Princeton-Cornell stunner, late-season offense, and games of note this weekend — Jim Connelly and Scott Brown hash it all out.
Did you ever want a coach’s-eye view of the action in college hockey? Dave Starman spent a Saturday evening with Bowling Green and head coach Scott Paluch to bring us just that.
The venerable Houston Field House is undergoing an extensive facelift designed to make it one of the most attractive venues in the ECACHL. Meanwhile, it seems that one of the old rink’s prime tenants, the RPI women, have been testing the new elevators prematurely. How else could one explain the Engineers’ up and down fortunes … Read more
Laura Hurd Award Outlook Now that the calendar has turned to February it’s time to start the discussion about who deserves the prestigious Laura Hurd Award. The Laura Hurd Award has been awarded to the top Division III women’s hockey player as voted on by the American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) since 2000. Last year, … Read more
With another full weekend of games — plus the first Monday of the Beanpot — in the rear-view mirror, Jayson Moy presents the latest edition of Bracketology.
The consequences of Monday’s Beanpot semifinals headline this week’s discussion between Jim Connelly and Scott Brown, though there’s plenty more: Atlantic Hockey expansion and its naysayers, the rise of Yale, and this weekend’s red-circled games.