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Camels celebrate seniors with eye to the future

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Like many teams striving to find a way to play competitive hockey this season, Connecticut College found strength in its administration and its players and coaches to make a partial season possible. What has ensued has been a planful approach to celebrating the seniors and preparing a young roster for what will hopefully a fast … Read more

NCAA D-I men’s ice hockey regionals preview with ESPN’s John Buccigross: USCHO Spotlight college hockey podcast Season 3 Episode 16

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ESPN’s John Buccigross will have the play-by-play in the Bridgeport regional and in the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh alongside Barry Melrose and Colby Cohen (photo: Kelly Backus / ESPN Images).

ESPN’s John Buccigross joins hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger to preview this weekend’s NCAA D-I men’s ice hockey regionals.

Buccigross will have the play-by-play in the Bridgeport regional and in the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh alongside Barry Melrose and Colby Cohen.

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Final Bracketology: One last look figuring out which 16 teams will play for the 2021 national college hockey championship

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We’ve seen all six conference tournaments completed and here are both Jayson’s and Jim’s fields, as well as how they place them into regionals. It’s amazing how controversial this year has been but how close Jayson and Jim are with their final fields. How they move teams around, though, is very much different. Jayson: Here … Read more

Bracketology: With Selection Sunday around the corner, taking one last stab at how the NCAA hockey tournament field will look

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We’re inching ever so close to Selection Sunday so let’s take another look at Bracketology.

Right now, there are just nine college hockey games remaining after the NCHC (North Dakota) and Big Ten (Minnesota) crowned their champions. Hockey East has whittled their field to two teams, ECAC is down to three and WCHA and AHA still have their final four to be played.

This Week in NCHC Hockey: Applause for conference in getting through ’20-21 season safely, with exciting games to boot

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Now that the Frozen Faceoff has ended, it seems fitting to look back on the NCHC season.

It’s likely that three teams from the conference may make the NCAA tournament, possibly four, but with so much up in the air with selection, it’s also possible only two teams, North Dakota and St. Cloud State, will be chosen.

This Week in Big Ten Hockey: As pandemic lingers, commissioner Warren hopeful Big Ten ‘did all that we could for our conference’ in ’20-21

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Another sign of how much things have changed, as if one was needed, was evident in Sunday’s conversation with Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren.

When Warren took over at the helm of the conference in January 2020, a college hockey reporter opening an interview with a line of questions about an infectious disease wouldn’t have been normal.

Such is life for the Big Ten, and sports in general, these days.