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Plenty of question marks plagued Minnesota Duluth at the start of the year. One of three goaltenders with zero prior collegiate game experience between them had to step up, and scoring was going to be a concern. Now, UMD is Frozen Four bound.
Watching Denver’s players gather around goalie Tanner Jaillet after a rather routine 6-3 win over Penn State in the Midwest Regional, one striking thing was how subdued they were. Unlike some other teams that celebrated with joie de vivre after advancing to the Frozen Four, you got the sense that for Denver, it was just one more step.
Jim Montgomery had to mull it over a moment. The Denver coach had just won his 100th game with the program, sending his squad to a second-consecutive Frozen Four. But what was different this time?
The All-USCHO D-III teams represented eight of the 10 Division III conferences, and 19 schools were represented on them. Sid Watson Award winner Evan Buitenhuis led the way on the first team, with runner-up Stephen Collins also first team.
In Jeff Jackson’s illustrious coaching career, which includes stops in the National Hockey League, the U.S. National Team and 18 years at the collegiate level at both Notre Dame and Lake Superior State, he’d never done it before.
The “B” in the University of New England’s feared BFF line (with the Fleurant brothers), Ryan Bloom led all rookies in scoring and is our USCHO rookie of the year.
As the college hockey season embarks on its biggest weekend of the year, the biggest question has come out of the East Regional: What can’t Harvard do?
He guided his team to a national championship and outstanding 27-1-3 record. Norwich’s Mike McShane is our coach of the year.
After nine overtime games in the regular season and one more to start the postseason, what’s another two? The Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs have made their marks as marathon men.
He was third in the country in scoring with 48 points, averaging 1.78 points per game, and finished as runner-up for the Sid Watson Award given annually by the American Hockey Coaches Association as D-III’s best player for the second year in a row. Stephen Collins of Geneseo is our USCHO player of the year.
The Frozen Four field is set following an incredible weekend of NCAA playoff hockey and Paula and Jim break it all down in the season’s final installment of TMQ.
As the impasse between USA Hockey and the U.S. Women’s National Team continues unresolved. USA Hockey reached out to many current and former players at both the D-I and D-III levels to try to find replacement players, but found all women were resolved to support the national team.
When it comes to the postseason, most teams ride one goalie as far as they can go. Norwich, however, played different goalies in the semifinal and championship games of the Frozen Four in Utica.
When Norwich went to overtime against Adrian in the second semifinal of Friday’s D-III Frozen Four, it was a familiar place, as the Cadets of have played over 100 minutes of overtime playoff hockey in the NCAA tournament since 2000.
Tyler Whitney leads Trinity in assists, so his contributing three assists in a 3-2 win over St. Norbert in the Frozen Four was no surprise.
Players representing eight schools were named to the 2016-17 All-USCHO women’s D-III teams.
National champion Clarkson led the All-USCHO women’s D-I teams with five players, while runner-up Wisconsin placed four players on the teams. Nine schools in total were represented.
Some of USCHO’s conference writers pick the teams they think will advance to the Frozen Four in this weekend’s regionals.
North Dakota, Boston University, Minnesota Duluth and Ohio State are in the West Regional in Fargo, N.D., but does that mean the Fighting Hawks will have a “home” crowd behind them?
When the puck drops at 3 p.m. EDT for the game between St. Norbert and Trinity, the Utica Memorial Auditorium will join the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid as the only two arenas to host both a D-I national hockey championship and D-III national hockey championship.