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She obliterated record after record in her career, and her senior season was her best yet. She led her team to the national championship game, where the Bulldogs were 20 seconds from capturing the title. Kristin Lewicki is USCHO’s player of the year.
Clarkson’s Cayley Mercer was a Patty Kazmaier Award top-three finalist, and while the award was captured by Ann-Renée Desbiens, Mercer led her team to victory over Desbiens’ in the national championship game. Her clutch play has earned her USCHO player of the year.,
Well, conference championship weekend is in the books and the NCAA field is set. Jim and Paula discuss what to expect this weekend at regionals.
Heading into the women’s Frozen Four, much of the focus around the country centered around the season-long excellence of Wisconsin goalie and 2017 Patty Kazmaier award winner Ann-Renée Desbiens. In the championship game, however, it was the play of another goaltender that stole all the headlines: Clarkson’s Shea Tiley.
The Clarkson women’s team returns to the national championship game for the first time since their historic 2014 win. Just five players on the current roster were a part of that win. But Genevieve Bannon isn’t sure there’s much she and her fellow seniors learned that year that will be relevant to their experience on Sunday.
All season long, the goal for Wisconsin women’s hockey senior class has been simple: get to the championship game no matter what it takes. As it turned out, a pair of those seniors willed their team to that goal, although only one of the efforts would have been predicted before the evening began.
Candace and Nicole discuss what the repeat Frozen Four and consistent presence of the same teams means for the depth of the game, analyze the results from the quarters, and look ahead to this weekend’s Frozen Four and Patty Kazaier Award ceremony.
The conference playoffs rolled on last weekend, while the Big Ten capped its regular season. Jim Connelly and Paula C. Weston digest the latest action, as well as check in with their Hobey Baker favorites.
Arlan and Nicole review the results from the conference tournaments, which didn’t really see any upsets, and look at the matchups in the first round of the NCAA tournament and whether upsets are likely this time around.
Jim Connelly and Candace Horgan look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey.
Minnesota Duluth sophomore goalie Maddie Rooney became the first player from the losing side to be named tournament MVP at Sunday’s WCHA Final Face-Off.
Candace and Arlan review last week’s playoff results, try to figure out where upsets might happen this weekend, and also review the list of nominees for the Patty Kazmaier Award and who is likely to capture it.
Jim and Paula are ready for the conference tournaments to start, but some tourneys start earlier than others.
No league had more questions to resolve heading into the final weekend of its schedule than ECAC Hockey, with uncertainty at the top, bottom, and in the middle.
“As an athlete, you have the opportunity to make your community a better place,” says Quinnipiac senior Mika Nervick, a finalist for the 2017 Hockey Humanitarian Award.
Wasn’t Penn State just ranked No. 1? What has happened there? And how much of a surprise have a pair of Atlantic Hockey teams been? Jim and Paula discuss.
You are not alone. It is a simple message, yet one that is the core of what St. Michael’s seniors and Hockey Humanitarian Award finalists Danny Divis and Justin McKenzie have set out to accomplish.
With the conference champions all but decided, Candace and Arlan look at the races for home ice seeding in each conference, possible playoff matches, the races for points leaders in conferences, the announcement of the Patty Kazmaier Award initial list, and why certain programs are always near the top while others languish.
Anders Bjork is one of five finalists for the 2017 Hockey Humanitarian Award and has spent the better part of the last two seasons making weekly trips to Perley Fine Arts Academy, an elementary school just south of campus.
Does Northern Michigan keep playing Atte Tolvanen? Why or why not? And what changes would Paula and Jim want to see to the NCAA tournament?