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By Mike Prisuta/Special to USCHO.com As the days dwindled down this week toward the triumphant return of Robert Morris men’s hockey, coach Derek Schooley found himself wrestling with perhaps the only emotion that had escaped him since the men’s and women’s programs had been abruptly terminated in May 2021. “I wonder if I remember how … Read more
When the transfer portal was conceived, it was never supposed to be a landing place for college hockey free agents. But years later, that is what is has become. “I didn’t like my power-play time,” or “I didn’t get enough first-line reps.” That’s the reason so many players, above-average student-athletes, are making quick moves to … Read more
When Joe Bertagna stepped down after 23 years as Hockey East commissioner at the end of the 2019-20 season, he had no idea that he was setting a trend. Two years after Bertagna’s departure, Josh Fenton left the NCHC after serving as that league’s only commissioner since its inception in 2013. At the end of … Read more
College hockey’s tides are changing. The emergence of new programs and their alignment into new conferences are inserting new conversation pieces into the overall landscape, and the rising profiles of Arizona State and Augustana are two examples in a world that looks nothing like its historical decades. The transformation is sometimes hard to swallow, but … Read more
Realignment is on everyone’s mind in college sports these days. Things are changing, and the majority of sports won’t resemble anything like their present state by this time next year. The ACC, the Big Ten, the Big 12, the SEC – they’re all going to be different, and the dominant news in the sports cycle … Read more
This past season reinforced the two different ways of looking at ECAC Hockey. In a positive sense, its top team won the national championship as part of a four-bid postseason in the NCAA tournament, and ECAC matched a more heralded conference when it equaled the Big Ten with a quarter of the national tournament’s teams. … Read more
The Bobcats were dominating but didn’t get Collin Graf’s equalizing goal until they pulled goalie Yaniv Perets for an extra attacker.
Through one period of play in Saturday’s NCAA championship game, it looked as though Minnesota had solved Quinnipiac’s suffocating 1-1-3 defense.
The Bobcats won their first championship with a 3-2 overtime victory against the Gophers.
The Bobcats will look to frustrate another Big Ten team in the Frozen Four when they meet the Gophers.
“It’s unconditional,” Bobcats coach Rand Pecknold said. “This is what we do to win hockey games and you need to be selfless and you’ve got to buy in.”
A former walk-on, third-string goalie will start the national championship game for the Gophers on Saturday.
The first two-time Richter winner was unable to attend Friday’s ceremony because he’s now an NHL goaltender.
A stingy defense and a quick transition game were parts of what got the Bobcats past Michigan in the Frozen Four semifinals.
The Wolverines came from behind to win three times in the postseason but didn’t have a fourth in them against Quinnipiac.
Mike Koster tied the game 1-1 late in the first period and Luke Mittelstadt put the Gophers ahead 3-2 early in the third.
The Terriers gave Minnesota seven power plays and the Gophers scored on three in ending Boston University’s season.
Coach Jay Pandolfo had to lean on his senior leaders when the Terriers hit bumps this season.
Entering their Frozen Four semifinal game Thursday, Michigan on average allows double the number of goals per game than Quinnipiac.
The Gophers have Frozen Four experience but the Terriers are a senior-laden team. Here’s a look at them heading into their semifinal game.