TMQ: Who’s No. 1? Take your pick this early in the season
Each week during the season we look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
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Each week during the season we look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
USCHO grew out of the College Hockey Homepage, a site that founders Tim Brule and Lee Urton initially developed on the Minnesota math department’s server.
The 2015-16 Division I men’s college hockey season features more than 50 games being played at venues away from the traditional campus sites, including nine NHL arenas.
Two first-team All-Americans from last season return at the position.
As one group of talented forwards departs college hockey, it’s time for another set of players to take their place.
Nine goalies who were awarded with All-American or all-conference honors last season are back.
Before playing a shootout in the 2015-16 season, NCHC teams will try to decide the game with plenty of open ice.
Since 2007, the American Hockey Coaches Association has awarded the unsung hero award in the name of former Army West Point player Hines, who was killed in action in Afghanistan.
The lanky winger, a second-round pick by the Minnesota Wild this summer, heads to the Terriers with the experience of the evaluation camp in Lake Placid.
Though her collegiate career has come to a premature close, Amanda Kessel’s legacy at Minnesota is secure. Nicole Haase reports in a special to USCHO about Kessel’s impact at Minnesota and in the collegiate game, and also looks at concussions in women’s hockey.
The Boston University center is expected to be the No. 2 pick; where does he fit among the players college hockey has produced?
The defenseman is third in Central Scouting’s rankings of North American skaters for the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.
He won’t turn 18 until July 19, but the Wolverines rising sophomore is ranked eighth in the final Central Scouting rankings.
It wasn’t necessarily the highest picks that made the biggest impacts among the college draft class of 2005.
The first draft of the newly formed National Women’s Hockey League will have five rounds, and is stocked with the best players in the NCAA, many of whom have Olympic or other experience. Nicole Haase reports in a special to USCHO.
He had just seven points in his freshman season, but A.J. Greer was ranked 69th among North American skaters in Central Scouting’s final rankings for the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.
After Dave Hakstol left for the head coaching job with the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers, UND quickly locked up Brad Berry as his replacement.
The launch of the National Women’s Hockey League generated a lot of media buzz, but potential players are approaching it with caution. The league would be the first women’s league to pay its players. Nicole Haase reports in a special to USCHO.
A packed crowd occupied Schneider Arena on Tuesday afternoon, with its full focus turned to the video scoreboard that was replaying the final period of last Saturday’s NCAA championship game.
One could make the case that the seeds of BU’s destruction were sown in the two games leading up to the title contest.