Feature stories
We’re going to vary from the normal USCHO Edge column this week and echo the USCHO Edge podcast in discussing Team Futures in this week’s column. For those who aren’t familiar with the terminology, a “future bet” is one that you place that is graded on how a team finishes. In major sports like MLB … Read more
We opened last week’s column talking about skewed lines. Sports books simply don’t have the time and resources to pay attention to every single game in every single sport. And while I don’t know it for certain, one has to assume that artificial intelligence is being used to set some betting lines. Sometimes fan bases … Read more
We’re back for the 2023-24 season of USCHO Edge. And the beginning of a new season is always a good opportunity for bettors. As much as we all as college hockey fans want to believe that everyone loves the game that we all love so much, the reality is that it is still a niche … Read more
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. Jim: To Dan – and all of our readers – welcome back to college hockey season! It’s great to have the first weekend of play in back of us for many … Read more
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.