A look at the top contenders for the Hobey Baker Award
Yes folks, that’s right … the USCHO Hobey Watch is back. This is the point in the season where the race for the most prestigious individual honor in college hockey really starts to heat up, and I will be with you folks all the way to the big finale on April 6 in Tampa, Fla. … Read more
Minnesota-Duluth and Michigan players and coaches met with the media after UMD’s 3-2 overtime national championship win. For the Bulldogs, coach Scott Sandelin and forwards Max Tardy, Kyle Schmidt and J.T. Brown took questions; for the Wolverines, it was coach Red Berenson, forwards Louie Caporusso and Carl Hagelin and goalie Shawn Hunwick. This is unedited … Read more
Good morning from the media work room at the Xcel Energy Center, everyone. It was a great day of hockey yesterday, as four outstanding teams played two fantastic college hockey games in the best hockey arena I’ve ever been in. It should be a great game tomorrow. Tonight, however, it’s about the Hobey (and the … Read more
A quick thought or two from the press box at the Xcel Energy Center (where the wireless is working much better for me on account of it being less crowded than it is down in the media workroom). I’ve said on many occasions that “Hobey Likes Goals” or “Hobey Loves Goals,” borrowing a turn of … Read more
One final point on my last post before we begin: I said no more blogging when I was sick, and that’s probably a good move. Of course, the truth is I don’t think that’s why I forgot in my last post that Cam Atkinson was the sixth member of the Mean Street Posse (apologies to … Read more
The last time I tried updating this blog when I was sick, I mixed up the names of Minnesota-Duluth’s “FCC” line and North Dakota’s “Pony Express” line, which opened me up to a fair bit of criticism from the North Dakota fans. That misstep notwithstanding, I’m going to try again anyway, and make a final … Read more
I know the rules. I go over them all the time: Hobey Likes Goals, there’s always an candidate from the East, all that stuff. And I spit in the face of all the rules. Sure enough, it came back to bite me. Cam Atkinson, not Jack Connolly, is the third member of the Hobey Hat … Read more
USCHO.com’s Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger take a look at each of the members of the Hobey Hat Trick: Cam Atkinson of Boston College, Matt Frattin of North Dakota and Andy Miele of Miami in the final Hobey Watch episode for 2011.
Sometime Thursday, the Hobey Hat Trick will be announced, which means that I really should have posted my predictions some time ago. What can I say? I’ve been busy. First, I’ll look back at my finalist predictions, which saw me go 7 for 10, which is pretty much par for the course. The three I … Read more
USCHO.com’s Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger take a look at each of the ten Hobey Baker Award finalists in this week’s Hobey Watch podcast.
The time, it seems, has come. It’s the eve of the announcement of this year’s Hobey Baker finalists, and it’s time for one of the most challenging parts of my job as your humble Hobey pundit: picking the 10 players whose names will be on the list when it comes out tomorrow. It’s also one … Read more
If you followed my work in the CSTV days, you know that I’ve spent a fair amount of time in fraternity houses. However, this post has nothing to do with any frat parties I may or may not have found myself at along the way (really, unless I was at my own house at my … Read more
We’re heading into the homestretch. One week from today, we’ll know who the 10 finalists are for the 2011 Hobey Baker Award, as they’ll be announced on Thursday night. One week from Sunday, we’ll know who the 16 teams are in the NCAA tournament. And, while the two are not perfectly correlated, there are connections … Read more
USCHO.com’s Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by college hockey writer Ken Schott of the Daily Gazette in Schenectady, N.Y., where Ken covers Union and Rensselaer as well as the ECAC Hockey scene, for a look at RPI’s Chase Polacek, Union netminder Keith Kinkaid, plus Ken’s hypothetical top-three ballot for the Hobey.
USCHO.com’s Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by USCHO.com CCHA columnist Paula C. Weston with a look at top Hobey hopeful Andy Miele, a discussion of the difficulty Miami has in promoting both Miele and teammate Carter Camper, and a look at Michigan’s Carl Hagelin.
Anyone who’s been reading this blog over the past three seasons knows the familiar refrain that comes up whenever a goalie is thought to be in the mix for the Hobey. “Ryan Miller numbers.” .950 save percentage, 1.32 goals-against average. A tough standard to live up to. Dave LeNeveu had the GAA and then some … Read more
USCHO.com’s Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by CBS College Sports hockey analyst and USCHO.com national columnist Dave Starman. In part 1 of a two-part podcast, they look at top prospects for the Hobey Baker award among forwards.
USCHO.com’s Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by CBS College Sports hockey analyst and USCHO.com national columnist Dave Starman. In part 2 of a two-part podcast, they look at top prospects for the Hobey Baker award among goalies and defensemen, and Dave’s dark-horse picks.
USCHO.com’s Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by Minnesota-Duluth head coach Scott Sandelin for a look at four Hobey Baker hopefuls from the WCHA: forwards Jack Connolly and Mike Connolly from Sandelin’s Bulldogs, Wisconsin defenseman Justin Schultz and North Dakota goaltender Aaron Dell.
In life, as in hockey, the value of timing can never be underestimated. For example: this week’s Hobey Watch Podcast with Ed Trefzger and Jim Connelly features a guest appearance by RPI head coach Seth Appert, the same week that the Engineers’ Saturday afternoon tilt against Cornell is picked up by the NHL Network. All … Read more