This Week in Big Ten Hockey: Wisconsin winning streak still alive with Holiday Face-Off victories as Badgers excelling with team-first mentality

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There’s nothing like December hardware to kick off the second half of the college hockey season. With a pair of 3-0 wins, Wisconsin captured the Kwik Trip Holiday Face-Off in Milwaukee, extending the Badgers’ current win streak to seven games and bumping Wisconsin up one spot to No. 5 in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s … Read more

ESPN, NCAA reach agreement on new eight-year media rights deal, beginning Sept. 1, 2024

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ESPN and the NCAA have reached a new eight-year agreement beginning Sept. 1, 2024, for NCAA championships media rights. The deal includes domestic rights to a record 40 NCAA championships – 21 women’s and 19 men’s events – and international rights to those same NCAA championships plus the Division I men’s basketball tournament. “ESPN and … Read more

This Week in Atlantic Hockey: Looking back on first half, looking forward to second half, including new playoff format

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I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday season. As we head into the second half of the college hockey season, which Atlantic Hockey players have excelled so far? Here are our midterm awards. Will things change before the league names the actual winners in March? Probably. But these are our picks for the … Read more

This Week in Hockey East: UConn ‘gaining momentum,’ Huskies looking for more consistency during second half of ’23-24 season

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It’s been an up-and-down season so far for Connecticut, but coach Mike Cavanaugh is confident his team has what it takes to be in the Hockey East title hunt as the calendar turns to 2024. “We were pretty consistent, we just struggled scoring goals early on,” Cavanaugh said, assessing his team’s play before the holiday … Read more

Looking behind the scenes in the transfer portal with writer Schlossman: USCHO Spotlight college hockey podcast Season 6 Episode 9

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Grand Forks Herald writer Brad Schlossman joins hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger to discuss what he’s learned about what happens behind the scenes with the transfer portal in Division I men’s college hockey. We also touch on the possibility of eligibility for players in major junior in light of NIL.

Brad’s story about the transfer portal in the Grand Forks Herald: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/hockey-transfer-portal-action-begins-long-before-you-may-think

This episode is sponsored by the NCAA Division I Men’s Frozen Four, April 11 and 13 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Visit ncaa.com/mfrozenfour

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This Week in NCHC Hockey: Despite losing, ACHA powerhouse Minot State impresses in exhibition games against Colorado College, Denver

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Last weekend’s exhibition games for No. 20 Colorado College and fifth-ranked Denver were looked forward to by many college hockey fans across the region, wanting to get their fix after the holiday break. I include myself among that number, but those games meant more to me than they probably did to most. Minot State, which … Read more

This Week in CCHA Hockey: With GLI win closing out 2023, Michigan Tech ‘driving to get better’ in 2024 as second half progresses

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Michigan Tech’s sky-high ambitions didn’t quite pan out at the beginning of this hockey season. A year removed from finishing just two points behind eventual champions Minnesota State for the MacNaughton Cup and securing an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, the Huskies were picked to finish first in the CCHA this season thanks to … Read more

This Week in ECAC Hockey: Rensselaer improving daily as Engineers aiming to ‘strengthen some other links and take steps forward’

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The holiday season is a relatively dead period in the hockey world, but it felt exceptionally low-key this past week when Buffalo Sabres head coach Don Granato missed a pair of games with an undisclosed illness. It wasn’t contagious per his own admission in the interim period after the team’s loss to Boston, but a … Read more

Boston College’s Perreault scores twice with assist, Michigan’s Casey adds three assists as U.S. downs Latvia 7-2 at 2024 World Juniors, advances to semifinals Jan. 4

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Gabe Perreault (Boston College) netted two goals and an assist and Seamus Casey (Michigan) added three assists to help the U.S. National Junior Team to a 7-2 victory over Latvia in quarterfinal play here tonight at the 2024 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship at Frolundaborg in Gothenburg, Sweden. The U.S. will play in the semifinals … Read more

As calendar turns to 2024, Boston College begins new year at top of USCHO.com Division I Men’s Hockey Poll

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With 34 first-place votes, Boston College remains No. 1 in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Hockey Poll, the same spot the Eagles were in the last poll conducted Dec. 11, 2023. Boston University stays No. 2, getting nine first-place votes, Quinnipiac is again third, picking up two first-place votes, North Dakota holds steady at No. … Read more

Women’s Division I College Hockey: The PodKaz Episode 7 talks games over the break, U18 World Championships with Lara Stalder and some big ranked matchups coming up

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Episode 7: The second half begins and the Under-18 World Championship is ahead Nicole Haase (@NicoleHaase) and Todd Milewski (@ToddMilewski) are back from the midseason break to look at some of the early second-half results and to preview Nicole’s trip to Switzerland for the IIHF Under-18 Women’s World Championship. Former Minnesota Duluth player Lara Stalder … Read more

TMQ: With second half of 2023-24 college hockey season here, time to reflect on first-half results, predict rest of year

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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. Paula: Happy New Year, Jimmy! Every year when we reach the midway point of the season, I’m always surprised both by how quickly the first half went and by how the … Read more

NCAA D-III West Hockey Weekend Wrap-Up

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Remember when UW-Superior was 1-5? It seems like forever ago now as the Yellowjackets have been one of college hockey’s hottest teams lately, and they heated up a little during the final weekend of 2023, winning their own Superior Showdown Saturday. And the thing is they just didn’t win the event, they did so by … Read more

Monday 10: In-season holiday tournaments provide thrilling conclusions, Vermont keeps winning, PairWise numbers getting clearer

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Each week, USCHO.com will pick the top 10 moments from the past weekend in our Monday 10 feature. It was the final weekend of 2023 but also the first weekend of the second half of the college hockey season. And there were plenty of highlights. Here’s a look at 10 that stood out: 1. Tournament … Read more