The Hockey Humanitarian Award is presented annually to college hockey’s “finest citizen” and seeks to recognize college hockey players, male or female, who contribute to local and/or global communities in a true humanitarian spirit (photo: Jim Rosvold).
Notre Dame fell behind early on the road at Minnesota but rallied back to earn a 5-3 victory and earn four out of six Big Ten points in the weekend series (Photo: Jim Rosvold)
For more than 62 minutes on Friday, neither New Hampshire or No. 15 Boston College could find the back of either net. That was until Angus Crookshank redirected a Max Gildon shot past Boston College netminder Spencer Knight with 2:45 remaining in the extra session to give the host Wildcats a 1-0 victory in their … Read more
Plymouth State won the conference last year winning both the regular season and conference tournament to punch their ticket into the NCAA tournament. The path was not an easy one as teams like Massachusetts-Dartmouth and Westfield State made end of season runs to challenge for the championship. If there is a conference where last year’s … Read more
The CCC will be creating more excitement in conference games this year as they adopt new overtime rules for conference standings purposes only during the regular season. Games will still go through a five-minute overtime period if game is tied after regulation time and that result at the end of overtime will be the official … Read more
The conference has already made news with the announcement of Elmira joining the NEHC in a couple of seasons matching the move made by Hobart a couple of seasons ago. For this year, the competition is again expected to be at a high level as four teams are included in the pre-season rankings. Last year’s … Read more
Last year’s surprise team from Wilkes saw head coach Brett Riley step down to take and assistant coach position with Colgate from the ECAC. New head coach Tyler Hynes inherits a solid team that knows how much of a battle every game is in the UCHC. The pre-season coaches’ poll showed some of the usual … Read more
There is a new-old coach in Plattsburgh as long-time assistant Steve Moffat takes the reins following Bob Emery’s retirement and move to become the Head of Hockey Operations at Merrimack College. Moffatt has a lot of familiarity with the Cardinal program and should have them battling among the favorites despite a young roster that includes … Read more
This weekend kicks off action in women’s D-III. Writer Candace Horgan picks the winners of some of the interesting games.
While most teams are kicking off the new season with non-conference action, the SUNYAC teams will be jumping right into some key conference match-ups while there are other ranked teams looking to get a fast start early in the campaign. It is just great to have D-III hockey starting the season and it certainly looks … Read more
The Big Ten announced Friday that Wisconsin sophomore forward Roman Ahcan has been suspended for one game as a result of an incident that occurred in the game against Penn State on Oct. 31. The action was taken by the conference after a review of an incident that occurred near the 14:17 mark of the … Read more
(1) Wisconsin visits (2) Minnesota and (6) Princeton travels to (3) Cornell this weekend.
The offseason narrative surrounding Minnesota was quite clear — it was going to be a young and inexperienced team (photo: Minnesota Athletics).
Jim and I both barely made it above .500 last week. Onward to a better week. Jim last week: 5-4-1 Dave last week: 5-4-1 Jim to date: 25-21-5 Dave to date: 31-15-5 Friday, November 1 Boston College at New Hampshire Both Boston College and New Hampshire are looking to rebound in this contest. The Eagles … Read more
Nate: Last week: 4-4-1 Overall: 17-16-2 Mark: Last week: 4-4-1 Overall: 16-18-2 Here’s a look at what’s on the schedule for ECAC Hockey this weekend as the Ivy League finally gets underway. All games are at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Friday, Nov. 1 Brown at Yale, Yale at Brown Nate: Both teams should … Read more
The race for the MIAC title is typically tightly contested and there is little margin for error in the quest for the championship. Augsburg comes into the year as the team to beat but there are plenty of challengers poised to take over the top spot. Below is a preview of the season ahead. Last … Read more
As we hit November, we start to get a sense of exactly where WCHA teams are at, now that they have a good chunk of their non-conference matchups out of the way. It will be interesting to see where things stand after this weekend. I had a decent first week of picks, just edging … Read more
Last week: Last Week: Dan: 6-4-1 Chris: 6-4-1 On The Season: Dan: 31-12-3 (.706) Chris: 26-17-3 (.597) This Week’s Picks Friday, November 1 and Saturday, November 2 American International vs. Army West Point Chris: The Black Knights will host on Friday and then the action shifts to Springfield on Saturday. This is a rematch of … Read more
Picking winners on the wrong night killed Matthew and I last week, and Minnesota Duluth continues to drive me insane. I almost picked them to sweep the Goofs last weekend, but was afraid I’d fall farther behind Matthew if I did after their Wisconsin series hurt me in our race. C’est la vie. Last week, … Read more
Wisconsin heads to Penn State for a spooktacular Halloween-night bout in Happy Valley tonight. Some hockey to have on in the background while passing out candy is never a bad thing. First, let’s go back to last week where I (not so humble brag) went undefeated! I even picked TWO splits the correct way, what … Read more