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Plattsburgh’s struggles have left the teams of the SUNYAC in position to fight for what may be a single NCAA bid. Ed Trefzger returns to analyze the league’s playoff hopes, and preview this weekend’s Elmira-RIT scrum.
Manhattanville gains an admirer; Neumann and Buffalo State battle it out — literally; the week’s action in review; and Scott Biggar rates the ECAC West’s arenas.
Chris Lerch sorts out the nation’s top teams, and reports on a special tournament in California.
Weeks away, but he’s back. Ed Seero returns from the gray lands with a full rundown of the ECAC Northeast’s first half, not to mention a special wish list.
For one week only, Russell Jaslow returns to handle SUNYAC duties for USCHO.com. Included: Geneseo picks up steam, Potsdam lies in wait (?), and some trivia details get cleared up.
Hard to believe the season’s half over already? Ready or not, Scott Biggar starts off the new year with a look back at the first half in the ECAC West.
In his first column of the new year, Chris Lerch discusses the NCAA’s Christmas present to Division III — a ninth tournament bid — and evaluates the response to that decision. Also: St. Norbert coach Tim Coghlin assesses the wild, wild West; New England College recovers from a slow start; and, by popular demand, a brand-new extracurricular rant.
As the ECAC West heads into the break, Scott Biggar offers thoughts on the first half, including playoff possibilities for RIT and Elmira.
For the first time ever … again It seems that each week the phrase “for the first time ever” is being written in regards to the Northeast, providing further support for the assertion that the league is advancing its national presence at a healthy rate. Once again, we have a week of firsts in the … Read more
Expansion of the D-III men’s tournament was overdue, but fraught with potential dilemmas, says USCHO columnist Ed Trefzger.
The NCAA announced today that the Division III men’s hockey tournament will expand to from eight to nine teams beginning this season.
Adherence to the rules — its own — may have cost RIT a win last weekend, Chris Lerch notes, as Wentworth made history backed by Raj Bhangoo’s tremendous performance.
RIT dominated water-cooler talk in the ECAC West last week with its whole-team suspension and subsequent loss to Wentworth, but there’s plenty more cookin’. Scott Biggar rounds up doings in the league.
A prediction comes true for Ed Seero, courtesy of Wentworth’s history-making win. Also: Things Keeping Ed Up At Night.
As the SUNYAC hits the halfway point of the season, Ed Trefzger takes a look around to see Plattsburgh in a familiar position, with Oswego and Cortland — yes, Cortland — not far behind.
As if the Thanksgiving feasts weren’t enough, all of last week’s upsets were enough to make some coaches sick. Chris Lerch delves back into the harried Division III scene after a holiday hiatus.
The Thanksgiving holiday was a joyous one for the ECAC West as far as rankings go. RIT moved up to the No. 1 spot in the USCHO.com poll for the week of Nov. 19, and settled firmly in place this week garnering 14 of the 15 first-place votes.
Old-time radio is alive and well in Plattsburgh, N.Y., and it benefits college hockey fans in more ways than one. … Perhaps that fact will help soothe the Cardinals, who had a tough stretch of games.
The impressive non-conference wins continue to pile up in the ECAC Northeast. Ed Seero has all the skinny.
As the meat of the schedule approaches in the ECAC Northeast, Plymouth State and Southern New Hampshire get new beginnings; Ed Seero goes around the league; and more.