Same As It Ever Was Congratulations to the Michigan Wolverines, winners of this year’s CCHA regular-season title. Michigan has won outright or shared in eight regular-season titles, including three of the last four. This isn’t news. What is news is that the Wolverines had to get a little help from some strange friends south of … Read more
This year’s All-CCHA First Team has a distinct youthful feel. For just the second time in the conference’s 33-year history, two freshmen have been named to the CCHA First-Team. Michigan forward T.J. Hensick and Michigan State defenseman A.J. Thelen are the first freshman duo to be chosen First-Team All-Conference since Lake Superior forward Pat Tims … Read more
Three schools each have a pair of players among the six freshmen named to the 2003-04 CCHA All-Rookie Team by vote of the conference head coaches. At least one Wolverine has been honored in 12 of the 16 years since the team was created. The team will be honored at the 2004 CCHA Awards on … Read more
It’s not only Michigan-Michigan State going in the CCHA this weekend; it’s Miami against Ohio State in a battle of two likely NCAA-bound teams that could still decide the regular-season title. Also, Paula C. Weston finishes up with reflections on the year that was.
Lock your door and throw away the key, because the playoffs are approaching — meaning Paula C. Weston gets to hand out her year-end awards. Also: an analysis of the possible final standings in the CCHA, and Michigan and Notre Dame square off in the Games of the Week.
The Blueliner of the Week returns, Red Berenson and David Caruso speak up — and Paula C. Weston investigates the CCHA’s four league series this weekend, including the Ohio State-Western Michigan showdown at Lawson Arena.
With four weeks left in the regular season, Miami and Michigan aren’t just the first- and second-place teams in the conference; they’re the opponents in the CCHA Games of the Week. Also, Paula C. Weston is asking you — yes, you — to nominate a deserving defenseman for Blueliner of the Week.
Michigan hits its stride at the right time; Lake Superior State battles on despite a lack of … something; and Paula C. Weston gives Michigan State captain Jim Slater his props.
Two are familar names; the third is making one for itself. The three teams at the top of the CCHA standings — Miami, Michigan and Michigan State — are each getting the job done in a singular way, meaning that Paula C. Weston tabs this weekend’s Miami-MSU series as the Games of the Week.
Paula C. Weston names the CCHA’s newest Blueliner of the Week; Bowling Green gets off the Saturday schneid; and Michigan takes on Western Michigan in the Games of the Week.
Midway through January, and the CCHA standings are bunching up. Paula C. Weston examines the teams in the middle of the pack, any of which could take the conference title — or miss home ice.
U.S. hockey took a stunning step forward with Monday’s gold at the World Juniors: three Spartans were part of the celebration.
It’s time for New Year’s resolutions for the CCHA! Also, Paula C. Weston hands out her coveted first-ever Blueliner of the Week award, and the Game of the Week features … well, go see for yourself.
Ferris State ends 2003 with the CCHA’s lone tournament title; FSU coach Bob Daniels and CCHA commissioner Tom Anastos address the notion of the league’s “down year”; and next, the impending debut of Paula C. Weston’s Blueliner of the Week award.
Miami, and its captain, Derek Edwardson, find themselves in a strange place, and they like it.
Miami exceeds preseason expectations as the CCHA’s non-Michigan teams push toward the top of the league. Meanwhile, Michigan and Alaska-Fairbanks do not play each other this weekend, but that won’t keep USCHO’s Paula C. Weston from a little compare-and-contrast.
Defending regular-season champion Ferris State starts to get its legs; Nebraska-Omaha gives visiting Massachusetts a rude welcome; and fresh off a disappointing College Hockey Showcase, Michigan and Michigan State get to take their frustrations out on each other in Paula C. Weston’s CCHA Games of the Week.
Michigan sophomore forward Jeff Tambellini is the lone NCAA representative at the Team Canada World Junior Selection Camp, being held in Kitchener, Ont., Dec. 11-15. The invite will keep Tambellini away from the Wolverines’ games on Dec. 12-13 at Nebraska-Omaha. If he makes the team, he will also miss the Great Lakes Invitational. This year’s … Read more
Youth may or may not be served this season in the CCHA — including the extreme youth of Michigan State, which along with Michigan takes on Minnesota and Wisconsin this weekend. Also, Paula C. Weston delivers the Games of the Week: Northern Michigan vs. Notre Dame with a shot at first place in the CCHA on the line.
Michigan’s Al Montoya keeps up the heroics; yin-yang Ohio State continues its Saturday reversals of fortune; alumni ties help Bowling Green head East (along with OSU); and Northern Michigan coach Walt Kyle has some spicy commentary after a series with Nebraska-Omaha. Paula C. Weston reports.