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Princeton junior goaltender Zane Kalemba headlined the ECAC Hockey awards, winning laurels as Player of the Year as well as the Ken Dryden Award as the league’s top goaltender and being named a first-team all-league selection. Senior Matt Generous of St. Lawrence was named Best Defensive Defenseman and Cornell senior Tyler Mugford was named Best … Read more
Air Force sophomore Jacques Lamoureux was named Player of the Year in Atlantic Hockey at the league’s annual awards banquet. The Grand Forks, N.D., native leads the nation with 31 goals, 15 power-play goals and eight game-winning goals. Lamoureux also earned the league’s scoring trophy with 38 points in 28 AHA games and was named … Read more
The 25th edition of the Hockey East championship tournament is upon us and within the next couple of days, a champion will be crowned. If the final four is anything like the quarterfinals, expect plenty of shock and awe. Assuming that the regular-season standings dictated a “script,” last weekend’s quarterfinals simply ripped that script in … Read more
Minnesota Duluth is moving on to the WCHA semifinals, in large part thanks to Alex Stalock. Theresa Spisak reports.
Wisconsin’s defensive talent was best displayed all season in that it could dress five first- or second-round NHL draft picks among its six blueliners. Now there’s another way to quantify how good the Badgers’ defensive corps is: One of their own is the WCHA’s player of the year. Junior Jamie McBain got that award Thursday … Read more
Get Down to It Congratulations to the four teams in Detroit this weekend for the CCHA tournament. Two teams had to earn their way to The Joe by playing three games. Two teams posted two shutout wins each, one with a shutout sweep of its opponent. One team had to win on the road. Already … Read more
The top 10 finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award were announced Thursday afternoon, and the 58 Division I coaches who selected the finalists sent a clear message: scoring isn’t everything. Just two of the top eight scorers in the nation made a list of finalists that included five forwards, two defensemen and three goaltenders. … Read more
There are a lot of ways that people analyze the playoffs. Who’s played the best this year. Who’s played best lately. Who beat whom, how often, and how convincingly in the regular season, or who has the greatest incentive. For that matter, which is a greater incentive … playing for a title, or playing for … Read more
Senior goalie Chad Johnson became the first Alaska Nanook to be named the CCHA Player of the Year, as announced at the annual CCHA Awards banquet Thursday. Nine individual awards were handed out at Detroit’s historic Fox Theatre, including six determined by a vote of the league’s 12 coaches. Johnson was second in the nation … Read more
With the brackets a mess and the conference championships just around the corner, Jayson Moy gets creative to solve some matchup woes.
This week it’s prediction time for Jim Connelly and Scott Brown, who take on the Hobey Baker finalists as well as the conference championships.
With all six conferences now in postseason action, last weekend’s results produced changes up and down the line in the USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Division I men’s poll. That started at the top, where Notre Dame broke Boston University’s six-week headlock on the pole position. The Fighting Irish, who had been ranked second for each of … Read more
National columnist Dave Starman checks in with college hockey coaches who have been to the title game about what’s involved in getting their squads ready for the postseason.
Phew. That could have been so much worse than it ended up. Only third place had to be determined by a tiebreaker, and an easy one at that. In trying to figure out the different situations on Saturday, I didn’t even consider the possibility of a tie in the Minnesota State/St. Cloud State game … … Read more
The Second Season Begins It’s been five years since a lower seed advanced in the Hockey East quarterfinals. Will the home teams once again all move on to the Garden? If you look at the PairWise, you’d say that the identities of next Friday’s semifinal contestants are already known. Boston University, Northeastern, New Hampshire, and … Read more
Unfitting Ends What a way for two senior CCHA goaltenders to go out. In Marquette, Michigan State senior goaltender Jeff Lerg played his last collegiate contest, allowing a career-high eight goals in the loss to Northern Michigan. In Columbus, Bowling Green senior goaltender Jimmy Spratt played his last collegiate contest, left the crease during a … Read more
It’s go time in the CHA. Tournament time. March madness in northern Minnesota. For all the marbles. An NCAA bid on the line. Insert any old cliche here and it probably fits what’s going down this weekend with the four CHA teams vying for a spot in the NCAA tournament. The past three years have … Read more
Eight is Enough Atlantic Hockey moves to the quarterfinal portion of its postseason this weekend, a best-of-three series format. This year just four teams will make it to Rochester, a change from last season’s Final Five. Holy Cross and Sacred Heart moved on after winning first-round single-elimination games over AIC and Connecticut, respectively. The Crusaders … Read more
The playoffs heat up this weekend — just in time for Dave Starman to offer his look around the “Big Four” conferences, with predictions included.
Hope y’all don’t have much real work to get done today, because I wrote another novel. So you’d better appreciate it, because these guys don’t pay me per word. Award Debate Nothing like a little competitive controversy to kick off a column. Here are the leading candidates for the league’s premier annual honors as I … Read more