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Accentuating the Positive Not exactly how you’d expect the annual Valentine’s Day column to begin, is it? After all, this holiday is a middle-aged, bitter, divorced, hockey-loving girl reporter’s dream. Underperforming flagship programs portending gate issues at Joe Louis Arena next month, key injuries to players for the league’s top team, a general sense of … Read more
Less than a month until the playoffs? Already? That’s not fair; I only just realized that “ECAC” is an abbreviation and not an acronym. Referring to “E-Kack Hockey” was getting me a lot of weird looks, and now I know why. What We Know With three weekends to play in the regular season, we take … Read more
When injury struck North Dakota’s blue line, forward Brad Miller might have seemed an unlikely candidate to shore up the D. But the senior has made himself at home at his new position — and on YouTube, Patrick C. Miller finds.
Back to Full Strength After a lost weekend in Colorado Springs, where the Army Black Knights lost a pair of games to archrival Air Force and then 10 players to suspension for violating team rules, Brian Riley’s squad suffered a pair of home losses to Bentley on Feb. 6 and 7. Getting several players back … Read more
According to the folks at USA Hockey, it’s Hockey Weekend Across America this weekend, which means get out and enjoy the game we all know and love. Here at USCHO, on the other hand, it’s hockey day, every day — just the way I like it. Red Baron Pizza WCHA Players of the Week Red … Read more
Andy Williams was off by about two months when he said, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” The middle of February always gets both casual and diehard college hockey observers in the mood to figure out the standings and probable playoff matchups. Even in the four-team CHA, this happens. Bemidji State and Niagara … Read more
Jayson Moy rolls out the latest edition of Bracketology, including games to watch and an interesting observation about the current autobid projections.
Beanpot shakeout, the Princeton-Cornell stunner, late-season offense, and games of note this weekend — Jim Connelly and Scott Brown hash it all out.
There was some controversy surrounding Monday’s second BC goal, which was scored by Eagle forward Brian Gibbons as he crashed the net and Boston College tied the game at 2. After the goal, Harvard coach Ted Donato could be seen arguing with the referees to no avail. “When I first saw the goal, my first … Read more
With most successful hockey teams, winning is usually tied to success on specialty teams. This is certainly true for Boston University, which sports the nation’s best power play, at a 24.8% success rate. The Terriers had just three shorthanded goals so far this season, however, so it was stunning — to both teams — when … Read more
Having the third-ranked team in the nation as a Cinderella candidate seems an unlikely scenario. But that’s just where Northeastern found itself Monday night, with untoward results for the Huskies. Dave Hendrickson reports.
Boston University’s Jason Lawrence has the proverbial nose for the net, something he showed yet again in Monday’s Beanpot final. Scott Weighart reports.
Did you ever want a coach’s-eye view of the action in college hockey? Dave Starman spent a Saturday evening with Bowling Green and head coach Scott Paluch to bring us just that.
As the season slowly begins to wind down, it’s only natural we keep getting some exciting hockey games, right? Red Baron Pizza WCHA Players of the Week Red Baron WCHA Offensive Player of the Week: Kael Mouillierat, MSU, M. Why: Scored two goals and had one assist, including Friday’s game-winner to help his Mavericks to … Read more
Beanpotters Hold Serve For the past decade or so, the Beanpot has been lacking its fair share of upsets. Aside from Boston University winning a handful of games as underdogs (but it’s the Beanpot, that’s expected) and Harvard’s upset of Northeastern in last year’s opening round (but NU’s futility is often expected, as well), “Boston’s … Read more
Out West there’s brawling, the CHA’s falling, the North Country’s calling, pink’s oh-so-dahling, and the temperature’s falling … … my rhymes are appalling. Enough with the stalling! Reactions to Western Incidents Unless you’ve been living in … well, ok, anywhere without college hockey … for the last couple weeks, you’ve doubtlessly caught wind of the … Read more
Robert Morris made it official on its end with a press conference Wednesday announcing its admittance to Atlantic Hockey two years down the road. Gary Heeman, USCHO’s arena reporter for RMU home games, talked exclusively with Robert Morris head coach Derek Schooley and athletic director Dr. Craig Coleman about the jump to the AHA and … Read more
New Kids on the Block My column last week went to press too early to get official reaction to the admission of Niagara and Robert Morris to Atlantic Hockey. The Colonials held a press conference on Wednesday, formally making their announcement. “This is a big day for our program,” said head coach Derek Schooley. “Atlantic … Read more
And Now Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Program First off, I want to thank all of you for your responses to last week’s column. I received a lot of feedback — in person at Yost Ice Arena last Saturday, from colleagues on the campus at Mott Community College this week, by email — much of … Read more
With another full weekend of games — plus the first Monday of the Beanpot — in the rear-view mirror, Jayson Moy presents the latest edition of Bracketology.