Men’s D-I in general
Back to the basics, back to square one. That was the message during a 20-minute players-only meeting following Wisconsin’s Feb. 25’s 7-3 loss to Minnesota State. And that was the message through all of this week’s practices. And despite a mediocre Wednesday practice, the Badgers finished a refreshing week Thursday — one that harkened back … Read more
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Jeff Jackson era. For those of you unfamiliar with the first-year Irish head hockey coach and his team, these next few weeks will be a crash course. Jump on the bandwagon now before it’s too late — this Notre Dame hockey team is going places. Jackson brings a pedigree … Read more
Colgate, Dartmouth and Harvard all answered the challenge last weekend, recording four points apiece and securing first-round byes for the ECACHL playoffs. Cornell’s stumble on Friday night in a 2-0 loss to Rensselaer enabled Colgate and Dartmouth to capture a share of the Cleary Cup as the co-champions of the ECACHL regular season. Raider assistant … Read more
First things first: • Lo and behold, we finally picked a first-place finisher right. We — myself and the WCHA’s coaches — have been notoriously wrong about that subject when polled before the season but a preseason favorite finally came through with Minnesota’s first outright MacNaughton Cup championship since 1992. • Wisconsin was at “rock … Read more
Both men’s and women’s ice hockey program are academically performing up to expectations, according to the Academic Progress Rate (APR) data released by the NCAA on Wednesday. The APR initiative was implemented by the NCAA as a means of tracking academic performance in athletics at member schools, and to penalize programs which fail to meet … Read more
Hand out the Hardware Could it really be true that the season is coming to an end? College sports’ longest season is just about over and it’s time to go through my list of accolades and tell you who I believe deserves the hardware come day’s end. Talking to coaches and others around the league … Read more
Awards, Part 2 Last week, I dished out the virtual hardware for a list of categories all of my own making, honoring many a CCHA player who deserved his nanosecond in the spotlight. I received a bit of flack for my pick of Jack Johnson as Rookie of the Year. None of the criticism came … Read more
If a player struggled to live up to considerable hype, watched as the job he was competing for was claimed by someone else and went through off-ice troubles, you would say he’s had a heck of a rough career, right? But, if all these things happened in just one season — let alone that player’s … Read more
Union coach Nate Leaman had been hoping that two of his top freshmen, defenseman Lane Caffaro and forward T.J. Fox, would be reinstated to the team after they appealed their school-imposed season-ending suspensions. But that won’t be happening. Caffaro and Fox recently had their appeals denied by interim school president Dr. James Underwood. No other … Read more
Three CHA schools hosted Senior Night last weekend and three more honor their soon-to-be graduates this weekend. The six games on the docket will finally clear up the fuzzy CHA playoff picture. Thus far, only Robert Morris, in fourth place, has sewn up a seed for the CHA Tournament next week in Detroit. At the … Read more
Dartmouth senior forward Mike Ouellette, who helped the Big Green to its first-ever ECACHL regular-season championship, was named Ivy League Player of the Year Wednesday. Ouellette accumulated 31 points this season on 11 goals and 20 assists. A second-team All-Ivy selection last season, he finished the season third in the Ivy League in points per … Read more
Nebraska-Omaha nosedives, while North Dakota has risen back into contention for the NCAAs. Jayson Moy returns with March’s first look at the field.
As the CCHA and ECACHL playoffs open, Scott Brown reviews every single team in the PairWise to evaluate its NCAA tournament situation.
With the ECACHL playoffs starting this weekend and the Hockey East and AHA regular seasons nearing their end, Jim Connelly looks over the likely scenarios and their consequences.
When Ferris State junior forward Zac Pearson beat Michigan goalie Billy Sauer 42 seconds into overtime for a 4-3 win on Saturday night in Ann Arbor, Mich., he not only scored the game-winning goal — he also saved his team a 3,500 mile road trip. Pearson’s goal launched the Bulldogs into sole position of seventh … Read more
It’s a TMQ two-fer this week, as Scott Brown analyzes the three Western conferences’ playoff situations with an eye on national-tournament consequences.
Boston resident and Wisconsin alum Nicholas Jon Wood took in two of college hockey’s seminal events — the Beanpot and the Frozen Tundra Classic — in a weeklong trek covering thousands of miles. He’s here to tell the tale.
Minnesota maintained its stranglehold on the USCHO.com/CSTV Networks Division I men’s poll Monday, earning 38 of 40 first-place votes to claim the No. 1 spot in the nation for the fourth straight week. With a week still to go in the WCHA regular season, the Gophers won the MacNaughton Cup with a road sweep of … Read more
A month and a half ago, Wisconsin was on top of the world. Now the Badgers find themselves trying to dig their way out of a hole.
Northern Michigan University will host the Wisconsin Badgers for a two-game series on Oct. 6-7 at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wis. Tickets for Northern Michigan fans will go on sale Monday, NMU athletic director Ken Godfrey said, if the system can be finalized by TicketStar in Green Bay. Tickets will be $15 for … Read more