The Best Defense Is A Good …
When defensive stalwart Boston College met offensive powerhouse New Hampshire Friday night, a well-tested aphorism got a workout.
Men’s D-I in general
When defensive stalwart Boston College met offensive powerhouse New Hampshire Friday night, a well-tested aphorism got a workout.
A look inside the latest Pairwise, and more.
The Hobey Baker Award presentation is about five weeks away. You know most of the names that have vied for the top honor in college hockey all season, and my colleague Adam Wodon and I have done our best to highlight players deserving of consideration in CSTV’s Friday Night Hockey studio show. In the last … Read more
Every game — almost — is a big one in Hockey East this weekend, with the regular-season title and home ice well up for grabs. Dave Hendrickson sorts out the details. Also: Maine sits on the fence after an up-and-down season, and Massachusetts-Lowell seizes yet another opportunity.
The sudden spate of interest in outdoor college hockey games is close to reality in at least one place. The Wisconsin Badgers are in the process of hammering out final details with officials at Lambeau Field, home of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers, to play a game there next February. According to the Wisconsin State … Read more
Coming into the final two weeks, the WCHA race is tight at both ends, Todd D. Milewski notes. Also: Marty Sertich exhibits grace under pressure for CC, Alaska-Anchorage can still pull off home ice, and Wisconsin’s power play isn’t hitting on all cylinders these days.
The Atlantic Hockey standings are a jumble tighter than any in recent memory; Ben Nelson helps Quinnipiac rise from the ashes of seventh place; and Frank Novello etches his name into the record books. Jim Connelly reports.
An unwelcome visit translates into CCHA musings for Paula C. Weston, who looks at which teams have made the most of their opportunities this season. Also: TV coverage is kind to Ohio for a change, and there’s a Bowling Green-Space Ghost — Space Ghost? — connection.
With only two contenders remaining for the CHA regular-season crown, Brian Coe breaks down the possibilities for Bemidji State and Alabama-Huntsville. Also: Niagara’s guaranteed third-place finish has a rosy CHA tournament history, and UAH takes aim at the tourney title — and the accompanying NCAA bid.
As the ECACHL hits its final regular-season weekend, Juan Martinez runs down the possibilities for every team. Also: 20 is the magic number for several squads, and the league may return to NCAA tournament prominence given top teams’ performances.
It has really been 25 years. Despite my young age of 36, I felt old sitting in CSTV’s studio on Friday night watching Alexei Kasatonov and Dave Silk reminisce about the Olympic Hockey tournament of 1980 in Lake Placid, N.Y. Memories of that event — oh yes; Bill Baker’s goal to tie Sweden in the … Read more
Minnesota goaltender Kellen Briggs is out indefinitely with an unspecified hand injury, the school said today. Briggs, a sophomore, has started 30 games this season, posting a 19-10-0 record with a 2.46 goals-against average and .913 save percentage. Briggs is 26-11-0 in his last 37 starts, dating to last season. In the WCHA, he is … Read more
The “Miracle On Ice” made its mark on sports and on American society, and on USCHO.com staffers who recall those days in early 1980.
Nearly all of the players from USA Hockey’s 1980 “Miracle on Ice” hockey team, as well as Ron DeGregorio, president of USA Hockey, will be in Lake Placid, N.Y., Wednesday, Feb. 23, to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 1980 Winter Olympics. “It should be an exciting day and we’re pleased to be part … Read more
Many around college hockey marvel at Steve Silverthorn’s gaudy statistics. The Colgate netminder, who puts team first, is not among them.
Greg Moore is best known for the goal that capped Maine’s NCAA tournament comeback against Harvard. But there’s far more to the two-way forward.
A split against Minnesota-Duluth wasn’t enough to knock Denver out of the top spot in Monday’s USCHO.com/CSTV Division I men’s poll, as the Pioneers retained 16 first-place votes to keep the No. 1 position. Colorado College, which split with Wisconsin, and Cornell, which beat Rensselaer and Union last weekend, tied for No. 2 in this … Read more
Bracketology is back for its seventh weekly edition. How did last week’s results affect the race for the NCAA tournament?
With two teams left in the race for first in the CHA, Brian Coe has this weekend’s Bemidji State vs. Alabama-Huntsville series marked on his calendar. Also: Air Force, with its confidence meter up, may be on its way out of the league.
A look into our mailbag finds some questions in need of answering. How do you account for Wisconsin’s discrepency between the polls and Pairwise Rankings, and how good are they really? Wodon: Interestingly, there was once a big gap in the polls, where Wisconsin was fourth, and the Pairwise Rankings, which had Wisconsin around 11. … Read more