Men’s D-I in general
Unbeaten Minnesota-Duluth moved into the top spot in the USCHO.com/CSTV Division I men’s poll Monday, taking over the No. 1 ranking in the wake of Boston College’s upset loss Friday to Notre Dame. The Bulldogs, 5-0-1 overall, swept Minnesota State at home and were rewarded with 31 of a possible 40 first-place nods from the … Read more
We’re talking about the new rules crackdown, shadiness in Moncton, and more.
They paraded out one by one, the gray hairs becoming less prominent and the memories less dusty with each successive tribute.
Note: This week, CSTV’s game of the week airs on Saturday evening, but Friday will still consist of its regular “Thank God Its Hockey” programming, with original pre- and wrapup coverage, wrapped around a repeat of last week’s Michigan-UNH game. So far this season, CSTV has shown you two very dramatic hockey games, with both … Read more
Take Me Away! Maybe that was the cry of Canisius before boarding a plane from Buffalo (with connections through Atlanta and Salt Lake City) to Anchorage for last weekend’s Nye Frontier Classic. The Griffs traveled a total of 17 hours including layovers but when they arrived on the ground in Anchorage, were without the necessary … Read more
Of Bandwagons: To Jump On Or Off With all of New England foursquare on the Red Sox bandwagon — and oh how sweet that is! — it’s appropriate to examine one particular bandwagon in Hockey East. Namely, one that I thought I was on. A bandwagon with few members, where I’d be one of the … Read more
Eric LeMarque Sometimes there are events that touch the college hockey community that help us put sport in perspective. In February of this year, former Northern Michigan Wildcat and U.S. Olympian Eric LeMarque lost both of his legs below the knees after surviving seven days in California’s High Sierras without shelter, food, or fire. LeMarque … Read more
Random hockey musings from a writer still coming to grips with the Evil Empire’s massive collapse … Off and Running Yes, it is still October. Yes, half of the ECACHL has yet to play a game. But the Colgate Raiders are 4-0-0 after conquering two Western opponents and you’ll have to forgive them if they … Read more
20 Minutes of Fury Some thoughts this week, while debating whether there’s a good situation to start the third period against Minnesota-Duluth: • So you think there’ll be only two meetings between Minnesota and North Dakota this season? We don’t believe it. • Wisconsin 8, Mercyhurst 0: Apparently, there is an “O” in Wisconsin, after … Read more
The Robert Morris Colonials open their inaugural Division I season this weekend with a pair of games against Canisius, and they’ll be doing it with a contingent of largely unknown players. Twenty of the 25 players on the RMU roster are freshmen, and only two players eligible for opening night (Kurt Wright and Doug Conley) … Read more
Are referees still backing off calling penalties in the third period, or are the players just learning by then?
College hockey tries to open things up by enforcing the rule book. It’s only one step.
Veteran National Hockey League coach Ken Hitchcock will be joining the staff of the Princeton men’s hockey team as a volunteer assistant coach over the next few weeks as the Tigers prepare for their regular-season opener on Oct. 29 vs. St. Cloud State. During the NHL lockout, Hitchcock has traveled around the nation, working with … Read more
College hockey’s unmatched cooperation between its six Division I conferences has taken another form. Commissioners from the nation’s six conferences have announced the creation of a 21-game series to be played among the conferences throughout the 2004-2005 season. The first annual Commissioners’ Cup Series faces off with five games on Saturday, Oct. 23 and concludes … Read more
Business, Not Hockey No, this isn’t the NHL. We’re not talking about a collective bargaining agreement, a salary cap or players buying one-way tickets to Europe. Still, as we open the Atlantic Hockey season, the second year of the league’s existence under that name, business is on the top of many minds as much as … Read more
Isn’t That Delay of Game? Some thoughts this week, while — oh, wait; there’s a penalty. Some thoughts — another call. Some — ah, forget it. • Let’s get the eye-popping averages from the first 24 college hockey games of the season out of the way first: 22.29 penalties for 47.79 minutes, 18 power plays, … Read more
Welcome to the penalty box. The sin bin, if you will. After attending a couple of weeks’ worth of games, I figured it would make sense to write this column from the confines of this small box. After all, this is where all the action is these days. If you’ve had the benefit of catching … Read more
The NCAA released an open letter to the college ice hockey community earlier this year, announcing to all its intention to cut down on holding, hooking and obstruction infractions. The letter basically put the onus on referees and linesmen to call the game “by the book,” and warned coaches and players that trips to the … Read more
The first weekend of the season was certainly wild, and it’s only going to get wilder as CSTV’s Friday Night Hockey heads to Ann Arbor.
At Last Congratulations to the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks, who have finally won the Maverick Stampede. “For us, it’s big,” said UNO head coach Mike Kemp. “We’ve been waiting a long time for this. We’ve been close so many times, for us to get over the hump is so very important.” The Mavs beat Connecticut 4-1 in … Read more