Men’s D-I in general
In what their head coach called a “gutsy” effort, Michigan Tech’s victory over St. Thomas on Saturday night was as satisfying as they come. “Gutsy effort by our guys. You like every win, but you like some more than others,” MTU coach Joe Shawhan said in his postgame comments after Tech survived for a 4-3 … Read more
The Ice Breaker Tournament, the traditional start to the NCAA Division I men’s hockey season, will be co-hosted by Bemidji State and North Dakota in 2023-24, it was announced jointly this week by the host schools and College Hockey Inc. Army West Point and Wisconsin will also participate in the event, scheduled for Oct. 13-14 … Read more
A little under a decade ago, old friend and former colleague Dave Hendrickson created a list of 20 things that made him thankful about covering Hockey East. It was a departure from the usual format of how we do our weekly columns, but it struck a chord with me at a time when I was … Read more
By every possible measure, the past seven days have been extraordinary for Big Ten hockey. Minnesota swept Michigan at Yost Ice Arena. Michigan State – the team picked by coaches’ preseason to finish last – split a pair of road games against Penn State, and the Spartans sit in second place, one point behind the … Read more
After Michigan State’s Jagger Joshua tweeted about being called a racial slur in a Nov. 11 game against Ohio State, both MSU and the Big Ten released statements. Tuesday night, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith released a statement of his own on behalf of the school. https://twitter.com/OSU_AD/status/1595260479278030849
It’s a good bet UMass coach Greg Carvel will be avoiding gluten when his team travels to Northern Ireland for this weekend’s Friendship Four tournament. The last time the Minutemen participated, six years ago, Carvel’s allergic reaction to an iconic dry stout of the Emerald Isle was a minor irritation of an otherwise memorable trip. … Read more
Due to record ticket demand for Denver hockey games and in furtherance of the Hockey Capital USA campaign, the Gold Pan series is heading to the NHL. The Pioneers’ series-opening game on Friday, Jan. 27 against in-state foe Colorado College has been moved from Magness Arena on the campus of DU to downtown Denver’s Ball … Read more
Each week during the season, we look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback. Paula: Jimmy, it seems like every time I begin a TMQ column with a colleague, I’m starting with the Big Ten, but it also feels like B1G Hockey is attracting attention … Read more
Michigan State senior forward Jagger Joshua posted Monday on Twitter that he was the target of a racial slur in the Spartans’ Nov. 11 game against Ohio State. Acts of racism do not belong in hockey.. pic.twitter.com/nm9AnIjSgV — Jagger Joshua (@jaggerjoshua8) November 21, 2022 Monday, the Big Ten issued a statement: “The Big Ten Conference … Read more
Denver, a team that did not play last weekend, remains No. 1 in the DCU/USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll after picking up 41 first-place votes this week. Minnesota stays No. 2 and garnered seven first-place votes, while St. Cloud State moves up one to No. 3, getting two first-place votes in this week’s poll. Quinnipiac … Read more
Here is a rundown of how the top 20 teams in the DCU/USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll of Nov. 14 fared in games over the weekend of Nov. 17-19. No. 1 Denver (9-3-0) Did not play. No. 2 Minnesota (10-4-0) 11/17/2022 – No. 2 Minnesota 5 at No. 3 Michigan 2 11/18/2022 – No. 2 … Read more
Each week, USCHO.com will pick the top 10 moments from the past weekend in our Monday 10 feature. 1) Gophers sweep undermanned Michigan At a surface level, the Minnesota-Michigan series was always going to capture headlines regardless of the outcome, but nobody could have foreseen or foreshadowed the layers and surreality of what occurred at … Read more
How would a $2,460 win sound to you? Not bad, especially if you perfectly picked all five games in last week’s USCHO Edge column and parlayed them on a $100 bet. Certainly, we make it sound easy. It’s not. None of our eight writers got all five correct. In fact, no one got all five … Read more
Niagara announced Thursday that Saturday’s home non-conference game with St. Lawrence has been postponed due to inclement weather. The game has been rescheduled for Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023 at Dwyer Arena. The start time for that game is to be determined.
When the NCAA finally started letting Division I teams play against one another for in-season exhibition games last season, it was a big relief to coaches across the country. Now, no longer at the whims of whatever Canadian team was able to cross the border during the first few weeks of the season, coaches have … Read more
For a league where sweeps have historically been hard to come by and splits are the norm, so far this season it’s been feast or famine in conference series in Atlantic Hockey. There have been 15 conference series so far, with nine ending in sweeps. Another three series saw one team take five of six … Read more
Since Ralph Engelstad Arena opened in 2001, no North Dakota home series has ever been rescheduled due to weather. Late last week, there was a threat of that changing. Denver was originally scheduled to fly into Fargo, N.D., on Thursday afternoon, then take an 80-mile bus ride up to Grand Forks. Most of the state … Read more
Minnesota’s Bob Motzko has an idea about the 2022-23 Big Ten hockey season: “We’re just going to beat the snot out of each other this year.” Motzko’s Golden Gophers are in third place in B1G conference standings after splitting a home series against Penn State last weekend, losing 4-2 and winning 3-2. The three road … Read more
Merrimack coach Scott Borek has been around Hockey East long enough to remember when it was a top-heavy league. Traditionally dominated for the better part of its first two decades as a conference by the likes of Boston University, Boston College, New Hampshire and Maine, things have changed in the last decade — UMass Lowell … Read more
My most memorable college hockey game occurred when Brown hosted Princeton during the 2019 ECAC Hockey tournament’s first round. It was the second game of a best-of-three series, but it was the third consecutive game between the two teams after they played the last game of the season and managed to land in a playoff … Read more