Wandering The Nation: Florida Classic
Wonder what a team does at holiday tournament time? Dave Starman knows, as he checks in with Minnesota-Duluth at the Florida College Classic.
Men’s D-I: NCHC
Living The Dream
He may not have arrived to much fanfare, but Kevin Ulanski left Denver amid plenty of it. Nicholas Jon Wood traces the path of one of the Pioneers’ key championship contributors.
Hell On Wheels
For Colorado College defenseman Lee Sweatt, hockey isn’t just the kind played on ice, Alex Clark reports.
Right Where He Wants Them
North Dakota may be young, but Dave Starman finds that the Fighting Sioux are on track to meet head coach Dave Hakstol’s expectations.
North Dakota Files Second NCAA Appeal
In a deviation from its original policy, the NCAA will allow University of North Dakota athletes to wear uniforms adorned with the Fighting Sioux name and logo during NCAA-sponsored playoff events — at least until Feb. 1 next year. Last Friday, UND filed a second appeal for review by the NCAA Executive Committee, the same … Read more
Culture Shock
When Bob Motzko replaced longtime head coach Craig Dahl in St. Cloud, he inherited a program with a lot to look forward to, says Dave Starman.
DU’s Trotter Out For Season With Severed Achilles
Brock Trotter, Denver’s then-leading scorer and the reigning WCHA Rookie of the Week, will miss the remainder of the season after sustaining a severed right Achilles tendon on a hit from North Dakota’s Matt Smaby during Friday night’s game between the Sioux and the Pioneers. Smaby’s check on Trotter came behind the UND goal, and … Read more
Feels Like The First Time
Denver may be the two-time defending NCAA champion, but head coach George Gwozdecky and Co. see only the season to come.
2005-06 Nebraska-Omaha Season Preview
History isn’t really about the past, settling old scores. It’s about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns Three summers ago, the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks were rocked by a number of departures. Both players and coaches left unexpectedly, some just before the beginning of the new season. Last year, after spending the 2003-04 … Read more
2005-06 Miami Season Preview
History is the great propagator of doubt. — A.J.P. Taylor Miami deserves a better fate than that of sixth in the CCHA preseason coaches’ poll, seventh in the media poll. Yes, the RedHawks struggled last season — to put a team on the ice. Once they got there, however, they really knew how to play. … Read more
2005-06 Western Michigan Season Preview
History repeats itself because no one was listening the first time. — Anonymous Have you heard the one about the team that can score from nearly anywhere on the ice but allows goals from nearly anywhere as well? Of course you have. It’s the recent history of the Western Michigan Broncos. Anyone following Bronco hockey … Read more
USCHO Women’s Game of the Week:
Minnesota-Duluth at Wisconsin
Three-time NCAA champion No. 4 UMD visits WCHA rival co-No. 1 Wisconsin in Sunday’s 3 p.m. ET broadcast.
2005-06 Minnesota-Duluth Season Preview
After a major step in the wrong direction sent 11 seniors out of the Minnesota-Duluth program on a disappointing note, this year’s group of seniors has a different sendoff in mind. A year after going to the Frozen Four, the Bulldogs stumbled to a sixth-place WCHA finish and a 15-17-6 overall record that was a … Read more
2005-06 Colorado College Season Preview
Numbers can be powerful, but not all-telling. Colorado College returns 91 percent of its goal-scoring from a year ago, most of it in the forms of Hobey Baker Award winner Marty Sertich and award finalist Brett Sterling. It has 21 players returning from the team that tied Denver for the WCHA regular-season championship and made … Read more
2005-06 St. Cloud State Season Preview
Over a span of just five short seasons, St. Cloud State went from its highest highs to its lowest lows. From the viewpoint of the Huskies’ ninth-place WCHA finish of a year ago, memories of the 31-win season of 2001 are awfully fuzzy. That’s about the same view Bob Motzko has about his first team … Read more
2005-06 North Dakota Season Preview
There are differing opinions on what to expect out of North Dakota this season, but history suggests that discounting the Sioux because they lost a few players is a bad idea. A year ago, the UND offense was supposed to be in peril because it lost stars Zach Parise and Brandon Bochenski to the pros. … Read more
2005-06 Denver Season Preview
The 80 goals of production lost will be hard to replace. So will the experience of the four departed defensemen out of the regular lineup. But the way the Denver Pioneers have taken care of things in the last two seasons, those might turn out to be merely minor inconveniences. En route to back-to-back NCAA … Read more
Caught In The Controversy
For five-eighths Ojibwe Tim Oshie and his son, North Dakota freshman T.J., the NCAA mascot policy is a family matter.
North Dakota Appeal Denied By NCAA
Statement by NCAA Senior Vice-President for Governance and Membership Bernard Franklin on University of North Dakota Review: “The NCAA staff review committee has retained the University of North Dakota on the list of colleges and universities subject to restrictions on the use of Native American mascots, names and imagery at NCAA championships. “In its review … Read more
Making All The Right Moves
North Dakota freshman T.J. Oshie trod an unlikely path from his Minnesota roots to the West Coast and back to become an NHL first-round pick.