North Dakota captured 39 first-place votes this week to remain the top team in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll. Second-ranked Boston College, No. 3 Minnesota Duluth, No. 5 Minnesota State and No. 6 Michigan all garnered first-place votes as well. USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll – Nov. 16, 2020 The USCHO.com Poll consists of … Read more
North Dakota hockey icon Reg Morelli died Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. He was 84. Morelli was a trailblazer for North Dakota hockey, scoring what could be argued as the most significant goal in the school’s history, the game winner for UND’s first national title. “The North Dakota hockey family was saddened today to hear the … Read more
After releasing its plans and format for the 2020-21 season on Oct. 16, the NCHC on Monday unveiled the updated conference schedule for the season. All eight NCHC teams will play a 26-game conference slate for a total of 104 conference games in 2020-21. The NCHC season will be divided into two portions. The first … Read more
Just one day after the Arizona Coyotes officially renounced Mitchell Miller’s NHL draft rights, North Dakota announced Friday that the team has cut ties with the freshman defenseman. Earlier this week, it was uncovered that Miller had bullied and assaulted a black developmentally-disabled classmate during his eighth grade year four years ago in Sylvania, Ohio. … Read more
North Dakota freshman defenseman Mitchell Miller was involved in bullying and assaulting a black and developmentally-challenged schoolmate four years ago when he was 14 years old, according to a report in AZCentral.com. Miller was also selected by the Arizona Coyotes in the fourth round (111th overall) of the 2020 NHL Draft earlier this month. The … Read more
With 28 first-place votes, North Dakota begins the 2020-21 season as the No. 1 team in the USCHO.com Preseason Division I Men’s Poll (photo: Russell Hons).
According to the Grand Forks Herald, the NCHC is planning to start the 2020-21 in a hub (or “bubble”) and play approximately 10 games in a three-week span between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
College hockey icons Dean Blais, Tony Granato, Jenny Potter and Jerry York will make up the United States Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2020.
Omaha will have two incoming transfers for the 2020-21 season (photos: North Dakota Athletics; Michigan Athletics).
The 2020 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game originally scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 17, at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville has officially been postponed and moved to the new date of Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Former North Dakota defenseman James Patrick will be inducted into the UND Letterwinners Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2020.
North Dakota’s Brad Berry and Cornell’s Mike Schafer have been chosen co-winners of the 2020 Spencer Penrose Award as the CCM/AHCA Coach of the Year for men’s Division I hockey.
The Hobey Baker Hat Trick finalists for the 2020 award, honoring college hockey’s top player, are North Dakota junior forward Jordan Kawaguchi, Minnesota Duluth junior defenseman Scott Perunovich and Maine junior goaltender Jeremy Swayman.
A pair of Minnesota Duluth standouts have repeated as NCHC individual award winners in 2019-20, while North Dakota senior defenseman Colton Poolman also received league recognition on Tuesday (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Coming off back-to-back seasons of not qualifying for the NCAA tournament, there were a lot of questions facing North Dakota this season. Perhaps the biggest revolved around offense. Who was going to score? (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
North Dakota finished the NCAA tournament-less season first in the PairWise Rankings. It was some season for the Hawks, recovering in a big way after missing back-to-back NCAA tournaments for the first time since the mid-1990s. Because of that turnaround, UND’s Brad Berry has been voted as USCHO Coach of the Year (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
For a brief moment last weekend, I thought I’d picked up another two games on Matthew in our picks race, but alas, I misread the score of Friday’s game between Minnesota Duluth and Western Michigan. Instead, we had the same record, as I was wrong on that game but correct on the Omaha-CC game. Last … Read more
Minnesota Duluth has been my Kryponite more often than not this season. Last weekend, picking the Bulldogs to sweep St. Cloud State ended up costing me a game in the picks race with Matthew, but I still have three games in hand. Last week, I went 2-3-2 (.437), while Matthew went 3-2-3 (.562). On the … Read more
The NCHC has issued a one-game suspension to North Dakota freshman forward Shane Pinto stemming from an illegal hit during the Fighting Hawks’ game against Omaha on Saturday night at Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, N.D.
Learning my lesson from the last time Denver faced a ranked Hockey East team paid off, as I gained another game in the picks race with Matthew by picking a DU sweep. Last week, I went 5-1-2 (.750), while Matthew was 4-2-2 (.625). On the year, I am now 53-39-15 (.565), while Matthew is 49-43-15 … Read more