2005 Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner Marty Sertich of Colorado College officially has a chance to repeat, as his name was among the 10 finalists for the 2006 award announced Thursday by the Hobey Baker Foundation. Sertich was once again joined by teammate Brett Sterling as a finalist; those two comprised two-thirds of last year’s … Read more
Matt Carle’s team didn’t make the WCHA Final Five, but the Denver junior defenseman still picked up the league’s top honor. Carle, the nation’s top defensive scorer, was named the WCHA’s player of the year and headed the all-league first team that was announced at an awards banquet Thursday. Denver was eliminated from the WCHA … Read more
St. Cloud State’s hopes to begin the season might have seemed modest. But Tom Reale says the Huskies still have the spark.
Minnesota’s men’s hockey team has been forced to play with slightly re-shuffled lines the past three weekends as it has been without the services of sophomore forward Kris Chucko. But, for this weekend’s Western Collegiate Hockey Association’s Final Five, the Gophers’ lines – for at least one night – will go back to their old … Read more
First things first: • We’ve had time to digest that two-time defending champion Denver isn’t going to be around when the NCAA tournament field of 16 is announced on Sunday. But what of Matt Carle’s candidacy for the Hobey Baker Award? For the record, two players from teams that didn’t make the NCAA tournament have … Read more
The St. Louis Blues haved signed Minnesota State junior forward David Backes to a National Hockey League contract beginning for the 2006-07 season. Backes will join the Peoria Rivermen, the Blues’ affiliate in the American Hockey League, for the remainder of the season as an amateur tryout. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. … Read more
First things first: • In the 25 WCHA first-round playoff series over the last five years, the home team has advanced 23 times. This may be a time of increasing parity in the league in the regular season, but that hasn’t carried over to the playoffs. • Even more stunning than both Minnesota-Duluth and Michigan … Read more
Brian Elliott’s year had been straight out of a storybook — until his injury. Now, the junior netminder appears set to lead Wisconsin back to its early-season form in the WCHA playoffs.
Look, but don’t touch — that was Minnesota’s approach to its MacNaughton Cup title when the Cup was presented to the Gophers last weekend.
The NCAA has announced the participants for the inaugural NCAA Frozen Four Skills Challenge, which will be held April 7 at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The competition will be held in an East versus West format with each team having six male position players, six female position players, two male goaltenders and two … Read more
Back to the basics, back to square one. That was the message during a 20-minute players-only meeting following Wisconsin’s Feb. 25’s 7-3 loss to Minnesota State. And that was the message through all of this week’s practices. And despite a mediocre Wednesday practice, the Badgers finished a refreshing week Thursday — one that harkened back … Read more
First things first: • Lo and behold, we finally picked a first-place finisher right. We — myself and the WCHA’s coaches — have been notoriously wrong about that subject when polled before the season but a preseason favorite finally came through with Minnesota’s first outright MacNaughton Cup championship since 1992. • Wisconsin was at “rock … Read more
If a player struggled to live up to considerable hype, watched as the job he was competing for was claimed by someone else and went through off-ice troubles, you would say he’s had a heck of a rough career, right? But, if all these things happened in just one season — let alone that player’s … Read more
It’s a TMQ two-fer this week, as Scott Brown analyzes the three Western conferences’ playoff situations with an eye on national-tournament consequences.
Boston resident and Wisconsin alum Nicholas Jon Wood took in two of college hockey’s seminal events — the Beanpot and the Frozen Tundra Classic — in a weeklong trek covering thousands of miles. He’s here to tell the tale.
A month and a half ago, Wisconsin was on top of the world. Now the Badgers find themselves trying to dig their way out of a hole.
Northern Michigan University will host the Wisconsin Badgers for a two-game series on Oct. 6-7 at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wis. Tickets for Northern Michigan fans will go on sale Monday, NMU athletic director Ken Godfrey said, if the system can be finalized by TicketStar in Green Bay. Tickets will be $15 for … Read more
John Mayasich, considered by many to be the greatest American-born hockey player of all time, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2006 Lou Lamoriello Award. The award, named after the former Providence College player and coach — and current New Jersey Devils president and coach — honors a former member of the college … Read more
First things first: • If it seems like WCHA teams have been having a harder time than usual defending home ice, it’s not your imagination. Through 122 league games this season, the home team is 55-55-12. Should make for some interesting first-round playoff series two weeks from now. • One second, we’re ready to pencil … Read more
The Wisconsin Badgers men’s hockey team, already beset once by an injury to a key player this season, now find themselves without their most consistent forward. The team found out Monday that junior Andrew Joudrey will miss the next three to four weeks with a left knee injury. Joudrey’s injury occurred Saturday night against Michigan … Read more