This Week in … columns; weekly columns on a league, region or gender-division
Four teams remain, and all battled hard last weekend to get to Rochester. Chris Lerch previews the league semifinals and offers his awards picks in This Week in Atlantic Hockey.
Union, Cornell, Harvard and Colgate head to Boardwalk Hall to play for the Whitelaw Cup. Nate Owen has This Week in ECAC Hockey.
Michigan, Western Michigan, Miami and Bowling Green take to Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena this weekend. Paula C. Weston has This Week in the CCHA.
Seven of the eight teams still remaining in the battle for the 2012 NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Tournament are the same names you see pretty much every year in the hunt. Gustavus Adolphus, Wisconsin-River Falls, Norwich, Middlebury, Plattsburgh, Amherst, and RIT have all been there before, and are traditional powerhouses year in and … Read more
Mercyhurst Lakers at No. 1 Wisconsin Badgers, Saturday, March 10, 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT The Lakers and Badgers each took the regular season crown of their respective conferences before losing to the host team in the league tournament. They met in this same round in 2006, and it required 90 minutes and 10 … Read more
Tyler Buckentine and Brian Halverson pick the All-WCHA teams and individual award winners in This Week in the WCHA.
A look at the four quarterfinal series this weekend in the Hockey East playoffs. Dave Hendrickson has This Week in Hockey East.
The Colonials lost a three-goal lead in Game 3 but recovered to advance to the Atlantic Hockey quarterfinals. Chris Lerch has This Week in Atlantic Hockey.
For the second straight season, the Falcons beat Northern Michigan in a first-round series. Paula C. Weston has This Week in the CCHA.
The Raiders lost their last four games of the regular season but still earned a first-round playoff bye. Brian Sullivan has This Week in ECAC Hockey.
Amherst Lord Jeffs League: NESCAC Conference record: 17-1 (first) Overall record: 23-3-1 NCAA history: Fourth appearance, quarterfinals in 2009 Scoring offense: 3.89 g/gm Scoring defense: 1.67 g/gm Scoring margin: plus-60 (2.22 g/gm) Power play: 27.6 percent Penalty kill: 86.7 percent Penalties: 10.33 pim/gm Team Leaders Goals: Mike Moher (13) Assists: Aaron Deutsch (17) Points: Mike … Read more
Gustavus Adolphus Gusties League: MIAC Conference record: 8-5-3 (second) Overall record: 16-6-5 NCAA history: Sixth appearance Scoring offense: 3.11 g/gm Scoring defense: 2.30 g/gm Scoring margin: plus-22 (0.81 g/gm) Power play: 19.8 percent Penalty kill: 80.2 percent Penalties: 12.81 pim/gm Team Leaders Goals: Adam Smyth (14) Assists: Ross Ring-Jarvi (19) Points: Ross Ring-Jarvi (29) Power-play … Read more
Plymouth State Panthers League: MASCAC Conference record: 12-3-3 (First) Overall record: 17-6-3 Last NCAA Appearance: First in school history Scoring offense: 3.38 goals per game Scoring defense: 2.38 goals per game Scoring margin: plus-25 (1.00 g/gm) Power play: 21.5 percent Penalty kill: 85.6 percent Penalties: 18.42 pim/gm Team Leaders Goals: Kyle Greco (14) Assists: Kyle … Read more
Elmira Soaring Eagles League: SUNYAC Conference record: 8-2-2 (First) Overall record: 15-8-3 NCAA history: 18th appearance, second — 1980, 1988, third — 1993, 2006, 2008 Scoring offense: 3.73 g/gm Scoring defense: 2.88 g/gm Scoring margin: plus-22 (.85 g/gm) Power play: 17.0 percent Penalty kill: 79.0 percent Penalties: 16.7 pim/gm Team Leaders Goals: Brendan Sanders (13) … Read more
Oswego Lakers League: SUNYAC Conference record: 14-0-2 (first) Overall record: 22-3-2 NCAA history: 13th appearance, one national championship (2007) Scoring offense: 4.67 g/gm Scoring defense: 1.81 g/gm Scoring margin: plus-77 (2.85 g/gm) Power play: 26.8 percent Penalty kill: 86.0 percent Penalties: 16.7 pim/gm Team Leaders Goals: Jon Whitelaw (19) Assists: Paul Rodrigues (23) Points: Jon … Read more
Injuries in all team sports are a fact of life. You know they are going to happen, and yet there is no real way to prepare for them or identify who the casualty list is going to take from your lineup over the course of the season. For the Norwich Cadets, who have been at … Read more
No. 5 Neumann at No. 3 Hobart It certainly isn’t the most-likely matchup for the ECAC West championship game on Saturday, but it is a testament to the depth of a league that has five of the top 11 teams included in this week’s NCAA eastern regional rankings. No. 5 Neumann travels to The Cooler … Read more
The season stretches so long at its beginning — for most teams, 34 games and a postseason to follow. Suddenly however, February has turned to March, and the only way for many to delay the season’s end is to keep winning. Half of the clubs that will compete in the tournaments in the ECAC and … Read more
This is the seventh year I’ve been helping out with these awards. I’ll repeat what I always do — I only coordinate this effort. I do not select these awards, nor does USCHO. It is the coaches who choose, in the same way they select the other SUNYAC year-end awards. I just count the votes, … Read more
The Norwich Cadets enter this weekend’s Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) East championship looking to win the one title that eluded them last season. Although Norwich won the 2011 National Championship, a few weeks prior, the Cadets didn’t even know if they were going to make the NCAA Tournament after losing, 4-2, to Manhattanville in … Read more