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When Plymouth State and Salem State meet at 6 p.m. Saturday for the MASCAC tournament championship, the winner will achieve something historic — as the league’s first postseason champion, one team will earn the MASCAC’s first automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Plymouth State, the No. 1 seed in the six-team conference tournament, earned its … Read more
MIAC The MIAC Preseason Coach’s poll was spot on when it picked No. 8 St. Thomas and No. 11 Gustavus Adolphus to finish first and second in the conference, but thanks to St. Olaf’s upset win at St. Thomas last week, Gustavus will now host St. Olaf in the MIAC tournament title game Saturday. St. … Read more
The Bulldogs have three players in a pack of players near the top of the WCHA scoring charts. Tyler Buckentine and Brian Halverson have This Week in the WCHA.
The Pioneers were able to take just one point in their first 17 contests but claimed 10 in their last 10 conference games, including a sweep of Army last weekend that moved them out of the Atlantic Hockey basement. Chris Lerch has This Week in Atlantic Hockey.
Twenty-three weeks later and here we are at the final weekend of the Hockey East regular season. What has been decided? Next to nothing. Jim Connelly has This Week in Hockey East.
Ferris State needed one of two things to become CCHA champs outright last weekend, a single Michigan loss or a single earned point. FSU got both on Friday night — and just that for the weekend. Paula C. Weston has This Week in the CCHA.
The Engineers enter the postseason off a sweep of Colgate and Cornell. Nate Owen has This Week in ECAC Hockey.
No. 5 Neumann at No. 1 Elmira Five straight regular season championships. That is the milestone that Elmira clinched last Saturday when it beat Utica, 6-3. It is the longest regular season title streak in the history of the ECAC West, surpassing hated RIT’s run of four straight from 1998-2002. “That is pretty unbelievable when … Read more
Now let’s see: What’s that old expression? “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” For NESCAC’s number one seed Amherst Lord Jeffs, it really doesn’t seem like anything is “broke” on their 20-3-1 record heading into this weekend’s quarterfinal matchup with Hamilton at home. The fact is they really haven’t changed much all season with … Read more
Last week’s announcement by Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) commissioner Gary Karner that the five University of Wisconsin schools would leave the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA) and form a WIAC conference starting the 2014-2015 season made waves in the West Region, as well as the rest of Division III hockey. The initial announcement caught … Read more
By this point, people from the East are doubtless sick of hearing about the strength of this season’s WCHA. People from within the league are frustrated as well, not with the talk, but with trying to make a case that they belong in the NCAA tournament with the selection criteria that are in place. Consider … Read more
Four ECAC Northeast and MASCAC teams have at least a week off between conference playoff games, and the obvious task would be to do whatever a team possibly could to stave off monotony in that time. However, when asked how he’ll keep his team fresh between its final regular-season game and its first playoff game, … Read more
Coming into this season, Trinity went through as much of a changeover as any other team in Division III. Not only did the Bantams lose five impact seniors, headlined by Laura Hurd Award finalist and all-time program leading scorer Kim Weiss, they also lost their head coach that helped build the program from the ground … Read more
With nine teams, the league could eliminate a team from the postseason or offer first-round byes. Tyler Buckentine and Brian Halverson have This Week in the WCHA.
Five teams are in the running for the championship, and seven are in contention for a first-round bye. Chris Lerch has This Week in Atlantic Hockey.
In the 14 full seasons since the coach reached 500 wins, other than the two post-national championship years when the celebratory losses to the pros were near-insurmountable, his worst season has included 24 wins. Dave Hendrickson has This Week in Hockey East.
Union and Cornell square off on Friday in a matchup of the league’s top two teams. Brian Sullivan breaks it all down in This Week in ECAC Hockey.
Instead of focusing on what’s already in hand, the Bulldogs are looking at what’s ahead. That plus the first part of the annual Girl Reporter Awards as Paula C. Weston has This Week in the CCHA.
This is it. The last weekend of the regular season. No more, “We’ll get ’em next week.” No more, “We need some points next weekend.” No more, “We’ll learn from these lessons and apply them next week.” For next week is the playoffs. This is your last chance to either get in them, host a … Read more
It has been a frustrating stretch run for the Utica Pioneers over the last few weeks. The return to league play in late January started off optimistically enough. Utica battled league-leading Elmira to a 2-2 tie on January 20, then swept Hobart the next weekend. It has been a wild roller coaster ride since then. … Read more