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It’s that time of the year where it’s win or go home. MIAC tournament gets underway and action in the NCHA and WIAC tournaments continue as teams battle for the right to win their respective conference championship. Check out a quick preview below of the games on tap for this week. MIAC St. Thomas (12-10-3) … Read more
North Dakota remains first in the PairWise Rankings after getting a shootout loss and a regulation defeat last weekend at unranked St. Cloud State, and UND coach Brad Berry has a good feel for why that happened (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
The final series of the regular season is almost always important for every team, but credit the WCHA schedule-makers for unintentionally adding to that drama nearly every season (photo: BSU Photo Services).
The schedule-maker couldn’t have drawn it up any better than Clarkson at Cornell on the final night of the ECAC regular season (photo: Clarkson Athletics).
The 2019-20 regular season began five months ago with the preseason coaches call, but it feels like it happened this morning. I still remember how quickly that meeting felt, how everyone brimmed with confidence and excitement and how coaches oozed the same feelings for Atlantic Hockey (photo: Omar Phillips).
There isn’t much time for teams to transition from the regular season mindset to playoff mode but for teams in the CCC, SUNYAC and UCHC, the playoff journey starts on Tuesday and Wednesday with first round games. Here is a quick preview of the games on tap as teams pursue their all-important conference championships. CCC … Read more
The regular season is over and postseason conference tournaments start next weekend. Candace looks at some of the results on a wild last weekend of regular season play.
Three games. That’s how many are guaranteed for Kyle Wagner and his senior teammates at Saint John’s. Understandably, there is added motivation for him at this point. The Johnnies star is determined to make each one count. “You are kind of that point where you realize your hockey career here is coming to an end. … Read more
It says something about how good Minnesota Duluth has been over the last three years that despite only having nine losses, there was a sense among some followers of the game that Duluth was struggling a bit this season (photo: Jim Rosvold/University of Minnesota).
Heading into the final game of the regular season, the No. 8 Hamline Pipers will need a strong showing in the MIAC tournament to make a return to the NCAA tournament and have a shot at a third-straight Frozen Four appearance.
The two hottest teams in the Big Ten are the only two teams in control of their own destinies – and their respective coaches couldn’t sound more different with two weeks left in the regular season (photo: Michigan Athletics).
For months now, Hockey East, along with an executive search firm, have looked high and low for its next commissioner, someone who will replace 23-year Hockey East veteran Joe Bertagna (photo: New Hampshire Athletics).
Like a lot of teams, it’s been an up-and-down season at Niagara (photo: Omar Phillips).
Bison are unique animals in their ability to take on storms head on where other animals run away. Their time in the storm is shorter as they face it head on, but that doesn’t make things easier when they are in the maelstrom. Like their animal mascot, the Nichols hockey team has faced a major … Read more
To say that Alaska Anchorage has seen it all would be understatement of nearly epic proportions (photo: Alaska Anchorage Athletics).
It’s been a rough year for St. Lawrence, but the recently completed renovations at Appleton Arena are a bright spot as the Saints enter the stretch run of the season (photo: C A Hill Photo).
Starting in mid-November, Western Michigan went through a difficult stretch where the Broncos won one game in nine outings from the end of the first half through the start of the second half, going 1-6-2-1 (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
If the season ended today, and games in hand were ignored, Northeastern would miss the Hockey East playoffs after finishing in ninth place. The Huskies, however, would qualify for the NCAA tournament as an at-large team based on being 12th in the PairWise (photo: Rich Gagnon).
Currently riding an 11-0-2 streak, No. 4 Elmira is readying for a tough test this weekend against No. 1 Plattsburgh, followed by two tough league games that could be important in the regular season UCHC title race.
Owners of a 6-1-1 record since the calendar flipped to the new decade, Michigan seems to be getting hot at the right time (photo: Michigan Athletics).