The semifinals are set for this weekend with four teams punching their ticket to get one step closer to the Division III national championship in Lewiston, Maine. Let’s take a look back at the path teams took to get there: First Round Alex Larson’s 45-save performance was not enough for Nichols as the Bison fell … Read more
It’s now down to just the remaining 11 teams starting with the first round on Wednesday night. Who ends up in the Frozen Four in Maine and what new champion takes home the title for the 2013-14 season? Our Division III columnists give this their best shot. Katie Carito First Round Geneseo over Nichols Norwich … Read more
The three “Ws” of Division III hockey – watching, waiting, worrying. That was plenty of each to go around for teams with NCAA tournament aspirations, especially for top seeds – including three of five in the East – who fell in this past weekend’s conference championship tilts. Ultimately, the news from the selectors was good … Read more
It’s time to crown the 2014 Division III conference tournament champions and what better people to prognosticate these important games than our D-III columnists. The nine teams that take home the titles will have earned them and will taste victory as they never have before. So who wins? Read on, people. Read on. ECAC East … Read more
The ECAC Northeast and MASCAC tournament semifinals go down this week, with championship hardware to be decided this weekend. ECAC Northeast Wednesday, March 5 Curry at Nichols Curry is playing very good hockey right now, beating Johnson and Wales in the final game of the regular season and Salve Regina in the ECAC Northeast quarterfinals. … Read more
The elite teams are rising to the top as the number of participants continues to dwindle down through advanced rounds of the conference playoffs. There are conference championship games on the horizon along with the highly-coveted NCAA tournament auto-bids that come with the titles. Here is a recap of the great action across the country … Read more
The Division III playoffs are in full swing and one loss means the skates are hung up for the rest of the season. Who moves on and who gets set for golf season? Let’s put that in the collective hands of our D-III columnists. ECAC East – Tim Costello There is nothing like the feeling … Read more
Another weekend is in the books in Division III hockey and there was plenty of interesting moments around the nation. St. Thomas had its bid to finish unbeaten in MIAC play end with a 1-0 loss to St. John’s, while WIsconsin-River Falls nailed down the top seed in the WIAC by knocking off Wisconsin-Stevens Point … Read more
For some Division III conferences, this weekend is the final go at the regular season. Others start the playoffs. Either way, the intensity should be ramped up and players will either show they have ice in their veins or butterflies in their stomachs. How will this weekend play out? As always, our crack staff has … Read more
The rundown from an exciting past weekend… ECAC East The Norwich Cadets captured their 16th straigh ECAC East crown with victories over Babson and Massachusetts-Boston. They defeated Babson 1-0 on Friday night with the goal coming from Dean Niezgoda in the first period and Chris Czarnota stopping all 10 shots. Saturday night, Norwich defeated UMass-Boston … Read more
It’s now or never. Yes, every win means something this time of year, especially in Division III. Our expert columnists pick this weekend’s matchups, as well as some midweek games next week, as some teams look to clinch playoff berths and others will be on the outside looking in. ECAC East – Tim Costello It … Read more
Playoff implications were on the line over the weekend as conferences hit the last weekend or two of conference action. Teams on the cusp of missing playoffs battled to overtime ties and wins, while teams at the top were nearly upset in multiple games. ECAC East Friday night was the night where ECAC East fans … Read more
It’s getting down to nitty-gritty time, so who’s in and who’s out? Nothing is certain yet, but with just a few weekends left in the regular season, every win counts. Here are the predictions for this weekend’s games and then some: ECAC East – Tim Costello I know it is winter, or at least the … Read more
Up is down. Down is up. Hard to tell which way was which based on last week’s Division III action, such were the number of upsets registered around the rinks. Scarcely any conference was immune from the toppling of giants, as six of the nine league leaders suffered at least one loss during the weekend. … Read more
As we enter the final month of the regular season, every coach will say that two points on a nightly basis is necessary. Our slew of Division III men’s columnists take to this weekly blog to tell you, our loyal readers, just what will indeed happen this weekend at rinks across the country. Or so … Read more
The weeks are dwindling towards the end of the regular season and the battles for playoff position are intensifying everywhere. Some teams are getting hot at the right time of the year, but can they knock off the teams that have been playing well all year long? Here are some of the highlights from some … Read more
Believe it or not, but playoff pictures are starting to become less blurry as teams are jockeying for positioning in their respective conference standings. That said, the games are decided on the ice and this weekend, there is no shortage of games to go down in Division III circles. Here is what our group of … Read more
It was an interesting weekend in the Division III hockey world. Wisconsin-Eau Claire, the defending national champion, won its fifth consecutive game in shutout fashion. Elmira ended a nine-game losing streak to Oswego and also picked up its third win of the season over a nationally-ranked team in the process. Adrian and St. Scholastica hooked … Read more
How will this weekend’s Division III men’s games play out? Our columnists have a pretty good idea … right? ECAC East – Tim Costello It was the first week of picks that didn’t knock it out of the park as I finished at 3-2-0 (.600) last week. That sub-par performance brings the season total to … Read more
There were several marquee games across the country in the second week back from the holiday break as Babson-Norwich, Utica-Oswego and St. Scholastica-Wisconsin-River Falls were some of the games that people were keeping an eye on. Here’s how everything shook out last weekend. ECAC East No. 6 Babson and No. 5 Norwich had the stage … Read more