Bendel Backs Beacons The last of the unbeaten teams has gone by the wayside as of Saturday night. Call it what you want, a trap game, a Fenway Park hangover or what it was, a good hockey game with great goaltending for the Massachusetts-Boston team that held on to a 2-1 win on Saturday against … Read more
It was a busy week in the ECAC West, as teams played in 12 games total. Neumann, Elmira, and Manhattanville each played three games. Elmira is the only team that swept its trio of games. The Soaring Eagles started the winning week with a barnburner 2-1 win at Fredonia on Tuesday. Brendan Sanders scored a … Read more
Oswego sweeps; avenges Utica loss The Utica at Oswego game was an interesting one. It wasn’t a dirty game. It wasn’t a chippy game. In fact, it was, relatively speaking, a clean game. However, due to the officials calling a very tight game, it was filled with penalties. Quite honestly, with the way the game … Read more
Last week, I finished on the plus side in picks, but not by much with a 5-3-1 record. For the season, my overall record now sits at 28-12-5 (.674) — not bad with the overall competitiveness seen year-to-date. This week, I am going off the board a bit in picking some games with some clear … Read more
Last week’s picks were perfection, which certainly surprised me as much as anyone else. In an unusual bit of scheduling for Division III, the ECAC West plays in three weekend series with nonconference foes this week. Neumann travels to Fredonia and Manhattanville hosts Potsdam each for a pair of games. And Elmira plays a home-and-home … Read more
Yet again, it’s another weekend of nonconference games for the ECAC Northeast, save for Friday’s Wentworth-Becker game. One would think the endless road trips and the unfamiliar teams would produce some monotony, but it’s actually the opposite. Many of the conference’s schools are still on winter break, so this is the time when each team … Read more
It is the first weekend of conference play since winter break. Teams in the MCHA, MIAC and NCHA will be battling for positioning in the league standings before conference tournaments begin at the end of February. I went 5-3 in last week’s picks, which makes my record 22-14 for the season, a .636 winning percentage. … Read more
Game of the Week This is the second consecutive weekend of all nonconference games for SUNYAC teams, with another 14 taking place, plus one more on Tuesday. Like last week, there are plenty of good games to choose from. I’m going with two, one on Friday and one on Saturday. Plattsburgh travels to Middlebury for … Read more
Geneseo finally gets a shutout Perhaps the Mayans are correct. Maybe the end of the world is coming this year. After eight years, two months, six days, and 226 games, Geneseo finally got a shutout. It wasn’t a particularly hard one, as Andy Rubeniuk only had to stop 12 Franklin Pierce shots, but the Ice … Read more
Suddenly, the new year seems to be catching up with Curry. After amassing a seven-game winning streak that stretched through the bulk of November and December, the Colonels have lost four straight — all nonconference games, including three on the road — and hope to use the final two games of this week’s road trip … Read more
Welcome to the New Year, and if the hockey we have seen to officially start 2012 is any indication, we are all in for a very good year as fans of the game. Thought I would change up the weekly blog this time around, as there were some interesting games over the past weekend and … Read more
Freshman Tommy Traversa blew Hobart’s game open in the third period on Friday scoring a natural hat trick to break a 2-2 tie. Traversa tallied his first two goals in a 2:27 span early in the period and then threw in an empty netter with 36 seconds remaining to seal the 5-2 victory. Hobart finished … Read more
My picks were respectably mediocre over the holiday break. It is always an interesting challenge to try and figure out how teams will hit the ice after a break. Will they be rust?y Or will they be re-focused? You never know. This week, the ECAC West continues its roll through nonconference games, with most … Read more
Game of the Week The next two weekends consist of all nonconference games for the SUNYAC teams. Thus, there are a lot of games taking place — 14 this weekend, with another four spread out during the week. Brockport plays four games this upcoming week. So, picking just one game of the week is impossible. … Read more
Of last week’s picks, all six games were decided by one goal. Four of those six games went to overtime. If this is any kind of indication of any sort of competitive level, consider that all six of the games picked and predicted were nonconference games for both the ECAC Northeast and the MASCAC. Another … Read more
Last week, with a challenging group of tournament and nonconference games to choose from on New Year’s weekend, Saturday’s picks were 5-0, which led to a strong 7-2-1 for the weekend. Those picks built my season record to 23-9-4 (.694) and have momentum swinging my way in the first full weekend of conference action on … Read more
The MIAC will host NCHA teams this weekend in nonconference action. The games will be the final warm-up before teams head into the second half of the conference schedule. After starting out hot last Friday, going 4-0, I came crashing down in predicting the rest of the games, going 0-3. That makes me 17-11 for … Read more
A handful of nonconference games finished off the calendar year and signaled the beginning of the second half of the 2011-2012 season. Three MCHA teams took to the road, and Hamline represented the MIAC at a tournament in Oswego, N.Y. A much anticipated matchup between No. 7 Adrian and a surprisingly-tough Wisconsin-Stevens Point team lived … Read more
Wow! What I learned this past weekend is that you never know where a truly great and entertaining hockey game is going to spring up. Sure, there were a number of tournaments where league teams played nonconference foes in marquee match-ups. However, the game of the week, and maybe the most exciting 24:01 of hockey … Read more
Plattsburgh wins own tournament Plattsburgh took its Cardinal Classic holiday tournament, giving up just one goal in the two games. First, they disposed of Babson, 5-0, with Mathieu Cadieux and Josh Leis combining for the shutout. Cadieux made 20 saves in the first two periods, and Leis stopped all eight third period shots. After a … Read more