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Minnesota’s Meyers chosen Big Ten player of year, Gophers’ Faber top defensive player, Ohio State’s Dobeš best goalie, Minnesota’s Motzko gains coaching honors

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The Big Ten announced Tuesday the hockey all-Big Ten teams and individual award winners as selected by the conference’s coaches and a media panel. Minnesota’s Ben Meyers was named the Big Ten player of the year, while teammate Brock Faber was tabbed the defensive player of the year, which is awarded to a defenseman or … Read more

Minnesota State, Michigan Tech have four players each among 13 players honored on 2022 all-CCHA first, second teams

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The CCHA has announced its two all-CCHA teams for the 2021-22 season. 2021-22 All-CCHA First Team F – Nathan Smith, Minnesota State – 41 points F – Brian Halonen, Michigan Tech – (35) F – Julian Napravnik, Minnesota State (26) D – Jake Livingstone, Minnesota State (22) D – Elias Rosén, Bemidji State (18) G … Read more

TMQ: NCAA Division I men’s hockey playoffs in full swing with conference championships to be decided this coming weekend

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Each week during the season, we look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback. Paula: Two weeks ago, Dan, you asked me about potential chaos in the Big Ten playoffs and I said that I didn’t foresee anything out of the ordinary. I also said … Read more

Harvard’s Laferriere takes home top ECAC Hockey rookie honor, Quinnipiac’s Pecknold tabbed best coach for second straight season

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ECAC Hockey has announced that the 2022 Tim Taylor Coach of the Year is Quinnipiac’s Rand Pecknold and the rookie of the year is Harvard forward Alex Laferriere. This is the second straight season that Pecknold has claimed this honor, and the fourth time in his career. Pecknold coached the Bobcats to their second consecutive … Read more

For eighth week in a row, Minnesota State takes top spot in DCU/USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll

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For the eighth consecutive week, Minnesota State is the No. 1 team in the DCU/USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll. The Mavericks earned 46 first-place votes in this week’s rankings. Spots two through seven remain the same as a week ago, with Minnesota, Denver, Michigan, North Dakota, Quinnipiac and Western Michigan ranked, respectively. Minnesota, Michigan, Denver … Read more

Who’s in the NCAAs, who can get in, who needs help; let’s talk Hobey: Weekend Review college hockey podcast Season 4 Episode 23

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Hockey East selects Metcalf, conference races stay hot, PairWise odds: Weekend Review college hockey podcast Season 2 Episode 19

Hosts Jim Connelly, Derek Schooley, and Ed Trefzger look at this past weekend’s games and news.

This podcast is sponsored by DCU – Digital Federal Credit Union – at dcu.org

Topics include:

• Good quarterfinal/semifinal weekend for the top teams

• Some teams had their seasons come to an abrupt end

• NCAA picture is getting clearer

• A few teams are rooting for Minnesota State and Quinnipiac

• Let’s talk Hobey

• NCAA brackets and attendance issues

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ECAC Hockey names Quinnipiac’s Metsa best defensive defenseman, Clarkson’s Tsekos best defensive forward for 2021-22 season

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ECAC Hockey has announced that Quinnipiac senior Zach Metsa is the winner of the 2022 best defensive defenseman award and Clarkson graduate student Zach Tsekos has won the best defensive forward award. Metsa is just the second Bobcat in program history to earn this award, and the first since 2013, while Tsekos has won his … Read more

Harvard scores three late goals to force OT before Jack Donato wins it in OT, 4-3, over Rensselaer; No. 5 North Dakota survives, 2-1, against Colorado College; RIT scores game’s only goal in OT for 1-0 win over SHU

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Jack Donato redirected a shot two minutes into sudden-death overtime to complete one of the craziest comeback for Harvard, which scored three goals in the final four minutes of regulation to force overtime in a 4-3 win over RPI (Photo: Edward Jacobs/Team Shred)

Hockey East announces trio of all-star teams for 2021-22 season with Northeastern placing three players on first team

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Hockey East announced Friday its 2021-22 men’s all-star teams as voted by the league’s 11 head coaches. First-Team All-Stars G: Devon Levi, Northeastern D: Jordan Harris, Northeastern D: Scott Morrow, Massachusetts F: Aidan McDonough, Northeastern F: Bobby Trivigno, Massachusetts * F: Ryan Tverberg, UConn Second Team All-Stars G: Owen Savory, UMass Lowell D: Declan Carlile, … Read more

Previewing BC at Northeastern, BU at UConn with voice of Hockey East on NESN Tyler Murray: Game of the Week college hockey podcast Season 4 Episode 19

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No. 8 UMass home-and-home vs. No. 14 UMass Lowell preview with Minutemen head coach Greg Carvel: Game of the Week college hockey podcast Season 2 Episode 20

Hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by the voice of Hockey East on NESN Tyler Murray to preview Boston College at No. 11 Northeastern and No. 16 Boston University at UConn in single-elimination quarterfinal contests.

Also previewed are three other matchups to be featured in USCHO’s Bettor’s Edge column this week:

• No. 10 Minnesota Duluth at No. 9 St. Cloud State

• Penn State at No. 2 Minnesota

• No. 8 Notre Dame at No. 4 Michigan

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This Week in Atlantic Hockey: With conference playoffs down to eight teams, battle for NCAA tournament autobid heating up this weekend

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The opening round of the Atlantic Hockey tournament consisted of a pair of sweeps, one by the favorites and one by an underdog. At Mercyhurst, the story was Lakers goaltender Kyle McClellan who stopped 74 of 76 Holy Cross shots he faced in a pair of 2-1 wins. At Niagara, Bentley got a pair of … Read more

ECAC Hockey recognizes 18 players on three all-league teams for 2021-22 season

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ECAC Hockey has announced its three all-league teams for the 2021-22 season. FIRST TEAM ALL-LEAGUE Forward: Alex Campbell, So., Clarkson Forward: Mathieu Gosselin, Jr., Clarkson Forward: Nick Abruzzese, Jr., Harvard Defenseman: Zach Metsa, Sr., Quinnipiac Defenseman: Sam Malinski, Jr., Cornell Goaltender: Yaniv Perets, So., Quinnipiac SECOND TEAM ALL-LEAGUE Forward: Zach Tsekos, Gr., Clarkson Forward: Ture … Read more

This Week in NCHC Hockey: Even with No. 1 seed in conference tournament, Denver not taking Miami lightly this weekend in opening round of playoffs

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For as much as coaches and players talk about how brutal NCHC campaigns are, it comes as a surprise that only now, in Year 9 of its existence, the conference has crowned split regular-season champions. That quirk was news to Denver coach David Carle, whose Pioneers earned on Saturday a share of the Penrose Cup … Read more