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Another week, another No. 1 goes down, Quinnipiac-North Dakota didn’t disappoint: Weekend Review college hockey podcast Season 4 Episode 4

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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. Topics include:

• The curse of No. 1 – Michigan becomes the third team to lose a game after being picked No. 1 in the USCHO men’s Division I ice hockey poll;

• What do we make of Western Michigan?

• Was anyone surprised that Minnesota Duluth got the sweep against Minnesota?

• The Quinnipiac/North Dakota series lived up to the hype;

• Providence makes a comeback to beat Denver and then downs New Hampshire;

• Boston College recovers from a loss to Colorado College to beat the Pioneers;

• Bill Riga (Holy Cross) and Kris Mayotte (CC) get their first wins as head coaches;

• St. Thomas gets its first D-I win;

• And … who are the biggest surprises thus far this season?

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Monday 10: Potential for new No. 1-ranked team, Long Island homecoming, Ivy League ready to get back on ice

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Each week, USCHO.com will pick the top 10 moments from the past weekend in our Monday 10 feature. 1) Another new No. 1? Friday night marked a seismic event for the national radar when No. 1 Michigan lost 5-2 to a 17th-ranked Western Michigan squad at home at Yost Ice Arena. Five different players scored … Read more

USCHO BETTOR’S EDGE: Week 3 features plenty of games between top-20 opponents and more difficult choices for USCHO’s staff

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Notre Dame (+190) became the first significant underdog from this column to earn a victory last Friday, knocking off Michigan Tech on the road, 2-1 in overtime. Michigan (+120), which was a slight underdog on Friday against host Minnesota Duluth last Friday in the IceBreaker semifinal, handling the Bulldogs with ease, 5-1, before taking home … Read more

This Week in CCHA Hockey: Blasi ‘extremely happy with the progress we’ve made’ at St. Thomas in first weeks on ice as D-I program

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After some time away, there’s one thing Rico Blasi noticed about the familiar rinks of the CCHA. “The smell is still the same,” the first-year St. Thomas coach joked in a phone interview Tuesday, reflecting on his team’s recent road trips to Northern Michigan and Lake Superior State. Blasi, who played at Miami in the … Read more

This Week in ECAC Hockey: Quinnipiac hosting North Dakota, spectators Friday, Saturday as ‘the place is going to be rocking both nights’

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A matchup between two top-10 teams is noteworthy enough on its own, but there’s a little extra buzz in this weekend’s matchup between No. 6 North Dakota and No. 7 Quinnipiac. For the first time in nearly 20 months, there will be fans at Frank Perrotti Jr. Arena when the Bobcats host the Fighting Hawks … Read more

Previewing No. 6 North Dakota at No. 7 Quinnipiac with writer Brad Schlossman: Game of the Week college hockey podcast Season 4 Episode 3

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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 Grand Forks Herald college hockey writer Brad Elliot Schlossman to preview a great east-west series as No. 6 North Dakota visits No. 7 Quinnipiac.

We also preview No. 8 Denver at No. 12 Providence and No. 10 Boston College, No. 17 Western Michigan at No. 1 Michigan, and No. 5 Minnesota Duluth at No. 4 Minnesota.

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This Week in Hockey East: Internal goalie competition can only help Merrimack, according to Borek

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Don’t call it a goalie controversy. Because Merrimack coach Scott Borek doesn’t see it that way. With sophomore Zachary Borgiel and freshman Hugo Ollas sharing time between the pipes so far this season for the Warriors (2-2-0, 0-1-0 Hockey East), Borek said competition at the position can only be a positive for his club. “I … Read more

This Week in Atlantic Hockey: Transfers already making a difference for conference teams in early going of ’21-22 season

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The new NCAA rule allowing transferring players a one-time exemption from having to sit out a year has had a sweeping impact on college hockey this season. When combined with an extra year of eligibility due to COVID-19, we saw an unprecedented number of players changing teams this past offseason. At one time, there were … Read more

Bentley’s Ryan Soderquist on this year’s Falcons, transfers, Atlantic Hockey: USCHO Spotlight college hockey podcast Season 4 Episode 4

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Hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by Bentley head coach Ryan Soderquist, fresh off the Falcons’ 6-2 win over then-No. 6 Boston College. Topics include how this year’s team is coming together, the transfer portal, Atlantic Hockey, and the overall college hockey landscape.

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This Week in NCHC Hockey: After false positive during 2021 NCAA tournament, St. Cloud State doing ‘everything we possibly could to make sure we can play’ this season

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Plenty of talk surrounded Michigan and St. Lawrence earlier this year, when COVID-19 cases saw those teams withdraw from the 2021 NCAA tournament before it began. Those moves soon became public information. What wasn’t public at the time of the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh, though, was that St. Cloud State briefly worried over a false … Read more

This Week in Big Ten Hockey: Upcoming Minnesota series with NCHC’s Minnesota Duluth should be ‘just good hockey teams going against each other’

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Minnesota hasn’t played an in-state rival for conference points since March of 2013, but in the middle of back-to-back series against St. Cloud State and Minnesota Duluth, it feels like we’ve been transported back a couple years. The Gophers and Bulldogs will face off in a home-and-home bout this weekend with Friday’s game being played … Read more

With vaccinations varying across the college hockey community, most schools, leagues helping make this a normal season while still in a COVID world

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Even before the puck dropped on the opening weekend of the 2021-22 season, college hockey felt the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The season-opening series between Alaska and Minnesota scheduled for Oct. 2-3 in Minneapolis was postponed to mid-January because of COVID protocols that involved Tier 1 individuals associated with the Alaska program. Tier … Read more

IceBreaker shows Michigan is the best among several very good teams: Weekend Review college hockey podcast Season 4 Episode 3

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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. Topics include:

• Last weekend’s IceBreaker: How good is Michigan and how good is Minnesota State?

• The North Dakota/Bemidji State series;

• What teams aren’t getting the attention they should?

• Bentley’s upset of then-No. 6 Boston College;

• The controversial ending to Saturday’s OT Minnesota-St. Cloud State game;

• The postponement of the LIU-UMass Lowell series and what it portends for COVID;

• Analysis of this week’s USCHO.com men’s Division I ice hockey poll.

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