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This Week in CCHA Hockey: Minnesota State on mission in postseason as Mavericks ‘want to be in St. Louis’ playing for an NCAA title

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Minnesota State’s first goal is complete. The Mavericks clinched the CCHA’s regular-season title two weeks ago with a sweep of Lake Superior State in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. They celebrated with the MacNaughton Cup in the visitors’ locker room at Taffy Abel Arena, then brought the cup back with them to Mankato, Minn., where they … Read more

This Week in ECAC Hockey: Quinnipiac wins ’24-25 Cleary Cup title, but plenty more hockey left with conference playoffs starting this weekend

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For all the parity, all the times that teams leapfrogged one another and stumbled into each other over the course of a six-month season, the 2024-25 ECAC Hockey season ended without a single team tied with one another. A clean Cleary Cup championship race produced minimal drama on the season’s last day, and Quinnipiac added … Read more

BRACKETOLOGY: Not much change in this week’s men’s hockey bracket, but where will Maine be seeded come March 23?

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Welcome to Week 8 of Bracketology. Each week from now until Selection Sunday on March 23, I will outline the current 16 teams in the men’s NCAA Division I tournament and attempt to seed a bracket based on the current field. Last week, we told you about the possibilities that existed for Penn State, the … Read more

TMQ: It’s conference playoffs time, which means one step closer to the 2025 NCAA men’s hockey tournament

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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. Dan: Another week closer to the NCAA tournament, and another chaotic week of Pairwise juggling in the books. First off, it’s good to get back in the saddle here with good … Read more

Boston College stays No. 1 in March 3 USCHO.com Division I Men’s Hockey Poll, collects 42 first-place votes in newest rankings

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Boston College is again the No. 1 team in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Hockey Poll, getting 42 first-place votes in the latest rankings. Michigan State moves up one to No. 2, collecting six first-place votes, while Minnesota is down one to No. 3, getting one first-place vote, while Western Michigan earned the last first-place … Read more

Monday 10: Minnesota, Michigan State crowned B1G regular-season co-champs, Quinnipiac tops in ECAC Hockey for fifth straight year, AHA playoffs get underway

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Each week, USCHO.com will pick the top 10 moments from the past weekend in our Monday 10 feature. It’s the last full month of the college hockey season, but if its first weekend was any indication, it will be an exciting one. Conference regular-season champions are being crowned and playoff seeding possibilities are endless. All … Read more

SATURDAY COLLEGE HOCKEY ROUNDUP: Minnesota and Michigan State are co-B1G regular-season champs; No. 1 BC beats UNH in shootout; North Dakota upsets No. 4 Western Michigan; No. 5 Maine holds off Vermont

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Mike Koster scored with 3:04 remaining in regulation to break a 3-3 tie and lift No. 2 Minnesota to a share of the B1G regular-season championship Saturday with a 5-3 road win at No. 16 Penn State in University Park, Pa.  “To our guys’ credit tonight, they had no quit in them,” Minnesota coach Bob … Read more

Hockey East suspends Boston College’s Gasseau one game for major slew footing penalty Feb. 28 vs. New Hampshire

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Hockey East announced Saturday that Boston College junior forward Andre Gasseau has been suspended for one game stemming from an incident at the 54-second mark of the third period on Friday, Feb. 28, against New Hampshire. On the play, Gasseau was assessed a major penalty for slew footing and a game misconduct. Gasseau is ineligible … Read more

Boston College, NHL Players Association team up on agreement to enable former NHL players to earn degrees at BC

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The Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College and the NHL Players Association have reached an agreement that will enable current and former members of the NHLPA to complete their education at Boston College through NHLPA UNLMT, providing an invaluable resource for professional hockey players looking to earn college degrees. The agreement was signed … Read more

FRIDAY COLLEGE HOCKEY ROUNDUP: American International keeps season alive, gets OT win over RIT in Atlantic Hockey playoffs; No. 15 Penn State downs No. 2 Minnesota in OT; top-ranked Boston College defeats New Hampshire; No. 19 Clarkson nips No. 13 Quinnipiac in OT

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American International kept its season – and its NCAA Division I tenure – alive Friday night, knocking out RIT 2-1 in overtime to open the Atlantic Hockey America playoffs. Due to a scheduling conflict on AIC’s home ice at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Mass., the game was played at Tate Rink in West Point, … Read more

Huge tilts in Big Ten, NCHC top our slate for money lines, analysis for Feb. 28: USCHO Edge college hockey podcast Season 3 Episode 17

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college hockey money lines over under wagering

USCHO Edge hosts Jim Connelly, Dan Rubin, and Ed Trefzger look at money lines and over/under for six college games on February 28, 2025:

  • Minnesota -220 @ Penn State +170; over/under 6.5
  • Michigan State -250 @ Notre Dame +190; o/u 5.5
  • Northeastern +175 @ UConn -230; o/u 5.5
  • Arizona State -125 @ Omaha -105; o/u 6.5
  • North Dakota +190 @ Western Michigan -250; o/u 5.5
  • New Hampshire +380 @ Boston College -580; o/u 6.5 (our “pizza money” game)
This episode is sponsored by the NCAA Men’s Division I Frozen Four, April 10 and 12 in St. Louis. Get your tickets now at ncaa.com/frozenfour

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This Week in Atlantic Hockey America: Playoffs have arrived with all 11 conference teams in hunt for NCAA tournament autobid

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When the dust settled on the 2024-25 Atlantic Hockey America regular season, no tiebreakers were necessary to determine the playoff seedings: 1. Holy Cross 2. Sacred Heart 3. Bentley 4. Niagara 5. Army West Point 6. Canisius 7. Air Force 8. American International 9. Rochester Institute of Technology 10. Robert Morris 11. Mercyhurst That means … Read more

Minnesota State goaltender Tracy tabbed 2024-25 CCHA student-athlete of the year

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The CCHA has announced that Minnesota State junior goaltender Alex Tracy as the conference’s 2024-25 student-athlete of the year, as voted on by the faculty athletics representatives from each member school. A native of Chicago, Tracy is a finance major with a 3.93 cumulative grade point average. Named to the Dean’s List and CCHA scholar-athlete … Read more

This Week in Big Ten Hockey: Final regular-season weekend means ‘the moment doesn’t care about you; you care about the moment’

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Hockey coaches and players famously embrace both the world of belief and the world of self-determination. They’re a superstitious lot, some more so than others. They can look you straight in the eye and begin a sentence with gratitude for puck luck and finish it with a triumphant declaration of TCB. Never is that dichotomy … Read more

This Week in Hockey East: Maine seniors reflect on turnaround, UMass coach Carvel approaches milestone

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Checking in on a few trends around the league as “Senior Night” season heats up: —Senior forward Nolan Renwick was blunt in his assessment of where the Maine hockey program stood during his freshman season of 2021-22. “We weren’t very good,” Renwick said. “And our record reflected that.” Indeed. Maine finished dead last in Hockey … Read more

This Week in NCHC Hockey: Colorado College planning for ‘a long run’ as Tigers need to ‘win a lot of games to get to where we ultimately want to be’

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Sitting 32nd in the PairWise Rankings, Colorado College isn’t what you’d call a team on the bubble for a NCAA tournament berth this season. But with two regular-season games left, plus however far into the postseason the Tigers get, coach Kris Mayotte wants his squad to look the part. CC’s series split last weekend at … Read more

This Week in CCHA Hockey: Swan song approaching for Ferris State coach Daniels, who says ‘I really enjoyed the heck out of this season’

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Bob Daniels knows his Ferris State team will be opening the 2025 Mason Cup playoffs on the road. Considering how well the Bulldogs seem to have played away from Big Rapids, Mich. — they’re 6-8-0 on the road compared to 5-8-2 at home — that’s just fine with Daniels. “We could finish as high as … Read more

This Week in ECAC Hockey: Sorting out plethora of conference storylines as final weekend of 2024-25 regular season on tap

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Arriving at the last weekend of the regular season is an enjoyable process for me. No, it’s not because I’m finally close to enjoying time off after spending the last five months in full blown college hockey mode (shoutout: the earlier start for half of ECAC Hockey’s teams). It’s not because I’ve spent close to … Read more