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UMass head coach Greg Carvel on this year’s Minutemen, staying at the top: USCHO Spotlight Season 5 Episode 3

October 27, 2022October 19, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by Massachusetts head coach Greg Carvel, talking last weekend’s sweep of then-No. 1 Denver, staying at the top of D-I college hockey, this year’s Minutemen, and this coming weekend’s games with Union.

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USCHO Spotlight Live: Saturday 4-6 p.m. ET at the 2019 NCAA Frozen Four in Buffalo

April 13, 2019 by USCHO Podcasts

Hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are live from (716) Food and Sport inside Harborcenter, 7 Scott St.

Saturday’s broadcast features Hockey Humanitarian Award recipient Jake Bunz, Hockey East commissioner Joe Bertagna, WCHA commissioner Bill Robertson, College Hockey Inc. executive director Mike Snee, ECAC Hockey commissioner Steve Hagwell, and a preview of the championship game with Matt Wellens of the Duluth News Tribune and Andrew Mahoney of the Boston Globe.

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USCHO Spotlight Live: Friday at the Frozen Four with ESPN’s Buccigross, Melrose, UMass coach Carvel 6:30-8:00 p.m. ET

August 24, 2020April 12, 2019 by USCHO Podcasts

Hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are live from (716) Food and Sport inside Harborcenter, 7 Scott St.

Friday’s broadcast includes live audio of ESPN’s annual fan event with John Buccigross and Barry Melrose, along with their guests, including Massachusetts head coach Greg Carvel.

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USCHO Spotlight Live: Thursday 1-3 EDT at the 2019 Frozen Four in Buffalo

April 11, 2019 by USCHO Podcasts

Hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are live from (716) Food and Sport inside Harborcenter, 7 Scott St.

Thursday’s live broadcast includes a discussion on rules and officiating with Steve Piotrowski and Frank Cole, NCHC commissioner Josh Fenton, the Big Ten’s Brad Traviolia and a preview of the semifinal games with beat writers from Providence, Minnesota Duluth, Denver, and Massachusetts.

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USCHO Spotlight Live: Wednesday 4-6 EDT at the 2019 Frozen Four in Buffalo

April 10, 2019 by USCHO Podcasts

Hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are live from (716) Food and Sport inside Harborcenter, 7 Scott St.

Wednesday’s live broadcast includes Atlantic Hockey commissioner Bob DeGregrio, Zig Fracassi from Sirius/XM radio, Niagara coach Jason Lammers, ESPN’s Chris Peters, College Hockey Inc. deputy executive director Nate Ewell, and veteran college hockey writer Neil Koepke.

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NCAA D-I Men’s Frozen Four in the Spotlight with Minnesota Duluth’s Scott Sandelin, plus highlights from the coaches news conference

August 24, 2020April 2, 2019 by USCHO Podcasts

UMD players celebrate after winning the Midwest Regional final (2019 Omar Phillips)

With the NCAA D-I men’s Frozen Four just nine days away, hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger catch up with the coach of the defending national champs, Minnesota Duluth’s Scott Sandelin. We also feature some highlights from the NCAA Frozen Four coaches news conference that included Denver’s David Carle, Massachusetts’ Greg Carvel, and Providence’s Nate Leaman.

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Massachusetts/Quinnipiac preview with Bobcats coach Rand Pecknold: USCHO Game of the Week episode 9

December 6, 2018 by USCHO Podcasts

This week’s USCHO Game of the Week is No. 1 Massachusetts visiting No. 8 Quinnipiac, with a return match at UMass on Saturday. Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold joins us for a preview.

Ed Trefzger and guest co-host Dan Rubin also look ahead at some other key games, including:

No. 5 Notre Dame at No. 9 Penn State for a weekend series in the Big Ten;

A long time rivalry series as No. 16 Clarkson is home and home with St. Lawrence;

A big weekend for Merrimack with No. 10 Providence and No. 13 Northeastern visiting;

A couple of key weekend series in the NCHC with No. 6 Denver at No. 14 North Dakota, and Omaha at No. 2 St. Cloud State;

Plus a non-conference series as No. 19 Arizona State visits Princeton.

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Carvel, Gadowsky to guest on March 6 installment of USCHO Live!

August 24, 2020March 6, 2018 by USCHO Podcasts

(THOMAS KENDALL/THOM KENDALL FOR UMASS ATHLETICS)

Our guests on the March 6 edition of USCHO Live! are Massachusetts coach Greg Carvel, whose Minutemen won a three-game series at Vermont to advance to take on No. 7 Northeastern in the Hockey East quarterfinals, and Penn State Guy Gadowsky, whose No. 12 Nittany Lions move on to the Big Ten semifinals against No. 5 Notre Dame after a weekend sweep of then-No. 11 Minnesota.

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Fighting for those final playoff berths

February 1, 2011 by David H. Hendrickson

A week ago, Jim surveyed the NCAA tournament chances of Hockey East’s top teams. This time let’s look at those schools with the more modest immediate goal of just making the league playoffs. Who’s going to make it and who isn’t? The top six spots are pretty much locked up, albeit with the order still very … Read more

Hockey East Week in Review: Nov. 30-Dec. 5

December 6, 2010 by Jim Connelly

It was a weekend (well, week for some) of highs and lows for Hockey East teams with a few surprise outcomes along the way. We’ll start out with a mention of the most surprising results, in this author’s mind, of the weekend and that’s Boston College’s dominating sweep of Boston University. With BU giving a … Read more