The total attendance across six leagues and 16 ticketed sessions was off 27 percent from 2013. That’s even considering there were three more sessions this season than there were last year.
Here are photos from Saturday’s WCHA Final Five championship game in Grand Rapids, Mich., where Minnesota State beat Ferris State.
Brett Stern and Brett Knowles each scored his first goal of the season for the Mavericks
Jayson Moy gives his picks for the field of 16 and where they’ll play in the regional round.
Here are photos from the WCHA Final Five semifinals on Friday in Grand Rapids, Mich., where Minnesota State beat Bowling Green and Ferris State beat Alaska-Anchorage.
The senior goaltender came on in the third period and allowed only the overtime goal to Ferris State.
The Falcons had eight power-play goals in their last six games but the Mavericks shut them down and scored a short-handed goal.
The WCHA Final Five is upon us with an entirely different look compared to year’s past. In essence, it’s become almost a cross between the CCHA’s old Super 6/championship weekend at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit and the Final Five we all came to love and cherish at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, … Read more
We’re gearing up for our biggest coverage weekend of the season, with not only conference championships being decided in Division I men’s hockey but NCAA titles on the line in Division III and at the women’s Frozen Four.
The WCHA Final Five shifts to Grand Rapids, Mich., after 15 years in the Twin Cities.
The NCAA tournament field of 16 will be announced on Sunday.
Here are three things I think I learned from the first round of the WCHA playoffs, with the Final Five weekend on deck. The scrapped Alaska Plan was actually really entertaining There were a lot of unhappy people in the summer of 2012 when the WCHA announced Alaska and Alaska-Anchorage would play in the first … Read more
It’s playoff time, and there are some intriguing matchups to kick off the WCHA tournament. The fact that the first round pits former CCHA teams against leftover WCHA teams (following the league’s breakup) adds to the interest. But the tournament is bigger than bragging rights. A trip to the Final Five is on the line, … Read more
The four series all match a team new to the league this season against one that’s been around for a while.
WCHA awards We were disappointed to learn last week that the WCHA scrapped tradition and shut the media out of this year’s vote for league awards. All that research and number crunching down the tubes, right? Wrong! Matt and I put our lists together, shuffled some things around, played some rock-paper-scissors and finally came to … Read more
With Alaska-Anchorage’s 3-1 victory over rival Alaska in Fairbanks this evening (or morning depending where you are), the first round of the WCHA playoffs has been set. Ferris State won the WCHA outright via a sweep of Lake Superior State while Minnesota State only took three of four points from Michigan Tech. The Bulldogs and … Read more