Wednesday Women: Considering conference tournaments
Nicole and Arlan breakdown the first round of ECAC, Hockey East and WCHA conference tournaments and talk about who might be named a Patty Kazmaier finalist.
Nicole and Arlan breakdown the first round of ECAC, Hockey East and WCHA conference tournaments and talk about who might be named a Patty Kazmaier finalist.
Wisconsin eked out a tie to win the WCHA regular season crown outright and the NEWHA conference tournament was historic in more ways than one.
Clarkson and Boston University play for fractions of a point in the Pairwise while Wisconsin tries to hold off Minnesota to win the WCHA.
The ECAC, Hockey East and NEWHA regular season champs have been crowned, but there’s still a lot to be decided in the final weekend of the regular season.
Wisconsin looks to rebound against Ohio State, Clarkson hopes to solidify their spot in the national conversation with a win over Princeton and Robert Morris and Mercyhurst faceoff for the top spot in the CHA.
With four weeks of games left to play in the regular season, Nicole looks at the likely final standings of each Division I conference.
Top-seeded Wisconsin swept (2) Minnesota while four different players tallied hat tricks.
(10) Harvard plays at (7) Clarkson while Vermont looks to trip up (3) Northeastern and Colgate visits (4) Cornell.
Top-ranked Wisconsin was upset by Bemidji State while Clarkson fell to Yale and Cornell tied Union.
Boston College has lost four straight and looks to avoid a sweep against the Hockey East leaders Northeastern while Princeton hopes having a full roster helps them take down Harvard.
This is the second part of a mid-season check in on each Division I women’s team. The first part can be found here. Arlan: In some ways, I find ECAC Hockey to be the most interesting conference. You and I are both more familiar with the WCHA, and an argument can be made that the … Read more
Cornell and Boston University had emphatic wins over ranked opponents to close out the first half and head into the winter break.
(10) Minnesota Duluth at (1) Wisconsin The Badgers are on a twelve game unbeaten streak against the Bulldogs dating back to 2016. Wisconsin has been dominant in this series at home and UMD hasn’t won in Madison since 2010. The Badgers are 15-0-2 at home against UMD since then. Minnesota Duluth is 8-6-2 on the … Read more
(2) Wisconsin took two wins in Nashville, Quinnipiac won the Nutmeg Classic and Clarkson took home the Winjammer in this weekend of tournaments.
Nicole and Arlan talk about international tournaments, ECAC upsets and what happened to Wisconsin in Minnesota last weekend in this week’s Wednesday Women.
Minnesota handed Wisconsin their first loss and Kelly Browne’s four goals helped lead BC to a 9-0-1 start to the season.
(1) Wisconsin visits (2) Minnesota and (6) Princeton travels to (3) Cornell this weekend.
(8) Robert Morris at (5) Cornell and (2) Minnesota at (9) Ohio State highlight the weekend slate of games in women’s Division I hockey.
Heading into the final weekend of regular season play, the ECAC was so close that four different teams had a chance to win the crown. Though we knew which eight teams would make the conference tournament, not one team had a seed locked down. Over the course of the long season, the final standings came … Read more
Candace and Nicole review the results from the first weekend of playoff action, one where all the higher-seeded teams advanced, look at potential upsets, such as Ohio State beating Wisconsin or Minnesota Duluth beating Minnesota, delve into the volatility of Hockey East, and look at how the final three nominees for the Patty Kazmaier Award did in the first weekend of postseason action.