Nicole Haase (@NicoleHaase) and Todd Milewski (@ToddMilewski) are joined this week by Wisconsin leading scorer Kirsten Simms. Plus a look back at the final weekend of January, discussion of how to consider goalies who are part of a rotation for awards and a mention of the PairWise Rankings. Read more on last season’s changes to … Read more
Northeastern won its 19th Beanpot with a 2-1 overtime win over Boston University on Tuesday in front of 10,633 at TD Garden. Nicole Haase (@NicoleHaase) and Todd Milewski (@ToddMilewski) talk about the championship game and welcome the nation’s leading scorer, Colgate’s Kalty Kaltounková, to the show to talk about her time with the Raiders, her … Read more
Welcome to what I hope will become a regular feature of the women’s DI coverage at USCHO – a podcast! Consider this a pilot – or a tester episode – of the USCHO women’s hockey podcast (We need a better name than that. Please, please suggest a better name than that). There’s so much that … Read more
LIU won their first league title and the conference’s first automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament last season. They are the preseason favorite, but Saint Anselm and Stonehill both look poised to make it a tough fight until the end of the season. The Sharks saw a number of players enter the transfer portal and … Read more
The Division I women’s hockey season is just about five weeks away. It was another busy offseason with a lot of movement through the transfer portal as well as coaching changes. Most every team in the country has experienced changes on their roster beyond graduation and incoming freshman classes. There are also a number of … Read more
It’s conference tournament championship weekend and by Sunday at lunchtime, we’ll know which 11 teams are heading to the NCAA Tournament this season. The ECAC and WCHA still have semifinal games left, while the other three conferences have played everything but the title game. The whole sport shifted their postseason schedules a bit this year … Read more
The New England Women’s Hockey Alliance announced its major end-of-season awards on Friday and also unveiled its all-NEWHA teams, all-rookie team and all-sportswomanship team. Saint Anselm’s Kelly Golini was named player of the year and LIU’s Paula Bergström was tabbed as the league’s defender of the year. Golini becomes the first from Saint Anselm to … Read more
There are three weeks left of the regular season, but many teams will either take a bye week or play non-conference opponents in that time, meaning for some teams, they have just four games in which to make their final play for seeding in postseason tournaments. There are tight races in every conference, even if … Read more
It’s about to be the new year and the second half of the season. Teams have about two months and around 15 games to put themselves in the best position for the postseason. With that in mind, I’ve come up with some New Year’s resolutions for each program to propel them into the final eight weeks of the regular season.
The women’s team competing for Team USA at the World University Games in Lake Placid January 11-22 is set. Coach Brandon Knight’s squad consists of 23 players. Thirteen are currently enrolled in college – 10 at the Division I level, three from Division III schools. The ten 2022 graduates on the roster are split evenly … Read more
The Hockey Commissioners Association has announced the four women’s college hockey award winners for Nov. 2022. Vermont’s Natalie Mlýnková and Saint Anselm’s Kelly Golini are co-players of the month, while Union’s Riley Walsh is rookie of the month and Yale’s Pia Dukaric is goaltender of the month. Mlýnková took over the UVM lead in scoring … Read more
St. Cloud State at (1) Ohio State After a scoreless first period, Sophie Jaques scored 15 seconds into the second to put the Buckeyes up 1-0. Gabby Rosenthal made it 2-0 just a couple of minutes later, but Klára Hymlárová cut the lead to 2-1 all before four minutes had passed. In the third, rookie … Read more
The history books continue to be written in NEWHA as the conference starts its season with a new defending champion in Franklin Pierce and a new member institution in Stonehill. This will be the first season that the winner of the conference tournament will receive an autobid into the NCAA tournament. The preseason coaches poll … Read more
Franklin Pierce, the reigning NEWHA postseason champion, has been voted by the league’s coaches as the preseason favorite in advance of the 2022-23 season, according to the poll of the league’s head coaches. The NEWHA postseason champion in 2022-23 will receive an automatic qualifying bid to the 2023 NCAA tournament, earning that privilege via the … Read more
ECAC Tournament Princeton vs. Yale Yale advanced to their first-ever ECAC championship game with a 3-1 win on Friday. Mia Coene scored right away in the first to put Princeton on the board first. It took more than a period for the Bulldogs to respond. When they did, it was a redirection from Emma Seitz … Read more
The Hockey Commissioners Association has announced the women’s players of the month for Feb. 2022. Minnesota’s Taylor Heise and Northeastern’s Maureen Murphy share player of the month honors, while Saint Anselm’s Tyra Turner is rookie of the month and Quinnipiac netminder Corinne Schroeder has been named goalie of the month. Heise continued her torrid pace … Read more
The NCAA Selection Show is at 9 pm eastern on ESPNews. Before then, we have to find out who receives the conference auto-bids and how the Pairwise will shake out. The CHA already completed their tournament last weekend. Syracuse took the title and is waiting to find out where they’ll play. The NEWHA tournament finishes … Read more
The New England Women’s Hockey Alliance announced Tuesday its major end-of-season awards on Tuesday and also unveiled its all-NEWHA teams. Nominated and voted on by the league’s coaches, players from the six schools were honored for their accomplishments on the ice during the 2021-22 campaign. In addition to the two all-NEWHA squads, the league’s all-rookie … Read more
It’s very difficult to try and parse the small bits of info gathered through fits and starts last season to prognosticate what might shake down in this conference this season. Most of the rosters have had significant turnover since the abrupt end of the 2019-20 season and no one knows how the time off will … Read more
Saint Anselm has announced the hire of Vinnie Ferrainola as a full-time assistant coach for the women’s hockey team. Ferrainola comes to the Hawks from Robert Morris, where he served as the director of hockey operations for the Colonials’ women’s hockey team from October 2020 through May 2021. “I am very excited to welcome Vinnie … Read more