Women’s D-I: WCHA

Snow causes postponements at Minnesota, Minnesota State

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A major snowstorm moving through Minnesota has postponed three games scheduled for Saturday. Minnesota has postponed Saturday’s men’s game against Minnesota-Duluth and women’s game against Ohio State because of a snowstorm in the Twin Cities. Both games have been rescheduled for Sunday, the school announced. The men’s game will begin at 4 p.m. CST, while … Read more

Kolls makes North Dakota family

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She was grafted by the marriage of her brother into North Dakota hockey royalty. Even so, there were still a few family secrets that Madison Kolls was not yet privy to. Such as the traditional games of shinny fought out by the six hockey-playing Lamoureux siblings out on the frozen pit behind the house in … Read more

Wisconsin remains top team in women’s poll

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There is not much change in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll as the top five teams remain the same as last week, with Wisconsin on top having garnered all 15 first place votes. Cornell, Minnesota-Duluth, Mercyhurst and Boston University round out the top five in that order. Minnesota, up a notch to No. … Read more

Wisconsin still No. 1 in women’s poll

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Not much change in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll as Wisconsin is still perched atop the poll and the next five spots remain the same as last week. At the bottom, Minnesota jumps from No. 8 to No. 7, North Dakota flip-flops with Minnesota and Ohio State stays in the ninth spot. Harvard … Read more

Wisconsin stays at No. 1 in women’s poll

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Wisconsin remained atop the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll on Monday after sweeping No. 10 Ohio State over the weekend. Cornell remained at No. 2 after opening its season with two wins against Robert Morris. Little changed from the previous week. Minnesota-Duluth and Mercyhurst switched places, with the Bulldogs climbing to No. 3, and Boston … Read more

Erin Cody a force for Bemidji State

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Erin Cody can be glad she wasn’t born any time before 1988.You can bet her Bemidji State teammates are thankful for that, too. After all, she would have missed playing her senior season in the gleaming new Bemidji Regional Events Center. And they would have missed her contribution to what proved to be a most … Read more

Badgers climb to top spot in women’s poll

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Wisconsin is the new No. 1 team in the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll released today. The Badgers take over the top spot from Mercyhurst, which falls to No. 3. Cornell stays in the second spot, while Minnesota-Duluth comes in at No. 4 and Boston University rounds out the top five. The top four teams … Read more

Regulation wins worth 3 points this year in women’s WCHA

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The WCHA women’s league is moving to a three-point system for league games this season. That means that a regulation win will be worth three points instead of two. Both teams get one point for being tied after a five-minute overtime, and the winner of the ensuing shootout gets an extra point. That’s the same … Read more

Minnesota-Duluth Favored to Win Women’s WCHA

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Defending national champion Minnesota-Duluth is the pick of WCHA coaches to win the women’s league title in 2010-11. The Bulldogs, who tied Minnesota for last year’s regular-season title, claimed six of eight first-place votes from the coaches, who could not vote for their own team. Wisconsin got the other two first-place votes and came in … Read more

Duluth Gets 2012 Women’s Frozen Four

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The NCAA has awarded the 2012 Women’s Frozen Four to Duluth, Minn., and the new Amsoil Arena. The arena, scheduled to open in the middle of the 2010-11 season, is set to hold 6,600 fans for hockey. It is being built next to the DECC, which hosted the Women’s Frozen Four in 2003 and 2008 … Read more

Granato to be One of First Two Women in Hall of Fame

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Cammi Granato, three-time ECAC Player of the Year, two-time Olympian and 15-year member of the U.S. Women’s National Team, was today announced as one of the first two female members in the 65-year history of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Granato will be formally inducted into the Hall on Nov. 8 as part of the … Read more

Icing Rule Gets Icy Reception

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The rule proposal was released, the coaches were repulsed and that’s it, right? Wrong. Nothing is finished in the case of the controversial proposed change to the icing rule. Brian Sullivan reports on how we got to this point and what comes next.

Former Bethel Men’s Coach Reteams with Frost at Minnesota

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University of Minnesota women’s hockey head coach Brad Frost has announced the hiring of Joel Johnson as an assistant coach. Johnson, who was the head coach of the Bethel University men’s hockey team, returns to the Gopher staff where he was an assistant coach during the Golden Gophers’ 2000 and 2004 national championship runs. He … Read more

Contact to Head Crackdown Among Rules Changes

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The NCAA is getting tough on contact-to-the-head penalties and getting creative in an effort to promote scoring when it comes to other rules changes. Contact to the head will result in a major penalty and either a game misconduct or game disqualification under proposals by the NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee unveiled Friday. The proposals … Read more