Women’s D-I in general
The playoff picture is a little clearer this week, but there’s still a lot hinging on the final weekend of conference tournament games. The NCAA Selection Show takes place Sunday at 9 p.m. EST, and there’s still plenty of uncertainty about who will be included in the final eight teams and where they will be … Read more
Candace and Arlan review last week’s playoff results, try to figure out where upsets might happen this weekend, and also review the list of nominees for the Patty Kazmaier Award and who is likely to capture it.
The USA Hockey Foundation on Thursday announced the top 10 finalists for the 2017 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. The honor is bestowed annually upon the top player in NCAA Division I women’s hockey, and this year will be unveiled at a brunch ceremony at Foundry Arts Centre in St. Charles, Mo., on Saturday, March 18, … Read more
Division I women’s hockey has seen the addition of four teams in the past six seasons — Lindenwood in 2011, Penn State and RIT in 2012, and Merrimack in 2015. Lindenwood and RIT has been playing Division III hockey before making their teams Division I. Penn State added men’s and women’s hockey Division I hockey … Read more
No league had more questions to resolve heading into the final weekend of its schedule than ECAC Hockey, with uncertainty at the top, bottom, and in the middle.
“As an athlete, you have the opportunity to make your community a better place,” says Quinnipiac senior Mika Nervick, a finalist for the 2017 Hockey Humanitarian Award.
Starting Feb. 20, members of the greater amateur hockey community will come together to raise funds for Hockey Coaches Care by raffling off a 2016 Ryder Cup hockey jersey. This raffle will be a unique opportunity to highlight the many people HCC assists while raising funds to support HCC’s important mission. The Ryder Cup jersey … Read more
All too soon, the seemingly endless regular season comes down to one final weekend. Months of work can be decided by a single game, period, or play. The final weekend of the season might not bring a ton of suspense for the top spot in each of the conferences, but there are plenty of battles … Read more
With the conference champions all but decided, Candace and Arlan look at the races for home ice seeding in each conference, possible playoff matches, the races for points leaders in conferences, the announcement of the Patty Kazmaier Award initial list, and why certain programs are always near the top while others languish.
ECAC Hockey today announced due to the snowstorm hitting the Northeast, the following schedule changes have been made for men’s and women’s games this weekend: MEN – (games now to be played Saturday and Sunday instead of Friday and Saturday) Saturday, Feb. 11 Yale at Cornell – 7 p.m. Brown at Colgate – 7:05 p.m. … Read more
Minnesota Duluth senior forward Lara Stalder has been named the inaugural Women’s Hockey Commissioners’ Association National Division I Player of the Month, earning the historic honor for January 2017 after producing an NCAA-best 2.67 points-per-game and a plus-16 rating. Princeton freshman goaltender Steph Neatby, who led the Tigers to a 5-0-1 record last month, which … Read more
The Wisconsin Badgers have been the no. 1 program in the country every week of this season. They head into the final two weekends facing No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth and No. 4 Minnesota, the only two teams to beat them this season. Though it’s a daunting path to the postseason, Wisconsin coach Mark Johnson likes that … Read more
Candace and Nicole look at the surprising results from the ECAC over the weekend, the Beanpot final and consolation games, analyze the races in the WCHA and Hockey East, the importance of goal differential, and discuss possible Patty Kazmaier candidates.
The Women’s Hockey Commissioners Association announced Tuesday the creation of the Women’s Hockey Commissioners Association National Monthly Awards, to be given to the nation’s top collegiate women’s hockey player and rookie each month of the season beginning in the 2017 calendar year. The inaugural award winners, deemed to be the top player and best rookie … Read more
Though she continues to break record after record, Wisconsin goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens would rather talk about her teammates and their goal of winning a national championship, reports Nicole Haase in a special to USCHO.
In Cornell coach Doug Derraugh’s first NCAA appearance, a reporter asked him about his team’s “risky” style of play. It’s a moment that’s stuck with him ever since. He wouldn’t characterize the Big Red’s style as risky, though he admits that he does try to play an aggressive brand of hockey. Cornell wants to play … Read more
Arlan and Nicole look at the separation at the top, why some middle-tier teams like North Dakota, Cornell, and Boston University can beat top teams while losing to lesser ones, and look at where some likely upsets might come in the conference tournaments.
How does a team that was undefeated until the national championship game and graduated some of the best players to ever play the game return the following season and find a way to not dwell on what happened before? By all accounts, it’s been a successful season for the Boston College Eagles. They’re ranked sixth … Read more
Candace and Nicole look at some of last weekend’s surprising results and whether that changes a possible NCAA tournament field, the likely finishing order of teams in all the conferences, and preview next week’s Beanpot tournament.
Minnesota senior forward Dani Cameranesi had season-ending ankle surgery this week, a source has told USCHO.com. The school did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Cameranesi left the Gophers’ Dec. 3 game against Wisconsin after an awkward fall along the corner boards. She returned to the ice on Jan. 13 at Minnesota-Duluth, but appeared … Read more