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Boston College has spent November ranked as the country’s top team for the first time in the program’s history. Why? There are many reasons, and most of them involve speed and offense. The Eagles’ best-known player is junior forward, captain, and U.S. Olympian Alex Carpenter. Before her Olympic stint last year, Carpenter had a reputation … Read more
Candace and Arlan ponder whether newly ranked Bemidji State is an NCAA contender, whether anyone can stop Boston College in Hockey East, and debate the explosive volatility in the ECAC and CHA.
According to the Grand Forks Herald, North Dakota sophomore forward Lisa Marvin was transported to Altru Hospital on Monday after being rear-ended on the side of a city road. The report states that Marvin’s 1984 Dodge pickup had stalled in the westbound lane of Gateway Drive and she was attempting to fill it with gas … Read more
Last week, Megan Rapinoe and Sydney Leroux, a couple of members of the United States women’s soccer national team, appeared on Fox Sports mixed martial arts series, “The Ultimate Fighter.” Rapinoe told a brief anecdote about meeting fans after a game who would say something along the lines of, “Oh yeah, I brought my daughter, … Read more
Having entered the November portion of its schedule, Maine sits atop the standings in Hockey East. That may not sound all the impressive, given the Black Bears have played five games and nobody else has played more than four. Vermont has only played one conference game, and along with Boston College, has a perfect record … Read more
Candace and Arlan ponder the topsy-turvy results from the weekend, which produced a few very surprising results, and look at how a few conference races are shaping up with a full month of play underway.
For the 2007-08 season, Brian Idalski took over a North Dakota program that had gone winless in the WCHA the previous year. Under Idalski, the team showed some improvement, finishing tied for fifth place in his second year, but its upward climb looked to be a slow one. In the spring of 2009, Grand Forks … Read more
Quinnipiac director of athletics and recreation Jack McDonald will retire in June 2015 after 20 years in that position, according to the New Haven Register. The 63-year-old McDonald reportedly made the announcement at an athletic department staff meeting Wednesday morning. McDonald, a former chairman of the NCAA men’s ice hockey committee, was hired in the … Read more
Candace and Arlan look at dominating wins by Minnesota and Boston College against top 10 opponents and ponder what upcoming roster absences for the Four Nations Cup might do to their college teams.
Kelly Babstock piled up 203 points in her four years and 147 games at Quinnipiac. No other player wearing a Bobcats jersey has ever hit triple digits in a career. During Babstock’s tenure, her team scored 398 goals, meaning she was directly involved in over half of its offense. As is the case with any … Read more
Candace and Arlan look at the results from four series this past weekend that pitted potential NCAA tournament squads against each other, and search for potential Cinderellas among the rest of the teams in the conferences.
Minnesota gained all 15 first-place votes this week to reclaim the top spot in the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll. Wisconsin, which sat No. 1 in the Oct. 13 poll, falls back to No. 2 this week. Boston College vaults to No. 3 this week, swapping places with Harvard. Cornell stays fifth, as does Boston … Read more
Long before there was Hockey East, the WCHA, the CHA, or the NCAA sanctioning a women’s tournament, there was New Hampshire. No program has enjoyed more success over its history, which dates back to 1977-78; the Wildcats have won 735 games with a .724 winning percentage. Only Providence with 670 wins comes close to that … Read more
A spate of ties and a few upsets have Candace and Arlan wondering whether favorites are just experiencing early-season stumbles, or if something more troubling is in the works.
The NCAA has awarded College Hockey America an automatic bid to the 2015 women’s NCAA tournament. “College Hockey America is both thankful and excited that the NCAA has made the decision to award the automatic bid to the women’s ice hockey championships,” said CHA commissioner Bob DeGregorio in a statement. “Our teams and coaches have … Read more
The Rensselaer men’s and women’s hockey teams have each added a volunteer assistant coach for the 2014-15 season. Former Engineers’ standout Marc Cavosie will work with the men’s team, while Robert Cathcart III will be with the women’s program.
The journey to the top of the heap in the NCAA is a long, arduous climb, made more difficult when everyone else has a head start. Penn State is just a weekend of play into its third season of varsity competition, so until Merrimack joins the ranks next season, the Nittany Lions are the newcomers … Read more
A lot of teams enter this season missing key cogs from previous years, but the top teams, such as Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Boston College, seem to be off to a great start regardless, while teams in the rung below, such as Vermont and Bemidji State, made some noise in the first weekend of full action. Candace and Arlan take a look in their first Wednesday Women column.
With 14 first-place votes, Minnesota is again the top-ranked team in the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll. Second-ranked Wisconsin earned the other first-place vote this week. Boston College, Harvard, Cornell and Boston University remain in spots three through six, respectively. Mercyhurst is up two to No. 7 and Quinnipiac is also up a pair to … Read more