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Who’s Going To The Frozen Four?
College Hockey Update: Last weekend presented a slate of six of the top fifteen teams playing each other, and Mankato State had a great weekend, earning a tie and a win over Michigan Tech; the results further cemented Mankato’s #2 ranking, and Michigan Tech edged down to #4. Elsewhere, Miami of Ohio scored a bunch…
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Who Will Win the WCHA Title?
College Hockey Update: Last weekend gave us a couple of great top-twelve matchups, starting with Miami hosting Minnesota-Duluth, and Friday night’s game was a tense as it gets, with each team scoring early, and then stalemating for about forty minutes of play, waiting for a shoe to drop; Miami held a slight edge in shots on…
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Which Teams Are Hottest Now?
College Hockey Update: Last weekend presented one matchup of top ten teams, and North Dakota got the better of Denver on Friday night; Saturday night was different as Denver was determined to avoid being swept, and the two fought it out to a tie. North Dakota edged up to the #1 spot, and Denver held…
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Can Anyone Really Stop Mankato?
College Hockey Update: Last week/end presented one matchup of a top ten team facing another ranked team, and Boston University ran up an early score against UMass-Lowell, stifled a late UMass-Lowell rally, holding it to a couple of goals, and then scored late on UMass-Lowell to take a convincing win. BU held at #3 on…
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Northeastern Now Out Of The Bag?
College Hockey Update: Last week presented three top-ten matchups, starting with #2 North Dakota playing two at #4 Nebraska-Omaha, and Friday night UNO jumped out to a 1-0 lead late in the first, and added one to make it 2-0 early in the second; on the ropes in the third, North Dakota rallied to net…
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Any Seniors In College Hockey?
College Hockey Update: Last weekend featured five matchups between top ten teams and other ranked teams; let’s start with the North Star College Cup, as it contains three of these teams. Mankato State started out by beating Minnesota on Friday night, while Minnesota-Duluth was upended by Bemidji State; that set up a Saturday night championship…
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It’s National Irish Coffee Day?
College Hockey Update: This is a rare second edition in a single week for College Hockey Update, but we have some big news from Friday night’s games, as well as an important announcement, and accompanying instructions, for our readers. Well, what happened in that crazy North Star College Cup? #1 Mankato State easily handled #17 Minnesota by…
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Are The Saints ECAC Spoilers?
Nebrasaka-Omaha freshman forward Avery Peterson, of Grand Rapids. MN, scored a goal in Friday night’s 3-4 loss, then scored two goals and added an assist in Saturday night’s 4-1 win, both against Colorado College. College Hockey Update: Last weekend featured one top ten matchup, and Boston University needed overtime to squeak past UMass-Lowell on Saturday…
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How Did UNO Jump Up Five Spots?
College Hockey Update: Well last week’s headline was “Three Top Ten Teams Tested,” and this week’s version could have been be “six top ten teams routed.” And, last week I went on to say that the next week’s three matchups that included top-ten ranked teams “should all be killer matchups,” and my forecast on those three…
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Three Top Ten Teams Tested
COLLEGE HOCKEY UPDATE: Last weekend gave us a peak at what had been mentioned in our last post — “tests” of top ranked teams in the form of games against other ranked teams — and one of them was the Mariucci Classic in Minneapolis, in which UMass-Lowell defeated Merrimack College in the championship game, lifting…