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College Hockey Update:  Boston University prevailed in a stomach-churning nail-biter that perhaps shouldn’t have been so difficult, except that the Terriers tried so, so hard to give the game away at the end. BU came out and dominated the first period, keeping play in the North Dakota zone, playing very unlike their “save it ’till…

College Hockey Update:  It was all Providence from the get-go in the first semifinal game of the NCAA Hockey Championships in Boston today.  The first period ended scoreless, but Providence had run a virtual track meet around Nebraska-Omaha, outshooting them 16-9. The second period seemed to pick up right where the first had left off.…

College Hockey Update:  One of the very best events in all of sports kicks off tomorrow Thursday, April 9th, at 2PM Pacific Time when #15 Providence College faces #9 Nebraska-Omaha in the first semifinal game of the Frozen Four in Boston, followed at 5:30pm Pacific Time, by #3 North Dakota facing #2 Boston University in the second…

College Hockey Update:  Thank you for being in our pool  Forty-four entrants is quite a crowd! Now to a “serious” discussion.  A very high proportion of our entrants took very highly ranked teams throughout their brackets, and with all the upsets in the tournament, we have a ton of very cratered brackets, and we have…

College Hockey Update:  After two full periods of total toe-to-toe scoreless, stalemated dogfight play, Nebraska-Omaha freshman forward Jake Randolph found the net with a long slap shot from the point just a minute into the third period.  After that the heat was on RIT, and they played furiously (they outshot UNO eighteen to nine in the…

College Hockey Update:  Providence and Denver played nearly two full periods evenly, tightly, and heavily contesting each other; something had to give, and it did, when Noel Acciari scored for Providence to give them a 1-0 lead, with about six minutes left in the second, which is how the frame ended. The third was a…

College Hockey Update:  Both Boston University and North Dakota won NCAA Regional Championships yesterday, Saturday, March 28th. Boston Squeaks By Minnesota-Duluth 3-2 Late In Game Boston University and Minnesota-Duluth played a very close, tight, nail-biting, nerve-wracking game yesterday, as Boston U was first on the board with a very unconventional goal by the much-overlooked Evan…

College Hockey Update:  Midwest Regional play of the NCAA Men’s Division I Hockey Tournament opened yesterday and ended with RIT making history as the first Tournament #16 seed to ever beat the Tournament #1 seed, by a 2-1 margin over top-seeded Mankato State. The RIT Tigers, resplendent in their bright orange “away” uniforms also brought…

College Hockey Update: Another instant replay took place yesterday as North Dakota easily dismissed Quinnipiac from the NCAA Tournament in the second game of the Western Region in Fargo, ND, last night. North Dakota scored the first three goals before Quininipiac got one on the board to make it a 3-1 game. But North Dakota…

College Hockey Update:  In the second game of the day in the Northeast Region in Manchester, NH, Minnesota-Duluth just hammered Minnesota into submission.  This thing was only close for about fifteen minutes. Duluth scored in the first with about seven minutes left for the 1-0 lead, and then scored again two minutes laster to make it…