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Last weekend featured three top-twenty matchups, and UMass-Lowell continued on its solid start to the season with a win and a tie against Quinnipiac, lifting the River Hawks a couple of spots to #7, and dropping the Bobcats down a couple to #15.  Quinnipiac went on to lose to Connecticut on Tuesday night, after the poll…

Welcome back college hockey fans!  And let’s welcome a new reader, Nick Powell, a Clarkson Golden Knight, who is filled with great college/hockey stories, including:  His college girlfriend spoke up to the coaching staff that cheering at Clarkson was not organized, and soon ended up as the Golden Knight herself — the mascot. Many top…

1980 Olympian, Gold Medalist, former Wisconsin Badger, and member of the 1977 NCAA Championship Team Bob Suter died today, September 9, 2014. It makes me sad to think that any one of the heroes from that Olympic team has already died.  But in his lifetime he notched an achievement on a scale that very few…

This week there was a startling discovery in 2014 College Hockey Update Pool Winner Erin Toohey’s hasty move out of the country.  A handwritten letter was found among her belongings marked “College Hockey Update.”  We provide the text of this letter: Dear College Hockey Update:  I have decided to leave the country and forgo the…

In a night of an avalanche of offense, Minnesota got on the board early, only three minutes into the game, when freshman Justin Kloos flipped in a rebound that was botched by Union goalie Colin Stevens.  This was a crazy, frenetic game from the get-go, with the teams racing up and down the ice, firing…

This game featured attack after attack, only to be turned away by the solid, no, make that brilliant play of the two goalies.  With the game knotted at 0-0 after two periods, it was starting to look like one of those that ends in triple overtime.  But after two and a half periods in this…

What a great game to open the NCAA Tournament semifinals today in Philadelphia!  Two great teams going at it, throwing everything they had out on the ice against the other guys.  Whew! Boston College got on the board immediately after they made their first line change, putting their top line on the ice.  Bill Arnold…

A truly great sports event, one of the very best, kicks off tomorrow Thursday, April 10th, at 2PM Pacific Time when #3 Boston College faces #1 Union College in the first semifinal game of the Frozen Four in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  At 5:30pm Pacific Time, #13 North Dakota faces #2 Minnesota in the second semifinal game. …

First of all, thanks for being in the pool.  Forty of us, what a good crowd! Now, down to brass tacks here.  We have a huge proportion of people who took highly ranked teams all the way through, and a huge proportion of people who, as a result, have the Frozen Four intact, or three…

Tonight #2 Minnesota seemed to just have a little bit more from the start in this one, and with nine minutes remaining in the first, they scored to take a 1-0 lead over #8 St. Cloud State, and that’s how the first period ended — no, not exactly — the first also ended with Minnesota…