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The Last Time Quinnipiac Lost?
College Hockey Update: Last weekend provided one matchup among the top fifteen teams as #8 Miami of Ohio and #12 Wisconsin met up and Wisconsin took the first game, shutting out Miami by a 2-0 margin. Miami fought through a closer second game, and prevailed, 3-2, and the teams held their positions in the rankings. Elsewhere, …
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What’s Up At Providence College?
College Hockey Update: Last weekend nearly all the top ten teams faced another top ten team, and we had another couple of matchups from the bottom half of the top twenty. So let’s start with a scorcher, as #1 Minnesota took a beating and suffered their first loss of the season at the hands of #4…
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What’s a St. Cloud, Really?
College Hockey Update: What an eventful weekend we just had with so many top-twenty matchups. Right off the bat, St. Cloud State swept North Dakota, at North Dakota, sending St. Cloud up six spots to the #3 ranking, and dropping North Dakota down six spots to the #11 ranking. You might ask what’s a St. Cloud? …
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Where Was Last Week’s Report?
College Hockey Update: Oooooops. I didn’t get to this until late yesterday afternoon, and I didn’t post it. So this report is not an interim report for this weekend, but is a report of last weekend’s (October 25-27) results. I’ll get back on track next week. So last weekend we had some great top twenty…
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Welcome A New Reader — HOCKEY!
College Hockey Update: Welcome back college hockey fans! First off I’d like to welcome our new subscriber this year, David Warner, who played on two consecutive NCAA Hockey Championship Teams at Boston University in 1971 and 1972, and who was captain of the 1973 BU team. So . . . . welcome! College Hockey is…
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Prize Awarded to Pool Winner
College Hockey Update: In a private Awards Ceremony, surrounded by family and friends, 2013 Pool Winner Nick Cruz was awarded the Prize Tuesday night, April 16th, in San Jose, California. “Oh, we couldn’t be prouder,” boasted his father, Richard Cruz, “but I just wish my picks had come through and I were awarded that coveted…
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Yale Makes It Yale’s Year
College Hockey Update: What an amzing NCAA Tournament run by Yale, and what an amazing tournament we had this year! Yale came into the tournament only because Notre Dame beat Michigan in the CCHA Championship game, knocking Michigan out of the NCAA tournament; had Michigan beaten Notre Dame, they would have been in the tournament, and Yale…
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First Ever Pool Scoring Error
College Hockey Update: I’m embarrassed to announce the first ever College Hockey Update Pool scoring error.This is how I caught it: Every year I get the totals after the first twelve games and I announce them. Then I double check everyone’s totals, from the beginning, after the semifinal games. In all these years I have never…
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Quinnipiac Blasts St. Cloud State
College Hockey Update: In another fast, furious, and attacking semifinal game yesterday, Quinnipiac seemed to gang up on St. Cloud State from the get-go. By the time the game was five minutes old, Quinnipiac had struck twice for the 2-0 lead. Early in the game it was Jordan Samuels-Thomas, a sophomore forward from West Hartford, CT,…
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Has Anyone Seen Yale, Really?
College Hockey Update: How many ways can you say fast? It doesn’t matter how many you can come up with, I think that they would all apply to the Yale team that is just flying through the NCAA tournament. By fast, I would mean you really, really have to keep your eyes on the game at…