College Hockey Update:   Last week presented six top twenty matches, starting with Denver holding on to the #1 ranking after traveling east and beating both Boston University and Boston College; this is just the beginning of the story of the woes of BU and BC.  Minnesota moved up two spots to #5 after hosting…

College Hockey Update:  Last week presented a couple of top-twelve matchups, as North Dakota hosted Minnesota; Minnesota took Friday night 2-1, and North Dakota came back strong for the 4-0 win Saturday night.  North Dakota held at #4 in the poll and Minnesota edged up a spot to #7.  Clarkson copied North Dakota as it…

College Hockey Update:  It’s upon us, the season of the greatest sport, and in a flash, College Hockey Update will turn on the presses.  Forget all the nonsense that try to parade themselves as important sports.  The world series?  Are you serious?  Odds are you won’t read about them here, except as a truly rare…

College Hockey Update:  In the last post I said that something would have to give in the final game, given the different styles of play each team had exhibited in the first three games of the NCAA Tournament, and I was sort of right and I was sort of wrong; something gave from each team,…

College Hockey Update:  Well here we go, the big one,  the University of Minnesota at Duluth and the University of Denver, two teams that collectively occupied the #1 ranking for most of the season, have each earned a shot at the NCAA Championship and will meet up in Chicago tomorrow, Saturday, April 8th, at 5:00pm…

College Hockey Update:  Well it’s here; one of the best, best events in sports kicks off tomorrow, Thursday, April 6th, at 3:00pm Pacific Time, in Chicago, when #3 Minnesota-Duluth faces #2 Harvard in the first Frozen Four semifinal game, followed at 6:30pm Pacific Time by #1 Denver facing #12 Notre Dame in the second semifinal…

College Hockey Update:  Thanks for being in the pool; with 46 participants, this is the second most we’ve ever had, two more than the 44 in 2015, but two short of last year’s 48 participants.  With a couple of upsets, one quarter of the bracket was just bombed over the weekend, but I’m sure that…

Notre Dame Outlasts And Ousts UMass-Lowell In Grinding Game In a game very similar to the Duluth/Boston game a day earlier, Notre Dame and Lowell played a grinder of a game yesterday.  Notre Dame scored first on a Lowell turnover twelve minutes into the first period when a pass found Cam Morrison in the slot…

Minnesota-Duluth Outlasts And Ousts Boston In Battle Of The Squeakers Saturday night’s game between two teams that each squeaked by their first round opponents was a grinder.  For the most part this game was about what wasn’t happening on the ice more so than what was.  Both teams played pretty good defense in the neutral…

College Hockey Update:  Minnesota dominated yesterday’s late game in Manchester, NH, for the first thirty minutes, out-shooting Notre Dame fourteen to nine in the first period, scoring on a Connor Reilly goal only two minutes into the game, and scoring on a Vinni Lettieri goal only a minute into the second period, to establish a 2-0…