College Hockey Update:  Last weekend featured a matchup of two top ten teams that knocked one out of the top ten, and another matchup of a top ten team with a team that jumped into the top ten on the results of that matchup; first, Minnesota-Duluth held onto the #1 ranking after they swept St.…

College Hockey Update:  Last week featured one top ten matchup and Minnesota-Duluth swept North Dakota, lifting UMD to #1, and knocking North Dakota down a couple of spots to #3.  Elsewhere, Denver swept Western Michigan, edging Denver up to #2, Boston College moved up three pegs to #5 as they notched three wins over Merrimack,…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend featured one top-ten matchup of teams that are still in the top ten, and one in which a team was knocked out of the top ten and one rose into the top ten; first, Boston University knocked of Quinnipiac Saturday night, 3-0.  BU jumped up four spots to #4 (they…

This is a warning shot that The College Hockey Update is about to begin, probably . . . . next week.  So don’t get all sidetracked by these second rate amusements with names such as NFL Football, The World Series, College Football, The NBA, College Basketball,  and The NHL.  Not even the Minnesota Curling Association…

College Hockey Update:  The University of North Dakota completed a powerful run through the 2016 NCAA Hockey Tournament last night with a suffocating 5-1 win over Quinnipiac. North Dakota had solid victories over the field’s mid-ranked teams and nothing changed when they met #1 ranked Quinnipiac.  North Dakota started out the tournament with a 6-2…

College Hockey Update:  North Dakota outlasted Denver in a gritty, initially defensively-dominated, see-saw battle in the second game of the Frozen Four semi-finals last night in Tampa, Florida.  The first period was really an odd duck of a hockey game, with only four shots on goal taken by each team. But in the second, North…

College Hockey Update:  Quinnipiac prevailed in a close-quartered battle over Boston College in the first semifinal game of the Frozen Four today in Tampa, Florida.  From the get-go, Quinnipiac applied pressure to BC every second BC handled a puck, particularly when BC picked up a puck in their own zone. Quinnipiac defended, covered,  and blocked passes,…

College Hockey Update:  One of the very best events in all of sports kicks off tomorrow, Thursday, April 7th, at 2PM Pacific Time, in Tampa, when #6 Boston College faces #1 Quinnipiac in the first semifinal game of the Frozen Four, followed at 5:30pm Pacific Time, by #3 North Dakota facing #7 Denver in the second semifinal…

College Hockey Update:  Thanks for being in our pool.  Wow — 48 — quite a crowd. A couple of upsets over the weekend might have stymied the performance of your picks, or bracket. But I know that any disappointment you may have will be heavily outweighed by your joy from watching the tournament, and by…

College Hockey Update:  Quinnipiac handled UMass-Lowell Sunday in Albany, NY, after a first period in which UMass-Lowell had controlled the pace of the game for most of the period.  Lowell’s Dylan Zink put his team up 1-0 on a power play goal about three minutes into the game, although Quinnipiac came around late in the…