College Hockey Update:  Last weekend presented five pairs of top twenty matchups, and one rematched last April’s NCAA Championship duo, Providence College and Boston University, which yielded two ties on the weekend.  Friday night in Providence, Mark Jankowski broke the scoreless tie on a power play with about seven minutes remaining in the second, to…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend presented a couple of top twenty matchups, and Nebraska-Omaha bounced back with a big sweep over Minnesota-Duluth, lifting UNO up a couple of pegs to #6, and dropping UMD down seven spots to #13.  Harvard and Yale skated to a tie, and Harvard held at #7 (they went on to…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend presented a handful of top twenty matchups, and Boston College got the better of Denver on Friday night, nudging BC up to #3 in the rankings. Denver then lost to Boston University on Saturday night, and the weekend dropped Denver four spots to #9; BU dropped to #11, as their…

College Hockey Update:  Howdy College Hockey Fans!  It’s back, the greatest show on earth.  College Hockey started a few weekends ago, and it’s time we fired up the ol’ College Hockey Update engine. In the only matchup of top fifteen teams last weekend, Quinnipiac swept St. Cloud State, sending Quinnipiac (which had beaten Maine earlier in the…

College Hockey Update:  2014 College Hockey Update Pool Winner Erin Toohey has at long last been united with her trophy sweatshirt; this union was only made possible by the gallant efforts of Super Dad, The Honorable Richard F. Toohey, who made the selfless sacrifice of a 450 mile drive north to hand deliver the Garment…

College Hockey Update:  This one nearly had a headline that read “BU Gives Away NCAA Championship,” but that seemed a little too unfair to Providence, seeing how they won the game. The ESPN SportsCenter story on the NCAA Championship opened with these words, “A stunning and heartbreaking loss by Boston University in the NCAA .…

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…