College Hockey Update:  Last weekend presented one matchup of top ten teams, and North Dakota got the better of Denver on Friday night; Saturday night was different as Denver was determined to avoid being swept, and the two fought it out to a tie.  North Dakota edged up to the #1 spot, and Denver held…

College Hockey Update:  Last week/end presented one matchup of a top ten team facing another ranked team, and Boston University ran up an early score against UMass-Lowell, stifled a late UMass-Lowell rally, holding it to a couple of goals, and then scored late on UMass-Lowell to take a convincing win.  BU held at #3 on…

College Hockey Update:  Last week presented three top-ten matchups, starting with #2 North Dakota playing two at #4 Nebraska-Omaha, and Friday night UNO jumped out to a 1-0 lead late in the first, and added one to make it 2-0 early in the second; on the ropes in the third, North Dakota rallied to net…

College Hockey Update:  Last weekend featured five matchups between top ten teams and other ranked teams; let’s start with the North Star College Cup, as it contains three of these teams. Mankato State started out by beating Minnesota on Friday night, while Minnesota-Duluth was upended by Bemidji State; that set up a Saturday night championship…

College Hockey Update:  This is a rare second edition in a single week for College Hockey Update, but we have some big news from Friday night’s games, as well as an important announcement, and accompanying instructions, for our readers.  Well, what happened in that crazy North Star College Cup? #1 Mankato State easily handled #17 Minnesota by…

Nebrasaka-Omaha freshman forward Avery Peterson, of Grand Rapids. MN, scored a goal in Friday night’s 3-4 loss, then scored two goals and added an assist in Saturday night’s 4-1 win, both against Colorado College. College Hockey Update:  Last weekend featured one top ten matchup, and Boston University needed overtime to squeak past UMass-Lowell on Saturday…

College Hockey Update:  Well last week’s headline was “Three Top Ten Teams Tested,” and this week’s version could have been be “six top ten teams routed.”  And, last week I went on to say that the next week’s  three matchups that included top-ten ranked teams “should all be killer matchups,” and my forecast on those three…

COLLEGE HOCKEY UPDATE:  Last weekend gave us a peak at what had been mentioned in our last post — “tests” of top ranked teams in the form of games against other ranked teams — and one of them was the Mariucci Classic in Minneapolis, in which UMass-Lowell defeated Merrimack College in the championship game, lifting…

Last weekend (and play that continued into this week) featured one top ten team facing a ranked team, and things didn’t go too well for #10 Vermont as they were shut out by #16 Providence Monday night at Vermont in the second round of the Catamount Classic.  Vermont had beaten the Air Force Academy the…

Last weekend featured, and I mean featured center stage, one single matchup for two games, and an exhibition game as well, and #12 Nebraska-Omaha had Alabama-Huntsville down 2-0 with time running out in the third Saturday night, when the Chargers added an extra attacker and netted one with eleven seconds remaining, but taking the 2-1 loss. …