1980 Olympian, Gold Medalist, former Wisconsin Badger, and member of the 1977 NCAA Championship Team Bob Suter died today, September 9, 2014. It makes me sad to think that any one of the heroes from that Olympic team has already died.  But in his lifetime he notched an achievement on a scale that very few…

This week there was a startling discovery in 2014 College Hockey Update Pool Winner Erin Toohey’s hasty move out of the country.  A handwritten letter was found among her belongings marked “College Hockey Update.”  We provide the text of this letter: Dear College Hockey Update:  I have decided to leave the country and forgo the…

In a night of an avalanche of offense, Minnesota got on the board early, only three minutes into the game, when freshman Justin Kloos flipped in a rebound that was botched by Union goalie Colin Stevens.  This was a crazy, frenetic game from the get-go, with the teams racing up and down the ice, firing…

This game featured attack after attack, only to be turned away by the solid, no, make that brilliant play of the two goalies.  With the game knotted at 0-0 after two periods, it was starting to look like one of those that ends in triple overtime.  But after two and a half periods in this…

What a great game to open the NCAA Tournament semifinals today in Philadelphia!  Two great teams going at it, throwing everything they had out on the ice against the other guys.  Whew! Boston College got on the board immediately after they made their first line change, putting their top line on the ice.  Bill Arnold…

A truly great sports event, one of the very best, kicks off tomorrow Thursday, April 10th, at 2PM Pacific Time when #3 Boston College faces #1 Union College in the first semifinal game of the Frozen Four in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  At 5:30pm Pacific Time, #13 North Dakota faces #2 Minnesota in the second semifinal game. …

First of all, thanks for being in the pool.  Forty of us, what a good crowd! Now, down to brass tacks here.  We have a huge proportion of people who took highly ranked teams all the way through, and a huge proportion of people who, as a result, have the Frozen Four intact, or three…

Tonight #2 Minnesota seemed to just have a little bit more from the start in this one, and with nine minutes remaining in the first, they scored to take a 1-0 lead over #8 St. Cloud State, and that’s how the first period ended — no, not exactly — the first also ended with Minnesota…

#3 Boston College scored first on #5 UMass-Lowell with seven minutes remaining in the first, and UMass-Lowell came back five minutes later to tie it up, 1-1.  The two teams played to a stalemate from that point until the end of the second, when BC scored with two minutes left in the second, but again…

In the five games after the Union win yesterday, the higher ranked team won them all, except for North Dakota’s upset of Ferris State. Second note:  I did not count an entry in our pool that I didn’t realize I had received.  We actually have a total of forty entrants in the pool this year,…