College Hockey Update

  • Where Do You Stand In Our Pool?
    Where Do You Stand In Our Pool?

    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…

  • Minnesota Dominates St. Cloud
    Minnesota Dominates St. Cloud

    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…

  • Boston College In Frozen Four
    Boston College In Frozen Four

    #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…

  • Favored Teams, N Dakota Advance
    Favored Teams, N Dakota Advance

    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,…

  • Union Advances To Frozen Four
    Union Advances To Frozen Four

    Union College scored once in the first, and once in the second to take a 2-0 lead into the third period against #10 Providence.  Providence had been near the goal all game long, and with five minutes remaining, they scored to make it a 2-1 game.  Yet only a minute later, Union scored a back-breaker…

  • N Dakota, Providence In Upsets!
    N Dakota, Providence In Upsets!

    The final two games in yesterday’s NCAA Tournament ended in two upset wins. #13 North Dakota  Slips By #4 Wisconsin North Dakota scored early, five minutes into the first, to take a 1-0 lead, and Wisconsin came back to tie it up, and the first ended 1-1.  In the second, North Dakota again took the…

  • Ferris State Squeaks By Colgate
    Ferris State Squeaks By Colgate

    #6 Ferris State scored  a power play goal midway through the first period in opening round action in Cincinnati, and that was all it took as they beat #12 Colgate 1-0.  Ferris State advanced to play tomorrow, Saturday the 29th at 3:30pm Pacific Time on ESPNU, against the winner of tonight’s game between #4 Wisconsin and #13 North Dakota.  Today’s…

  • Union Crushes Vermont
    Union Crushes Vermont

    The NCAA Tournament got underway in Bridgeport, Connecticut, at 11:00am Pacific Time today when #14 Vermont took on #1 Union College and Max Novak and Matt Hatch each scored two goals for Union College.  Union got on the board early with a short-handed goal, four minutes into the first.  Nine minutes later, Vermont tied it at one, but…

  • NCAAs Here — Send Me Your Picks!
    NCAAs Here — Send Me Your Picks!

    College Hockey Update:  Ok, first things first, and this is important — I have emailed you your 2014 NCAA bracket; please open it immediately, make your picks, and email your picks back to me in a single typed line as my picks appear here including the score of your final game: 1.Minn 2.St. Cloud 3.Ferris 4.Wisc…

  • What Happened To BC, St. Cloud?
    What Happened To BC, St. Cloud?

    College Hockey Update:  Last weekend provided fourteen teams in top-twenty matchups including #1 Minnesota splitting with Michigan in the last weekend of Big Ten regular season play, edging Michigan up to #12, and a very big one as Notre Dame edged up to #11 after taking two of three from Boston College in Hockey East tournament play,…

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