College Hockey Update:  Welcome back college hockey fans!  First off I’d like to welcome our new subscriber this year, David Warner, who played on two consecutive NCAA Hockey Championship Teams at Boston University in 1971 and 1972, and who was captain of the 1973 BU team.  So . . . . welcome! College Hockey is…

College Hockey Update:  In a private Awards Ceremony, surrounded by family and friends, 2013 Pool Winner Nick Cruz was awarded the Prize Tuesday night, April 16th, in San Jose, California.   “Oh, we couldn’t be prouder,” boasted his father, Richard Cruz, “but I just wish my picks had come through and I were awarded that coveted…

College Hockey Update:  What an amzing NCAA Tournament run by Yale, and what an amazing tournament we had this year!  Yale came into the tournament only because Notre Dame beat Michigan in the CCHA Championship game, knocking Michigan out of the NCAA  tournament; had Michigan beaten Notre Dame, they would have been in the tournament, and Yale…

College Hockey Update:  I’m embarrassed to announce the first ever College Hockey Update Pool scoring error.This is how I caught it: Every year I get the totals after the first twelve games and I announce them. Then I double check everyone’s totals, from the beginning, after the semifinal games.  In all these years I have never…

College Hockey Update:  In another fast, furious, and attacking semifinal game yesterday, Quinnipiac seemed to gang up on St. Cloud State from the get-go.  By the time the game was five minutes old, Quinnipiac had struck twice for the 2-0 lead.  Early in the game it was Jordan Samuels-Thomas, a sophomore forward from West Hartford, CT,…

College Hockey Update:  How many ways can you say fast?  It doesn’t matter how many you can come up with, I think that they would all apply to the Yale team that is just flying through the NCAA tournament.  By fast, I would mean you really, really have to keep your eyes on the game at…

One of the greatest events in sports kicks off tomorrow, Thursday, April 11th,  at 1:30pm Pacific Time, when #15 Yale faces #3 UMass-Lowell in the opening semifinal game of the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  I am actually writing this on Tuesday the 9th, but it’s late enough that I am betting readers won’t actually see…

Union College might not know exactly what hit them.  Quinnipiac unloaded on Union fast and furious in the person of Matthew Peca, who scored three goals in three minutes, midway through the first period.  Union was able to contain Quinnipiac for the rest of the first, which ended 3-0, Quinnipiac.  And Union was able to…

Surrendering an early goal to the supposedly vaunted likes of North Dakota yesterday, Yale fell behind 1-0 when Corban Knight scored midway through the first period.  Yale played the next forty seven minutes as if their lives were at stake, outshooting North Dakota 25 to 16 in the first two periods, as North Dakota held Yale…

#1 Quinnipiac found itself in a fight for its playoff life yesterday, as Canisius College came out looking for a fight with guns ablazing.  Quinnipiac did get on the scoreboard first as Connor Jones scored midway through the period, but Canisius kept a lid on Quinnipiac for the remainder of the period, and the first…