Saturday’s play in the NCAA DI Men’s Hockey Tournament lacked the drama of Friday’s upsets, but provided some dramatic moments in some of the games. North Dakota Narrowly Wins Sporting their NCAA-compliant, but rather less interesting uniforms, North Dakota took an early 1-0 lead on a Michael Parks wrap-around goal from behind, and held on…

Michigan may well have made history yesterday as they entered as the #1 regional seed, and lost to the #4 regional seed, for the second time in a four year stretch.  Painful memories, hoped to be forgotten, of the embarassing 2009 shutout loss to an unranked Air Force team, were fully refreshed in the Michigan…

Ferris State and Denver fought through a scoreless first period today in the opening game of the Midwest Regional in Green Bay, WI., but Ferris State’s Jordie Johnston scored the lone second period goal to put Ferris State up, 1-0.  Early in the third period, Ferris State’s freshman defenseman Simon Denis, of Burnaby, B.C. (pictured…

Union College kicked off the 2012 NCAA DI Men’s Hockey Tournament today with a convincing win over Michigan State in the East Regional in Bridgeport, CT.  Union’s Max Novak struck first late in the first period, and Union’s Jeremy Welsh then made it 2-0 early in the second.  Michigan State’s Matt Berry scored on a…

Yes, that’s right, the pool deadline has been extended to 9am Pacific Time on Friday, March 23rd, so, time is running out to submit your picks for this year’s pool — we will probably accept entrants until 11:30am on Friday.  If you can’t find your bracket, check your email inbox — it was sent out Monday night,…

In general the top ranked teams came out on top in conference championships over the weekend, but not all of them.  In the WCHA, a red hot North Dakota team sliced through two of three opponents like butter, having trouble with St. Cloud State in the opener, which was a play-in game to get to the semifinals. …

Last weekend’s tournament play featured three upsets in the second round of the CCHA tournament, and the first round of the Hockey East and WCHA tournaments.  None of these, mind you, were upsets I had picked last week, and furthermore, none of the upsets I picked last week happened!  First off, Ferris State lost two…

This is a rare second-edition-in-one-week for The Update, but I thought it would be worth it for two reasons:  1) To have a brief, and first-ever, discussion of the CCHA, ECAC, Hockey East, and WCHA tournaments — specifically on the subject of upsets this weekend; and 2) To post and make available to you all John…

Last weekend some of the top twelve teams went out and dispatched their opponents, but others had some difficulties in closing the season out.  This couldn’t be more true than in the case of Minnesota-Duluth and their two game weekend with the Huskies from St. Cloud State.  Friday night was really St. Cloud’s as they…

I think it was right here that you read last week, that with the schedules coming up, BC could well end the regular season ranked #1, and this week they are, after crushing Providence over the weekend, scoring ten goals in two games, and holding the Friars scoreless for two games — no details needed…