After crushing Alaska Anchorage Friday night 4-1 on the back of J. T. Brown’s first period hat trick, and his fourth period fourth goal of the night, then slipping Saturday night and losing to A-A 3-2, having entered the third down 2-0, Minnesota-Duluth took a surprising drop in the polls from #1 to #3.  Meanwhile, Boston…

Wow, what a weekend for the upstarts!  Let’s begin with a determined bunch from Houghton, on the UP, who travelled to Duluth to take on the #1 team in the land, UMD.  Friday night UMD dropped the hammer on Michigan Tech early and often, closing out the first with a rousing dousing of goals — four…

It’s getting to that time in the season when any streaks a team might be going on could have quite an impact on whether or not they make it to the NCAA tournament, and if they do, how strong of an opponent they might get in the first round.  So let’s start with a marquee…

Two top matchups yielded two sweeps as #10 Michigan crushed #5 Ohio State, and #8 Western Michigan swept #7 Notre Dame last weekend.  Michigan?  #10?  Where did that come from?  Well, Michigan has been winning a whole lot of games lately, after taking a dive for a stretch that took them entirely out of the…

Some great games last weekend!  #1 Minnesota-Duluth swept Western Michigan.  Friday night Western Michigan scored first in the first, and UMD came back with one in the second, but it was all UMD in the third with three goals to prevail 4-1.  Saturday night was almost the same game, with each team scoring one in…

The St. Lawrence Saints tied #7 Merrimack in a blazing 6-6 game last weekend.  Merrimack went on to beat Holy Cross, and to hold on the the #7 ranking.  Elsewhere, I can briefly report on the “Lefse/Kringle” game between #5 Notre Dame and #10 Boston University.  Bust!  Boston University looked like they were trying to…

Well ok, we had no games played last weekend; things got rolling again last night with top fifteen teams in eight games, and five ended in upsets.  Let’s start with the Great Lakes Invitational — #14 Michigan State took the early game over Michigan Tech 3-1, leading throughout.  In the late game, #3 Boston College…

While last weekend was light on college hockey action, there was the marquee matchup of #11 Union travelling to play #5 Merrimack.  This was a tough defensive game, especially by Union, throughout.  With about six minutes remaining in the first, Merrimack found itself double-shorthanded, and surrendered a goal that Union’s Daniel Carr made off of a…

Boston University Hockey was hit with a bomb as it has permanently dismissed its leading scorer, Corey Trivino, of Toronto, because of sexual assault charges, while under the influence of alcohol, filed against him Sunday night of this week.  Because of two previous alcohol-related behavioral problems, Coach Jack Parker had placed Trivino on notice at…

Last weekend was a wild one, with Providence sweeping Merrimack, and knocking them down from #1 to #5 in the rankings, and introducing Providence to the top twenty at #20.  Merrimack also beat Vermont Wednesday night, after the poll came out.  In addition the weekend saw the continued surge of Minnesota-Duluth, as they swept Michigan Tech,…