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2012 World Juniors Preview: Team America
The buzz is building about this tournament in the United States of America. The tournament now has a long term broadcast partner in the NHL Network, the team is competitive every year, and the tournament has been played in North America the past four years, allowing for a maximum television...
2011 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament: Boston College Vs. Colorado College Game Links And Notes
Game on! Making the internet rounds for today's NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and BC's 9 PM game against Colorado College. Boston College News and Notes CC takes on storied hockey program in first round (Colorado Springs Gazette)"We look at it as one trophy at a time," BC captain Joe Whitney...
2011 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament: West Regional Preview
A region-by-region look at this year's 2011 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, starting in the East and working our way west. Last, but certainly not least: The West Regional in St. Louis. The Bracket No. 4 Colorado College vs. No. 1 Boston College*No. 3 Nebraska-Omaha vs. No. 2 Michigan Location:...
U20 World Junior Championships Preview: Team USA
This is not uncharted territory for the USA U20 team. They are the defending champions with the tournament being held in their country, much like they were in 2005 in Grand Forks. That previous time, however, saw an extraordinarily stacked Canadian team (thanks to the NHL lockout) steal all the...
McCabe Leaves Omaha
Nebraska-Omaha forward Andrew McCabe has left Nebraska-Omaha, and will likely be looking to transfer to a different school. The blog article linked above mentions that the timing is interesting given that Andrew's brother Jake, who was being recruited by UNO, recently chose to commit to Wisconsin....
Last Second Linkorama
Wisconsin wants to end the College Hockey Showcase by adding Ohio State to the mix and cramming this possible Big Ten Hockey Conference down our throats. Can't we all just be happy with the TV deals God gave us? They also want to schedule more cupcakes to help satisfy the NCAA's poorly thought-out...
2009-2010 CCHA Season Preview
Alas, here is your preview for the CCHA. I've got the teams finishing like this: <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas />...
Trev Alberts: Bringing the "Nebraska Way" to Nebraska-Omaha
Many people dismissed the idea of Tom Osborne being anything but an interim "hold-down-the-fort" athletic director when he returned to Nebraska after the failure of Steve Pederson. Of course "just a football coach" has since turned out to be a pretty darn good athletic director in reversing...
Hastings Leaves Minnesota for UNO
It's being reported that Minnesota assistant coach Mike Hastings will leave Minnesota to become Dean Blais' top assistant at Nebraska-Omaha. The move is a bit surprising, but Blais is 58 years old and has insinuated that he might only be around 4-5 years. Hastings is now set up to take over the...
UNO to WCHA Quicker Than Expected?
There's an interesting twist to the story about Dean Blais being hired as the new head coach at Nebraska-Omaha. Former Minnesota SID, and editor of Let's Play Hockey magazine Kevin Kurtt is reporting on his blog that UNO moving to the WCHA was part of the negotations to get Blais to agree to a...
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