USCHO Weekend Review

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the games and news of the past week. At the top of this week's episode, we look at what we learned about the NCHC now that the bubble in Omaha – run without a hitch – is over. Nearly every team has good things to take away from the 38-game confab. Other highlights from the weekend include Bowling Green's road sweep at Quinni...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the games of the past week and a couple of news items. Last week there were four undefeated teams who had seen action, but this week there's one. Minnesota's perfect 8-0 record has the poised and confident Golden Gophers reaching No. 1 in the USCHO.com men's D-I poll. The teams right behind all had one or more losses in the...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the games of the past weekend and news of the week. The top three teams all season in the USCHO.com Division I men's ice hockey poll remain undefeated: North Dakota, Boston College, and Minnesota Duluth. They're joined by a 6-0 Minnesota. In the NCHC Pod, despite an 0-3 record, Denver is playing well and 2-2 Omaha is off to...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the games of the past weekend, including Arizona State's sweep of a depleted No. 14 Wisconsin, Notre Dame's road sweep of No. 4 Michigan, No. 2 Boston College's home-and-home wins over No. 7 UMass, and RIT's come-from-behind win on Friday in a weekend split with No. 9 Clarkson. We also discuss the large number of canceled or...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the games and news of the week, including Michigan's strong start, the NCHC pod arrangements, and the large number of postponed games thus far. Find all of our podcasts at USCHO.com/podcasts

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look back at the first weekend of college hockey for the 2020-21 season. Wisconsin picked up six points in the Big Ten with a weekend road sweep at Notre Dame while Michigan won both ends of a home series against Arizona State. Eight teams have cancelled their 2020-21 campaigns, including the Ivy League as a whole, and others have s...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look back at the weekend of March 5-8, which saw four conferences begin playoffs and two others wrap up their regular seasons. In ECAC Hockey, Princeton's two overtime wins advanced the Tigers past Dartmouth, while it took two overtimes for Yale to advance past Union in the league's only game three. The big surprise in Atlantic Hock...

Playoff fields are set in four conferences after last weekend, while two conferences still have a final week left in their regular season. Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the results of February 27-29, 2020. In Hockey East, Boston College has clinched the regular season and UMass has locked up home ice, but four teams are still battling for the last three...

With only one or two weekends left in conference play, all but Atlantic Hockey – clinched by American International – remain up for grabs for regular season titles. Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look back at a wild weekend of college hockey. In Hockey East, No. 8 UMass and No. 14 UMass Lowell split their home-and-home weekend, while No. 6 Boston College won both...

Hockey East announced today that New Hampshire deputy athletic director Steve Metcalf will become the fifth commissioner of the conference this spring. Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) discuss his hiring. Also in this episode, a look around the conferences and results from the weekend of February 14-16: In the NCHC, a weekend sweep by No. 1 North Dakota over No. 6...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look back at the D-I college hockey weekend of February 7-9, 2020. No. 9 Penn State moves into sole possession of first place in the Big Ten by picking up four of six points against No. 13 Ohio State, while Michigan stayed hot with a sweep of Wisconsin. No. 6 Minnesota Duluth moved to within two points of No. 1 North Dakota in the N...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the games of January 31 and February 1 in college hockey. In the NCHC, Minnesota Duluth swept Denver to keep pace with North Dakota. Notre Dame picked up a big five points on the road against Penn State as only one point separates the top five in the Big Ten. Bemidji State stays on a roll sweeping Bowling Green. In Hockey Ea...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look back at the weekend of January 24-26, 2020, which saw only one top-20 team, Denver, gain a weekend sweep. USCHO.com's Game of the Week was the Friday contest between No. 11 Minnesota Duluth and No. 2 North Dakota, which saw the Bulldogs take the first game of a weekend split in NCHC league play. The Big Ten race remains tight a...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the games of January 17 and 18, 2020. In the NCHC, host Omaha picked up two league points in two ties with No. 4 Denver, No. 1 North Dakota captured five of six points at Miami despite leading for only 2:38 of the weekend, and St. Cloud swept visiting No. 8 Minnesota Duluth. Big Ten action saw Michigan taking five of six poi...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the weekend's top results, including the Game of the Week series that saw Bowling Green take five of six points at Michigan Tech. Also on this episode: Omaha ended a couple of North Dakota streaks with a split, Boston College and UMass won at each other's arena, Michigan swept Notre Dame, Ohio State splits at Wisconsin, Army...

A terrific Fortress Invitational in Las Vegas saw Providence gain the title after a shootout win which followed a 2-2 tie with Cornell, while Ohio State needed overtime to beat Army West Point in the consolation. Host Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) and guest host Dan Rubin (@DanRubin12) look at that tournament as well as Notre Dame and Western Michigan's home-and-home series, Denver's sweep of UMass in...

The host teams prevailed in three holiday tournaments: Minnesota in the Mariucci Classic, Dartmouth in the Ledyard Bank Classic, and Vermont in the Catamount Cup. Host Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) and guest host Dan Rubin (@DanRubin12) look at the results of those three tournaments, as well as Harvard's win over and tie with Arizona State in the SoCal Clash and Army West Point's entry into the top 20...

As college hockey heads into the semester break, hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the big games of December 13-15, 2019, starting with the Game of the Week, a 3-0 shutout of Penn State by Notre Dame, earning the Fighting Irish a weekend split and a win after six straight losses. Also in this episode: Northern Michigan snaps Minnesota State's 10-game winning...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the weekend of December 6-8, starting with the USCHO Game of the Week, which saw No. 15 Providence take the second half of a weekend split with No. 16 UMass Lowell, with both teams winning on the road. Also in this episode: Boston University showed some offense in wins over No. 8 Northeastern and last Tuesday over No. 12 Har...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the weekend of November 28-December 1, starting with No. 2 Cornell's 2-0 win over Boston University at Red Hot Hockey at MSG. We also review No. 1 Minnesota State's sweep of Minnesota Duluth on the road, No. 14 Boston College's win over Harvard to up the Eagles' win streak to seven, sweeps by No. 3 North Dakota and No. 16 Bowl...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the weekend of November 21-23, including Northeastern's sweep of Maine in our Game of the Week, Cornell and Harvard staying unbeaten, and Minnesota State and North Dakota keeping their momentum going. We also note Michigan State's four-point weekend against Notre Dame and splits between Ohio State and Penn State as well as D...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look back at the games of November 14-16, 2019, including Cornell's North Country sweep over Clarkson and St. Lawrence, Notre Dame and Wisconsin's split and how good the Badgers are, Harvard's 6-0-0 start, North Dakota's five-point weekend at Denver, Penn State's two romps at Minnesota, a good comeback after a blowout by Mercyhurst,...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the games of November 7-10, 2019, including Minnesota Duluth's four-point weekend hosting Denver, Notre Dame's sweep of Ohio State, and New Hampshire's 3-1 Sunday win over UMass. Also in this episode: Clarkson and Cornell's two wins setting up their showdown this coming weekend, Harvard's wins over Princeton and Quinnipiac,...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the games of October 31-November 3. Included are Notre Dame's four points at Minnesota, sweeps by UMass, Penn State, Denver, Arizona State, and Northern Michigan, the split between Bowling Green and Minnesota State, Maine's three of four points agains Boston University, and the first shootout in Atlantic Hockey. Jim and Ed a...

Hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at the weekend of October 24-27, including a split between No. 11 Northeastern and No. 14 St. Cloud State, and sweeps by No. 2 Minnesota State, No. 5 Notre Dame, No. 8 Minnesota Duluth, and unranked Northern Michigan and RIT. Plus a quick discussion on whether it's time for the Ivies to play a full 34-game schedule. Find all of...