The total attendance across six leagues and 16 ticketed sessions was off 27 percent from 2013. That’s even considering there were three more sessions this season than there were last year.
Here are photos from Saturday’s games at the NCHC Frozen Faceoff in Minneapolis, where North Dakota beat Western Michigan in the third-place game and Denver beat Miami for the championship.
The Pioneers were the NCHC’s sixth seed and needed the Frozen Faceoff title to make the NCAA tournament.
Jayson Moy gives his picks for the field of 16 and where they’ll play in the regional round.
UND beat Western Michigan in the NCHC third-place game but its NCAA tournament fate was out of its hands.
Here are photos from Friday’s NCHC Frozen Faceoff semifinals in Minneapolis, where Denver beat Western Michigan and Miami beat New Hampshire.
The last-place RedHawks have ousted NCHC top seed St. Cloud State and second seed North Dakota in the playoffs.
MINNEAPOLIS — Scoring goals proved no problem for Denver. It was finding the right net that posed a challenge. Despite scoring on itself twice, Denver rallied for a 4-3 victory over Western Michigan on Friday evening at Target Center. [scg_html_nchc2014]Just 42 seconds into the opening frame, Denver goaltender Sam Brittain stepped out of his net, … Read more
Well, neither Matthew nor I had much luck picking the games last weekend, what with all the upsets and all. We went 4-5 (.444) on the weekend, and I only correctly picked one series (North Dakota), while Matthew picked Western Michigan to win its series, so he was correct on two, but neither of us … Read more
The NCHC handed out its year-end awards Thursday night and Nebraska-Omaha’s Josh Archibald, St. Cloud State’s Nic Dowd and Denver’s Joey LaLeggia each walked away with a pair of awards. Archibald earned player of the year honors, as well as forward of the year, while Dowd was named defensive forward of the year and scholar-athlete … Read more
Miami, Denver and Western Michigan won road quarterfinal series to join North Dakota in Minneapolis.
We’re gearing up for our biggest coverage weekend of the season, with not only conference championships being decided in Division I men’s hockey but NCAA titles on the line in Division III and at the women’s Frozen Four.
The NCAA tournament field of 16 will be announced on Sunday.
Perhaps it’s only fitting that a league that produced so many series splits had only one of the favored teams, second seed North Dakota, advance to the Frozen Faceoff semifinals in Minneapolis. North Dakota barely escaped a tough Colorado College team, winning game three, 4-3, on Sunday night. Heart-stopping RedHawks While the Miami RedHawks had … Read more
Denver beat Nebraska-Omaha 5-1 on Friday to force a third game in their best-of-three NCHC quarterfinal series. Here are some photos.
I finally got a bigger lead on Matthew in our picks race. Last weekend, I went 5-3 (.625), while Matthew went 3-5 (.375). On the year, I am 92-66-22 (.572), while Matthews is 87-71-22 (.544). The first round brings some brutal matchups, so let’s see how we can do. Thursday-Saturday, March 13-15 Denver at Nebraska-Omaha … Read more
The Huskies host Miami in the first round, and the RedHawks won both series-opening games against St. Cloud State this season.
Going into the final night of the NCHC’s inaugural regular season, none of the league’s eight teams knew for sure who they would be playing in the first round of the league playoffs, and that’s undoubtedly what the league’s front office in Colorado Springs wanted. Now that we know who’s playing who and where, though, … Read more