Defending Champ Denver off to Dominant Start

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Pioneers Have Rattled off 10 Straight Wins to Begin Season

The time period “championship hangover” is an oft-used (overused?) word within the sports activities international. The idea is that championship groups on occasion fight the next season because of quite a few nonquantifiable components: lingering accidents from the former season’s playoff run, an larger sense of pleasure leading to a loss of urgency, and so on.

Whether the concept that is fable or fact, it no doubt does no longer follow to the 2024-25 Denver Pioneers.

The protecting nationwide champions have rattled off a 10-0-0 get started and stay firmly entrenched because the No. 1 staff in each nationwide polls. In truth, DU’s get started is unheard of this century in NCAA Division I males’s hockey.

Prior to this yr, simplest 3 protecting nationwide champions this century opened their identify protection with profitable streaks longer than two video games. DU’s 10-0 get started this yr has doubled the former perfect get started:

Denver has held directly to its No. 1 USCHO.com nationwide preseason score for a complete of 7 weeks, the longest such streak on list (since 2007-08):

Both streaks can be put to the check this weekend when the Pioneers open NCHC play with a sequence at No. 9/10 North Dakota.

Daily Scoreboard | Weekly Schedule | Stat Leaders | Goaltending Leaders

Must Read:

Boston Globe: Boston College made a powerful remark with sweep of Maine

College Hockey News: Team of the Week: Boston College

College Hockey News: Montes’ pastime fuels his expansion at Ohio State

College Hockey News: Chesley including any other measurement to Minnesota again line

College Hockey News: CHL gamers eligible for school hockey beginning in 2025-26

Duluth News Tribune: Bulldogs’ Zam Plante finding out to play minus Max, for now

EP Rinkside: NCAA Stock Watch: Michael Hage, Zeev Buium already outplaying draft place

Grand Forks Herald: Hockey commissioners ask NCAA to keep in mind with behind schedule enrollment rule

Grand Forks Herald: College hockey opens its doorways to Canadian main junior gamers

NHL.com: Color of Hockey: Lee has ‘bright future’ as rookie with Kings

USCHO: While nonetheless inconsistent to this point, Sacred Heart discovering luck with newcomers, transfers, returnees

USCHO: Dartmouth off to ‘a good start’ in ’24-25

USCHO: Michigan surging early as Wolverines ‘not supposed to be doing what we’re doing’

Must Hear:

Bulldogs Insider: Arnott, Shaugabay take other paths to UMD

CHN Insiders: Featuring Boston College head trainer Greg Brown

Inside Atlantic Hockey: Featuring Niagara forwards Shane Ott and Trevor Hoskin

NHL @TheRink: Will Smith’s 1st function with Sharks, residing on his personal

Parting Schotts: Hauge evaluations Alaska video games, previews St. Lawrence/Clarkson, talks NCAA ruling on CHL

Pucks in Deep: Featuring Colorado College captain Stanley Cooley

The CCHA Show: Featuring Lake Superior State F Dawson Tritt and Ferris State F Cole Burtch

The Kevin Karius Show: College Hockey Inc.’s Sean Hogan at the converting panorama of NCAA hockey

The Pipeline Show: College Hockey Inc. Executive Director Sean Hogan on CHL eligibility rule alternate

TSN Ottawa: Hogan: The gamers are the massive winners, not must make huge choices at 15

UND Hockey Podcast: UND sweeps once more in Duluth

USCHO Spotlight: College Hockey Inc.’s Sean Hogan discusses CHL eligibility, expansion in face of alternate

USCHO Weekend Review: Higher-ranked best 20 groups most commonly dominate, NCAA main junior determination

A Tigers Tale:

Remaining within the state of Colorado, but any other NCHC squad stays a few of the country’s unbeaten groups: the 8-0-0 Colorado College Tigers.

CC welcomed Arizona State to the NCHC final weekend through sweeping the Sun Devils in what have been the first-ever convention video games for ASU. That gave the Tigers an 8-0 mark to begin the yr for the 1st time since 1956-57 when CC captured its final NCAA championship.

It’s been a real staff effort to this point for the Tigers, who’ve been with out final yr’s scoring chief – junior Noah Laba (Jr., Northville, Mich.) – for the final 5 video games because of harm. CC doesn’t have a unmarried skater within the best 125 of the nationwide scoring race, however 14 other gamers have scored a minimum of one function and 9 other gamers have already contributed six-plus issues.

Between the pipes, returning All-America netminder and Mike Richter Award finalist Kaidan Mbereko (Jr., West Bloomfield, Mich.) has began all 8 video games and owns a glowing .941 save share.

Special groups were rock-solid, too, with an influence play changing at 25 p.c and a penalty kill clicking at 90 p.c. CC additionally boasts a staff taking pictures share (13.0) that ranks fourth within the NCAA.

The Tigers face any other stiff NCHC check this weekend, touring to Western Michigan for a showdown with No. 11/13 Western Michigan.

Workin’ Overtime:

When Vermont battled then-No. 17 UMass to a 3-3 time beyond regulation tie (and shootout win) final Friday, it marked a school-record 5th consecutive time beyond regulation sport for the Catamounts. The earlier list of 4 used to be set in January 2001.

UVM has already performed additional time in six of its first 9 video games this season, going 1-2-3 in OT.

The Catamounts are just about midway to the varsity list of 14 time beyond regulation video games set through the 2017-18 squad. The NCAA Division I males’s list of nineteen time beyond regulation video games used to be set through Colgate in 2008-09.

Milestone Watch:

Providence F Nick Poisson (Gr., Vancouver, British Columbia) and Minnesota F Jimmy Snuggerud (Jr., Chaska, Minn.) enters the weekend at the verge becoming a member of faculty hockey’s 100-point membership. Poisson sits at 99 profession issues, whilst Snuggerud has 97:

Clarkson senior F Ayrton Martino (Toronto) turned into the newest member of that unique membership when he notched a couple of assists right through a Nov. 2 tie with Alaska.

Fit to Print:

“I think I developed from a junior hockey player into a man.”

— Los Angeles Kings rookie F Andre Lee (UMass Lowell, 2019-22), a local of Sweden, on his 3 collegiate seasons at UMass Lowell (supply: NHL.com).

NHL Note of the Week:

Columbus D Jack Johnson (Michigan, 2005-07) skated in his 1,2 hundredth profession NHL sport Sunday in Anaheim, changing into the twenty second NCAA alumni in historical past to achieve that milestone. He joined former collegiate teammate and just lately retired Andrew Cogliano (Michigan, 2005-07) in that unique membership.

Johnson, the 3rd total select through Carolina within the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, is in his nineteenth NHL season. He earned first-team All-America honors at Michigan as a sophomore in 2006-07.

Fries on the Bottom of the Bag:

No. 3/4 Michigan State (7-1-0) is off to its perfect get started since 2007-08 when it began 8-1-0 because the protecting NCAA champion. Head trainer Adam Nightingale (MSU ’05) claimed his fiftieth profession win at the back of the MSU bench Saturday in opposition to Ohio State, making him the quickest bench boss in program historical past (85 video games) to achieve that milestone … Minnesota Duluth F Anthony Menghini (So., Brainerd, Minn.) scored all 3 Bulldog objectives in Friday’s 7-3 loss to North Dakota, with all 3 coming by way of the facility play within the 3rd duration. Menghini didn’t ranking a unmarried PPG in 37 video games as a freshman … Brown F Max Scott (So., San Jose, Calif.) and Northeastern F Jack Williams (Jr., Biddeford, Maine) each and every received 22 faceoffs of their respective video games final Saturday, the most productive single-game overall within the nation this season. Scott went 22-11 (66.7%) in a 3-1 loss at Cornell, whilst Williams used to be 22-7 (75.9%) in a 6-5 setback to Providence … Western Michigan G Cameron Rowe (Gr., Wilmette, Ill.) made his a centesimal profession get started in Friday’s 2-1 win at Omaha … Cornell F Dalton Bancroft (Jr., Centre Hastings, Ontario) scored 8 seconds into Friday’s 2-2 tie with Yale, tied for second-fastest function to open a sport in staff historical past … Army freshman G JJ Cataldo (Stuart, Fla.) earned his first NCAA shutout with a 39-save effort in Friday’s 1-0 win over Niagara. Cataldo boasts a 1.26 objectives in opposition to reasonable and .960 save share via his first 4 appearances.

Longest Active Point Streaks:

• 10 video games, F Carter King (Denver)
  • 7-6—13, started Oct. 5 at Alaska Anchorage
• 10 video games, F Aidan Thompson (Denver)
  • 7-10—17, started Oct. 5 at Alaska Anchorage
• 9 video games, D Eric Pohlkamp (Denver)
  • 4-9—13, started Oct. 6 at Alaska Anchorage
• 8 video games, F Gabe Perreault (Boston College)
  • 5-8—13, started Oct. 11 at Michigan State

Longest Active Goal Streaks:

• 4 video games, F Stiven Sardarian (Michigan Tech)
  • 4-2—6, started Nov. 1 at Northern Michigan
• 4 video games, F Evan Werner (Michigan)
  • 5-2—7, started Nov 1. at Boston University

Conference Websites
Atlantic Hockey | Big Ten | CCHA | ECAC Hockey | Hockey East | NCHC

College Hockey Inc. Resources:

Did you understand? 93% of NCAA Division I males’s hockey gamers earn their level!