Thursday, October 10, 2024
Close Battles, OT Road Wins Highlight First Week
If the primary weekend of the steady season was once any indication, faculty hockey lovers are in for some other memorable journey in 2024-25.
More than part of the 27 video games on ultimate week’s slate – 16 of them, to be exact – have been determined via two objectives or fewer. Ten of the ones contests had to be settled in additional time, starting with Michigan State’s 2-1 highway victory at Lake Superior State.
Interestingly, visiting groups went 5-3-2 in additional time for the week. Besides the Spartans, Bemidji State (at Minnesota Duluth), Bowling Green (at Mercyhurst), Penn State (at Alaska) and Stonehill (at Merrimack) additionally earned highway wins within the additional consultation.
NCAA Division I males’s hockey is taking part in an technology of unparalleled parity, with 35 of the country’s present 64 Division I techniques having reached the NCAA Tournament over the past 5 years. Judging via ultimate weekend’s effects, that unpredictability isn’t going away anytime quickly.
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Must Read:
Bangor Daily News: UMaine hockey staff presentations intensity in spectacular debut
Boston Globe: For BU males’s hockey, freshman orientation comes briefly in win over Holy Cross
College Hockey News: This Week in College Hockey: CHL Decision Looms Large
College Hockey News: Mar-quis second
Denver Post: Zeev Buium and DU Pioneers need back-to-back championships
Duluth News Tribune: Gallatin quietly breaking out for Bulldogs on blue line
EP Rinkside: Michael Hage, Isaac Howard shine on NCAA opening weekend
Grand Forks Herald: UND alum Morton leans on enjoy in Grand Forks to construct Augustana hockey
New England Hockey Journal: How a brand new wave of learners is electrifying the Battle of Comm. Ave
St. Cloud Live: SCSU heart Ryan Rosborough’s persistence, laborious paintings doesn’t cross ignored
USCHO: Ohio State filled with optimism as ’24-25 season arrives
USCHO: Air Force loses opener to Arizona State, rebounds with ‘magical’ recreation to separate with Sun Devils
Must Hear:
Bulldog Insider: Plante brothers are teammates, roommates once more
CHN Insiders: A New Season
College Hockey Today: May You Live in Interesting Times
Inside Atlantic Hockey: AHA Commissioner Michelle Morgan
Parting Schotts: Union trainer Hauge opinions opening weekend, previews Stonehill, BU video games
The CCHA Show: Featuring BGSU head trainer Dennis Williams, Ferris State D Trevor Taulien
The Pipeline Show: Talking Big Ten with Todd Milewski, Hockey East with Jimmy Connelly
UND Hockey Podcast: What’s subsequent with the CHL and UND hockey?
USCHO Spotlight: ASU’s Powers talks Sun Devils, CHL eligibility, roster sizes, collection with Michigan
USCHO Weekend Review: Talking CHL eligibility, roster sizes, first weekend
Breaking the Ice:
Las Vegas would be the website of the 2024 Ice Breaker Tournament on Friday and Saturday at Orleans Arena.
Minnesota is the host establishment in a tourney box at additionally contains Air Force, UMass and Omaha. Friday’s matchups function the Golden Gophers towards the Falcons, and the Minutemen clashing with the Mavericks.
Saturday’s matchups will likely be made up our minds via the end result of Friday’s video games.
The Ice Breaker Tournament, which started in 1997, historically marks the unofficial starting of the NCAA Division I males’s hockey season. The match brings in combination 4 groups, normally from other meetings, and is run via College Hockey Inc. on behalf of the Hockey Commissioners Association.
Minnesota is the host college for the fourth time in Ice Breaker historical past. Click HERE for more info and former Ice Breaker champions.
Early Returns:
It was once a a hit opening weekend for first-year head coaches making their respective debuts.
Of the seven new bench bosses in 2024-25, 4 of them coached of their opening regular-season video games ultimate weekend. That quartet went a mixed 4-2-2 (.625). Three of them received on opening evening: Bowling Green’s Dennis Williams (at Mercyhurst), Clarkson’s J.F. Houle (vs. Canisius), and Stonehill’s David Berard (at Merrimack).
Meanwhile, Anthony Noreen’s Miami squad skated to the primary of its two additional time ties, scuffling with host Ferris State to a couple of deadlocks.
Two different first-year head coaches will debut Friday – Lindenwood’s Bill Muckalt (at Wisconsin) and Northern Michigan’s Dave Shyiak (at Colorado College). Princeton performs its first recreation underneath Ben Syer on Nov. 8 as opposed to Harvard.
Fit to Print:
“That was magical. This was one of the most remarkable examples of perseverance that I have ever seen. They pounded us last night and then tonight we get down 2-0 in the first five minutes, but our boys stuck with it. That might be the greatest bounce back win in Air Force hockey history. I’m so proud of the boys for sticking with it when things looked really dark. This was special. Anyone that was in the rink tonight will never forget this one.”
— Air Force head trainer Frank Serratore on Saturday’s 4-3 win over No. 20 Arizona State, one evening after the Falcons had dropped an 8-1 resolution to the Sun Devils (supply: PassAirForceFalcons.com).
NHL Note of the Week:
When the NHL unveiled its opening-night rosters Tuesday, there have been 240 former faculty hockey gamers dotting the league’s 32 rosters. That was once up from ultimate season, when there have been 234 NCAA alumni on NHL Opening Night rosters.
Forty-four of the present 64 NCAA Division I males’s techniques had a minimum of one former participant on an NHL roster. To stay monitor of all NCAA connections with NHL franchises, seek advice from the College Hockey Inc. NHL Matchup Tool.
Fries on the Bottom of the Bag:
AIC’s non-conference tilt at Ohio State on Friday would be the 2,000th varsity recreation in Yellow Jackets historical past … Ohio State graduate ahead Gunnarwolfe Fontaine (East Greenwich, R.I.) enters this weekend’s collection towards AIC simply 3 issues clear of 100 for his NCAA occupation. The Northeastern switch is having a look to turn into the 5th energetic NCAA Division I males’s skater to achieve that milestone … Denver opened its NCAA identify protection with a 6-2 win Saturday at Alaska Anchorage, with 4 of the six Pioneer objectives coming at the energy play.
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