When a new year arrives, sometimes things can change quickly for college hockey teams. However, in the case of the CCHA, it continues to remain unpredictable. I wanted to start off 2024 on a good note with my weekly predictions and I did reasonably well, but far from perfect. The only series I won […]
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Happy New Year everyone! With this new year, we all get a fresh start and based on what happened last weekend, the CCHA is probably thrilled about that as it had a horrible holiday week. As far as I go, I did decent with my predictions. It’s hard to pick mid-season tournaments correctly, but
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Happy New Year’s Eve everyone. On this day, many of us will reflect on all the good things that we accomplished in 2023 and make a list of what we hope to do next year. I’ll be one of them as I have many goals to achieve in 2024. However, before all go
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Monday was Christmas, a day where kids all over the world wonder if they’ll wake up with presents under their tree, a lump of coal in their stockings, or something even worse depending on the country you’re from. Unfortunately for me, I got my coal one week early. Two weeks ago, I gloated about
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By Ryan Stieg Well, it finally happened. After trying for more than two months, I achieved the elusive perfect week and I’m feeling great about that. Not only did I pick every week correctly, but I also picked the right team winning on each night. That is an even rarer feat that I think I’ve
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — For the first two periods Saturday, the St. Thomas men’s hockey team was having a frustrating night. The Tommies were clearly keeping up with rival Minnesota State, both in terms of physicality and pace of play, but they couldn’t find any good looks to solve Mavericks goalie Keenan
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By Ryan Stieg Last week was the start of a new month, but unfortunately, things continued to stay the same when it came to my CCHA predictions. Over the past two weeks, I’ve come painfully close to achieving the elusive perfect week with my picks and going into last weekend, I was confident that I’d
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — When a hockey team is about to play its conference rival, it obviously wants to go into the series with some momentum and the St. Thomas men’s squad definitely has some right now. After a rough outing Friday against Ferris State, the Tommies rebounded Saturday and thumped the
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By Ryan Stieg One of the things I enjoyed doing as a kid at Thanksgiving was pulling the wishbone of the turkey because my wish usually came true. If I had remembered to do that last Thursday, I probably would’ve gotten my wish and that was a perfect week of CCHA predictions. I came
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — The St. Thomas women’s hockey team had been going through some struggles recently, but a trip to Washington D.C. appears to have changed the Tommies’ fortunes. After getting shut out twice by St. Cloud State, UST competed in the D1 in D.C. event at the Washington Capitals
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