By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — For the first time in its short span in Division I, the St. Thomas men’s hockey team had a first place fight in its home rink, but the Tommies couldn’t deliver a knockout blow. Heading into Friday night’s battle with Minnesota State, the Tommies were tied for first […]
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By Ryan Stieg It’s February, which is still very early in 2024, but we’ve now entered the home stretch for the college hockey regular season. Over the next five weeks, home ice spots for the playoffs will be earned, regular season titles will be clinched and if they stay the course, some teams might
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — There’s a little more than a month left in the regular season and things are heating up in the CCHA standings. The St. Thomas men’s hockey team is battling injuries and fighting through pain right now, but on the positive side, the Tommies (12-11-1, 10-6 CCHA) sit
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By Ryan Stieg Two weeks ago, I went winless for the second time this season, a performance as ice cold as the temperatures were outside. Last weekend, the weather got a little better and so did my prediction-making skills as I went 3 for 5 in the CCHA series. I was right that St. Thomas
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — Every college hockey team goes through highs and lows over the course of its season and unfortunately for the St. Thomas women’s team, it’s been mostly the latter this year. However, last weekend, the Tommies (8-17-0, 2-16 WCHA) achieved another high and that was taking down a
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By Ryan Stieg The new year is only a few weeks old, and I’ve already got some mud on my face. It took me quite a while during the first half of the CCHA season to earn a winless week, but it only took me three weeks to achieve that feat in the second half.
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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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