By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — When you’re facing an undermanned opponent, you want to take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way and that’s what the Lake Superior State hockey team did Friday night against St. Thomas. With the Tommies unable to put together a full line chart to multiple injuries, […]
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By Ryan Stieg The playoffs have arrived in the CCHA, which means I get a fresh start with my predictions. My quest to achieve a second perfect week during the regular season came to a disappointing end last weekend as I came up short for a final time. I came close as I went
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — The CCHA playoff season has arrived, and the St. Thomas men’s hockey team is sort of limping into it. The Tommies finished with the No. 2 seed and will host a first-round playoff series for the first time as a Division I program this weekend. However, they’re
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By Ryan Stieg It was close, but no cigar last week with my predictions. In my ongoing quest for achieving a second perfect week this season, I was on the cusp of finally completing that quest. I just needed one more series to go my way. However, Michigan Tech ended up rallying in the
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — This season has been full of ups and downs for the St. Thomas women’s hockey team and recently, it had been mostly downs. Heading into last weekend’s regular season finale series against Minnesota State, the Tommies were on a seven-game losing streak with one of them being
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — Heading into Saturday night’s game against Bemidji State, the big storyline with the St. Thomas men’s hockey team was the growing list of injuries plagueing the roster and it was evident from the start that the problem was getting worse as the Tommies couldn’t put together a full line chart.
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By Ryan Stieg Well folks, I just had a disappointing week. My hope was that it would be an elusive second perfect week and I thought the odds were in my favor as I only had to pick two series correctly, but I only got one of the two right as thankfully, Augustana split on the
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — Two weeks ago, the St. Thomas men’s hockey team were humbled a little bit and ended up getting swept at Bemidji State. Some teams might get rattled by this, but after a hard week of practice, the Tommies got back on track last week against Northern Michigan.
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — For the first month of the season, the second game of a series has been a problem for the St. Thomas men’s hockey team as the Tommies had been shut out on three of the previous four Saturdays heading into this weekend’s series with Northern Michigan. The Tommies’
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — Saturday’s season opener between St. Thomas and St. Cloud State was filled with penalties and power play goals with the Tommies eventually winning in overtime, 5-4. In Sunday’s rematch, penalties again were the story of the game, but the goals didn’t come as easy. There was only
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