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By Ryan Stieg  In college hockey, you can be rolling through your season at one point, but then roll into the ditch the following weekend. That’s pretty much how my 2025 has gone.   It started off so well and now, it’s just been miss after miss for me. Once again, I almost achieved a

By Ryan Stieg  Two weeks ago, I barely dodged a winless week and it was only due to a technicality. So, I was more cautiously optimistic than confident going into last weekend’s matchups.   Well, the same thing happened again, but at least my special rule didn’t come into play. After missing the mark on

By Ryan Stieg  MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — On Friday night, the St. Thomas men’s hockey team put together some late magic, scoring back-to-back goals in the third period to both tie the game and then to defeat No. 15 Minnesota State in Mankato.  During the rematch Saturday, the Tommies came close to doing it again

By Ryan Stieg  All good things must come to an end, and one of those things is my streak of good performances to start 2025.   This past week was a rough one as the only way I avoided going winless was that my technicality came into play during the Augustana-Bowling Green series. I predicted

By Ryan Stieg  MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — Everybody wants to start a new year on a good note, but the St. Thomas men’s hockey team has taken that to the next level as it’s now the last weekend in January and the Tommies have yet to lose in 2025.   Bemidji State gave UST a

By Ryan Stieg  We’re in the last part of January, which is theoretically the last chance for a team to turn things around before the pressure increases even more in February to get home ice, to win the conference or even just get a playoff spot.   Heading into last week, it looked as if

By Ryan Stieg  We are entering third week of the 2025 portion of the season and I’m off to a good start. In fact, I came close to achieving my second perfect week of the year, but then Northern Michigan decided to pull a surprise.   I was right that Lake Superior State would split with

By Ryan Stieg  MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — After putting up nine goals on Ferris State last night, the St. Thomas men’s hockey team knew it’d have a tougher fight on its hands Saturday night and despite being on their heels for most of the third period, the Tommies eventually gathered themselves and delivered a knockout

By Ryan Stieg  MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — Heading into Friday night’s game against Ferris State, the St. Thomas men’s hockey team hadn’t played at home since late November, but it didn’t take long for the Tommies to get comfortable.  The Tommies scored a school Division I record nine goals, six of them coming in the first

By Ryan Stieg  After a fairly good first half of the season, I was hoping to start off the second half on a good note and I did for the most part.   I was right that Michigan Tech would finish third at the Coachella Valley Cactus Cup and I was also correct that UMass