The best College Hockey coverage is at CollegeHockeyNews.com http://www.collegehockeynews.com Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:03:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/images/design/chn2006-text-180px.gif http://www.collegehockeynews.com College Hockey News http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/04/24_rohlik_named_osu_head_coach.php Steve Rohlik has been named head coach at Ohio State. The move was made official today, after CHN first reported it Tuesday night. Rohlik had been the associate head coach the last three years under Mark Osiecki. Osiecki was fired last week, and Rohlik was named interim coach at the time. Osiecki, who was head coach for three seasons, was let go, according to athletic director Gene Smith, because ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/29_ne_uncharacteristic_mistakes.php Wisconsin entered Friday fresh off a WCHA tournament championship, sporting the second-best record in the country since Jan. 1. Given that its opponent, Massachusetts-Lowell, had the best record during that time, this was the game everyone circled as the best of the first round. The River Hawks did their part by bringing a great effort, but the Badgers struggled to find the form that made them one ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/28_ne_kerdiles,_badgers_look.php Keep rolling. That’s the motto for Wisconsin this week. And, considering what Wisconsin accomplished in the past two weeks, it’s fitting. “Everyone has good spirits in the locker room,” freshman forward Nic Kerdiles said. “We’re just going to keep rolling.” Since the regular season ended, the Badgers rattled off five straight wins, scoring 21 goals en route to a WCHA Final Five championship ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/28_ne_northeast_regional_preview.php The Northeast Regional in Manchester, N.H., features two different storylines among the four teams. Wisconsin and Massachusetts-Lowell both rode massive hot streaks to their respective conference championships, while New Hampshire and Denver both struggled in the second half for consistency, relying upon strong first halves to earn at-large bids. The Manchester Regional quickly became the “group ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/24_wisconsin_caps_magical_run.php There was a point late in the second period of Saturday’s WCHA Final Five championship game when Tyler Barnes had a breakaway on Colorado College goaltender Joe Howe. If he scored, Wisconsin would enter the second intermission with a 4-1 lead and likely put the game out of reach. But this is the Badgers. Victory, or anything for that matter, has not come easy all year, so why start now? Howe made ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/23_wisconsin,_colorado_college.php Desperate times call for desperate measures. In the case of Wisconsin and Colorado College, desperate teams playing for their season make for some of the best hockey. For the third time in four years, both the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in the WCHA Final Five have failed to make the championship game. Instead, the fourth-seeded Badgers and sixth-seeded Tigers will play their third game in as many days ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/22_re-loaded_top_guns_fueling.php Wisconsin’s head coach Mike Eaves was anxious to see how his newest recruit, Nic Kerdiles, would fit with juniors Mark Zengerle and Tyler Barnes on the same line. On paper, the trio looked to be unstoppable. Kerdiles and Zengerle could put the puck wherever they pleased, which complimented Barnes' goal-scoring ability perfectly. It was a weapon that Eaves hoped would result in one of the nation’s ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/22_wcha_final_five_semifinal.php And then there were four. The WCHA Final Five opened Thursday with two contrasting games where Minnesota State and North Dakota saw their chances for the Broadmoor Trophy end. In the opener, Wisconsin scored three goals in the opening 8 minutes, 11 seconds to defeat the Mavericks 7-2. Then the nightcap included a bit of bonus hockey as defenseman Peter Stoykewych scored the winner 4:52 into overtime ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/21_wisconsin_earns_the_long_and.php Scoring a shorthanded goal in hockey is like pulling the rug out from your opponent’s feet. Going from having a man advantage to down a goal is quite the turnaround and creates momentum that is tough to overcome. Of course, scoring a shorthanded goal also means that your team took a penalty. Making a habit of relying on shorthanded goals is not something Wisconsin wants to do, but it was helpful ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/20_wcha_final_five_preview.php The WCHA Final Five has always been a celebration of college hockey, where fans of different schools in the conference get together to fill the Xcel Energy Center as an end-of-the-year tradition. This year it doubles as the end of an era. With eight of the conference’s 12 schools leaving the WCHA for new leagues, teams across the Upper Midwest and West will be split apart beginning next year. That ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/19_defense_department.php Plagued with injuries, suspensions and staff departures, it seemed as though Wisconsin had everything working against them early in the season. After starting the year with two wins in its first 14 games, Wisconsin turned things around going on a seven-game tear to end the first and start the second. “The expectations we had coming into the season were pretty decent. We thought we could do some ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/15_wcha_tournament_preview.php With two-thirds of the league heading elsewhere next season, this year's WCHA tournament will be the last of its kind. If the regular season was any indication, it promises to be a memorable one. The race for home ice came down to the final weekend, and the battle for the MacNaughton Cup went down to the final night. St. Cloud State clinched a share of its first MacNaughton Cup on Friday, but then ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/06_past_and_present_collide_in.php With regular-season championships and important playoff seeding on the line, the last weekend of the regular season almost always provides intrigue. But for the WCHA, this year’s final weekend gives fans and teams even more. Not only will teams fight for trophies and home ice in the playoffs, but for eight of the conference’s 12 teams, this marks the last-ever weekend of WCHA regular-season play; ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/03/06_team_of_the_week_wisconsin.php A little more than a week ago, Wisconsin suffered a devastating loss. The Badgers dropped a 3-2 overtime decision to Penn State. The debutant program ending its season with a win over a program like Wisconsin sent shockwaves through college hockey that night. Aside from undoing much of the progress the Badgers made in the Pairwise, it also taught Wisconsin a lesson it turned into motivation. UW recovered ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/02/26_penn_state_concludes_season.php One night after getting clobbered, 5-0, in the same arena, Penn State stunned host Wisconsin with a 3-2 overtime win Monday in Madison. Taylor Holstrom scored the game winner, capping a comeback from down 2-0 in the third period. "When we went down two and said, 'Let's answer right away,' and it couldn't have been quicker than that," PSU coach Guy Gadowsky said. "That gave us a big boost." Penn ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100