Linkorama --- a few things...

**DU hockey beat writer Mike Chambers Denver University is reporting that Tyler Ruegsegger is out for the season. This is a huge blow to the DU Pioneers. Tyler Ruegsegger a Junior (15-11-26), is a big part of DU team offense and his services will be missed.

Absolutely crushing news from the DU hockey team today. One of the best young guys I know, Tyler Ruegsegger — the Pioneers’ leading goal-scorer — will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury.

The junior center from Lakewood was injured in Friday’s 3-2 comeback victory over Alaska-Anchorage. Ruegsegger, who has a team-best 15 goals — including 12 on the power play — was the star of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoff opener, scoring consecutive goals within 1:58 of the second period to tie it 2-2.

**The Bemidji State University Beavers have Qualified for the NCAA Division One hockey tourney with their overtime win again RMU. Beaver Matt Read score 8:05 into overtime to launch the Beavers into the NCAA tourney. The Beavers will probably face Notre Dame or Boston University in NCAA tourney. This is the Beavers first trip to the NCAA tourney since 2006.

**Here is Elliot Olshansky latest article at the New York Daily News. It is on former Grand Forks, ND resident and Central High Hockey player Jacques Lamoureux and his path to the Air Force Academy. Since Jacques is from North Dakota and there are probably going to be NO Sioux players in the Hobey Baker top ten (I am holding out hope for Genoway) I am going to have to say that Lamoureux is my personal favorite for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award this season.

Lamoureux is college hockey's national leader in goals with 29, and power play goals with 14. He also leads the nation with eight game-winning goals, making him the hero of one-third of the Falcons' wins this season.

**Here is the latest PWR ranking involving WCHA teams: Denver University is 3rd, the Fighting Sioux 5th, the Gophers are tied for 12th, the Minnesota Bulldogs are 15th and the Wisconsin Badgers are 17th. It would appear that Wisconsin might need to run the tables to get into the tourney. I would imagine that UMD will have to win a couple of games to get in and they will want Princeton, OSU and Minnesota to lose. The numbers will probably change a little this evening after the games in the CCHA, Hockey East and ECAC tourneys.