College Hockey’s Influence on Team USA World Championship

LORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - USA Hockey announced today the first 15 players of the 2015 U.S. Men's National Team that will compete in the 2015 International Ice Hockey Federation Men’s World Championship May 1-17 in Ostrava and Prague, Czech Republic. The initial group of players includes one goaltender, six defensemen and eight forwards.

Marc Arcobello, F, Arizona Coyotes (NHL) – Yale University

Justin Faulk, D, Carolina Hurricanes (NHL) – Minnesota-Duluth

Jake Gardiner, D, Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL) – Wisconsin

Matt Hendricks, F, Edmonton Oilers (NHL) – St. Cloud State

Torey Krug, D, Boston Bruins (NHL) – Michigan State

Dylan Larkin, F, University of Michigan (Big Ten)

Trevor Lewis, F, Los Angeles Kings (NHL) – OHL

Alex Lyon, G, Yale University (ECAC Hockey)

John Moore, D, Arizona Coyotes (NHL) – OHL

Jeremy Morin, F, Columbus Blue Jackets (NHL) – OHL

Steve Moses, F, Jokerit (KHL) – New Hampshire

Connor Murphy, D, Arizona Coyotes (NHL) – OHL

Mike Reilly, D, University of Minnesota (Big Ten)

Dan Sexton, F, Nizhnekamsk Neftekhimik (KHL) – Bowling Green State

Ben Smith, F, San Jose Sharks (NHL) – Boston College

Jimmy Vesey, F, Harvard University (ECAC Hockey)

Checking the roster, 12-of-16 players had NCAA experience. 

Humble Pie a la Mode

by Redwing77

The season is over and the outcome wasn't what we wanted, but that's not what is humbling to me.  I remember back in 2005 when all four Frozen Four teams were from the same conference.  WCHA fans crowed about how awesome the WCHA was and, well, the WCHA won the NC that year.  But was that truly great?

In college football the only people who were overjoyed by the Alabama vs. LSU National Championship game was the teams who were playing and their fans... and ESPN.  It might have been the lowest rated championship football contest in terms of TV ratings in the TV era.

All season long, NCHC fans crowed about how amazing the conference is.  And I put up with it.  After all, my team is in the NCHC and the NCHC did dominate over the season.  Certainly they deserved respect.

But then on USCHO I read an altogether astonishing statement:  "The NCHC is the SEC of college hockey."

Wait... What?

The NCHC is NOT the SEC of college hockey.  The SEC of college hockey doesn't exist anymore.  I'd argue the last time the SEC of college hockey existed was back when North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan were in the same conference along with Notre Dame and Michigan State.  Yeah.  The SEC of college hockey broke up in 1981.

This year the NCHC had 6 teams make the NCAA Playoffs.  Two made the Frozen Four.  It is certainly a great accomplishment.  In the end, however, Hockey East prevailed.  Hockey East has been around longer than the NCHC, even if the teams in the NCHC have storied histories.

I think we need to take a step back a little bit.  We are a strong conference with great teams and super competition.  However, we are 0-2 in National Championships as a conference.  In fact, as a conference, we've yet to get a team to the National Championship game.

Calling the NCHC the "SEC of college hockey" makes me chafe.  We do not want to be the SEC of college hockey.  I want the NCHC to be a dominant force, sure, but a respected one by all.  The SEC does not seem to hold much respect by those outside of ESPN and the fanbases of SEC teams.

LSSU vs. UND Game Two Lines

Drake Caggiula is back in the lineup tonight. Scratches for UND: 5- Nick Mattson, 17- Colton St. Clair (injury), 22 - Andrew Panzarella, 29- Bryn Chyzyk (Injury).

McIntyre starts in goal. Caggiula remains in the lineup. Simonson back in the lineup. Chyzyk still out. St. Clair out indef. (upper body).
— North Dakota MHockey (@UNDmhockey) December 6, 2014

USCHO Top 10 Round Up

As always, it should be interesting how USCHO will choose the men's top 10 tomorrow morning after yet another interesting weekend of college hockey. Here is how I think things will turn out:

1. North Dakota. UND split with Miami this past weekend and were close to sending Friday's game into overtime just missing on some chances late in the third.

2. Boston University. The Terriers had a one game series this weekend against Maine, and would find themselves in the winners circle with a 3-1 score.

3. Minnesota. The Gophers were swept in a home and home series against Minnesota Duluth this weekend so the Gophers lose the top spot.

4. Michigan Tech. The Huskies remain the lone undefeated team in the country with a sweep of Bemidji State this weekend.

5. Colgate. The Raiders beat St. Lawrence Friday and would tie the Clarkson Golden Knights Saturday.

6. UMass Lowell. Lowell split with Penn State this past weekend.

7. Miami. The Red Hawks come off of a split with UND.

8. Denver. The Pioneers come off of an 8-1 victory over Colorado College.

9, Boston College. BC lost in a Tuesday match up against Harvard 6-3 and would beat Michigan State on the road 3-2 Friday.

10. Minnesota Duluth. UMD looked very impressive this weekend in their sweep of the Golden Gophers.

BC Interruption: I Wonder How they Feel Today?

Someone posted this article on Sioux Sports. I was wondering If Brian still felt this way? Especially after last night's game, the newly added UConn Huskies shutout the B.C. Eagles 1-0.

Brian Favat, B.C. Interruption -- Tuesday, Grant gave us the glass half full look at the addition of UConn to Hockey East. While I appreciate a bit of enthusiasm for the Hockey East Association's newest member, I have other plans in mind for Boston College hockey.

It's time for Boston College to leave Hockey East.

My reasoning is simple: Hockey East has straight up botched expansion. There hasn't been a well-thought out expansion plan. Or maybe no expansion plan at all. Perception is reality and the perception, at least to me, is that the league all but fell over themselves themselves to toss a life raft out to Notre Dame hockey when the NCHC turned the Irish away. Expansion to 11 necessitated expansion to 12 to get to a round number, I suppose, and now a historically bad Atlantic Hockey club calls eastern college hockey's premiere conference home.

To recap, here has been Hockey East's two most recent moves:

1. Added Notre Dame as the Association's 11th team, despite the Irish striking their own TV deal with NBCUniversal (NBC Sports Network, formerly Versus) to broadcast all Irish men's hockey home games. Mind you, this was a dealbreaker for another conference (the nascent NCHC) which has yet to play a league game.

2. Added UConn to get to 12, a program that has never played in the NCAA Tournament, doesn't offer scholarships in men's ice hockey and has decided to play its HEA home games 20+ miles from campus at the HCC. If Toot Cahoon just resigned from UMass citing lack of institutional support as his reason, who do you think UConn is going to get to coach the program; one squarely behind women's basketball, men's basketball, football and maybe baseball in terms of fan support and popularity?

UND Blitzes Providence College 6-1

After being run out of their own building two weeks earlier, UND used a balanced attack and scored six goals by six different players to beat the Providence College Friars 6-1 at Ralph Englestad Arena. 

UND's penalty-kill set the tone as the Friars went 0-for-9 on the man advantage and gave up a short-hand goal.

This game was supposed to be a goaltending battle between Zane McIntyre and Jon Gillies. However, UND chased the Friars All-American goalie after two periods of play, putting four pucks past him. Sophomore goalie Nick Ellis relieved Gillies at the start of the third period and UND put two more pucks past him as well. 

Head coach Dave Hakstol was asked how UND was able to get four goals past Gillies.

“We got a little bit of traffic (in front of him) and scored a couple of rebound goals,” Hakstol said. "Nothing fancy at all. We were in the right spot at the right time. Did the right things and fortunate to get a couple by him.”

UND dominated the Hockey East preseason favorite, but the UND head coach was quick to give his opponent credit. 

“They’re a good hockey team and they’re going to make plays and they did that,” Hakstol said. “Our guys showed up tonight and played hard tonight.”

The story of the game was the play of junior forward Drake Caggiula who scored a short-handed goal and three assists. After the game, Caggiula broke down UND's game plan.  

“We just played our game,” Caggiula said. “UND hockey is playing fast, playing physical, and just overall being hard to play against and that’s what we did all night long.”     

When Caggiula was asked about UND's success on the penalty-kill and why they have scored four short-handed goals in five games, he had this to say. 

“That’s the way we penalty kill,” Caggiula said. “We’re aggressive, and when the opportunity is there we’re more than welcome to take that opportunity. They always preach if the opportunity is there to take it. When we’re so aggressive we just create turnovers and we have been lucky so far and got a couple of short-handed goals off of it. We have to keep doing that.”  

Junior forward Bryn Chyzyk likes playing on the penalty-kill and gave his explanation on why UND is scoring so many short-handed goals. 

“We’re getting a couple of bounces, and getting some odd man rushes,” Chyzyk said. “We’re always pressuring pucks up at the blue line. We’re just pressuring pucks and a couple of bounces are hopping over their D-men and were taking advantage of that. Hopefully that will continue.” 

With the Win UND improves to 4-1-0. The loss drops Providence to 1-2-0 on the season. 

Same two teams tomorrow night at 7:07 pm CT. 

(Box Score) 

BBC: Boston Mayor Backs Belfast Bid for Major Ice Hockey Tournament

This would be a first. I wonder what kind of a crowd a college hockey game would draw in Belfast, Ireland? I can't imagine that the Boston Garden would want to just let another venue have the Bean Pot.

BBC.COM - Boston mayor Marty Walsh has given his backing to a bid to bring a major ice hockey tournament to Belfast in 2016.

While visiting the Odyssey Arena, Mayor Walsh offered his support to an Odyssey Trust initiative to bring the NCAA Beanpot tournament to the city.

The Beanpot, which features Boston College, Boston University, Harvard and Northeastern, is one of the biggest tournaments in the ice hockey season.

Boston mayor backs Belfast for Beanpot college ice hockey tournament.

"In the 62 years since its inception it has become the official battle for Boston's hockey bragging rights and is widely known as the 'social event of the winter season'," said Walsh.

"In light of the recent Sister City twinning between Belfast and Boston, which is underpinned by a longstanding connection between the two cities through ice hockey, I think it would be wonderful to bring the Beanpot to Belfast and am lending my support to the campaign."

Hockey East Coaches’ Preseason Poll

1. Providence (7) 127
2. Boston College (3) 120
3. Notre Dame 94
4. Northeastern (1) 90
5. New Hampshire 86
6. Boston University 83
7. UMass Lowell (1) 79
8. Vermont 75
9. Maine 74
10. Merrimack 37
11. Massachusetts 33
12. Connecticut 26


The Hockey East coaches have spoken, and they're not giving UCONN any love.

NESN: UNH Goalie Casey DeSmith Arrested, Suspended After Alleged Domestic Dispute

This happened last week. Casey DeSmith was expected to be the starting goaltender for the UNH Wildcats this season. That leaves incoming freshman goalie Adam Clarke as a potential starter.

Zach Cox, NESN -- University of New Hampshire goaltender Casey DeSmith has been suspended indefinitely after being arrested Sunday in connection with an alleged domestic dispute.

DeSmith was arrested and charged with domestic assault and resisting arrest after police were called to a house near the school’s Durham campus early Sunday morning, according to the Durham Police Department.

A female victim was “thrown to the ground, jumped on top of and was repeatedly punched and spat upon,” Durham Deputy Police Chief Renee Kelly told The New Hampshire. Kelly added that DeSmith, 23, “appeared intoxicated” when police arrived and reportedly resisted arrest after being taken to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital. The police also found “physical evidence” on the victim’s body, Kelly said.

Hockey East: To Broadcast 25 Games

Hockey East announced their NBC Television Schedule today. The schedule includes six Hockey East match-ups. Notre Dame will have a 20 game schedule.

Friday, October 10 RPI at Notre Dame 7:30 p.m. NBC Sports Live Extra

Sunday, October 12 Minnesota at Notre Dame 3:30 p.m. NBC Sports Live Extra

Friday, October 17 Lake Superior State at Notre Dame 7:30 p.m. NBCSN

Saturday, October 18 Lake Superior State at Notre Dame 6 p.m. NBCSN

Friday, October 24 Niagara at Notre Dame 7:30 p.m. NBC Sports Live Extra

Saturday, October 25 Niagara at Notre Dame 7 p.m. NBCSN

Friday, October 31 Vermont at Notre Dame 8 p.m. NBCSN

Friday, November 7 Boston University at Boston College 8 p.m. NBCSN

Saturday, November 1 Vermont at Notre Dame 7 p.m. NBC Sports Live Extra

Thursday, November 20 UMass Lowell at Notre Dame 7:30 p.m. NBC Sports Live Extra

Friday, November 21 UMass Lowell at Notre Dame 7:30 p.m. NBCSN

Friday, November 28 Union at Notre Dame 7:30 p.m. NBC Sports Live Extra

Saturday, November 29 Shillelagh Tournament 7:30 p.m. NBC Sports Live Extra

Friday, December 5 Boston College at New Hampshire 8 p.m. NBCSN

Saturday, December 6 Maine at UMass Lowell 8 p.m. NBCSN

Saturday, January 3 Union at Boston University 7 p.m. NBCSN

Friday, January 9 Dartmouth at New Hampshire 7:30 p.m. NBCSN

Saturday, January 10 Western Michigan at Notre Dame 6 p.m. NBCSN

Friday, January 16 Connecticut at Notre Dame 7:30 p.m. NBCSN

Saturday, January 17 Massachusetts at New Hampshire 6:30 p.m. NBCSN

Friday, January 30 New Hampshire at Notre Dame 7:30 p.m. NBC Sports Live Extra

Saturday, January 31 New Hampshire at Notre Dame 6:30 p.m. NBCSN

Friday, February 13 Providence at Notre Dame 7:30 p.m. NBCSN

Saturday, February 14 Providence at Notre Dame 8 p.m. NBCSN

Friday, February 27 Boston College at Notre Dame 7:30 p.m. NBCSN

Saturday, February 28 Boston College at Notre Dame 6 p.m. NBCSN

NCAA Hockey: Six Part Must-See Non-Conference Series

Atlantic Hockey: Five Must-See Non-Conference Series http://t.co/oXAtQNjJFu
— NHLFantasyPlus (@NHLFantasyPlus) August 25, 2014

I just finished up six blog posts: Five Must-See Non-Conference Series. I am in the process of writing a 10 Must-See NCAA Hockey Series. It should come out this week. As we move towards the 2014-15 college hockey season, this has been the most uneventful off-season that I can remember. For those that are wondering, the NCHC CBSSN television schedule is going to come out sometime in the next six weeks.

Hockey East: Five Must-See Non-Conference Series - http://t.co/exzbOdnZOU #hockey #THW pic.twitter.com/ddqwDiGwCx
— The Hockey Writers (@TheHockeyWriter) August 15, 2014

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— THW Hockey (@HockeyLinks) August 13, 2014

Big Ten Hockey: Five Must-See Non-Conference Series http://t.co/PEJLOVDELc #THW
— The Hockey Writers (@TheHockeyWriter) August 9, 2014

ECAC Hockey: Five Must-See Non-Conference Series http://t.co/uZTLyjpxSn #THW
— The Hockey Writers (@TheHockeyWriter) August 7, 2014

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— Hockey Fan (@HockeyFanLV) July 30, 2014

My Early Preseason NCAA Men's Hockey Favorite

Ok, I know that the season is still two months away, but I just can't get over how this one ended, and not just for North Dakota either. In general, this past season saw a lot of  parody and I expect this season to be just the same. We saw a team with just one NHL draft pick win it all, a team beat another in .6 seconds to go to the national title game, but lose and lose badly. The end of an era in NCAA Men's Hockey with the end of one conference, and the addition to two new ones. Surprising blow-outs and spectacular overtime thrillers. Most of this could be seen within the North Dakota club alone.

Looking ahead to the season upon us, one must look at who left early, and from where, and who has the best incoming freshman. You have your usual suspects as one might imagine, with Boston College, Minnesota, and North Dakota probably being in the top 10 all season long, barring the typical first half North Dakota funk they always seem to have. Union, the defending national champs, is a team that I don't know what to think about. They proved that if you have a good core of players, and believe in your coach/team, great things can happen.

Michigan looks like they are back on the upswing once again, but their usual Big 10 football rival,

Ohio State, they too look as if they could become a team to look at when it comes to tourney time. The Buckeyes are off of a Big 10 tournament runner-up finish, losing an overtime heartbreaker to Wisconsin.

One also has to wonder about Boston University and if they will crawl back up the rankings again, or if they will stay out of the tournament picture like last season. Only time will tell.

Once again, the NCHC looks to be the powerhouse conference, with the possibility of sending at least five teams to the tournament once again. Miami has their top players returning this season, and are once again among the favorites to win the conference in preseason polls. However, they said that last season too and you saw how that ended up.

Minnesota, the College Hockey News number one team coming into this coming season in their very preseason poll release, looks to gain revenge after their national title game flop against Union. The always tough Golden Gophers

should be in the top five of the rankings for much of, if not the entire season. Being lead by goalie Adam Wilcox, and Kyle Rau, Minnesota is looking for banner number six to hang up in their barn once the season is over.

Finally, a team I know much more about, North Dakota. With three of five incoming freshman being drafted at this years NHL Draft, they return a line-up that has a lot of options.

If you thought last year's freshman class was impressive, wait until you see this one. You have a stud goalie, a first round draft pick, and good core team guys leaving a game day spot hard to come by this year. Between Minnesota and North Dakota this year, you don't find much deeper line-ups in the entire country, and I know UND is looking for revenge after how their, dare I say Cinderella, season ended.

If you asked me to pick a national champion right now, I'd have to flip a coin between North Dakota and Minnesota, but the season is very long and a lot can happen. Ask me this question at the start of the second half and I might have a different answer for you.

NCAA Hockey: Jonathan Turk knees Shane Gostisbehere (Video)

Vermont’s Jonathan Turk was given a two minute minor penalty for Charging. To me, this looks like Turk hit the Union defenseman Shayne Gotisbehere with a knee on the back of the knee hit. Union wasn’t happy with the hit. Gotisbehere did return to play in the second period.

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Mens NCAA Tourney is Set

After a crazy weekend of conference tournaments, the 2014 men's ice hockey field was set on Sunday morning. The NCAA looks at the Pairwise rankings, along with auto bids from winning conference tournaments to determine the 16 team field of play.

Lets take a look at this years tournament, first starting with the West Regional in St. Paul working our way east. In the region's first game, we have the number one overall seed Minnesota Golden Gophers facing off against auto bid Robert Morris. This match up seems to have everything made for an easy Minnesota victory, but so did their opening round game against Yale last year. Do we need to even mention the Holy Cross game in 2006 in Grand Forks? What I am trying to get at here is that the Gophers better not take this game too lightly or they could be golfing early once again. One thing they do have on their side is the home ice advantage of playing at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. In the last West Regional hosted here, the Gophers would skate to a regional championship with a 5-2 victory over the University of North Dakota.

For the second game in this regional we have another Minnesota team in St. Cloud State facing off against the always tough Notre Dame Fighting Irish. This opening round game has everything in store for it to be a classic. It has all of the tools to be set up as a classic goaltending duel. Between SCSU's Ryan Faragher and Notre Dame's Steven Summerhays, I would say this is going to be a very low scoring contest. However, one must look at the end of season disaster in the first round of NCHC play against Miami, is one to think that the confidence will be down after getting swept, or will the extra week of no games have them primed and ready to go? Notre Dame, on the other hand, is coming into this tournament knocking off the number two overall seed Boston College, to get to their conference tournament, but would lose 4-0 in the semifinal to the surging UMass Lowell.

I have Notre Dame and Minnesota winning in the first round of this region with Notre Dame advancing to the Frozen Four. I know this is bold, but much like Michigan did in 2011, Summerhays is a goalie who is hot and can carry this Notre Dame team far in this tournament.

Moving to the Midwest Regional where we have number four overall seed Wisconsin playing the team they helped get in by beating Ohio State Saturday, North Dakota. The team formerly known as the Fighting Sioux is coming into this tournament off of a 5-0 victory over Western Michigan in the NCHC third place game. However, their Friday night game against Miami was by far one of the worst games that this UND squad had played all season. Not cashing in on opportunities when in front of them and giving up goals that were not North Dakota like goals to give up. However, if the UND team that played on Saturday shows up in this tournament, watch out. There could possibly be an eighth banner being hung up at the beginning of next season. As for Wisconsin, they are coming off of a dramatic 5-4 overtime victory in the Big Ten championship game against Ohio State. In their last 10 games, the Badgers are an amazing 8-2-0 and if you go back to 12 games, you will find a home ice sweep of Minnesota. These former WCHA rivals are going to beat each other up in this game. Look for a lot of physicality and a very low scoring contest.

For the other game in the Midwest Region, we have Ferris State playing Colgate. Colgate is coming off a 5-2 loss to Union, who is this week's USCHO poll number one team, in the ECAC championship game. Before that, Colgate is 6-2-2 in their last 10 games, including a 4-4 stand-off against Union. As for one of the new WCHA members, Ferris State, they are also coming off a conference championship loss to Minnesota State Mankato of a score of 4-1. Both teams are coming in with something to prove, and have a very tough road to get to the Frozen Four, but never count out a team who just was recently in a Frozen Four with Ferris State.

I have North Dakota and Ferris State winning their opening round match ups with North Dakota advancing to the Frozen Four.

Moving east, we have Union skating into Bridgeport, Connecticut to play the Vermont Catamounts, who is coming off of a very impressive season. However, the Catamounts are coming off of a 3 game Hockey East playoff series loss to UMass Lowell so they also are coming into the tournament on a losing note. However, maybe the extra rest will give them all of the tools for an upset against this very tough Union team. Union is coming into the tournament winning the ECAC championship and as the number one ranked team in the USCHO.com poll. I just can't see Vermont coming out on top in this game, but in this tournament, you can't count anyone out.

For the second game in the East Regional we have Providence playing Quinnipiac. Quinnipiac is looking for a second straight trip to the Frozen Four, but hoping for better results then last season. They also are coming off of a heartbreaking double overtime loss in the ECAC semi finals to Colgate so they come in with a little extra weight on their shoulders. As for Providence, they also are coming off their conference semi final to a loss 3-1 against UNH. going 11-7-2 in a very tough Hockey East, Providence looks to prove that they are deserving on making this tournament by advancing past the first round.

I have Union facing Quinnipiac in the regional final, in what could be another tournament classic if the game actually does happen, with Union advancing to the Frozen Four.

Finally we move to the Northeast Regional in Worchester, Mass. Both opening round games look to be classics with UMass Lowell playing Minnesota State Mankato in the regions first game. MSUM is coming off of a very successful season, only missing out on the WCHA regular season crown to Ferris State by just a single point. However, Mankato would get their revenge in the conference tournament by beating the Bulldogs and win their first WCHA tournament crown. As for Lowell, they probably are coming into this tournaments as one of the hottest teams in the country and will be a tough opponent for anybody in this tournament.

For the second game, we have auto bid Denver facing off against number two Boston College. After a lot of people were skeptical about Denver this season, especially with the departure of George Gwozdecky, but this Pioneer squad never gave up and won the first ever NCHC Frozen Face-Off. As for BC, the Eagles took an early exit from their conference tournament, losing to Notre Dame, Hockey East's newest member. However, the Eagles to play home to the NCAA's likely Hobey Baker winner in Johnny Gaudreau. BC is always a tough opponent this time of year and if they keep up their pattern since 2008, it is their year to win the NCAA title.

I have BC and UMass winning their first round games with UMass advancing to the Frozen Four. The choice for this region wasn't that easy, but I had to go with the hotter team.

Finally for my Frozen Four picks. I have Notre Dame advancing over North Dakota to the title game, with UND having nightmares once again with another hot goalie, much like in 2011. I also Have Union advancing over UMass. UMass can only ride the hot streak for so long and Union is going to put the fire out. Finally for this year's national championship game, I have Union beating Notre Dame.

Now I know some of you are probably thinking I am crazy for picking these two schools to advance to my title game, but that's the power of opinion. Feel free to share what you think with me on twitter at the handle of @siouxhockey33.

(Video) Hockey East officials admit mistake on Doyle Somerby HFB call

Interesting turn of events. It's not very often you can get a hockey or any sports league to admit they blew a call on a play. We have seen it before, in some cases a head of officials from a conference will close ranks around around one of their officials that made a questionable call.They'll come up with some explanation on why their official made a certain call.  Ahem, WCHA... 

I didn't think the play originally looked all that bad, nor did I originally think it was worthy of a five-minute hitting from behind call. You can watch the video from the play and decide for yourself. Obviously, Doyle Somerby hit Kevin Hays from behind, but it wasn't a malicious play.

Quinn: "[Schachte] told me it was a bad call and BC should’ve gotten the penalty for diving...Doesn’t do us any good."
— Boston Hockey Blog (@BOShockeyblog) February 6, 2014

David Quinn said Hockey East Coordinator of Officials Dan Schachte called him Tuesday re: Doyle Somerby hitting-from-behind/game-misconduct.
— Boston Hockey Blog (@BOShockeyblog) February 6, 2014

NCHC Hockey: Non-Conference Record Should Cause Some Concern for the NCHC.

The NCHC's non-conference record against the Hockey East 5-9-4 and the ECAC 4-7-3 is not very good. This means that the NCHC isn't going to get many teams in the NCAA tourney. UND has a 4-2-2 non-conference record and has two more non-conference games against BSU to improve that non-conference record. 

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Canisius Ice Hockey: @GriffsHockey

Army Ice Hockey: @army_hockey

Cornell Men's Ice Hockey: @CUBigRedHockey

Cornell Women's Hockey: @CornellWHockey

Sacred Heart Men's Hockey: @SHUHockey

Brown Men's Hockey:‏ @BrownMensHockey

Brown Women's Hockey: @BrownWHockey

University of Michigan Hockey:‏ @umichhockey

Ferris State Hockey:‏ @FerrisHockey

Minnesota Men's Hockey: @GopherHockey

Minnesota Women's Hockey:‏ @MNWomensHockey

Official League/Conference Accounts Official NCAA conferences list and feed

NCAA Ice Hockey: @NCAAIceHockey

Big Ten Hockey: @B1GHockey

CCHA (sadface):‏ @CCHAhockey

The NCHC:‏ @TheNCHC

ECAC: @ECACHOCKEYMWD1

WCHA Hockey: @wchahockey

Atlantic Hockey: @Atlantic_Hockey

Hockey East: @hockey_east

Reporters, News, Blogs and Interesting Accounts

College Hockey News: @chnews

USCHO.com: @USCHO

College Hockey, Inc: @collegehockey

Quinnipiac Ice Hockey Podcast: @HamdenHkyNight

D3 NESCAC account: @nescachockey

Independant Alabama Huntsville twitter: @WeLoveUAHHockey

Wisconsin State Journal UW Hockey Reporter: @AndyBaggotWSJ

BU sports blog (run by my dear friends) "Bloggin' On Babcock": @blogginbabcock

Everything University of Michigan Hockey: @MichiganHockey

ESPN anchor and college hockey proponent John Buccigross: @buccigross

Another Michigan hockey blog: @YostBuilt

UMass hockey blog "Fight Mass" @FightMass

Penn State Hockey coverage by The Daily Collegian: @TDC_MHockey

University of Minnesota Duluth Hockey Blog: @UMDHockeyBlog

Boston College blog "Around The Res": @AroundTheRes

Former BU hockey reporter, still tweets a lot about college hockey, Scott McLaughlin: ‏ @smclaughlin9

College hockey television analyst Dave Starman: @DStarmanHockey

Voice of Bowling Green hockey Kevin Meyers: @KevinMeyersBG

Bowling Green hockey correspondent Evan Pivnick: @EvanPivnickBG

College Hockey News writer Joe Meloni: @JoeMeloni

CHN and Merrimack writer Mike McMahon: @MikeMcMahonCHN

Cornell Men and Women's hockey blog "Big Red Faceoff": @BigRedFaceoff

SCSUHockey.com fansite: @scsuhockey

BU centric blog (without the blog):‏ @BurntBoats

NCAA Hockey's Future coverage:‏ @DJPowersHF

UMass blog "Fear The Triangle":‏ @FearTheTriangle

Quinnipiac University Hockey Blog: @QUHockeyBlog

ECAC Hockey Blogs:‏ @ECACHockeyBlog

Clarkson Hockey Blog: @ClarksonHockey

Union Hockey Blog: @UnionHockeyBlog

Nanooks Hockey Blog: @NanookHockey

BU Hockey Blog:‏ @TheBUHockeyBlog

Boston University Terrier Hockey Fan Blog: @thfblog

College Hockey News reporter Josh Seguin: @JoshSeguin24

SB Nation College Hockey: @SBNCollegePuck

UMD Bulldog commentary: @runwiththedogs

In-Game Updates for St. Lawrence Hockey: @SLUhockeylive

St. Lawrence Hockey Blog: @sluhockeyblog

Union Hockey News: @unionhockeynews

ECAC College Hockey News and QU hockey reporter Bryan Lipiner: @Bryan_Lipiner

Very biased BU blog "BayState RoadSports": @bsrs_blog

Yale and Quinnipiac hockey reporter Chip Malafronte: @ChipMalafronte

NCAA, NCHC, College Hockey, thehockeywriters: @goon48

North Dakota hockey for the Grand Forks Herald:‏ @SchlossmanGF

Rensselaer Hockey news: @rpihockeydotnet

Northeastern hockey blog "Husky Hockey News":‏ @HuskyHockeyNews

Cornell men and women's hockey blog "Where Angels Fear to Tread": ‏ @CornellWAFT

NBC Sports Network college hockey announcer Dave Goucher: @DavidCGoucher

Over the Boards, college hockey recruiting news: @OTBPuckWatch

UMaine twitter, good guy John Forsyth: @blackbear93

Union and RPI writer for the Albany Times Union Ken Schott: @slapschotts

Maine student sports radio: @SportsWMEB

Lowell fan, CHN contributor, and sarcastic hockey pundit Ryan Lambert: @twolinepass

Northeastern's Ryan Lambert and "good fan" Sean Hathaway: @seanphathaway

Boston University Terrier Hockey Pictures: @BUTerrierPics

USCHO writer Pat Bradley:‏ @PatBradleyUSCHO

USCHO writer Alex Faust: @alex_faust

USCHO writer and RIT commentator Chris Lerch:‏ @chrislerch

USCHO writer Jimmy Connelly: @jimmyconnelly

USCHO writer Paula Weston: @paulacweston

USCHO Hockey East writer Dave Hendrickson: @HendricksnUSCHO

USCHO writer and tech Ed Trefzger: @EdTrefzgerUSCHO

USCHO ECAC writer Brian Sullivan:‏ @SullivanHockey

All things Michigan Tech hockey: @TechHockeyGuide

Boston University's Boston Hockey Blog: @BOShockeyblog

Wisconsin Ice Hockey reporter Andy Johnson: @AndyJohnsonB5Q

St. Cloud hockey blog "Center Ice": @CenterIceClub

UND hockey blog "Sioux Tradition" ‏ @SiouxTradition

Princeton hockey blog "Eye On The Tigers": @PUHockeyBlog

Minnesota Gophers Hockey stats: @GopherPuckStats

CHN/SBCollegePuck and Minnesota writer Nate Wells: @gopherstate

Minnesota Duluth radio guy and blog writer Bruce Ciskie: @BruceCiskie

RIT Mens Hockey live updates:‏ @RITMHLive

College Hockey News writer Adam Wodon: @CHN_AdamWodon

UMaine hockey reporter Matt Booth:‏ @Mainely_Hockey

St. Cloud men and women's hockey news:‏ @KVSCHockey

UMD and NCHC reporter Andrew Craig: @CollegeHockeyHH

Everything Minnesota hockey (High school, college, NHL):‏ @MNState0fHockey

North Dakota Hockey and Minnesota writer @SchlossmanGF

Wisconsin fan, but ECAC reporter Jason Klump: @Jason_Klump

Providence hockey reporter Mark Divver: @MarkDivver

Gopher Puck Live: @GopherPuckLive

Clarkson hockey reporter Cap Carey: @CapCareyWDT

UMD hockey writer Matt Christians: @Matt_Christians

BU hockey blog "Bleed Scarlet": @BleedScarletBU

Student-run Quinnipiac hockey twitter: @QUBobcatHockey

UMass Lowell hockey news "Hawk Squawk"‏: @UMLHawkSquawk

Unofficial Bowling Green hockey twitter: @BGSU_Hockey

Miami hockey blog "Blog of Brotherhood": @MiamiHockeyBlog

Hockey East blog "The Puck Drop": @HockeyEastblog

Hockey East/Atlantic Hockey/ECAC radio show "Hockey on Campus": @HockeyonCampus

Bentley Falcons hockey blog "JAR Pride": @JARpride

RPI hockey blog "Without a Peer":‏ @without_a_peer

BU's unofficial mascot Sasquatch: ‏ @busasquatch

"Cawlidge Hawkey Organization":‏ @CawlidgeHawkeyO

College hockey (among other things) writer Joshua Kummins: @JoshuaKummins

CollegeHockey.info, a larger directory of current and former players:‏ @USCollegeHockey

UML hockey blog "View From 123":‏ @VIEWFROM123

Student Sections/Fan Groups

Michigan's Children of Yost: @ChildrenOfYost

Wisconsin's Crease Creatures: @CreaseCreatures

Minnesota Duluth's Penalty Box: @umdpb

Ohio State's Knucklebucks: @OSUKnucklebucks

Union College's Messa Faithful: @MessaFaithful

New Hampshire's Cat Pack: @UNHCatPack

Boston University's Dog Pound: @BUDogPound

Cornell's Lynah Faithful: ‏@LynahFaithful

Bowling Green's Falcon Fanatics:‏ @FalconFanatics1

Ohio University's Gang Green: @GangGreen14

Michigan Tech's Mitch's Misfits: @mitchsmisfits

Northeastern's DogHouse: ‏@NUDoghouse

Bowling Green's Bleacher Creatures:‏ @bg_creatures

RIT's Corner Crew:‏ @ritcornercrew

North Dakota's NoDak Nation: @NoDak_Nation

Providence College's Friar Faithful: @PCFriarFaithful

RPI's First Church of RPI: @FirstChurchRPI

Nebraska Omaha's The Red Army: @RedArmyUNO

UMass Lowell's RiverHawk Nation: @RiverHawkNation

Penn State's Roar Zone: @TheRoarZone

Minnesota Duluth's Hockey Cheerleaders: @UMD_HockeyCheer

Official Arena Accounts

Union College's Messa Rink: @MessaRink

North Dakota's Ralph Englestad Arena: @TheREA

Boston University's Agganis Arena: @AgganisArena

UMass Amherst's Mullins Center: @MullinsCenter

UMass Lowell's Tsongas Center: @TsongasCenter

Bentley's Ryan Arena: @RyanArena

Coaches

Providence College Head Coach Nate Leaman:‏ @CoachLeaman

Michigan State Head Coach Tom Anastos: @TomAnastos

Princeton Head Coach Bob Prier:‏ @coachbobprier

St. Lawrence Head Coach Greg Carvel: @SkatingSaints

Army Head Coach Brian Riley: @Coach_BRiley

Merrimack Head Coach Mark Dennehy: @MarkD4224

Miami Head Coach Rico Blasi: @CoachBlasi

RPI Head Coach Seth Appert: @SethAppert

UMass Head Coach John Micheletto: @CoachMicheletto

Ohio State Associate Head Coach Brett Larson: @BrettLarson18

Dartmouth Associate Head Coach Dave Peters: @AcademicHockey

Princeton Assistant Coach Greg Gardner: @coachgards

Wisconsin Assistant Coach Gary Shuchuk: @gshuchuk

Boston University Assistant Coach Steve Greeley:‏ @SGreeley8

Cornell Volunteer Assistant Coach Matthew Michno: @MMichno30

Quinnipiac Assistant Coach Bill Riga:‏ @BillRiga

Quinnipiac Assistant Coach Reid Cashman: @ReidCashman

Northeastern Assistant Coach Jerry Keefe: @KeeferJ_

Miami-Ohio Assistant Coach Nick Petraglia: @NickPetraglia

UMass Amherst Assistant Coach Ryan Miller: @rkmillertime

Michigan State Assistant Coach Tom Newton:‏ @CoachNewtonMSU

St. Lawrence Assistant Coach Kristofer Mayotte: @Mayotte_K

UConn Assistant Coach Joe Pereira: @JoePereira91

S/T to @BartRhett for supplying the list. Any omission should be addressed to him. 

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