Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026

[scoop85]

Bob Motzko fired by Minny

[imafrshmn]

Bob Motzko fired by Minny

They also fired their longtime women's coach Brad Frost

[Iceberg]

Yale is considering a few head coach candidates apparently.

https://x.com/Yale_HockeyBlog/status/2034344931922231640

Two of those guys were on the 2013 team and one is the current interim head coach. Lots of younger candidates

[Chris '03]

Not sure where else to put this but Ken Schott, longtime capital district hockey reporter is among the latest media industry victims.

"My time with The Daily Gazette came to an end today. It was a great ride. To everyone who followed me for my #UnionHockey and #ECACHockey coverage for 30 seasons, thank you. For those who listened to "The Parting Schotts Podcast," thank you."

https://bsky.app/profile/slapschotts.bsky.social/post/3mhglp545j22s

[ugarte]

goddamn right before the albany regional? a shame what's happened to print.

[pjd8]

ESPN+ did me the courtesy of bouncing me to the Merrimack-UMass game after the Dartmouth win. 2:05 to go and Merrimack is up 1-0

[pjd8]

And Merrimack got an ENG with 1:39. UMass may see there season end in less than two minutes.

[pjd8]

Merrimack wins! They are the first 8 seed ever to make the HE final.

[stereax]

Merrimack wins! They are the first 8 seed ever to make the HE final.

Hell yeah, good on them!

[pjd8]

Minnesota State wins the CCHA Tourney and moves to 14 in NPI. UConn beats BC to go to the HE final and is 13th in NPI, so they have a chance at a bid even if they lose, according to today's commentators.

But they can also miss out on a bid given that Princeton, Ohio State, and Merrimack all still have the opportunity to play spoiler tomorrow.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I've been playing with YATC, and have reached the following conclusion:  There's a 75% chance we play Denver in Loveland and a 25% chance we play Providence in Worcester.

There are only two games that will influence where we play next week.  Those are the ECAC final and the NCHC final.  And the latter is key because Denver is the host in Loveland.

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We are locked in at #11.  So if bracket integrity is key (and recently it has been), we will play the #6 team, unless #6 is Dartmouth.

1.  Dartmouth wins and Denver wins:

Denver will finish 5th and Dartmouth 6th.  Dartmouth goes to MSU regional likely in Worcester, and Denver gets Western Michigan in Loveland.

Since we can't play Dartmouth in the first round, they'll swap #11 and #12 and we'll play Denver in Loveland.

2.  Dartmouth wins and Denver loses:

Denver finishes 6th and Dartmouth finishes 7th (Duluth finishes 5th).  Western gets the Worcester regional with Duluth and MSU gets Loveland.  We play #6 Denver in Loveland.  Dartmouth goes to Sioux Falls with NoDak.

3.  Princeton wins and Denver wins:

Denver will finish 5th and Dartmouth 8th. Providence finishes 6th.  As before Denver gets Western in Loveland.  We get Providence in Worcester with MSU.  Dartmouth plays in Albany.

4.  Princeton wins and Denver loses:

Denver finishes 6th and Dartmouth finishes 8th (Duluth finishes 5th). As before, Western gets the Worcester regional with Duluth and MSU gets Loveland.  We play #6 Denver in Loveland.  Dartmouth plays in Albany.

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FTR, Quinny always finishes 9th.  So if Dartmouth finishes 8th, Quinny will get swapped with the #10 team, Penn State.  Which means if Dartmouth loses, Quinny goes to Sioux Falls.

Don't shoot the messenger.

[Snowball]

So Loveland, Colorado, altitude almost 5000 feet? Versus about 800 feet for Lynah rink? And we would play Denver whose players would be acclimatized to the altitude?

Hope the team can get there early and hydrate like crazy beforehand.

[stereax]

So Loveland, Colorado, altitude almost 5000 feet? Versus about 800 feet for Lynah rink? And we would play Denver whose players would be acclimatized to the altitude?

Hope the team can get there early and hydrate like crazy beforehand.

If Denver wins, Den 5, Dart 6, Prov 7, UMD 8. We're 11 so we get shuffled out of Dartmouth automatically, which means we get onto "mercy of the committee" rules. Then the committee can fuck around with us.

Dart needs to get either PSU or Wisconsin. They'll probably try to give Dart Wisconsin because 6-9 isn't super fair and the easiest shuffle is simply giving us Denver. That would give UMD-PSU and Prov-Quin.

If UMD wins, UMD 5, Den 6, Dart 7, Prov 8. So Dart-Quin needs to be shuffled, therefore Dart-PSU, Prov-Quin, and then UMD-Wisco, Den-us.

So... unless the committee wants to try to seed us out East (which I suspect they don't give a fuck about) we're playing Denver in Denver.

That's gonna suck!

If Denver wins, we get WMU as the 1 seed. If Denver loses, the 1 seed is Mich State.

But we'll see what happens.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

So Loveland, Colorado, altitude almost 5000 feet? Versus about 800 feet for Lynah rink? And we would play Denver whose players would be acclimatized to the altitude?

Hope the team can get there early and hydrate like crazy beforehand.

If Denver wins, Den 5, Dart 6, Prov 7, UMD 8. We're 11 so we get shuffled out of Dartmouth automatically, which means we get onto "mercy of the committee" rules. Then the committee can fuck around with us.

Dart needs to get either PSU or Wisconsin. They'll probably try to give Dart Wisconsin because 6-9 isn't super fair and the easiest shuffle is simply giving us Denver. That would give UMD-PSU and Prov-Quin.

If UMD wins, UMD 5, Den 6, Dart 7, Prov 8. So Dart-Quin needs to be shuffled, therefore Dart-PSU, Prov-Quin, and then UMD-Wisco, Den-us.

So... unless the committee wants to try to seed us out East (which I suspect they don't give a fuck about) we're playing Denver in Denver.

That's gonna suck!

If Denver wins, we get WMU as the 1 seed. If Denver loses, the 1 seed is Mich State.

But we'll see what happens.

Yep, that's what I see, although the committee could in theory swap us and Penn State to prevent two regionals with two Big Ten teams each, but history says we'll get screwed over.

And for those thinking about it, the air fares between New York and Denver doubled in the past week.  So if we end up in Loveland, I'm probably gonna give it a pass. 

[marty]

If Duluth wins Q at 9 draws Providence. 

I'm thinking Michigan vs Bentley in Albany, with Providence and Q also as Michigan should pair with #8 Providence.

It could be Western Michigan in Colorado.  WM should as a 4 pair with Duluth 5 and Wisconsin 12. BUT Denver as a 6 n must be in Colorado and could simply replace Duluth.

Then in Worcester MSU vs UConn and instead of 6 Denver vs 11 Cornell it could be Duluth vs Cornell.

So I want Duluth to win the OT NCHC game.