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Worcester State Lancers: No Shortage of Scoring Depth
The Worcester State Lancers will look to continue where they left off in the 2022-23 season as a team that finished with a 54%-win percentage. Surprisingly, Bob Deraney departed after two seasons to take on a role with the ECHL’s Worcester Railers. Jay Punsky, who has been an assistant on Deraney’s staff will take… Read more
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Hockey East Recap: Eagles, Friars, and Warriors-Oh My!
The fourth weekend of Hockey East action finally gave us some interesting intraconference play. As has been the case, we also got to take in a handful of interconference games involving top-20 ranked opponents with Hockey East teams pulling out wins once again. 3rd ranked Boston College’s back-to-back wins against 8th ranked Michigan State… Read more
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UConn Huskies 2-1 UMass Lowell Riverhawks (OT): UConn gets key win, UML takes one on chin in home opener/first intraconference game despite battling hard
I hate to step on Christian’s toes, but since I attended this game, I felt inclined to share my thoughts on the performance of both teams and its implications for them as part of this very chaotic and unpredictable early stage of the 2023-24 Hockey East/NCAA D1 season. These two teams entered this game in… Read more
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HC Sochi 5-4 SKA Saint Petersburg: “Hey, hey, I’ve seen this one! I’ve seen this one! This is a classic!”
As fortune would have it, HC Sochi had their first impressive performance in a handful of games today (October 27th) against the same team they made arguably their most impactful/definitely their most sentimental victory against in the 2023-24 KHL season season. No less, it happened in the same venue (at home in the Bolshoy Ice… Read more
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UMass Dartmouth: Looking for S&P Returns on Chemistry
The UMass Dartmouth Corsairs look to 2023-24 as a crossroads to return to past successes or continue their recent slide of losing seasons. Seventh year head coach Erik Noack was looking like a Kingmaker for the Corsairs prior to the pandemic, but the team has not been able to make a run to the… Read more
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SKA Saint Petersburg vs. Kunlun Red Star: Undeterred by poor start, SKA rides power play to victory
In their matchup on the road against a poor Kunlun Red Star team with only 3 regulation victories to their name, SKA Saint Petersburg drew first blood via a power play goal by Arseni Gritsyuk (with assists going to Alex Galchenyuk and Mikhail Vorobyov) just 4:01 into the first period. However, the rest of the… Read more