NCAA
NHL Announces Feasibility Study for University of Illinois
June 25th, 2017 The NHL and the NHLPA has announced that a feasibility study will be conducted at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign to determine their eligibility for NCAA Division I hockey. The announcement came at a press conference at the United Center two hours before the...
Frozen Four Championship Game Highlights
April 10th, 2017 The Frozen Four tournament took place over the weekend, an event that continues to grow. Teams that make it this far in the tournament have a lot to be proud of, as they must beat out three other top teams through single-round elimination in order to get there. In a league...
Frozen Four Influences in the National Hockey League
April 8th, 2017 Just like any other national event, the Frozen Four draws in a big audience. Although its viewership ratings haven’t been all that consistent over time, the exposure it provides to its players has indeed skyrocketed. A lot of this extra exposure has to do with the NHL’s...
NCAA's Frozen Four Eliciting Top Defense
April 7th, 2017 The game-winning goal caught everyone off guard. It was so unexpected yet undeniably magnificent. With 26.6 seconds to go in the third period tied at 1-1, Alex Iafallo of the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs re-directed the puck into Crimson’s net, causing the win half a minute...
Sharks Prospects Ready for AHL
March 31st, 2017 The reality of the San Jose Barracuda’s situation is three top wingers are up with the San Jose Sharks as of this being written: Kevin Labanc, Marcus Sorensen and Timo Meier. Add in the departure of Nikolay Goldobin in March in the Jannik Hansen deal, and the talent on...
NCAA Hockey Experiencing Rising Parity
March 29th, 2017 One of the reasons why so many NCAA-developed defensemen are having success at the NHL-level is because these two leagues have parity. Its effects are paying dividends to the game's entertainment factor, including the league's style-of-play. In order for teams to stay...
