Posts About "WCHA"
The WCHA Adopts 3-On-3 OT, Adds Shootout
August 23rd, 2016 Starting in 2016-17, Western Collegiate Hockey Association league games will no longer end in a tie. On Tuesday, the league announced that the WCHA had adopted the 3-on-3 overtime format. This season, each conference game will have a winner and a loser. Like the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, if the game is tied after a...
WCHA Moves Conference Playoffs to On-Campus Sites
May 19th, 2016 On Monday, the Western Collegiate Hockey Conference Association announced that they were changing their playoff format for their conference playoffs. Starting in 2017, the WCHA will move away from neutral sites for their conference playoffs. The WCHA will hold their entire conference championship at on-campus sites. Per WCHA release --...
WCHA Women’s Hockey: League in Good Hands with Aaron Kemp
July 2nd, 2014 This past week, WCHA Women's Hockey Commissioner, Aaron Kemp, visited the University of North Dakota campus. Kemp was in town to tour the Ralph Engelstad Arena, and met with the UND administration about the upcoming WCHA Final Face-Off. North Dakota is set to host the Woman’s WCHA Final Face-Off on March 7-8, 2015, at the Ralph...
NCAA Women’s Hockey: Is It Time to Tweak the Pairwise Rankings?
March 13th, 2014 This season, the University of North Dakota women’s team finished the season with a record of 20-12-4 (.611). You would think that record would be good enough to make the NCAA tourney. Not so. The UND women’s hockey season is over – finished – there will be no more games this season. Coming into the WCHA Final...
NCHC Hockey: No Second Thoughts or Regrets
December 31st, 2013 The more I read this article, “Second Thought”, the more I take issue with it. I am sure fans of the Big Ten or the NCHC might as well. One should not, however, mistake the history of specific hockey clubs — say, what Minnesota brings to the Big Ten, or Denver to the NCHC — with the history of the conferences themselves. The...
NCHC Hockey: 10 Must Follow Twitter Accounts
October 11th, 2013 Since 2013-14 is the inaugural season for the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, I thought I would give you my top 10 Twitter accounts from the NCHC. From this blogger’s perspective, these are the top 10 Twitter accounts that will give you the up to date coverage of what's going on in the NCHC. National Collegiate Hockey...