I don’t think I’m talking out of school when I say that the Oilers were far from their best with the Panthers in town on Thursday. Despite being built up as a Stanley Cup rematch, Edmonton was mightily outworked by a shorthanded Florida club that wound up controlling the night from start to finish. Sunday’s…
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Current St. Cloud State coach Brett Larson is the leading candidate to be the next coach at Minnesota, and could be named in the next few days, according to CHN sources.Larson and Grant Potulny, who played and coached at Minnesota, were granted second interviews Sunday. Earlier, Augustana coach Garrett Raboin, a former Minnesota assistant and St. Cloud State alum, was contacted, but he decided to ...
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Our first look at the NCAA Tournament Regionals.Also check out the schedule, times and TV.And our 2026 CHN Bracket Contest is ready. Win prizes. Tell your friends.Albany RegionalFriday, March 27 and Sunday, March 291. Michigan (29-7-1) vs. 16. Bentley (23-11-5), 5:30 p.m. ET, ESPN-U8. Minnesota Duluth (23-14-1) vs. 9. Penn State (21-13-2), 9 p.m. ET ESPN2Michigan comes in having rampaged its way through...
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When Denver has won its championships in recent years, 2022, 2024, it has usually been a slow build. Fits and starts to the season, followed by things eventually clicking. The games aren't usually blowouts, but Denver finds a way.The Pioneers reached into that formula again for this NCHC Tournament. After an overtime win last weekend against Western Michigan, the Pioneers did it again in the NCHC ...
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It’s rare that two Cinderellas face off in a championship final. But neither team that met in Saturday’s Big Ten final was meant to be there. The Cinderella of the season — Michigan — proved that it has evolved from a fairy tale into the king of the conference, the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. And the Cinderella of this tournament — Ohio State — went home heartbroken, its carriage...
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Bentley had a plan: get to the net consistently.After Sacred Heart’s Vitaly Levyy tied the game at one in the second period, the Pioneers found their game and tilted the ice in their favor, despite Bentley dictating play for much of the night. The momentum shift led to a 2-1 Sacred Heart lead on a power-play goal by Gavin Bryant.Even trailing entering the third period of Saturday’s Atlantic Hockey...
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Connecticut will have another chance.Barely, but it will.The Huskies entered the Hockey East championship game controlling their own destiny. But for the second year in a row, and the third time in the last five years, UConn did not win. It lost to Merrimack, 2-1.With a loss, UConn needed both Dartmouth and Michigan to win in order to make the NCAA Tournament anyway. Dartmouth had already won the ...
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Trailing 3-0 after an eyebrow-raising first 13 minutes of the first period, the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs could have perhaps easily accepted that Saturday night at Denver's Magness Arena was not going to be 'their' night.And truthfully, there would have been no shame in it. After all, to even tie the game at that point would have meant scoring at least three times against a goaltender — DU's freshman...
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With the games done, we can project a bracket for this year's NCAA Tournament.This is the first year of using the NPI over the Pairwise, but not much has changed in terms of what to do once we know the final 16.The official Selection Show is on ESPN on Sunday at 3 p.m. (ET).This is the way things shake down, and note that there are a number of judgment calls here. The Committee may choose differently...
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For the second consecutive game, the Edmonton Oilers were outclassed by a team based in Florida. After falling 4-0 on Thursday to the Florida Panthers, the Oilers fell 5-2 to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday in what was a chippy game. Let’s take a look at what happened in this one. In the final…
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Recap of the game.
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Recap of the game.
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The Edmonton Oilers are back at it in the late slot on Hockey Night in Canada for the last night of their homestand, and while a 2-1 run through the first three games is fine in the bigger picture, every point you miss gets bigger with only 12 games left to play. If the boys…
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Edmonton Oilers superstar Leon Draisaitl is in Germany receiving treatment for a lower-body injury, and is hopeful to return to the lineup “soon.” In an interview with Sky News’ Michael Leopold, Draisaitl revealed he will remain in Munich until next Tuesday. When asked if he’ll be ready to return to the Oilers’ lineup in time for…
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Noise about the Edmonton Oilers’ Thursday loss to the Florida Panthers has been loud. It was nothing short of a pitiful performance, as the Oilers were outworked in every element by a team a dozen points out of a playoff spot, never mind the fact that Florida beat the Oilers in two straight Stanley Cup…
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Heading into Friday night, the Bakersfield Condors had split their previous four games with two wins, one regulation loss, and one overtime loss. With 13 games remaining in the regular season, the Condors find themselves in fourth place, trailing the San Jose Barracuda by four points. The first game against the Tucson Roadrunners started off…
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Guests: Andrew 'Hustler' Paterson of WST at 30:03 and Seth Rorabaugh at 1:28:39.
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The Edmonton Oilers lost no ground amongst their closest divisional rivals after a disappointing 4-0 shutout loss to the Florida Panthers — that’s the good news. Now, a stately storm led by Nikita Kucherov comes to town. The lack of emotional engagement in the game left many fans feeling cold exiting Rogers Place, a championship…
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A look at the projected lineups and pre-game interviews.
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The Edmonton Oilers faced their first taste of adversity without Leon Draisaitl in the lineup, coming out flat last game and falling 4-0 to their arch-nemesis, the Florida Panthers. In a game where you’d expect the Oilers, who are in a tight playoff race, to face a team that’s beaten them twice in the Stanley…
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Eight teams arrived in Elmira, Ontario with one thought on their minds: win three games to capture the 2026 U SPORTS National Women's Hockey Championship. Single-elimination games leave little room for mistakes, so teams need to be ready to play the moment the puck is dropped on their first game right through to the final whistle in the gold medal game. Would we see upsets? Would the favorites find their way into the final? The first step is winning a quarterfinal game, so let's see who did wh...
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On Saturday night, Merrimack coach Scott Borek banged the table at his press conference twice.“We’re effing champions. We’re effing champions,” he said.That they were.Merrimack defeated Connecticut, 2-1, for the program’s first Hockey East championship and an NCAA Tournament berth.“That's the feeling, I don't know if I'll ever really know how to describe [it],” Merrimack forward Mark...
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It was just 51 seconds into overtime.“I thought we had a couple looks that I was just waiting for, you know, one to go bar-down,” Princeton coach Ben Syer said. “But it didn't happen.”Dancing into the Dartmouth zone was David Jacobs, a senior who ranked second in scoring on an experienced Tiger squad, boasting 10 goals and 26 assists for 39 points. He was a major reason why Princeton — chosen...
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