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UND vs. DU, Series Preview

UND vs. DU, Series Preview

This weekend, the top-ranked North Dakota travels to Denver, Colorado, to take on their arch rival Denver in a two-game conference series. UND enters the weekend unbeaten in five games (4-0-1, .900). This is the final series of 2014. UND will be off until January 3,...

NCHC Power Rankings

NCHC Power Rankings

Welcome to the Inside Hockey Power Rankings. Taylor Seibel and I return for another season. Three of us will be doing the weekly NCHC Power Rankings column. This season, Zach Hawkins @Siouxhockey33, Taylor Seibel @taylorseibel and Eric Burton @goon48 will break down...

UND Grinds out Win against LSSU

UND Grinds out Win against LSSU

Grand Forks, ND – The University of North Dakota has played in 17 games so far this season and throughout the first half of the season, the players have beaten a path to the training room.  The busiest person on the UND staff has been the trainer Mark Poolman. Looking...

UND Grinds out Win against LSSU

Five-Goal Second Period Sparks UND Win

Grand Forks, ND – Freshman goalie Cam Johnson made his first collegiate start on Friday night against the Lake Superior State Lakers. Johnson’s first start was a rough one to say the least. Despite the rough outing, UND head coach Dave Hakstol didn’t second guess his...

UND Grinds out Win against LSSU

North Dakota vs. Lake Superior State, Series Preview

This weekend, the top-ranked University of North Dakota entertains unranked Lake Superior State in a two-game non-conference series. This is the last home series of 2014. Series History All-time, UND has a 2-0-0 (1.00) record against the Lake Superior State Lakers. At...

NCHC POWER RANKINGS

NCHC POWER RANKINGS

Welcome to the Inside Hockey Power Rankings. Taylor Seibel and I return for another season. Three of us will be doing the weekly NCHC Power Rankings column. This season, we’re adding Zach Hawkins to the mix, you can follow him at @Siouxhockey33. Hawkins is the...

UND Grinds out Win against LSSU

McIntyre Backstops UND to Win

Grand Forks, ND – A year ago, the University of North Dakota hockey team had a 4-7-2 record. They were sitting in the bottom of the NCHC standings and they were going nowhere fast. What a difference a year makes. Wins don’t come easy in the NCHC. Every series is a...

UND Grinds out Win against LSSU

Nebraska-Omaha Beats North Dakota in a Shootout

Grand Forks, ND – Coming into tonight’s game, the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks and the University of North Dakota have played a grand total of 12 games against each other.  Based on the intensity of the 12 previous games, you would've thought they’d played over 100 games...

UND Grinds out Win against LSSU

North Dakota vs. Nebraska-Omaha, Series Preview

This weekend, second ranked University of North Dakota entertains the 11th ranked Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks in a two-game conference series. This begins a two-week home stretch for UND. Series History All-time, UND is 7-5-0 (.583) against Nebraska-Omaha. In Grand...

UND Grinds out Win against LSSU

North Dakota vs. St. Cloud State, Series Preview

This weekend, second-ranked North Dakota travels to Saint Cloud, MN, to take on the 16-ranked St. Cloud State Huskies in a two-game conference series at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center. This series will feature the defending regular season champion against the...

UND Grinds out Win against LSSU

Miami Beats North Dakota in Grand Forks

Grand Forks, ND -- The last time Miami the University RedHawks played the University of North Dakota hockey team in Grand Forks, ND, it wasn’t pretty. UND sent Miami back to Oxford, Ohio, on the wrong side of an embarrassing series sweep. During that two-game series...

North Dakota Beats Providence in Grand Forks

North Dakota Beats Providence in Grand Forks

After being run out of their own building two weeks earlier, UND used a balanced attack, scoring six goals, by six different players to beat the Providence College Friars 6-1 at Ralph Englestad Arena. UND's penalty-kill set the tone as the Friars went 0-for-9 on the...

UND’s Hakstol: “Regionals are the Pinnacle”

UND’s Hakstol: “Regionals are the Pinnacle”

This past weekend, UND played in the NCAA West Regional tourney in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  If you watched the games you will see that the games were sparsely attended, just like I had predicted. So the NCAA wants the teams to play in empty arena’s posing as quite...

Time to move the NCAA Hockey Tourney back on campus

Time to move the NCAA Hockey Tourney back on campus

It’s that time a year again, Division I college hockey soon will be taking center stage in the NCAA regionals playing in half empty arenas, in venues in cities across the USA. It’s a yearly occurrence for college hockey, because we can’t have any more regionals on...

UND beats WMU in the Third Place Game

UND beats WMU in the Third Place Game

Minneapolis, MN – The University of North Dakota Hockey team came into the National Collegiate Hockey Conference’s Frozen Faceoff third place game with their NCAA playoffs hopes on life support. First, they needed to win the third place game, if they had any chance of...

Miami Blanks UND

Miami Blanks UND

Minneapolis, MN – Coming into the National Collegiate Hockey Conferences Frozen Faceoff three of the four teams needed to win the tourney to continue their season. The University of North Dakota came into Friday’s game as an NCAA bubble team. At a minimum, they need...

UND Advances to the Frozen Faceoff

UND Advances to the Frozen Faceoff

Grand Forks, ND – Coming into game three of their best-of-three series, the University of North Dakota Hockey team had no room for error. It’s was do-or-die, lose, and they most certainly would miss the NCAA tourney. There’s would be no second chances for the Green...

Colorado College Beats North Dakota in O.T.

Colorado College Beats North Dakota in O.T.

Grand Forks, ND – A look at the calendar told us that March 15, 2014, wasn’t Ground Hog Day. Funny, it sure felt like it.  After giving the Colorado College Tigers a two-goal lead the night before, UND coughed up another two-goal lead again, a night later. Through two...

UND Scores Four Unanswered Goals, Takes Game One

UND Scores Four Unanswered Goals, Takes Game One

Grand Forks, ND – Coming into tonight’s game, the Colorado College Tigers were an offensively challenged hockey team, averaging 1.94 goals per game. The Tigers would get a quick start, scoring two goals before the game was eight minutes old. It was not the start that...

Womens Hockey: USA beats Canada at the Ralph

Womens Hockey: USA beats Canada at the Ralph

Grand Forks ND – Tonight felt a reunion; twin sisters Jocelyn and Monique Lamoureux played their collegiate hockey at Ralph Engelstad Arena, which sits on the campus of the University of North Dakota. Actually, it was like they never left. Before the game, there was a...

WCHA Hockey: What Are We Doing Here?

WCHA Hockey: What Are We Doing Here?

Saint Paul, Minnesota – Recently, I was listening to a weekly podcast of College Hockey Tonight, and the host Scott Williams and Moose Richards were talking about the break of and reformation of the WCHA. Shameless plug department. First, if you’re not listening to...

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