+AFs-Cross-posted at Women???s Hockey Nation+AF0 So you???ve discovered the NWHL. And how can you not love a league where the game is delayed because a team bus got lost on the way to the rink, and the players (well, player) break into spontaneous juggling. Perhaps you are a women???s sports fan but … [Read more...]
More on Women’s College Sports and Abusive Coaches
Apparently basketball has a worse problem than hockey. Fewer than 40+ACU of players in one survey found their head coaches trustworthy. I was about to link to the opinion piece in SI where that stat was quoted, but I did not at all like the perspective, which I felt was one-sided, or the attitude … [Read more...]
Quick Thought: Mercyhurst
With the dawning realization that the CHA would no longer be a cakewalk, and with it the end of the automatic automatic national tournament bid, the Lakers??? recruitment strategy has become Britain at the start of World War II, as described by Eddie Izzard: ???Get the tanks+ACE??? ???We haven???t … [Read more...]
First USCHO Poll Of The Year Is Out
Minnesota BC Wisconsin Harvard Clarkson UND Quinnipiac BU Bemidji State Cornell Others receiving votes: Northeastern, ???Hurst, UMD, SLU Pre-season polls are by their nature guesswork. My own guesswork leads me to think UND and Quinnipiac are over-ranked here. ??Northeastern … [Read more...]
L’Etat, C’est Moi
Word around the hockey ether is that a higher-up in Hockey Canada has told players that if they choose the NWHL over the CWHL, they will be blacklisted from the national team. I do not have the privileged access to either confirm or deny this, but it seems consistent with HC???s views about … [Read more...]
WCHA Preview, Part One
The WCHA Coaches??? Poll is out, and it looks like this: 1 Minnesota (6) 48 2 Wisconsin (2) 44 3 North Dakota 35 4 Bemidji State 31 5 Minnesota Duluth 26 6 Ohio State 20 7 St. Cloud State 13 8 Minnesota State 7 Bear in mind that coaches could not vote for their own team.?? It makes … [Read more...]
West Coast Swing
Here is what Coach Johnson has to say on the UW website about the decision to open the season in San Jose: ???It will be a different area than we touched back in 2004 when we went to Southern California,??? Johnson said. ???A former teammate of mine at Wisconsin, Rod Romanchuck, I connected with … [Read more...]
Coaches Behaving Badly
The latest case is out of UConn, following situations earlier this year at OSU and Quinnipiac. The behavior seems largely obnoxious and unpleasant, rather than downright jaw-dropping as in the case of the Buckeyes. Part of the complaint is also that the coaching staff failed to rein in upperclass … [Read more...]
The Weekend Ahead: October 10th
This is an early bellwether weekend for a number of mid-range teams. Stats tell us almost nothing until teams start playing programs at around their own level, so there+ACYAIw-8217+ADs-s little to go on right now. North Dakota is coming off a loss to Vermont and needs to get a sweep against MSU to look like … [Read more...]
The Wrong Lesson
Back when I was so foolish as to write about other sports, one of the first stories that caught my attention, in part because I once found myself sitting across the aisle from her at an invitational,+ACo was that of Jamie Carey. Some of you more dedicated women+ACYAIw-8217+ADs-s sports nerds may remember this … [Read more...]