Hockey

For the second-straight year, the CCHA’s champion will be decided in a duel between Minnesota State and St. Thomas in Mankato, Minn.The championship scenario is almost a one-to-one recreation of the 2025 final, with the only difference being that the Tommies enter the game as the conference’s two-seed instead of being the three-seed like the previous championship game. And also, this year, if ...

This year’s ECAC championship weekend looks a lot like last year’s — Cornell, Dartmouth and Clarkson have all returned to Lake Placid, looking to claim the coveted Whitelaw Cup.One usual suspect will not be in attendance — Quinnipiac, after being swept by J.F. Houle’s Golden Knights in the quarterfinals. Instead, Princeton takes the place of the Bobcats, making its first trip to Herb Brooks...

For the first time in three years, there will be a new Big Ten Tournament champion.In a rematch of last year’s championship game, where Michigan State downed Ohio State in double overtime, the Buckeyes were in another tight battle with the Spartans.But this time, the underdogs got the better of the defending back-to-back champs thanks to Felix Caron’s overtime winner 2 minutes, 36 seconds into...

It's not exactly a surprise that Bob Motzko is no longer the coach at Minnesota. After every recent season, there's been speculation he would retire.The school called Wednesday's move a "mutual" agreement.Coming one day after athletic director Mark Coyle fired women's coach Brad Frost, it does seem, however, that Motzko was squeezed out the door.It's a move that you can understand, on some level, ...

Minnesota will have a new coach next season, the school announced today, confirming an earlier CHN report.According to a statement, the school and Bob Motzko "have mutually agreed to part ways.""I want to thank Bob for leading our team for the last eight seasons. In addition to winning Big Ten titles, the team advanced to the Men's Frozen Four twice and played in the national championship game in ...