The best College Hockey coverage is at CollegeHockeyNews.com http://www.collegehockeynews.com Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:18:20 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/images/design/chn2006-text-180px.gif http://www.collegehockeynews.com College Hockey News http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2010/03/20_trupps.php Standing just 5-foot-8, it’s hard to be noticed on the ice. Couple that with a 20-game goalless streak, and you are virtually invisible. Through two games of the WCHA Final Five tournament, however, North Dakota’s Evan Trupp has stood tall and shown up in a big way. The Alaska native scored two goals and assisted on the eventual game winner in a 4-3 win against No. 1 Denver in the semifinals ... Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2010/03/18_wchafinal.php With Bemidji State and Nebraska-Omaha joining the fray next season, this season's version of the WCHA Final Five will be the final tournament of its kind. Beginning next season, the Final Five will no longer consist of the final five teams -- rather the final five games ... at least in theory. That won't be decided for sure until after this season. The league couldn't have picked a more ... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2010/03/18_eidsness.php This story wanted to be written after two periods, but North Dakota and its goaltender Brad Eidsness wouldn’t let it happen. After two scoreless periods, [[North Dakota]] tallied two third-period goals, one shorthanded, en route to a 2-0 win in the play-in game of the WCHA Final Five in a battle of sophomore netminders, Eidsness and [[Minnesota-Duluth]]’s Kenny Reiter. “I listened ... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2010/03/15_wchasuspends.php North Dakota forward Matt Frattin has been suspended by the WCHA for one game, for a hit on Minnesota's Kevin Wehrs during Sunday's Game 3 between the two teams. As a result, Frattin will have to sit out Thursday's WCHA Final Five play-in game against Minnesota-Duluth. He would be eligible to return for the semifinals, or, if North Dakota loses, for the first round of the NCAAs. The hit ... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2010/03/01_wchasuspends.php The WCHA has suspended St. Cloud State junior foward Aaron Marvin for three games because of his actions in a game against Wisconsin on Feb. 20. Marvin elbowed Wisconsin's Blake Geoffrion in the head, giving Geoffrion a concussion. No penalty was called on the play. Geoffrion had to miss Wisconsin's games last weekend, and is questionable for this weekend. There has been pressure on the WCHA ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2010/02/25_teamof.php [[North Dakota]] started this season unusually -- winning a lot. In the [[Dave Hakstol]] era, for whatever reason, the trend has been to muddle through the early part of the season, then get extremely hot down the stretch, right into the NCAAs. This year's great start, boded well. Tack on the typical hot finish, and it looked like the possibility of a special year. The injury to Hobey Baker ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2010/02/18_wchasuspends.php The WCHA has suspended [[North Dakota]] forward Mario Lamoureux and [[St. Cloud State]] forward Chriss Hepp for one game. According to the WCHA, Lamoureux "violated league conduct and sportsmanship rules" and Hepp "violated NCAA playing rules" during last Saturday's game in St. Cloud, Minn. No further details were given. According to the Grand Forks Herald, Lamoureux challenged ... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0100 http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2010/01/26_thedilemma.php The statement Jack Campbell released might have been honest, but one portion of it wasn’t exactly a message the NCAA wanted to hear. Campbell, who made a verbal commitment to be an incoming Michigan recruit next season, released a statement last December explaining why he chose not to come to Ann Arbor, Mich., next year and instead go to the Ontario Hockey League. And his message made the NCAA ... Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0100