As if there was any doubt about the capabilities of Team USA, the team answered with a clutch win over the host Czechs in action at the World Junior Championship on Monday. A day after beating the Russians 3-1, a team that had embarrassed powerful Canada 6-0 in its previous game, the Americans held … [Read more...]
NEHJ’s three stars of the weekend
We had a lot of New England college teams in action over the weekend, with two annual tournaments -- the Ledyard Classic in Hanover, N.H., hosting by Dartmouth, and the Catamount Cup in Burlington, Vt. and hosted by the University of Vermont -- plus a gaggle of interesting non-conference games. On … [Read more...]
Weekend preview: Big games to watch
Last weekend we had a wealth of prep hockey holiday tournaments. This week college hockey takes its turn as the NCAA returns from its holiday break with a couple of tournaments and some interesting non-conference games. But the prep scene isn't completely quiet, as we have the Belmont Hill/Nichols … [Read more...]
5 takeaways: Team Canada 6, Team USA 4
The moral of the story for hockey fans watching the U.S.-Canada preliminary-around game on Thursday was that you cannot take penalties in the World Junior Championship. Not against power plays as potent as these two. The U.S. and Canada opened their respective tournaments in the Czech Republic with … [Read more...]
World Juniors: What to watch for
The World Juniors -- officially called the International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship -- will be held this year (and part of next), in Ostrava and Trinec, Czech Republic. And the tournament has a heavy New England influence. A total of nine players on Team USA are either from the … [Read more...]
Photos: Loomis Chaffee’s great European adventure
When it comes to grooming young players and bringing teenagers together from disparate backgrounds and regions of the country, the biggest challenge can be to have them all relate to one experience. In order to perform well, a team must buy into one common philosophy, one common mindset, in order to … [Read more...]