Grand Forks, ND -- During the first half of the 2019-20 season, the Ralph Engelstad Arena has been a tough place to play. After Saturday's 2-1 overtime win, the University of North Dakota hockey team closed out the first half of their home schedule unbeaten (9-0-0). ...
Grand Forks ND – There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. During the 2019-20 season, Ralph Engelstad Arena has become a house of horrors for the opposition. The University of North Dakota has gone 8-0 and outscored the opposition 38-11. On Friday night,...
On Saturday night, the University of North Dakota completed a two-game conference sweep against the Miami RedHawks. The Fighting Hawks won 7-1 on Friday night and completed the sweep on Saturday with a 5-4 win. The Hawks scored 12 goals on the weekend led by junior...
Grand Forks, ND – Early in the 2019-20 season, the University of North Dakota hockey team has struggled mightily on the power play. Entering Friday's game, the Fighting Hawks hadn’t scored a power play goal since the first game of the Mankato series (October 18,...
On Saturday night, the University of North Dakota took on the Michigan Tech Huskies in the Hall of Fame game. The Fighting Hawks won the game 3-1 to improve to 5-1-1. With the win, UND is 3-1-1 (.700) against the WCHA. Next weekend, the Fighting Hawks open conference...
Grand Forks, ND – In the press room after the game, a couple of us were talking about a theme for Saturday night’s game against the Michigan Tech Huskies. It was hard to find one theme that stuck out. The game was another defensive masterpiece for the Fighting Hawks....
Grand Forks, ND – On Saturday night, the University of North Dakota hockey team got off to a quick start. Thirty-six seconds into the game, the sophomore forward Grant Mismash was depositing the puck into an empty Bemidji State goal. It was the start the Hawks wanted....
Grand Forks, ND – The past couple of seasons, slow starts have plagued the University of North Dakota hockey team. This Friday was no different. Add to the mix, their opponent the Bemidji State University Beavers. It's common knowledge, the Beavers are not a lot of...
On Saturday night, the University of North Dakota finished off a two-game, non-conference sweep of the Canisius Golden Griffins. The Fighting Hawks outshot the Golden Griffins 77-23 on the weekend. This past weekend, UND rolled four lines and 19 Hawks skaters had...
Grand Forks, ND -- On the board in the UND hockey team’s locker room there was a message. “We have a quote on the board before the game, it was sharks only have one thought they smell blood and attack,” junior forward Jordan Kawaguchi said. “So, we smell blood we...
Grand Forks, ND -- Last season, Canisius freshman goalie Matt Ladd stopped 48 of 49 to complete the non-conference sweep against the University of North Dakota. In the end, that loss was one of the final nails in the coffin for the Fighting Hawks' chances of making...
The University of North Dakota defeated the Manitoba Bison 5-1 in an exhibition game. This week the University of North Dakota takes on the Canisius Golden Griffins in an important two-game non-conference matchup. The game was never in question as UND outshot the...
Recently, the NCSA came out with their power rankings. Here’s how the Top five shook out. The NCSA Power Rankings rank schools overall, by sport and by division – including a list of the Best Men's College Ice Hockey Programs in the U.S. for Student-Athletes, which I...
Originally posted at the Sports Daily. Last March, after the Frozen Faceoff Third-Place Game, Colorado College Tigers forward Westin Michaud was asked if he was going to return for his senior season. Michaud missed his freshman season due to injury and had a one more...
It’s been fourteen seasons, since a Division I hockey team won back-to-back NCAA titles. Only Three teams have done it during the 2000s (Minnesota 2002, 2003, Denver 2004, 2005, Minnesota-Duluth 2018, 2019). With their impressive 3-0 victory against UMass on Saturday,...
The University of North Dakota Men's hockey team has released it's 2019-20 schedule. There's going to be a few changes this season. First, UND will have a new assistant coach. Yesterday, UND announced that they had parted ways with assistant coach Matt Shaw. "We thank...
In April of 2016, AIC decided to change their program's trajectory. The college hired AIC Alumnus Eric Lang, to be their program’s ninth head coach. Lang returned to the Yellow Jackets after spending four seasons as an assistant coach with Army Black Knights. With a...
Fargo, ND – It would only be fitting that on the 13-year anniversary of Holy Cross’s shocking defeat of the Minnesota Gophers another upstart team would rock the college hockey world. This time, it’s not as catastrophic. We’ve seen this act before. This time it was...
St. Paul, MN -- Familiarity builds contempt. If you play a team enough times you develop a genuine hatred of each other. By this time of year, everyone in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference hates each other. By the end of March, there’s going to be some hurt...
St. Paul, MN -- In their six-year existence the National Collegiate Hockey Conference has won three NCAA championship. That’s back-to-back-to-back. After watching the semi-finals of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference Frozen Faceoff, I am convinced that NCAA...
St. Paul, MN -- The conference tournaments are one of the most exciting times in college hockey. Entering Friday’s first semifinal game between Colorado College Tigers and the Saint Cloud State Huskies, we knew one thing. The Huskies were already in. They’re going to...
On Saturday night, the University of North Dakota hockey team honored five seniors from the class of 2019. When the night was over, those five seniors had played their final game at Ralph Engelstad Arena. There are no more home games for the class of 2019. Next...
Grand Forks, ND – For the first time in 17 seasons, the University of North Dakota hockey team will go on the road for the first round of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference playoffs. Friday the Fighting Hawks found out their fate as they were waiting to take...
Grand Forks, ND -- The University of North Dakota beat the Omaha Mavericks 2-1 in an important conference game. With the Western Michigan Broncos winning their game against Miami University, the Fighting Hawks will be on the road for the first round of the NCHC...
With three games remaining in the regular season, it appears that the University of North Dakota hockey team may be headed to Kalamazoo, Michigan to take on the Broncos in the first round of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference playoffs. First, that isn’t a...
Grand Forks, ND – The University of North Dakota is running out of games. Saturday, after taking game one of their series, the Fighting Hawks were looking to sweep the third-ranked University of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs. It wasn’t meant to be. It was not the start...
Grand Forks, ND -- The University of North Dakota hockey team split their weekend series with the third-ranked University of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs. After winning game one of the series, it was a different story on Saturday night. At times, UND played undisciplined...
Grand Forks, ND – Originally, Mark Senden wasn’t supposed to be a member of the 2018-19 University of North Dakota hockey team. He was slated to play junior hockey and be the captain of the Fargo Force. Then, last summer, incoming freshman forward Carter Huber...
Grand Forks, ND -- The University of North Dakota beat the University of Minnesota-Duluth 4-1. The Fighting Hawks scored three in the first with goals from Mark Senden, Hayden Shaw, and Casey Johnson. Bulldogs forward Nick Swaney scored the loan Duluth goal. Junior...
Grand Forks, ND – Winning is the best revenge. Saturday night, the University of North Dakota hockey team was in a foul mood. A night earlier, late in the third period, Huskies captain Jimmy Schuldt hit sophomore forward Grant Mismash with a knee-on-knee check,...
