Monday was Christmas, a day where kids all over the world wonder if they’ll wake up with presents under their tree, a lump of coal in their stockings, or something even worse depending on the country you’re from. Unfortunately for me, I got my coal one week early. Two weeks ago, I gloated about […]
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — Sometimes teams can be a little slow out of the gates coming off a bye week, but that definitely wasn’t the case for the St. Thomas men’s hockey squad Friday against Lake Superior State. Instead of being hungover from the Thanksgiving holiday, the Tommies stayed hungry and
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By Ryan Stieg If there’s one thing that is true about the CCHA this year is that it’s wildly unpredictable. This makes me feel as if each passing week, my picks for each conference series are pointless. In fact, last week, I was celebrating my own mediocrity where I once again picked only one league
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By Ryan Stieg Have you ever taken pride in mediocrity? I’ve never considered it until this week, but this streak that I’m currently on is worth at least a small dose of pride. After going winless with my CCHA picks a few weeks ago, I’d gone through an impressively weak stretch of winning just
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — For the first month of the season, the second game of a series has been a problem for the St. Thomas men’s hockey team as the Tommies had been shut out on three of the previous four Saturdays heading into this weekend’s series with Northern Michigan. The Tommies’
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — After getting swept last weekend at Bemidji State, St. Thomas men’s hockey coach Rico Blasi talked earlier this week about his team needing to play to its identity heading into Friday’s game against Northern Michigan. The Tommies clearly listened to him as they took an early 2-0 lead
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By Ryan Stieg Two weeks ago, I had the worst performance I’ve ever had making predictions on this site. So, I took a vow not to gamble that much again for the rest of the season and went into last week looking for redemption. I didn’t find it though. I was wrong about St. Thomas-Bemidji
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — The St. Thomas men’s hockey team is one month into its season, and it’s been an up and down affair so far. The Tommies split their first series with St. Cloud State, got swept by Minnesota, and then swept Lindenwood at home to enter the CCHA season
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By Ryan Stieg Sometimes, people ask me why I never bet on sports, or if I do, why is it in small amounts. The type of bets you would probably call wuss bets, or something of that nature. Well, I think if you look back at my CCHA predictions from last week, you’ll see why.
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By Ryan Stieg MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — College hockey seasons are usually broken up in two parts, the regular season or first season, and the playoffs or second season. However, there is a somewhat forgotten slate and that’s the conference season, which in the case of the St. Thomas men’s team, begins this weekend
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