UNO Maverick hockey news

[HuskerFanChuck]

The Mavs have one guy they nominated for the Hobey Baker award (basically college hockey's Heisman, given to the best player in the nation each year). His name is Ryan Walters. He leads the nation in goals scored right now, and has been a fantastic player for the team this year.

 

The award has the ability to go and vote for your player. It counts for 1% of the total in determining who the 10 finalists will be. Not a lot, but gives the opportunity to contribute to the cause.

 

The link for the Hobey Baker award site where you can vote is here:

 

http://www.hobeybakeraward.com/page/show/179324-home

 

The Mavs also are in first place in their conference, the WCHA, right now. Latest in the year they've been in first in conference ever. In honor of that, they're having a special price on tickets for Michigan Tech on February 1 and February 2. The upper bowl are $9.41 (in honor of their record being 9-4-1 in conference play right now). Less than half normal, and the fees were very minimal (normal being $20 and over $6 in fees). The lower bowl are $19 (in honor of the 19 points they have in the conference standings right now). Not sure how those compare to normal. Anyhow, I'm not an advocate of buying them, just putting it out there for anyone that might be interested in attending, might be the best prices of the season. Link is below for those that might want tickets:

 

http://omahasteam.com/tickets/hockey/single-game-tickets

 

For those interested in the MTU tickets, the opening page they had popping on omavs.com said the offer was only good through tipoff of tonight's game against Denver. On that linked page, it makes no mention of that, but I thought I'd at least warn people if they're interested what the page said. Just offered more as a PSA than anything.

[Omaha-Husker]

Plus we are less than a month from this scene.

:corndance :corndance

[Hooked on Huskers]

WCHA conference joined by Minnesota and Wisconsin? I thought Gophers & Badgers was aligned BIG conference. And Michigan Tech?.........never heard of this school.

 

Denver, UNO, Duluth, St.Cloud St, Alaska-Ank (long trip!), Bemidji State (I think Minnesota school), Minnesota and Minnesota State, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Michigan Tech

[scarletNcream]

Plus we are less than a month from this scene.

:corndance :corndance

got my tickets for christmas from my son, can't wait.

[HuskerFanChuck]

Big Ten didn't have six schools (number needed to sponsor a sport by the conference, I believe) until this year. Penn State is officially independent this year in hockey, and the B1G will start sponsoring the sport starting '13-'14.

 

College hockey is a greatly different animal from most sports. Several schools are DII that sponsor only 1 or 2 sports at the DI level. Not a ton, but several. There are only 58? 59? schools that sponsor at the DI level, if I recall correctly. Not long after the B1G announced they would be sponsoring hockey next year, a group of schools that are basically hockey first schools formed a new DI hockey conference of their own. Started with 6, added two later. I think they have 2 DII schools and one DIII school in the 8 team conference that sponsor hockey at the DI level. The rest are all DI schools. The National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC or the National) consists of North Dakota, Denver, UNO, Minnesota-Duluth, Western Michigan, Saint Cloud State University (in MN), Colorado College, and U of Miami, OH. CC is the DIII, and UMD and SCSU are DII. WMU and SCSU were the two added later. But basically, several power players in college hockey are likely not schools you would have heard of unless you follow college hockey pretty closely, mainly because their names don't resonate anywhere else.

 

Yeah... I know WAY too much about college hockey. It's fun to watch, though.

[HuskerFanChuck]

For those interested, below is the link to the WCHA website. Has the standings as of the end of last weekend, and a lot of pages and info on the teams in the conference. WCHA is, in my opinion, a top 2 conference in college hockey along with Hockey East. After realignment next year, UNO will continue to be in what I consider a top 3 conference, the NCHC, along with Hockey East and B1G. NCHC is basically taking the best of the two Western hockey conferences, the WCHA and the CCHA, sans, of course, those moving to the B1G, and placing them in one conference together. The ones that were basically left from those conferences will combine to form a new version of the WCHA. Link to WCHA below:

 

http://www.wcha.com/men/index.php

 

And a link to the NCHC website:

 

http://nchchockey.com/