Non-UND College Hockey 2025-26

[nascar99]

Just now, cberkas said:

Listen to an interview of Sean Hogan, Director of CHI.  A question about a network like ESPN to carry a game of the week. CHI is working to partner with ESPN or NHL Network to grow TV media rights for college hockey, but each conference has their own TV media rights deal. Hogan said talks are taking place to get everyone on the same page about TV media rights or that is what I got from it. 

Interesting that Mike Sneed has been working for a about a decade to get the NCAA legislation and work with the schools to get a team in the Spangler Cup. He said the coaching staff should be announced in the next few weeks. 

 

Link to interview on video or podcast?

[cberkas]

3 minutes ago, nascar99 said:

Link to interview on video or podcast?

College Hockey Coast 2 Coast Se 3 Ep 2 July 14, 2025 | ITHSWpodcasts

The expansion talk, I put the bullet points in that thread

It's toward the end of the interview (35 minutes in the podcast)

[brianvf]

18 minutes ago, Godsmack said:

Cupcake city. Plus, 7 of their 10 games are at home. Those could be Pairwise killers if they lose some of these.

McKenna is gonna be feasting on some cupcakes.    
I would love for them to lose a few of them.  Including ASU to start the season to help out other NCHC teams.

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

7 minutes ago, brianvf said:

McKenna is gonna be feasting on some cupcakes.    
I would love for them to lose a few of them.  Including ASU to start the season to help out other NCHC teams.

And Clarkson as one of our opponents this year

[cberkas]

10 minutes ago, brianvf said:

McKenna is gonna be feasting on some cupcakes.    
I would love for them to lose a few of them.  Including ASU to start the season to help out other NCHC teams.

If the cupcakes bite back, the B1G isn't going to be easy for them 

[brianvf]

The WHL commissioner sure likes to put his foot in his mouth with these NCAA vs CHL comments.

 

[siouxfaninseattle]

7 hours ago, brianvf said:

Penn State announced their NC schedule.  Aside from ASU, looks like they lined up the cupcakes, as usual!

  

 

The next thing is they will be playing Canis.....oops.

[tnt]

10 hours ago, brianvf said:

The WHL commissioner sure likes to put his foot in his mouth with these NCAA vs CHL comments.

 

Most of the guys that will be making the jump to college are elite guys that are very young and looking to make a leap to the NHL in a year or two. Pumping iron and bulking up are the exact things they are looking for, not to mention the “little things” instruction they will be getting at practice rather than spending all the time playing games which may not help with some of the bad habits they might need to improve on.

[fightingsioux4life]

12 hours ago, brianvf said:

The WHL commissioner sure likes to put his foot in his mouth with these NCAA vs CHL comments.

Yeah, that Jonathan Toews guy didn't do much in his career after playing at North Dakota, oh wait...... 

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

Wysh finally published about McKenna

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/45755235/nhl-draft-gavin-mckenna-top-prospect-penn-state-college-hockey-nil-chl

 

[nascar99]

7 minutes ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:

Wysh finally published about McKenna

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/45755235/nhl-draft-gavin-mckenna-top-prospect-penn-state-college-hockey-nil-chl

 

You can tell Wysh has done some research, but still is out of his element talking about NCAA Hockey

[cberkas]

 

[cberkas]

 

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

How do I bet the farm against Minnesota? They lost everyone and brought in a D3 transfer. Bubble team at best right now.

 

[nascar99]

1 hour ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:

How do I bet the farm against Minnesota? They lost everyone and brought in a D3 transfer. Bubble team at best right now.

 

Denver and Western Michigan look to be solid value bets considering Carle knows what he's doing & Ferschweiler continues to turn nobodies into dudes every year.

[Brett0909]

4 hours ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:

How do I bet the farm against Minnesota? They lost everyone and brought in a D3 transfer. Bubble team at best right now.

 

FOUR B1G teams with betting odds over the defending champs and a Denver team that seems to be a coin toss to win it all any given year, lately. Seems they’re taking Bucci’s advice on betting on whoever has the sauciest hands and knows where they keep the cookie jar? Not much love for the NCHC which just keeps winning it all. 

Granted it’s hard not to like those top three, but same could be said for the last decade. Should make for an interesting year. 

[siouxfaninseattle]

Penn State and BU - we have the talent! But we don't win the chip!

[farce poobah]

6 hours ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:

How do I bet the farm against Minnesota? They lost everyone and brought in a D3 transfer. Bubble team at best right now.

 

this seems to reflect where the betting money lives ... rather than a real probability of winning the title.

[Blackheart]

43 minutes ago, farce poobah said:

this seems to reflect where the betting money lives ... rather than a real probability of winning the title.

Agreed...BU and Michigan State seem more likely.  (and of course UND)

[The Sicatoka]

8 hours ago, farce poobah said:

this seems to reflect where the betting money lives ... rather than a real probability of winning the title.

Never forget: the line is set so the house makes its vig and does not lose money no matter the outcome. 

 

Lots of money going down on blue? Expect the payout on red to get better to draw red money for balance. 

[The Sicatoka]

How much of PSU at +400 is CHL / Canadian/ McGavin money being laid down because hey NCAA hockey we'll show you! 

[The Sicatoka]

Maine at +2500 isn't bad if I had a spare C-note I wasn't going to use to light a cigar ...  

[sioux rube]

 

[nascar99]

30 minutes ago, sioux rube said:

 

Nightingale took over in 2022 and has turned a perennial doormat who was pulling in Jagger Joshua & Tiernan Shoudy level of 2 & 3 star recruits into an absolute wagon (on paper) who gets Trey Augustine, Artyom Levshunov, Cayden Lindstrom, & Porter Martone level of high end 4 & 5 star recruits. Nightingale getting Augustine to flip from Michigan to Michigan State after Pearson was forced out changed the course of history for Spartans Hockey.

[atxsioux]

So ... Why in the world did McKenna go to Penn state? Just gets more baffling as time moves on in my opinion.