Paisley Print 10.3.2021 By Joe Paisley With all the milestones surrounding the first game played at the new Ed Robson Arena, it is easy to overlook another important moment in local hockey history. Air Force’s 2-1 win over Colorado College spoiled the Tigers’ home debut in Saturday’s exhibition game, which featured 13 Colorado natives, including …
Long Distance Thoughts 9.26.2021 by Paul Hornstein As I write the this, we are less than a week from the puck dropping on the 2021-2022 season. Some teams will open with exhibition games like Colorado College will play its first game in the brand spanking new Robson Arena (from long distance it looks great by …
Transfer portal adds another hurdle for the rebuilding Air Force Falcons By Joe Paisley Last year, Air Force coach Frank Serratore wasn’t certain games would be played. Now, he’s not sure what to expect from his opponents with so many undergoing roster overhauls before what everyone hopes will be a more conventional schedule.. “We’re just …
Paisley Print 9.9.2021 By Joe Paisley Senior defenseman Bryan Yoon said he realized he was home upon seeing the Colorado College logo and mountains on the Robson Arena scoreboard. He felt it. “It’s hard to put into words why it feels like home,” the Parker, Colo. native said after the players toured their new facility for the first time. “You just know it.” Forgive the players if …
Paisley Print 8.24.2021 By Joe Paisley There are a lot of words – some big, some small — to describe Ed Robson Arena on the Colorado College campus. “Wow” may be what springs to mind when Tiger hockey fans first set foot in the state-of-the-art facility near downtown Colorado Springs. “You take a picture …
By Paul Hornstein It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, every single day! No, not December 25th, I’m talking October 2nd & October 3rd! That’s the weekend that ASU hosts UMass-Lowell to open the 2021-22 hockey season. And if you read this space before, you know that I still feel that every season, …
By Paul Hornstein So for the second time in a month, a school’s administration has screwed all of the people involved in their university’s hockey programs. And the only reason I did not use anything stronger or more descriptive is because we try to keep things PG around here. About a month ago, as the season ended …
Okay, so UMass’ win over St. Cloud State in the championship game was anticlimactic. If you think about it, all championship games are. You get all pumped up, you get into the game and when the high of the post-game ceremony is over. That’s it. You instinctively look for the next games on the schedule, …
Sometimes you get what you wish for. I wanted chaos in the NCAA hockey tournament & guess what? I got it. If you heard our College Hockey Southwest Live podcast last night (You haven’t? Let’s go…), I literally was getting the brackets as we were doing the show. I know they were released about an …
Chaos. All I want is some chaos. Is that really too much to ask? No, I’m not talking about real world chaos, we have far too much of that already. I’m talking about sports chaos. The kind of chaos that makes sports fun. The unpredictability of playing the games that paper doesn’t have. All I …