The Ciskie Blog

After announcing the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) All-Rookie Team on Tuesday, the NCHC has announced its all-conference team...

The annual tradition that is NCHC postseason awards started Tuesday, when the league released its All-Rookie Team. All-NCHC honors are due...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- I'll be back later with a UMD-Western Michigan preview, but first some big news from the UMD women's program as ...

DENVER -- Greetings from Denver, where UMD is completing preparation for this weekend's NCHC playoff series against the host Pioneers. ...

This is a big deal. 15 nominees for the prestigious Hockey Humanitarian Award were announced Thursday . UMD has two of them. Men's...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- I had planned on doing this last week, but illness overcame me in Thunder Bay and I decided to put it off. It took unti...

In case you missed it earlier this week, UMD (presumably) finished up its 2014-15 recruiting class this week. The Bulldogs secured a commitm...

It's been a good week for UMD. Not only did the Bulldogs sweep Western Michigan in Kalamazoo, and somehow fly a commercial airline and...

OMAHA, Neb. -- I'm pretty sure media isn't going to be invited to vote on the official All-NCHC team this season. I'm too lazy t...

We have a few things to clean out of the proverbial notebook regarding UMD hockey. For starters, UMD announced its annual player awards Tu...

Here is the WCHA's annual awards release, which came out earlier Thursday. St. Cloud State University forward Drew LeBlanc, a driving ...

As is typical, I was handed a ballot for the All-WCHA team on Friday night, before UMD's game with Omaha. And also typical is my gener...

Halfway through the WCHA season, it's time for my annual look back at what we've seen so far, complete with a look at what my All-WC...

Every year, I usually kill some time during mark the midseason break in college hockey by taking a stab at what my actual WCHA awards ballo...

For the second straight week, UMD is front-and-center as the WCHA releases its weekly individual awards. This time, the Bulldogs are doubl...

ST. PAUL -- On the eve of what he termed Friday as the biggest game of his life -- for the fourth game in a row -- UMD senior Kyle Schmidt h...

The Hobey Baker Memorial Award is the most prestigious honor given out in college hockey. Annually, it is awarded to the sport's top pla...

We all voted. We gave you a chance to chime in (most of you generally failed at providing anything substantive, but you're fans, so it...

It's just another lesson learned, yeah. In this case, don't do anything that makes it appear you're intentionally (or, for t...