Coast To Coast is FloHockey’s monthly, cohesive news on North American hockey and live-streaming partnerships.

Coast To Coast is FloHockey’s monthly, cohesive news on North American hockey and live-streaming partnerships.

The Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) announced its 104-game conference schedule on Thursday. All eight CCHA teams will play a 26-game conference slate with the regular season champion being awarded the prestigious MacNaughton Cup, recognized as the premiere conference trophy in collegiate hockey.

Coast To Coast is FloHockey’s monthly, cohesive news on North American hockey and live-streaming partnerships.

On paper, this game should be no contest. But it’s played on ice.

In the aftermath of calamitous events—typhoons, stock market crashes, building collapses and the like—investigators look back and usually find salient clues that could have tipped off the masses before the catastrophe: an ill wind, over-leveraged mortgage securities, a rusted out beam.

Home sweet home. If you asked CCHA coaches in October about their playoff aspirations, they all would have told you that Job No. 1 is to secure home ice in the first round. Here we are, five months later, and the three-team battle between Bowling Green, Lake Superior and Northern Michigan for the CCHA’s final home playoff spot is stealing the thunder from the confrontation of the league’s two superpowers.

This week in CCHA RinkRap, a storybook homecoming for Mike Hastings, a brief visit to rock bottom in Big Rapids and the never-say-die Cats return to life in Ohio.

This week in the CCHA: A first round playoff preview, BGSU fights to maintain home ice and college hockey’s silver chalice on hand in Mankato.

This week on RinkRap: Michigan Tech's streak ends in a big way, the Tommies get thrashed in Alaska and a former Bulldog beats his old team.

This weekend in the CCHA: Tech and BGSU vie for a trophy, jostling for position in the Soo, and an old friend plays host to CCHA action.

This week on RinkRap: the ultimate homecoming for MNSU’s Brendan Furry, Grant Potulny can’t believe his Lyin’ Eyes in Bemidji and Rico Blasi’s Tommies play spoiler.

Coast To Coast is FloHockey’s monthly, cohesive news on North American hockey and live-streaming partnerships.

College hockey has just entered its shortest and most important month. At last count, there were a zillion permutations in the possible final standings of the CCHA regular season, even if one presumes that Minnesota State finishes first and St. Thomas eighth, and technically neither has clinched their spots at the two ends of the dial. But there are trends, and there is the eye test, and there are bounces, and as this CCHA horse race hits the home stretch, we have enough information to make educated guesses. And then the puck drops.

This week on RinkRap: a patriotic sendoff in Mankato, Tech’s Joe Shawhan is forced to adapt to reach the promised land; and a visitor’s trophy-hoist in Marquette.