Minnesota State Univ. (Mankato) News & Stories

As the holiday break approaches, what are we seeing out there?

We already know the vast majority of March's NCAA tournament participants. It's just a matter of the order in which they finish.

Who has the inside track to win the major college hockey awards?

With transfers more important than ever, who did the best at bringing them to campus this summer?

The race for the CCHA regular-season title is very tight, so who should be the favourite?

Ryan Lambert previews the 2023-24 NCAA Div. 1 men's college hockey season, looking at major storylines and important dates for a new season.

Ryan Lambert recaps all four games from the first day of the NCAA Tournament, going over Cornell, Minnesota, St. Cloud, and Boston University's wins.

The NCAA men's hockey tournament starts tomorrow, and Ryan Lambert's preview tells you everything you need to know ahead of four action-packed days of college hockey.

Five of six conference semifinals went to overtime on Friday, and two heavy underdogs won, setting up a wild Championship Saturday.

EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert reports on Denver's stunning third period comeback victory over Minnesota State for their record-tying ninth NCAA championship title.

EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert sets the stage for the NCAA championship game between the University of Denver and Minnesota State (Mankato).

How can a goalie be the most outstanding player in the country, but not the most outstanding goalie? Well, as EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert writes, it's complicated.

Ryan Lambert reports on Minnesota State's commanding win over their in-state rival the University of Minnesota, one that's booked them their first NCAA championship game appearance in program history.

The end of the college hockey season is here. Starting tomorrow afternoon, the four teams left standing will be whittled down to just one champion by Saturday night.Three of the...

EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert profiles the candidates for the Hobey Baker Award, and makes his case for each.

EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert profiles the candidates for the Mike Richter Award, and makes his case for each.

EP Rinkside's college hockey expert Ryan Lambert recaps the third day of the NCAA tournament, with recaps of the action at the Loveland and Albany regional finals.

EP Rinkside's resident college hockey expert Ryan Lambert recaps the first day of action at the NCAA tournament

It's an arms race in the Atlantic Division, as the Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Boston Bruins, and Toronto Maple Leafs stockpile talent for what each team hopes will be a long playoff run.

It's playoff time in college hockey, and NCAA tournament seeding is on the line every night.

J.D. Burke, Mitch Brown, and Catherine Silverman team up to build an exhaustive guide on the 2022 cycle's best NCAA free agents, one that offers proprietary analytics and scouting reports on each of the 40 or so players included in the piece.

Michigan Tech is an unlikely NCAA tournament team, and they're taking advantage of a quirk in the rules to do it.

The United States and Canada are using college players to fill out their rosters at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing. Ryan Lambert looks at the playoff picture with so many high-end players out of action during the games.

Ryan Lambert goes conference-by-conference to look at the NCAA tournament picture after the holiday break.

Minnesota State has been one of the better NCAA hockey programs in the country but is this the year that they finally break through?

EP Rinkside Senior Columnist Ryan Lambert looks at the NCAA field and ranks college hockey's five best teams.

The Winnipeg Jets are a victim of a lack of draft capital, not a poor draft table. That they land at No. 20 in Elite Prospects’ Prospect Pool ranking despite...

Some years, it's a dogfight for the Hobey Baker Award. Then in others, it's a walk, decided before the finalists are even announced. Count this one in the latter camp, and let's give Cole Caufield his trophy. Ryan Lambert has more with help from InStat.

The EliteProspects Podcast with J.D. Burke and Craig Button returns, available wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode, our hosts interview the Chicago Steel's Noelle Needham, and discuss the Tim Peel incident that set the hockey world on fire last week.

Ryan Lambert takes a look at this year's nine finalists for the Mike Richter Award, granted to the best goalie in college hockey at the end of the season, and explains with data from InStat how his ballot shakes out (kind of).

J.D. Burke and Mitch Brown are binge-watching tape, exhausting their long-distance minutes, and running the numbers to provide the most thorough guide to this year's crop of NCAA free agency available in the public sphere.

It’s been a lean, difficult few seasons for the Winnipeg Jets, and largely by no fault of their own either. About half of their top-four got out of dodge at...

The Calgary Flames gave their prospect pool a much-needed shot in the arm at the 2020 NHL Draft. Eight new prospects joined the organization; two from the first-round of the...

Every year, a handful of prospects take a massive leap. Their development accelerates past their peers drafted around, or even ahead of them. That’s what happened with Nick Robertson, the...

The Calgary Flames need an influx of cost-controlled talent on their blue line like the rest of us need hockey back. One major difference? They’ve a little control over the...

The Vancouver Canucks didn’t have many contract slots left and even fewer roster spots to offer — they had to make their trips into NCAA free agency count. They did...