↑ Minnesota's Abbey Murphy – With three goals this past weekend, Murphy tied Hannah Brandt with 115 goals for second-all time in program history. Current Ohio State coach Nadine Muzerall holds the top spot with 139 goals. With 12 goals in six games to start the season, the record sure seems within Murphy's reach. This will be fun to watch as the season progresses. (The Gophers and Buckeyes play each other Valentine's weekend, but Murphy will likely be in Italy with Team USA)
↓ This absolute nonsense. – Nothing less impressive than three people at a plastic folding table with a tablet for official reviews. Honestly cannot believe this is the set up for reviews in many rinks in DI women's hockey
↑ Unsung rookies – I talked a lot about some of the big name European players joining teams this year, but what if I told you a freshman defender was leading Penn State in points? Danica Maynard is the top scoring defender in the country with two goals and seven assists in six games played. She had a big game on Saturday against Delaware with two goals and two assists, but that obviously bumped her up, but she's someone to keep an eye on. And speaking of stellar starts, Boston College rookie Ava Thomas’ 11 points are most among first year skaters and have her tied for fourth overall in the country.
↓ St. Lawrence – It has been a rough start for the Saints, who are 1-4-1 after a tie and OT loss at Vermont this past weekend. They're averaging just 1.2 goals per game, having scored seven goals on 150 shots.
↑ Colgate – The Raiders rebounded this weekend with a pair of wins over #14 Boston University. They are going to need a little time to find their new footing, but they showed resiliency and by the time wet get to March I'm not sure we'll even remember how their season started
↓ Officiating – I swear I have no intention of making this a recurring complaint, but the egregiousness of the missed call that helped decide the Wisconsin/UMD game has to be addressed. The games in that series were called super inconsistently, with a very lax approach early leading to a much more physical and honestly dangerous game as players saw what they could get away with. As is always the case, the officials then tried to call the game more tightly, but that meant things that weren't fouls earlier in the game were suddenly being called as penalties. It was frustrating to watch, I'm certain frustrating for the players to deal with the moving goalposts and clearly frustrating for the coaches. Saturday's game culminated with Wisconsin scoring two power play goals in the final 21 seconds to come from behind and win the game. They were on a five-minute power play because coach Mark Johnson asked for a challenge on the below play which went uncalled in the run of play but was retroactively called as a major contact to the head penalty upon review.
Here's the play that Wisconsin successfully challenged
— Nicole Haase (@nicolehaase.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T19:15:01.180Z
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