{"id":129516,"date":"2021-10-07T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=129516"},"modified":"2021-10-06T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T19:53:55","slug":"previewing-no-2-st-cloud-at-no-1-minnesota-state-with-mavericks-mike-hastings-game-of-the-week-college-hockey-podcast-season-4-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2021\/10\/07\/previewing-no-2-st-cloud-at-no-1-minnesota-state-with-mavericks-mike-hastings-game-of-the-week-college-hockey-podcast-season-4-episode-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Previewing No. 2 St. Cloud at No. 1 Minnesota State with Mavericks&#8217; Mike Hastings: Game of the Week college hockey podcast Season 4 Episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by Minnesota State head coach Mike Hastings to preview the No. 1 Mavericks&#8217; home series against No. 2 St. Cloud, the team that ousted them from the NCAA playoffs in the national semifinal last season.<\/p>\n<p>We also preview No. 6 Boston College vs. No. 9 Quinnipiac and No. 18 Northeastern vs. Holy Cross in this weekend&#8217;s Ice Breaker tournament in Worcester. Also in this episode: No. 5 Minnesota Duluth at No. 15 Bemidji State, Arizona State at No. 12 Denver, and an early conference contest in Atlantic Hockey, Rochester Institute of Technology at Army West Point.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to this podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/uscho-game-of-the-week\/id1437717463?mt=2\">on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/3185693\/episodes\/feed\">your favorite podcast app<\/a>, or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/user\/uscholive\">Spreaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=46853444&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Sponsor this podcast! Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advertisecast.com\/USCHOGameoftheWeek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.advertisecast.com\/USCHOGameoftheWeek<\/a> for details.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>About the hosts<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Jim Connelly<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimmyconnelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JimmyConnelly<\/a>) is a senior writer at USCHO.com and has been with the site since 1999. He is based in Boston and regularly covers Hockey East. He began with USCHO.com as the correspondent covering the MAAC, which nowadays is known as Atlantic Hockey. Each week during the season, he co-writes &#8220;Tuesday Morning Quarterback.&#8221; Jim is the winner of the 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=45222\">Joe Concannon award<\/a>. 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