{"id":138548,"date":"2023-02-03T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?p=138548"},"modified":"2023-02-02T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T23:22:18","slug":"four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Four close games and a lopsided Big Ten matchup highlight the weekend: USCHO Edge podcast Season 1 Episode 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USCHO Edge hosts Jim Connelly, Dan Rubin, and Ed Trefzger pick out\u00a0five games among top 20 D-I college hockey teams, looking at money lines and over\/under as well as a further analysis of the matchups.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s games:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Quinnipiac (-125) at Harvard (-105); over\/under 5.5<br \/>\n\u2022 Connecticut (+115) at Northeastern (-145); o\/u 5.5<br \/>\n\u2022 Wisconsin (+240) at Michigan (-305); o\/u 6.5<br \/>\n\u2022 Michigan Tech (-120) at Bemidji State (-110); o\/u 5<br \/>\n\u2022 Western Michigan (-135) at Minnesota Duluth (+105); o\/u 6.5<\/p>\n<p>Plus Jim and Dan give their Beanpot semifinal picks.<\/p>\n<p>This college hockey podcast is sponsored by the NCAA Men\u2019s Division I Frozen Four, April 6th and 8th, 2023 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. Secure your seats at <a href=\"https:\/\/ncaa.com\/mfrozenfour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCAA.com\/mfrozenfour<\/a><\/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=52621436&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>Check out all of <a href=\"\/podcasts\">USCHO&#8217;s podcasts<\/a>, including USCHO Weekend Review and USCHO Spotlight, plus our entire podcast archive.<\/p>\n<p><!--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>. He is a color analyst for UMass Lowell hockey&#8217;s radio network and an analyst for NESN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ed Trefzger <\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdTrefzger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@EdTrefzger<\/a>) has been part of USCHO since 1999 and now serves as a senior writer and director of technology. He is the radio play-by-play voice for Rochester Institute of Technology hockey on the RIT Tigers Sports Network<ins>, a 2022 inductee of the RIT Sports Hall of Fame<\/ins>, and has been involved with <ins>RIT<\/ins> broadcasts as a producer, studio host, and color commentator since their inception<ins> in 1982<\/ins>. He is co-owner and <ins>COO<\/ins> of broadcasting company Genesee Media, and was general manager of the former Rochester, N.Y., sports radio station 97.5 The Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We look at money lines and over\/under in four close conference games and a lopsided Big Ten matchup. Plus Jim and Dan give their Beanpot semifinal picks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":136265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1181],"tags":[772,1193,1300,1222,812,1236,1264],"coauthors":[800,804,816],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>College hockey podcast: Four close games, lopsided Big Ten matchup<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In our D-I men&#039;s college hockey podcast this week, we look at odds on four close conference tilts plus a lopsided matchup in the Big Ten.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138548\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"USCHO EDGE PODCAST: Four close games and a lopsided Big Ten matchup highlight the weekend\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We look at money lines and over\/under in four close conference games and a lopsided Big Ten matchup. Plus Jim and Dan give their Beanpot semifinal picks.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138548\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-03T13:00:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-02T23:22:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/edge.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1672\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1673\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jim Connelly, Dan Rubin, Ed Trefzger\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"USCHO EDGE PODCAST: Four close games and a lopsided Big Ten matchup highlight the weekend\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"We look at money lines and over\/under in four close conference games and a lopsided Big Ten matchup. Plus Jim and Dan give their Beanpot semifinal picks.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jim Connelly, Dan Rubin, Ed Trefzger\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/\",\"name\":\"College hockey podcast: Four close games, lopsided Big Ten matchup\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/edge.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-03T13:00:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-02T23:22:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/78e7586ae2a624c3924d9ed406596f54\"},\"description\":\"In our D-I men's college hockey podcast this week, we look at odds on four close conference tilts plus a lopsided matchup in the Big Ten.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/edge.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/edge.png\",\"width\":1672,\"height\":1673,\"caption\":\"college hockey money lines over under wagering\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Four close games and a lopsided Big Ten matchup highlight the weekend: USCHO Edge podcast Season 1 Episode 13\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/\",\"name\":\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\",\"description\":\"Men&#039;s and Women&#039;s D-I and D-III College Hockey News, Features, Scores, Statistics, Fan Forum, Blogs\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/78e7586ae2a624c3924d9ed406596f54\",\"name\":\"Jim Connelly\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/4c7d31050418d5e7a74507617d667afd\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f521b8fb97ad8f139da73d90c706d88?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f521b8fb97ad8f139da73d90c706d88?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jim Connelly\"},\"description\":\"Senior Writer Jim Connelly is a senior writer and has been with USCHO.com 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 writes \\\"Tuesday Morning Quarterback.\\\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/author\/jimbo15\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"College hockey podcast: Four close games, lopsided Big Ten matchup","description":"In our D-I men's college hockey podcast this week, we look at odds on four close conference tilts plus a lopsided matchup in the Big Ten.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138548","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"USCHO EDGE PODCAST: Four close games and a lopsided Big Ten matchup highlight the weekend","og_description":"We look at money lines and over\/under in four close conference games and a lopsided Big Ten matchup. Plus Jim and Dan give their Beanpot semifinal picks.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138548","og_site_name":"College Hockey | USCHO.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/","article_published_time":"2023-02-03T13:00:59+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-02-02T23:22:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1672,"height":1673,"url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/edge.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Jim Connelly, Dan Rubin, Ed Trefzger","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"USCHO EDGE PODCAST: Four close games and a lopsided Big Ten matchup highlight the weekend","twitter_description":"We look at money lines and over\/under in four close conference games and a lopsided Big Ten matchup. Plus Jim and Dan give their Beanpot semifinal picks.","twitter_creator":"@USCHO","twitter_site":"@USCHO","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jim Connelly, Dan Rubin, Ed Trefzger","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/","name":"College hockey podcast: Four close games, lopsided Big Ten matchup","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/edge.png","datePublished":"2023-02-03T13:00:59+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-02T23:22:18+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/78e7586ae2a624c3924d9ed406596f54"},"description":"In our D-I men's college hockey podcast this week, we look at odds on four close conference tilts plus a lopsided matchup in the Big Ten.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/edge.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/edge.png","width":1672,"height":1673,"caption":"college hockey money lines over under wagering"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2023\/02\/03\/four-close-games-and-a-lopsided-big-ten-matchup-highlight-the-weekend-uscho-edge-podcast-season-1-episode-13\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Four close games and a lopsided Big Ten matchup highlight the weekend: USCHO Edge podcast Season 1 Episode 13"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/","name":"College Hockey | USCHO.com","description":"Men&#039;s and Women&#039;s D-I and D-III College Hockey News, Features, Scores, Statistics, Fan Forum, Blogs","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/78e7586ae2a624c3924d9ed406596f54","name":"Jim Connelly","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/4c7d31050418d5e7a74507617d667afd","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f521b8fb97ad8f139da73d90c706d88?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f521b8fb97ad8f139da73d90c706d88?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jim Connelly"},"description":"Senior Writer Jim Connelly is a senior writer and has been with USCHO.com 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 writes \"Tuesday Morning Quarterback.\"","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/author\/jimbo15\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138553,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138548\/revisions\/138553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138548"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=138548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}