As summer winds down and hockey season draws near, fans get more excited for the first puck of the season to drop.  This year, the Pups look to venture farther into post-season play and earn a spot in the NCAA tourney once again.

Building on last year's season to accomplish this year's goals will take a tremendous amount of hard work and a crop of very talented freshmen.  Bulldog Country got the opportunity to play a little "Q and A" with the incoming freshmen and will be sharing what the players had to say over the next few weeks.

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News, News, and More News.

Although the season is a more than a few weeks out, NCAA Men's Hockey is flourishing with news, adding even more eagerness for the first puck to drop.  

Christian Dvorak

Wisconsin Recruit, Christian Dvorak, chose to void his collegiate path and go Major Junior as he joins London of the Ontario Hockey League.  Read Andy Johnson's article posted on Bucky's 5th Quarter right here.

The NCHC has agreed to allow the conference to use shootouts for a winner to be chosen during regular season play.  Much like the CCHA did it, the NCHC will allow a 5-minute sudden-death overtime after regulation play has expired, followed by the shootout to determine a winner, if the sudden-death ended scoreless.  CHN posted a staff report here.

Two Nebraska-Omaha hockey players were dismissed from the team a few day's ago in violation to team policy.  Senior Matt White and freshman Preston Hodge received misdemeanor tickets for disorderly conduct when they were caught allegedly fighting and making racial slurs outside of a bar.  Nate Wells has that story on SB Nation College Hockey.

Enjoy.

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As summer winds down and hockey season draws near, fans get more excited for the first puck of the season to drop.  This year, the Pups look to venture farther into post-season play and earn a spot in the NCAA tourney once again.

Building on last year's season to accomplish this year's goals will take a tremendous amount of hard work and a crop of very talented freshmen.  Bulldog Country got the opportunity to play a little "Q and A" with the incoming freshmen and will be sharing what the players had to say over the next few weeks.

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Although this is by no means, "Breaking News", I thought I would inform those who haven't heard of the news that the NCHC has recently released.

The two bits of news released is the NCHC's partnership with Sport NGIN and the launch of the official website last week as well as the the sale of NCHC Championship tickets.

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College Hockey Inc. just released information to the 2014-15 & 2015-16 Ice Breaker Tournament.

The tournament, which is managed by College Hockey Inc., is usually the very first hockey tournament to kick off the new season.  They recently released information revealing that Notre Dame will host the tournament for the 2014-15 season and Maine will host to start the 2015-16 season.

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The University of Minnesota Duluth announced the 2013-14 team roster yesterday.  Some changes were made to existing players and incoming freshman were issued their sweater numbers during their hockey careers at UMD.

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It was a big day for the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs family.  Two future Bulldogs were selected in this year's NHL draft, giving the Bulldogs a grand total of six NHL prospects for this year's season.

Incoming freshman Carson Soucy was the first commit to be drafted, going to the Minnesota Wild in the 5th round.  Soucy, the 137th pick overall, will join the Bulldogs this upcoming season.

#mnwild selects Carson Soucy from Spruce Grove (AJHL) with 137th pick in 5th round of #NHLDraft. More info on @DrSouce71 soon.
— Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) July 1, 2013

Minnesota I guess!!! Unbelievable honor! Thanks for the support from everyone! pic.twitter.com/EORf0caV48
— Carson Soucy (@DrSouce71) July 1, 2013

Future Bulldog Blake Heinrich, picked 144th overall in the 5th round, was selected by the Washington Capitals.  The Sioux City Musketeer (USHL) will mostly likely join the Bulldogs for the 2014-15 season.

Caps' select Blake Heinrich with the 144th overall pick.
— Washington Capitals (@washcaps) July 1, 2013

These two recruits will join Joe Basaraba (Florida), Caleb Herbert (Washington), Tony Cameranesi (Toronto) and Andy Welinski (Anaheim) as Bulldogs whom have been drafted by NHL teams.

Pictured below is both of these two recruits.  Congratulations to them both on their career accomplishments.  We at Bulldog Country look forward to watching their talent grow in Pup sweater!

Carson Soucy

Blake Heinrich

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Happy Draft Day!

For today's draft, which starts in a matter of minutes, actually, I'll give you a few links in which you'll be able to follow along if you'd like.

First off, the draft can be viewed on NBC Sports Network and TSN.  Although I believe to view those channels one must have either cable or satellite tv, it is an option none the less.

Follow Western College Hockey's live blog for great quotes and coverage here.

I'll be tweeting the action here, while Western College Hockey will tweet it here!

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