College Hockey Preview Some key matchups this week everywhere

This week features some key series all over the country.

Lets start with Hockey East where Boston University and Maine will battle it out in a key series for both teams. BU is looking to go past .500 for the first time since early November, while Maine is looking to move up the Hockey East rankings and also the national polls.

In order for BU to do well in this series they will have to get some offense from the team which is averaging about 2.9 goals per game and Maine is only allowing 1.7 goals per game. John Laliberte, BU's leading scorer will need to play a key role to get the offense going. On the other side Maine's goaltenders Ben Bishop and Mike Lundin will probably split the starts in net.

Another huge series will take place in Colorado Springs where #5 Colorado College will host #1 Wisconsin. Colorado College trails Wisconsin by 5 points in the WCHA standings. Colorado College has one of the best offenses in the country which is lead by Senior Forwards Brett Sterling who is second in the country in scoring with 37 points (21 goals, 16 assists) and last year's Hobey Baker winner Marty Sertich who is 4th in the country in scoring with 33 points (10 g 23 a). Wisconsin goalie Brian Elliott has other plans however, which is to shut them down like he and the Badgers did earlier in the season when they won and tied the Tigers earlier in the season in which Elliott gained a shutout in that series. Wisconsin has something to prove, while Colorado College will look to defend their home ice. Should be an interesting series.

In other College Hockey action this weekend:

North Dakota and Minnesota will renew their rivalry. The Fighting Sioux will look to avenage an earlier sweep by the Gophers in Grand Forks.

Ferris State and Northern Michigan will both look to move up in the CCHA standings.

Denver and St. Cloud State will face each other. Denver will look to improve on the 11-9-2 record while St. Cloud State will look to move out of the bottom of the WCHA standings.

And coming off a win against #3 Miami, Ohio State will look to get out of the bubble watch this week as they face Nebraska-Omaha lead by the nations leading scorer in Junior Foward Scott Parse.

Big weekend in College Hockey, read the weekly report to find out all the results of the key games.