{"id":444973,"date":"2026-02-04T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/444973\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:37:15","slug":"hockey-playoffs-have-begun-republic-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/444973\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey playoffs have begun &#8211; Republic-Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"445\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-261650\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WhS-v-CHS-Hockey-2026-07.jpg\"\/>The Columbia Eagles and Freeburg-Waterloo Raging Bulldogs opened MVCHA first round playoff action with wins on Monday night. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two local high school club hockey teams have withstood the regular season grind only to find themselves now in \u201csurvive and advance\u201d mode.<\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi Valley Club Hockey Association playoffs began Monday with both the Columbia Eagles and Freeburg-Waterloo Raging Bulldogs taking to the ice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Columbia got its revenge over rival Freeburg-Waterloo last Tuesday night, winning 4-1 in a regular season match after the Raging Bulldogs had won an earlier matchup this season.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring goals for the Eagles in this one were Landry Dix, Broedy Furlow, Mason Neidbalski and Max Rowan. Columbia goalie Zane Prewitt made 26 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring for the Raging Bulldogs was Chris Luncinski.<\/p>\n<p>Freeburg-Waterloo ended its regular season at 9-11-4 with the loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Columbia (10-12-2) wrapped up regular season play Thursday, falling 7-1 to Triad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The MVCHA playoffs pit Columbia against Wood River and Freeburg-Waterloo against Vianney for the first round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Game one of these best-of-three series both took place Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia won 5-3 over Wood River on Monday despite trailing 2-0 after one period and attempted to close out the series Tuesday. With a loss, a deciding game three would take place Thursday night in O\u2019Fallon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Freeburg-Waterloo picked up a 3-2 win in game one over Vianney on Monday night in a thrilling shootout. The Raging Bulldogs also attempted to close out the series Tuesday. With a loss, game three would be Thursday night in O\u2019Fallon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the regular season, Ryder Neff led the Raging Bulldogs in scoring at 24 goals and 19 assists \u2013 good for seventh in the MVCHA.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia was led in scoring in the regular season by Kaden Ross with 21 goals and 17 assists.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pf-button-img\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Print Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\" style=\"width: 194px;height: 30px;\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/printfriendly-pdf-email-button-md.png\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Columbia Eagles and Freeburg-Waterloo Raging Bulldogs opened MVCHA first round playoff action with wins on Monday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[54160,46528,5,46529,4,60,319,14,104,718],"class_list":["post-444973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl-playoffs","category-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-columbia-eagles-hockey-club","tag-freeburg-waterloo-raging-bulldogs","tag-hockey","tag-mvcha","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-playoffs","tag-paywall","tag-stanley-cup","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116011928439464690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}