Back to the basics, back to square one. That was the message during a 20-minute players-only meeting following Wisconsin’s Feb. 25’s 7-3 loss to Minnesota State. And that was the message through all of this week’s practices. And despite a mediocre Wednesday practice, the Badgers finished a refreshing week Thursday — one that harkened back … Read more
Leave it to Robbie Earl to score a big goal at a crucial point in a game for Wisconsin. After 40 minutes of stalemate hockey thanks to two of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association’s best goaltenders, the junior winger-perhaps the only player on the Badger roster worthy of being called flashy-broke the deadlock with the … Read more
John Rheault scored two goals and added an assist to lead Providence College past Merrimack College, 5-3, in Hockey East action Friday night at Lawler Arena. Freshman Rob Ricci tallied a goal and an assist for Merrimack (5-23-5, 2-19-5 Hockey East), who dressed only 10 forwards due to various injuries and illnesses. Senior Bryan Schmidt … Read more
Third-period goals by Kelly Czuy and Lucas Burnett snapped a 1-1 tie and gave the Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks a 3-1 win over Notre Dame on Friday night and a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three CCHA first-round playoff series at the Joyce Center. Czuy’s rebound off a T.J. Campbell shot at 11:55 of the third period … Read more
This time against Clarkson, Harvard made sure no dramatic last-minute goals would be necessary. A gritty 1-0 win sufficed. Harvard (15-11-4) had been down two goals at the first intermission in both regular season meetings against Clarkson (21-13-1), including last Saturday’s dramatic come-from-behind overtime win, but the Crimson owned the first period on this night. … Read more
Ferris State’s record in the CCHA playoffs at home remains undefeated. The story of the game was the Bulldogs’ stingy defense and the goaltending of Mitch O’Keefe. O’Keefe turned away all 30 shots and Matt Frank had a huge game with the game winner and an assist on an empty-net goal to defeat Ohio State … Read more
Freshman Christine Foster provided all of the offense and senior goaltender Roxanne Gaudiel did her job in net as No. 5 Princeton defeated Colgate 3-0 in Game One of the ECAC quarterfinals against Colgate, Foster, who had only two regular-season goals, was in the right place at the right time and earned the natural hat … Read more
Behind Brown’s first line of senior Keaton Zucker and sophomores Hayley Moore and Rylee Olewinski, the Bears grab a one game edge in the ECACHL Quarterfinals, with the 4-2 win over the Big Green this evening at Meehan Auditorium. The three line mates each recorded one of the Bear’s first three goals, to give Brown … Read more
Now this was a weird one. Boston University, with everything to fight for, playing at Northeastern, with seemingly nothing to play for. The No. 4 Terriers, the ice tilted in their favor all night, peppered the Northeastern net for a 28-12 edge in shots after two periods Friday night. And trailed, 2-1. The only thing … Read more
It is said that in a tie game, no shot is a bad shot. St. Cloud State proved this axiom true at an opportune time. Denelle Maguet took a shot that appeared to be simply thrown on net, and Ohio State’s Erika Vanderveer made the inital save, but senior Ashley Stewart was in the right … Read more
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Jeff Jackson era. For those of you unfamiliar with the first-year Irish head hockey coach and his team, these next few weeks will be a crash course. Jump on the bandwagon now before it’s too late — this Notre Dame hockey team is going places. Jackson brings a pedigree … Read more
North Dakota scored three times in the third period and goalie Jordan Parise recorded his fourth shutout of the season as the Fighting Sioux defeated Michigan Tech, 4-0, to take sole possession of fifth place in the WCHA. The Sioux came out sluggish in the first period and, for the first 10 minutes, were outshot … Read more
With Minnesota and Minnesota-Duluth heading in opposite directions, nothing happened at Mariucci Arena Friday night to change that. The Gophers extended their nation-best unbeaten streak to 11 games with a dominating 7-0 win, keeping their momentum as the WCHA playoffs approach and further cementing their credentials for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. … Read more
Colgate, Dartmouth and Harvard all answered the challenge last weekend, recording four points apiece and securing first-round byes for the ECACHL playoffs. Cornell’s stumble on Friday night in a 2-0 loss to Rensselaer enabled Colgate and Dartmouth to capture a share of the Cleary Cup as the co-champions of the ECACHL regular season. Raider assistant … Read more
Give some people an inch and they take a mile. Given a few square feet in front of the net, the Quinnipiac Bobcats took a one-game lead in their playoff series on Friday. Tenth-seeded Quinnipiac got a pair of goals in the game’s first 4:24 and never looked back. They rode the lead and hot … Read more
Mike Zbriger snapped a 2-2 tie just 25 seconds into overtime, lifting St. Lawrence University to a 3-2 win over Brown in the first game of a best-of-three ECAC Hockey League playoff series at Appleton Arena Friday night. Zbriger’s goal came following a icing call on Brown at the start of the extra period. The … Read more