Day: November 20, 2009

The Northeastern University Huskies defeated the Providence Friars, 4-1, in front of a home crowd of 3,414 at Matthews Arena. Captain Tyler McNeely, Kyle Kraemer, and Wade MacLeod each led their team with a goal and an assist apiece. “For the first time all year I think we played with discipline and smarts for 60 … Read more

Goaltender Alex Petizian made 42 saves for St. Lawrence, which beat Harvard 3-2 on Friday. Below is a photo gallery from USCHO photographer Melissa Wade.

When University of Denver goaltender Marc Cheverie was injured back on October 30, all he wanted was to be healed up and back on the ice for the Pioneers’ series against the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux. Cheverie made it back in time for the Sioux series and performed in spectacular fashion, stopping all … Read more

The Boston College men’s hockey team let a two-goal lead slip away Friday night, but regained it in the third period and held on to beat the University of Maine Black Bears, 4-3, in the first game of their weekend set at Alfond Arena in Orono. B.C. senior center Matt Price provided the four-on-four game-winner … Read more

Travis Oleksuk scored the game-winning goal in OT on the third shot in a sequence of blocked shots as Minnesota-Duluth edged Minnesota, 4-3. The first two shots where taken by Rob Bordson and Justin Fontaine, but both deflected off a defenseman. The third shot found a hole through the defensive shell. “Sometimes it is not … Read more

Blair Riley’s second career hat trick helped boost the Ferris State Bulldogs to an 8-1 victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes. “We were out-competed in every facet of the game,” said Buckeyes coach John Markell. “We kind of had a feeling it was coming. There’s a lot of players that have to look in the … Read more

A Fredonia game usually consists of a low scoring, defensive struggle. Not tonight. The Blue Devils and Potsdam played a wild back-and-forth shootout. Goals came fast, furious, and in bunches. No lead was safe, as both teams held two-goal margins. When the ice chips finally settled, Fredonia defeated Potsdam, 6-5, thanks to a Billy Sanborn … Read more

Three third period goals, two on the power play, in just two minutes and 22 seconds, catapulted Bowling Green over Michigan, 4-2, Friday night at Yost Ice Arena in Ann Arbor. The Falcons capitalized on a costly pair of Michigan penalties early in the final period on goals by Kyle Page and Tommy Dee, then … Read more

In terms of pedigrees, there was no comparison between UConn freshman goalie Jeff Larson and his counterpart, Air Force senior Andrew Volkening. Volkening, who finished his stellar 2008-09 season sixth in the nation in GAA and as a AHA first team selection, entered Friday night’s contest at Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum with almost six … Read more

This game lived up to the hype, as the top two ECAC teams battled at Starr Rink Friday night. In the end, it was the power play that made the difference for the Quinnipiac University Bobcats in a 5-3 victory over the Colgate University Raiders. Both teams came out fast, trading opportunity for opportunity, looking … Read more

If you asked Lake Superior State Lakers’ coach Jim Roque how he expected the first game of their series with the Alaska Nanooks would go, it would have been similar to their contest Friday night. The Lakers beat Alaska, 4-3, at the Taffy Abel Arena in Sault, Michigan on Friday night in a tight game … Read more

It was a game that during the preseason you marked down as a must-see contest between perennial powerhouses, likely a pivotal contest in the Hockey East race: Boston University at New Hampshire. Instead, the rivals entered the game in unaccustomed fashion, neither in the national rankings for the first time in memory, UNH with a … Read more