The Big Red are currently the ECAC’s hottest team as they are now 9-1 in their past ten games after their 5-1 win over Princeton and 2-1 win over Quinnipiac over the weekend.

They have also have won their past five conference games. With a 6-2-1 record inside the ECAC, they currently sit sixth in the conference standings. The good news for them, they have a couple of games in hand over the rest of the conference. If they continue on their current pace it won’t be too long before they are in the top four in the standings.

This upcoming weekend they start a four game home stand as they welcome the North County schools in Clarkson and St. Lawrence. Harvard and Dartmouth come to town the following weekend.

Depends how you look at it they have been spreading the scoring out this season. That could be a good thing as they aren’t relying on just one or two players to find the back of the net. You could also look at it as as negative in the sense it will be tough to keep up winning low scoring games. They are in the middle of the pack in team scoring with 2.94 goals per game which is 29th in the nation.

Right now it’s working for them and coach Mike Schafer has plenty experience so I don’t expect him to change much if they continue to win.

Who saw Harvard getting swept this weekend?

Ted Donato is probably steaming that they left New York without bring back any points back to Cambridge. The loss to RPI could comeback to haunt them when it comes to playoff seeding. It was a game they were suppose to win against an Engineers team that has struggled this season.

Give credit to RPI for getting up for the game with the news before the game the team suspended goaltender Cam Hackett. Not sure what Seth Appert said to the guys heading into the game, but whatever he said worked Friday night.

Harvard played better Saturday night but lost 2-1 against Union. That game could have gone either way as two of the top teams in the conference. Although without any points this weekend the Crimson are now six points behind the Dutchmen in the standings.

Saints continue to rack up the points

St. Lawrence continue climb up the standings as they grabbed three out of four in their trip to Southern New England this weekend. They defeated Brown 2-1 on Friday before tying Yale 2-2 as they dug themselves out of a 2-0 hole.

With the 8-1-3 record in the ECAC, they are just two points behind Union for top spot in the conference.

The schedule the rest of the way using this past week’s USCHO poll, they have face a top 20 opponent at least once a week in four of the remaining six weeks in the regular season.

UND’s 3-1 redux
A two-goal lead is only what the leading team makes of it.

North Dakota entered Friday’s home series opener against Miami riding an 82-game unbeaten streak when leading after two periods. The seventh-ranked Fighting Hawks looked poised to keep that going, too, leading Miami 3-1 after 40 minutes.

The last 20 flipped the script. A streak that began on Nov. 1, 2013, was snapped Friday when Miami scored five unanswered third-period goals to beat UND 6-3. Anthony Louis, Carson Meyer, Karch Bachman, Ryan Siroky and Louie Belpedio did the honors in the final period.

With Friday’s win, Miami extended an unbeaten streak of its own to six games. UND starting goaltender Cam Johnson was pulled in the third period in favor of Matej Tomek, who conceded the game’s final two goals.

UND went back to the well Saturday with Johnson, who recorded 14 saves in the Hawks’ 3-1 split-salvaging win. Three different UND skaters (Dixon Bowen, Austin Poganski and Rhett Gardner) netted goals in the rematch.

Miami (8-9-5 overall, 4-5-3-1 NCHC) visits Omaha (13-8-3, 6-6) next weekend, while UND (13-7-3, 6-5-1-1) welcomes No. 3 Minnesota-Duluth (13-5-4, 9-4-1-1) to Grand Forks, N.D.

Sandelin reaches 300 wins
Minnesota-Duluth head coach Scott Sandelin reached a significant career milestone Saturday when the Bulldogs downed in-state rival St. Cloud State 4-3 in overtime in Duluth.

Kyle Osterberg’s game-winning goal 2:33 into the extra period allowed UMD to earn a series split against the Huskies. SCSU won Friday’s opener 2-1 on the back of two Jack Ahcan goals and 41 saves from goaltender Jeff Smith.

Duluth led 3-0 five minutes into Saturday’s second period before St. Cloud scored three consecutive goals later in the same period to tie the game. After a scoreless third period, Osterberg deflected a shot from defenseman Dan Molenaar past backup SCSU goaltender Zach Driscoll to give the Bulldogs the win.

Sandelin, now in his 17th season at UMD, is 300-282-79 all-time. He was in charge during the Bulldogs’ first-ever national championship-winning season in 2010-11.

SCSU (10-11-1, 5-8-1) returns home to prepare for a visit next weekend from Denver (15-5-4, 7-2-3-2), which could lose its national No. 1 standing Monday following a road split this weekend against No. 14 Western Michigan (11-6-3, 5-6-1-1).

Omaha bounces back
After getting lit up for 16 goals last week in two home losses to UND, Omaha needed a boost this weekend when the Mavericks visited Colorado College.

UNO’s first-ever road sweep against CC turned out to be just what the doctor ordered. A 5-2 win Friday night at Colorado Springs’ World Arena was the Mavericks’ first ever road series-opening win against CC, and a 30-save performance from goaltender Evan Weninger powered UNO to a 4-2 victory on Saturday.

CC had come into the series with plenty of reasons to feel confident, having gone 3-0-1 since the holiday break. After this weekend’s sweep at the hand of UNO, however, the Tigers are now 0-9 at home so far this season.

Omaha now sits two points in the NCHC standings behind the same third-place UND team that outscored the Mavericks 16-4 last week.

The Tigers (6-14-2, 2-8-2) hits the road next weekend to take on Western Michigan.