Each week, USCHO.com picks the top 10 moments from the past weekend in our Monday 10 feature
1. Pecknold reaches 700 with a little extra drama
Rand Pecknold’s 700th career victory took a little longer to secure than Quinnipiac would have liked.
The sixth-ranked Bobcats led Colgate 3-0 with a little more than five minutes remaining Saturday, only to surrender three extra-attacker goals and head to overtime. Elliott Groenewold made sure the celebration still happened, scoring 18 seconds into the extra session for a 4-3 victory that completed an ECAC Hockey road sweep.
Markus Vidicek scored twice for Quinnipiac, which improved to 7-2-0. The night before, Chris Pelosi’s hat trick powered a 4-1 win at No. 16 Cornell. Pelosi added two assists Saturday to finish with five points on the weekend.
Now in his 33rd season with the Bobcats, Pecknold added another milestone to a tenure that includes winning the 2023 NCAA championship. He is currently 10th on the all-time wins list for NCAA men’s hockey coaches and is tops among active Division I men’s coaches.
Also notching a notable milestone that night was Minnesota Duluth’s Scott Sandelin, who got win No. 500 when the Bulldogs beat Miami 2-1. Sandelin became just the 18th NCAA D-I coach to reach the mark and the ninth to reach it at one school.
2. Wisconsin makes itself at home in Minneapolis
Wisconsin’s first weekend as the nation’s No. 1 team ended with a convincing reason to keep the Badgers there.
After a 1-1 tie and a shootout win Thursday at Minnesota, Wisconsin returned Saturday and rolled to a 6-0 victory. Daniel Hauser stopped all 24 shots he faced, Jack Phelan scored twice and the Badgers converted three of five power-play opportunities.
Wisconsin took control with three second-period goals, turning a 1-0 lead into a four-goal cushion. The Badgers outshot the Gophers 38-24 and killed all five Minnesota power plays.
The result left Wisconsin 7-0-1 overall and delivered five of the six available Big Ten points on the road. Minnesota, which swept North Dakota two weekends earlier, finished this series with just one goal in 125 minutes of hockey.
3. Michigan State delivers its answer to BU
Boston University landed the first punch in East Lansing. Michigan State supplied an emphatic response.
The No. 13 Terriers won Friday’s opener 6-2, building a 4-0 lead through two periods and getting 33 saves from Mikhail Yegorov. Saturday belonged to the third-ranked Spartans, who scored 32 seconds into the game and never trailed in a 5-0 win.
Joshua Ravensbergen made 25 saves for his first collegiate shutout as Michigan State outshot BU 37-25. Five different Spartans scored, and Cayden Lindstrom contributed a goal and an assist.
The split left Michigan State 6-2-0 and BU 7-3-0. The Terriers earned a substantial road win, but the Spartans’ ability to respond kept a difficult Friday from becoming a lost weekend.
4. Augustana stays unbeaten while Tech takes the extra points
Two nights in Houghton produced two 2-2 ties between No. 8 Augustana and No. 14 Michigan Tech. The separation came after the games were officially over.
The Huskies won both shootouts to collect four CCHA points, leaving the Vikings with two. Augustana remained unbeaten at 7-0-3, while Michigan Tech moved to 6-2-2.
Both teams showed an ability to recover. Tech erased two one-goal deficits Friday, including Teydon Trembecky’s goal with 0.9 seconds left in the first period. Augustana returned the favor Saturday, answering both Michigan Tech leads.
Owen Bartoszkiewicz made 36 saves in the finale, including six during an overtime in which the Vikings held the Huskies without a shot.
“We made each other better,” Michigan Tech coach Bill Muckalt said in the school’s postgame recap.
The weekend offered a good indication of how closely matched these two CCHA contenders are.
5. North Dakota gets back to winning
North Dakota needed a win, and the Fighting Hawks earned one against a top-five opponent.
After Friday’s 2-2 tie with No. 5 Western Michigan, which won the shootout, No. 10 North Dakota controlled Saturday’s rematch for a 4-1 victory. The win ended a four-game winless stretch and gave the Hawks four points to open NCHC play.
Cody Croal scored twice and added an assist, while Cole Reschny and Gavin Lindberg each had a goal and an assist. Jan Špunar made 17 saves as North Dakota limited the Broncos to 18 shots.
The Hawks built a 3-0 lead through two periods and allowed only three goals across the series. After consecutive losses at Minnesota and a defeat against Michigan State in Austin, an unbeaten weekend against Western Michigan was a needed change of direction.
6. Providence wastes no time responding
Providence’s response to a 6-5 home loss against UConn took less than eight minutes to become clear.
The ninth-ranked Friars scored four times in the opening 7:57 Saturday at UConn and went on to an 8-1 win that salvaged a split with the No. 20 Huskies.
Logan Sawyer recorded his first career hat trick and finished with four points. Jonathan Fauchon and Aleksi Kivioja each scored twice, and Jack Parsons made 23 saves. Providence outshot UConn 39-24 and scored its most goals in a game since an 8-3 win at Merrimack in January 2023.
Thursday’s opener had produced plenty of offense for both teams. Saturday’s rematch gave Providence a much more comfortable finish, moving the Friars to 6-2-0 overall and 3-1-0 in Hockey East.
7. Wasik puts a stop to Army
Army extended its winning streak to six games with a 4-1 victory at Air Force on Friday. Dominik Wasik made sure it stopped there.
The Air Force senior turned aside all 25 shots he faced Saturday in a 2-0 win over the No. 19 Black Knights. Christian Kim scored on the Falcons’ first shot of the game, and Aidan Willis added an empty-net goal with 1:02 remaining.
Army held a 25-17 shot advantage, but Air Force took no penalties and protected a one-goal lead until Willis supplied the insurance.
“Dom was the best player in the game by a country mile,” Air Force coach Frank Serratore said in the school’s recap.
The split left Army 6-2-0 overall and 5-1-0 in Atlantic Hockey. Air Force improved to 4-6-0 and 2-2-0 in the league, earning its first Saturday win of the season.
8. Hagens helps Vermont make a statement at BC
Vermont’s Thursday-Friday trip to Boston College produced five of six Hockey East points, with Michael Hagens leading the way against his former team.
Hagens had a goal and two assists in Thursday’s 5-2 win, when the Catamounts built a 3-0 first-period lead. He added two assists in Friday’s 4-4 tie, then scored the lone shootout goal.
Vermont trailed 4-2 Friday before scoring twice with its goalie pulled in the final 2:24. Cédrick Guindon cut the deficit before Colin Kessler tied it with 1:05 remaining. Hagens assisted on the equalizer, extending his point streak to five games.
Jacob Oster made 36 saves and stopped all three BC shootout attempts. Vermont improved to 5-3-1 overall and sits in first place in Hockey East. The Catamounts have collected 14 points from six league games, earning at least one in every contest.
9. Dartmouth keeps its perfect start
Dartmouth has made the most of its first two weekends.
The No. 12 Big Green followed an opening sweep of Alaska with victories over Yale, 3-2, and Brown, 3-1, to improve to 4-0-0. Drew Stewart scored both game-winners and finished the weekend with three goals.
Stewart’s second goal Friday broke a third-period tie on the power play. He supplied the deciding goal again Saturday in the second period, giving him six goals in four games.
Dartmouth has scored on the power play in each of its first four games. Emmett Croteau stopped 19 of 20 shots against Brown, and the Big Green overcame an early deficit before Tim Busconi’s late empty-netter secured the sweep.
The next test comes on the road, with a visit to Quinnipiac on Friday.
10. Notre Dame reverses a rough week
A week after Wisconsin outscored Notre Dame 16-2 in a sweep, the Fighting Irish found a much better outcome on the road at Penn State.
Notre Dame rallied from a two-goal deficit Friday to win 5-4 in overtime on Evan Werner’s goal. The Irish completed the sweep Saturday with a 4-2 victory, improving to 4-6-0 overall and evening their Big Ten record at 2-2-0.
Danny Nelson scored twice in the finale, while Carter Slaggert and Pano Fimis also scored. Freshman goaltender Patrick Quinlan made 36 saves as Notre Dame recovered from a 1-0 first-period deficit with four consecutive goals.
Penn State fell to 2-7-1, leaving the Nittany Lions with an increasingly difficult start to overcome. For Notre Dame, the weekend supplied two conference wins before Michigan State visits South Bend.