Arlan MarttilaAs she did last season, Noora Räty has become extra stingy just in time for the postseason. The senior goaltender turned in her fourth straight shutout, including three in the WCHA tournament, as Minnesota defeated Ohio State 5-0 to reach the league’s championship game for the fifth straight season. “Really excited about the opportunity for … Read more
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What would March Madness be without a Cinderella or two? Colgate and Maine made inspired attempts to assume that role and provided Cornell and Boston College with some tense moments, but ultimately only three-lower seeded teams were able to go on the road and advance to the next round. Ohio State, Providence, and St. Lawrence … Read more
Eight different players tallied a goal as Minnesota defeated Bemidji State, 8-0, to complete a sweep of a quarterfinal series and advance to the WCHA Final Face-Off. Amanda Kessel did not step on the ice for the third game out of the last four, but the Gophers (36-0-0, 28-0-0 WCHA) were led by their other … Read more
Without having the full impact of Amanda Kessel in its arsenal, Minnesota turned to Finn power to defeat Bemidji State 5-0 in the first game of the two teams’ WCHA quarterfinal series. Noora Räty stopped all 20 shots for the Gophers (35-0-0, 28-0-0 WCHA) giving her 40 career shutouts and 14 for the campaign, respectively … Read more
Had Harvard managed to score one more goal versus St. Lawrence on Friday and won, rather than tying the Saints, the Crimson would have won a share of the ECAC title, been the top seed for the tournament, and would be heading into a first-round match with a Colgate team where only the seniors have … Read more
2012 D-III national champion RIT has been a valuable addition to the CHA in its first season as a D-I program, and the experience of playing in back-to-back national championship games helped. Arlan Marttila reports.
One season ends as another begins We’ve reached the end of the regular season — almost. Due to weather-related postponements, Lindenwood has a pair of games to make up at Syracuse, while Yale plays one at Harvard this week. The former has playoff seeding implications in the CHA; the latter matters because Harvard is still … Read more
One season ends as another begins We’ve reached the end of the regular season — almost. Due to weather-related postponements, Lindenwood has a pair of games to make up at Syracuse, while Yale plays one at Harvard this week. The former has playoff seeding implications in the CHA; the latter matters because Harvard is still … Read more
The expansion of the Hockey East Tournament this season to all eight teams means that the entire conference is included in the postseason in the three of the four D-I leagues. Only in ECAC Hockey, where only two thirds of the 12 teams advance, must a team earn its way into the playoffs. That requirement … Read more
It took just eight seconds for Minnesota to seize control in its 8-0 win over Bemidji State. By the time 60 minutes had elapsed, seven different players had scored and 14 had at least a point, including goaltender Noora Räty, who also posted her 38th career shutout, one shy of Jessie Vetter’s NCAA record. Becky … Read more
In another language, Mercyhurst means, “My dream just died.” What language is that? I don’t know, but I’m sure that with the exception of Mike Sisti and Paul Colontino, every CHA coach over the years spoke it fluently. Syracuse coach Paul Flanagan can remember a time when that was not a part of his vocabulary. … Read more
Can’t handle this I’ve been around long enough to see some bad ideas in sport. A prime example is the use of FoxTrax to illuminate the puck on NHL telecasts to help viewers follow its movement in the 1990s. If you can’t figure out where a black puck is on white ice on your own, … Read more
Can’t handle this I’ve been around long enough to see some bad ideas in sport. A prime example is the use of FoxTrax to illuminate the puck on NHL telecasts to help viewers follow its movement in the 1990s. If you can’t figure out where a black puck is on white ice on your own, … Read more
I’ll admit it; it wasn’t that long ago that I thought the Beanpot was kind of silly. Silly is the wrong word. Uncompelling? Wait, that’s not even a word. A decade ago, the field was: Harvard, a recent national champion amid a string of success that carried it to the NCAA Championship game in three … Read more
League races evolve After weeks of inequity in terms of the number of league games played and remaining across the four conferences, this weekend finally brought convergence. All teams now have six conference games remaining, with the exception of the top half of Hockey East; those four clubs are down to five games left on … Read more
League races evolve After weeks of inequity in terms of the number of league games played and remaining across the four conferences, this weekend finally brought convergence. All teams now have six conference games remaining, with the exception of the top half of Hockey East; those four clubs are down to five games left on … Read more
Minnesota trailed for only the third time this season, was tied at the midway point of the final period for the first time, but the end result was eerily familiar, a 6-2 win over Minnesota-Duluth. “They approach every game as the biggest game of the year and you saw how much it meant to them … Read more
Of late, it seems that hardly a game goes by that the Minnesota Gophers aren’t reaching some sort of milestone, either as a team or individually. Friday versus Minnesota-Duluth, it was some of both. Minnesota (27-0-0, 21-0-0 WCHA) clinched the seventh WCHA regular season championship in program history with a 5-0 victory. “The conference championship … Read more
When Wisconsin lost at home to Minnesota on Sunday, it mathematically ended the possibility of the Badgers earning a third straight WCHA regular season championship. That isn’t entirely surprising; in the brief history of the league, no program has ever won the season nor the playoff crown in three straight years. But for a team … Read more