Brian SullivanYale hockey had four goals in mind when it started the season. Not many would have foreseen the Bulldogs achieving five against Cornell Saturday night. The Ivy League and ECAC regular-season champs buried the bedraggled Big Red 5-0 to win their first ECAC Hockey Championship in front of 4,587 at Albany’s Times-Union Center. The Yale … Read more
The Yale Bulldogs proved doubters wrong all year long, and were in no mood to rest on the laurels of their second-ever NCAA bid Friday afternoon. Senior winger Matt Nelson tipped home a two-on-one pass from sophomore Brendan Mason with 1:06 remaining to complete a lightning-quick Yale comeback, as the Bulldogs stunned the feisty Saints … Read more
There are a lot of ways that people analyze the playoffs. Who’s played the best this year. Who’s played best lately. Who beat whom, how often, and how convincingly in the regular season, or who has the greatest incentive. For that matter, which is a greater incentive … playing for a title, or playing for … Read more
Minnesota advanced to the Frozen Four with a 4-3 win over Boston College in a game that had three stages. The Gophers (32-4-3, 23-2-3 WCHA) exploded in the opening ten minutes, cruised for the next 20, and then hung on for dear life. “Great start obviously to the game,” coach Brad Frost said. “We couldn’t … Read more
Hope y’all don’t have much real work to get done today, because I wrote another novel. So you’d better appreciate it, because these guys don’t pay me per word. Award Debate Nothing like a little competitive controversy to kick off a column. Here are the leading candidates for the league’s premier annual honors as I … Read more
On the heels of twin semifinal upsets, the Dartmouth Big Green made sure to allow no such nonsense in Sunday’s Women’s ECAC Hockey Championship. The tournament’s fourth seed fought off the tenacious giant-killers from Rensselaer for 30 minutes, then routed the Engineers by an eventual 6-1 score by day’s end. Tournament Most Outstanding Player Sarah … Read more
At 10:12 Saturday evening, Harvard’s collective hockey community finally exhaled. Not because the Crimson had triumphed, but because perhaps the worst day in the school’s history of the sport had finally come to an end. Hours after their heavily favored female counterparts had been upset by upstart Rensselaer, the Crimson men suffered a similarly ignominious … Read more
The ECAC was full of surprises this season, and Saturday was no different. Following a shocking RPI upset of top-seeded Harvard in the noon semifinal, underdog Dartmouth flipped the tables on second-seed St. Lawrence with a 5-2 throttling in the evening semi. Five different Ivy players scored, Carli Clemis made 26 saves, and Dartmouth (19-9-4) … Read more
Game details compiled from press releases. It’s been a tough weekend for Harvard hockey. If the men’s first-round Game 1 loss to Brown was stunning, what happened to the Crimson women 18 hours later was downright catastrophic. The upstart Rensselaer Engineers crushed the top-seeded hosts, 3-2, with a power-play goal 13:20 into overtime Saturday afternoon. … Read more
The Brown Bears have a message to all those who wrote them off after a 3-21-5 regular season: we’re not dead yet. Bruno played a classic postseason road game in downing the host Harvard Crimson, 1-0, in front of 1,079 at the Bright Hockey Center Friday night. Fourth line center Harry Zolnierczyk scored his first … Read more
Lots to cover this week, boys and girls, so eyes up and notebooks open. And you, spit out that gum. Kick in the Teeth Despite an exceedingly handicapped roster, Quinnipiac still managed to hang tough with Harvard on Friday night in Boston. The Bobcats, sans top scorers Brandon Wong (injury) and David Marshall, Eric Lampe … Read more
In a matchup heavy with playoff implications, the Harvard Crimson upset the Princeton Tigers in a rematch of last season’s ECAC title game, 3-2 in front of 3,076 at the Bright Hockey Center Friday night. Harvard (9-14-7, 9-7-6 ECAC) scored two power-play goals in continuing their late-season surge, while Princeton (20-9-0, 14-8-0) was one for … Read more
Alongside the Charles River Friday night, the sixth and seventh-ranked teams in ECAC Hockey battled for a little separation. The Harvard Crimson, enjoying a late-season resurgence, kept themselves in the hunt for a first-round bye with a skin-of-their-teeth 2-1 win over free-falling Quinnipiac. Brothers Michael and Alex Biega scored for the Crimson (8-14-6, 8-7-6 ECAC), … Read more
What looked to be a potential upset-in-the-making at Harvard’s Bright Hockey Center Friday evening ended up as another late surge by the top-seeded Crimson. Despite a fierce, even dominant 40-minute performance from the upstart eighth-seed, the hosts hit the gas when it mattered most in a 3-0 win over Cornell in the first game of … Read more
Those of you who put Yale above Princeton and Cornell in your preseason picks, please raise your hands. The rest of you: look around for anyone with his or her hand up; don’t bother asking them to watch your house while you’re on vacation. What We Know With only four points left on the table, … Read more
Here’s how I’d analyze my preseason predictions at this juncture: 1. Princeton: not a bad pick, though the Tigers haven’t been as consistently dominant as I’d expected. 2. Cornell: if anything, I may have sold the Big Red short in my mind. They just seemed like Princeton’s default runner-up, when they’ve been anything but. 3. … Read more
Less than a month until the playoffs? Already? That’s not fair; I only just realized that “ECAC” is an abbreviation and not an acronym. Referring to “E-Kack Hockey” was getting me a lot of weird looks, and now I know why. What We Know With three weekends to play in the regular season, we take … Read more
It’s all over; the Boston University Terriers are your Beanpot champions for the fourth time in five years and the 29th time overall. Kieran Millan now boasts the best start of any rookie goaltender in BU history at 18-1-1, passing current Boston University women’s head coach Brian Durocher. The Eberly Award for highest save percentage … Read more
It’s all over; the Boston University Terriers are your Beanpot champions for the fourth time in five years and the 29th time overall. Kieran Millan now boasts the best start of any rookie goaltender in BU history at 18-1-1, passing current Boston University women’s head coach Brian Durocher. The Eberly Award for highest save percentage … Read more
.. from the peanut gallery, that is. BU fans: “who’s your daddy”, as BU now two wins against the Huskies in two tries this year. “Hey hey hey, goodbye” of course … NU is standing proud, cheering hard for their boys despite the deficit. “North-Eastern” reverberated as loudly as it did in the first period, … Read more