Candace Horgan

As the final minute of the first period wore down, Boston College defenseman Blake Bolden received the puck from forward Danielle Welch at the bottom of the left circle. She wound up and fired it to the back of the net over goaltender Florence Schelling’s glove. The power-play goal gave the Eagles the lead, which … Read more

Scoreboard watching was the thing to do Saturday in the WCHA. Entering the final day of the regular season, only one of six league playoff pairings had been decided — WCHA champion North Dakota would be home against last-place Michigan Tech. No. 11 Minnesota-Duluth and No. 8 Nebraska-Omaha had a chance to finish second, third … Read more

The win may have come one night too late for Wisconsin, but the important thing was that it came at all. The Badgers broke a seven-game winless streak with a 3-1 win over Colorado College Saturday night at the Kohl Center that, if anything, gives them a tiny bit of momentum heading into the playoffs. … Read more

For Niagara, it isn’t March Madness, it’s March Sadness. The  Purple Eagles’ season came to another sad and somewhat unexpected conclusion when Canisius exploded for four goals in the second period to whip the Purple Eagles, 6-3, in an Atlantic Hockey first round playoff game at Dwyer Arena on Saturday night. The third-seeded Purple Eagles’ … Read more

The Wisconsin Badgers backed up their WCHA regular season title with the league’s tournament title, but the playoff championship was much more closely contested. The Badgers (34-2-2, 24-2-2-2 WCHA) needed more than 74 minutes to win a game that they never led, earning Wisconsin their fourth WCHA tournament title, all since 2006. Kelly Nash took … Read more

One year ago, Sacred Heart headed into the Atlantic Hockey playoffs as the second-ranked team in the conference. Saturday night, CJ Marottolo’s boys entered the postseason as the second-worst ranked team in the AHA, but they didn’t seem to mind. They earned a spot in the quarterfinals with five third period goals and a 6-3 … Read more

Vermont was victorious in their regular season finale, defeating Massachusetts-Lowell, 4-2, in Hockey East action at Gutterson Fieldhouse. A third period comeback for the River Hawks resulted in a 4-4 tie last night, but tonight it was the Catamounts who were strong late in the game. Senior Jack Downing and sophomores Ben Albertson, Sebastian Stalberg, … Read more

On Saturday night, Quinnipiac completed the sweep of the Brown Bears in the opening round of the ECAC playoffs by a score of 4-0. It is just the second time in ECAC history that a team was shutout in a series. The last time was 2009, when Brown shutout Harvard. “It wasn’t a lack for … Read more

Goaltender Florence Schelling and Northeastern University survived an onslaught of 46 shots to beat Boston University, 4-2, and move on to the Hockey East Championship. BU started the game firing with 25 shots in the first period alone. The Terriers largely monopolized the puck, firing multiple shots at Schelling at a time. They had at … Read more

Boston College forward Kelli Stack got on the ice on a line change and immediately grabbed the puck as Providence College attempted to clear it. She charged for the goal and sent a shot between goaltender Genevieve Lacasse’s legs. The puck bounced off the post, then off Lacasse into the net. That goal, BC’s 61st … Read more

In a span of just 4:39, the No. 1 North Dakota Fighting Sioux put a stranglehold on their final regular season victory of the season by putting up four goals to just one by the Michigan Tech Huskies. The Sioux went on to strike seven more times before the night was over to come away … Read more

An inch. That’s how far the No. 5 Denver Pioneers were from rallying for a third time in the game to tie it up and send it into overtime. However, St. Cloud goalie Mike Lee got rewarded for his hard work all evening, and Luke Salazar’s one-time shot from the left circle clanged off the … Read more

To their credit, the North Dakota Fighting Sioux stayed even longer than most of the WCHA teams have done on their first foray into the WCHA semifinals, but in the end, the Wisconsin Badgers demonstrated why they are the top-ranked team in the league and the country. Wisconsin (33-2-2, 24-2-2-2 WCHA) used a three-goal second … Read more

I had an awesome week last week, going 16-2 (.888) and correctly picking every playoff series, including picking that Clarkson-Dartmouth would go three. I incorrectly figured that St. Lawrence would win a game off Harvard, and that North Dakota would sweep Bemidji State. Overall on the season, I am now 178-56-24 (.736). Obviously, we are … Read more

Of all the things No. 12 Nebraska-Omaha has become known for over the course of this season, scoring short-handed goals hasn’t really been one of them. You wouldn’t have known it on Friday, though. The Mavericks’ two goals while on the short end of five-on-four’s proved all the difference in Friday’s 5-2 win over No. … Read more

Both the Minnesota Gophers and the Ohio State University Buckeyes came into the opener of their quarterfinal WCHA series at Ridder Arena looking to get a fast start and the first goal. The Gophers (24-8-2, 18-8-2 WCHA) were the team whose wish came true, leading to a 4-2 victory. “We figured we had to get … Read more

Cornell (13-12-3, 11-8-2 ECAC) scored a pair of third period goals to force the game into overtime, but a David Brownschidle goal for Brown (9-14-5, 7-12-2) just 30 seconds into the extra frame claimed the two points for a Bears squad still in the hunt for home ice in the ECAC playoffs. The loss is … Read more