Candace Horgan

There’s one weekend left, and the standings took quite a turn over the weekend. Let’s look at what is known, based on the results over the weekend. The definites Entering the final weekend of play, not one of the eight seeds is set yet, though some scenarios are more likely than others. Here is what … Read more

The Robert Morris Colonials made their way past a determined Canisius team with a recipe of timely saves from starting goaltender Terry Shafer, three power-play goals, and a hat trick from their leading goal scorer, Greg Gibson, in Saturday’s 6-2 victory at 84 Lumber Arena. The Colonials’ most successful senior class was also honored, and … Read more

Coming into the weekend, No. 4 North Dakota was fighting for the top spot in the NCHC and No. 13 Nebraska-Omaha was battling to stay in the top half of the conference standings. Following Saturday night, it was the road team that got the desired results. North Dakota scored the first three goals and held … Read more

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Crazy bounces found the twine for both squads on Saturday evening at Lynah Rink, with Rensselaer’s late push enough to force a 3-3 tie with Cornell. With a sixth-place finish in the ECAC on the minds of the host Big Red with under a minute to go and a one-goal lead to hold, Milos Bubela … Read more

After securing a 4-1 victory over Vermont last night, Merrimack was looking for an opportunity to secure home ice for the first round of the Hockey East playoffs. Ludvig Larsson’s third-period marker proved to be the game-winner and gave Merrimack home ice for the opening round of the Hockey East playoffs for the first time … Read more

While the game had no impact on the standings, with the playoffs for the ECAC being locked down, Quinnipiac fans showed up in droves to cheer against local rival Yale and celebrated a 4-1 victory on Saturday night. It looked early on like the Bulldogs would take some energy out of the building with a … Read more

It seemed like it was just one of those games where everything went right for Northeastern. On a day where they honored their seniors, the Huskies ended the regular season in style, getting goals from seven different players in a 7-1 rout of Maine. Northeastern finished the regular season unbeaten in 16 of its final … Read more

The No. 14 Michigan Tech Huskies played a much stronger game Saturday night than they had on Friday, but despite outshooting the visiting Alaska Nanooks 51-19, the Huskies still needed overtime to come away with a 3-2 win at the MacInnes Student Ice Arena. “I really liked our game tonight,” said Huskies coach Mel Pearson. … Read more

The second-ranked Boston College Eagles entered Saturday night’s tilt with No. 11 Massachusetts-Lowell having already clinched, at least, a share of the Hockey East regular season crown. The River Hawks, meanwhile, were looking to clinch a first-round bye in the Hockey East playoffs with both a win over the Eagles on Saturday night at Tsongas … Read more

In a weekend of hotly contested conference tournament matchups across the country, No. 1 Boston College did not leave the result of Saturday evening’s matchup against Maine to chance. After surrendering a bizarre goal early in the first period, BC scored five unanswered goals, and the Eagles completed a two-game sweep of the Black Bears … Read more

In a matchup with ECAC playoff seeding and PairWise implications on the line, St. Lawrence and Harvard battled through an entertaining game. Ultimately, Harvard prevailed by a score of 4-1. Harvard got the game’s first goal on an early power play. With time winding down on the man advantage, Luke Esposito notched his sixth goal … Read more

For a game where both teams jumped out to an early start, it would take two overtimes to finish. Nicole Brown sealed the series for the Quinnipiac Bobcats with six and a half to play to defeat Rensselaer, 2-1. “What a rush! I don’t even know what happened, how the play developed, I just remember … Read more

The postseason is here! Even after the MIAC tournament play-in game Thursday night that saw Concordia (Minn.) eliminate St. Mary’s by a 3-1 score, there is still tons of hockey to play. Also Thursday, Utica bounced Cortland 5-0 in the ECAC West tournament. Candace and Matt continue to prognosticate and from here on out, the … Read more

I had another absolutely stellar picks weekend last week, going 27-3-4 (.852). I think that’s the best back-to-back performance for me ever. I finished the regular season at 386-102-56 (.761). For the postseason, I start over, but I’ll also include a season summary in addition to postseason summary each week. Postseason gets harder, so can … Read more

Thank you Denver! The Pioneers’ sweep of Colorado College put me five up on Matthew in our picks race. Last week, I went 6-2 (.750), moving to 101-47-14 (.667), while Matthew went 5-3 (.625) to move to 96-52-14 (.635). Friday-Saturday 2-26-27 Colorado College at Miami Candace: Miami got swept in Colorado Springs back in December, … Read more