Norwich, Elmira playing for a cause

January and February have become common months for college hockey squads to hold benefit games and once again this year two perennial powers will be holding awareness nights. For the fourth straight year Norwich will be holding a pink night at Krietzberg Arena. The Cadets will done special edition pink jerseys that were purchased last … Read more

Picks for Jan. 6

RIT: 6 Adrian: 2 RIT too tough for Adrian in rematch of last year’s NCAA Quarterfinals. Elmira: 4 Manhattanville: 1 Lots of history between these two schools including back-to-back appearances against each other in the 2002 and 2003 national championship games with Elmira taking both. EC keeps rolling in this one. Gustavus Adolphus: 5 Stevens Point: … Read more

Picks for Jan. 6

RIT: 6 Adrian: 2 RIT too tough for Adrian in rematch of last year’s NCAA Quarterfinals. Elmira: 4 Manhattanville: 1 Lots of history between these two schools including back-to-back appearances against each other in the 2002 and 2003 national championship games with Elmira taking both. EC keeps rolling in this one. Gustavus Adolphus: 5 Stevens Point: … Read more

Gustavus Adolphus readies for tough January

Gustavus Adolphus is no stranger to winning. The Gusties have won 22 or more games in eight straight seasons, and 10 of the past 11. This season has been no different, as GAC is rolling along once again with a 9-0-1 record after the first semester. The two closest games the Gusties played in the … Read more

Midseason Awards and 20 Bold Predictions

Two Division III teams were in action this past weekend in South Burlington, Vt. to kick off 2012 at the St. Michael’s Holiday Classic. Division I Sacred Heart stole the tournament title however with a 5-2 win over Nichols and then a 3-1 victory over the host Purple Knights. Colby split the weekend with a 3-1 … Read more

Weekend Rewind: Dec. 12

The first half of the 2011-12 Division III women’s hockey season officially comes to a close tomorrow night when Wis.-Superior travels to Gustavus Adolphus and wraps up an interesting last seven days that featured plenty of top 10 teams in action in tough games. RIT wrapped up a perfect first half with two one-goal road wins … Read more

Weekend Rewind: Dec. 12

The first half of the 2011-12 Division III women’s hockey season officially comes to a close tomorrow night when Wis.-Superior travels to Gustavus Adolphus and wraps up an interesting last seven days that featured plenty of top 10 teams in action in tough games. RIT wrapped up a perfect first half with two one-goal road wins … Read more

RIT women use Canadian trip to prepare for out-of-conference games

Two weeks ago, instead of heading to their respective homes across North America, the members of the RIT women’s hockey team spent their Thanksgiving week in Ontario, traveling around the province playing four games against Canadian university squads. The Tigers were quite successful in their week-long trip, going 4-0, including a marquee 3-2 shootout win … Read more

Weekend Rewind: Dec. 6

Two top-10 teams had slip ups in the road this past weekend with Wis.-River Falls falling for the first time this year with a loss to Wis.-Superior and Norwich tying Salve Regina 1-1 for the second straight year. Wis.-River Falls got the monkey off its back a lot earlier this season after the Falcons finished … Read more

Weekend Rewind: Dec. 6

Two top-10 teams had slip ups in the road this past weekend with Wis.-River Falls falling for the first time this year with a loss to Wis.-Superior and Norwich tying Salve Regina 1-1 for the second straight year. Wis.-River Falls got the monkey off its back a lot earlier this season after the Falcons finished … Read more

New kid: Stevenson starts women’s program

Starting in the 2012-13 season, NCAA Division III women’s hockey is expanding to the state of Maryland. Stevenson University, located about 30 minutes north of downtown Baltimore in Owings Mills, Md., will become the 50th D-III college to have a varsity women’s ice hockey program. The Mustangs will begin play next fall under the guidance … Read more

Weekend Rewind Nov. 28

Now that all the dust has settled from this past weekend’s four colossal matchups at the Cardinal-Panther Classic, what have we learned? Well truthfully…not all that much. While these early season tournaments like the East/West Hockey Classic and the Panther-Cardinal Classic are important games, it’s tough to completely predict who is necessarily better than who … Read more

Weekend Rewind Nov. 28

Now that all the dust has settled from this past weekend’s four colossal matchups at the Cardinal-Panther Classic, what have we learned? Well truthfully…not all that much. While these early season tournaments like the East/West Hockey Classic and the Panther-Cardinal Classic are important games, it’s tough to completely predict who is necessarily better than who … Read more

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Cardinal-Panther Classic brings together top squads

Every year, there are two regular season tournaments that should be circled on every Division III women’s hockey fans calendar. The first already happened this year with Norwich’s East/West Hockey Classic, which featured four top-10 teams at the time in Norwich, R.I.T., Elmira, and Manhattanville. It also featured a No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown, … Read more

RIT is turning Canadian and Cranston reaches milestone

This past weekend marked the first time that all 49 Division III women’s hockey teams had played a game in the 2011-12 season, with the NESCAC schools finally getting underway. Middlebury and Amherst both held serve with two sweeps, and Bowdoin had a tough loss at Plattsburgh State. We are now on to Thanksgiving week, … Read more

Weekend Rewind: Early returns on conference races

This past weekend didn’t really feature any marquee matchups across the country. There were no top 10 matchups and every single one of the top 10 teams in the latest USCHO.com Poll rolled to victories. Since it was a rather predictable weekend, let’s take a look at the early returns on conference races. ECAC East: Defending … Read more