Site AdministratorOhio State recorded its first shutout victory of the regular season Friday afternoon, defeating MSU, Mankato, 6-0, at the Midwest Wireless Civic Center. Following the conference victory, the Buckeyes improved to 4-5-1 overall and 3-3-1 in the WCHA, and the Mavericks slipped to 1-10-0 overall and 0-9-0 in the WCHA. Jeanne Chapple was named the … Read more
Salem State College used three third-period goals, including two in a span of 41 seconds, to rally from a 2-0 deficit for a 3-2 victory from Wentworth in a nonleague contest at Matthews Arena. After a scoreless first period, Wentworth took a 1-0 advantage on a goal from sophomore forward Jamie Weiss at 11:00 of … Read more
Being the backup goaltender to Hobey Baker finalist Ty Conklin generally offers about as much limelight as the role of Maytag repairman, but Friday night, the understudy stole the show. New Hampshire netminder Matt Carney — who entered the evening with only two career wins in a handful of appearances — came up big with … Read more
Minnesota-Duluth has been looking for a bright spot lately, and they may have found it Friday night in a 5-3 loss to North Dakota. Sophomore goalie Rob Anderson played an amazingly poised game against a UND offense that can strike fear into the most experienced goaltender. Anderson held UND to five goals after facing 44 … Read more
Take two tough, hard-checking hockey teams fighting for a top slot in Hockey East, add 69 minutes of penalties and you would get Friday night’s skirmish at Schneider Arena between the Northeastern Huskies and the Providence Friars. Both the Huskies and Friars have surprised many pundits to date with their fine play, and proved to … Read more
Nick Deschenes is feeling right at home on the Yale Bulldogs’ vaunted first line. The sophomore, skating alongside celebrated seniors Jeff Hamilton and Ben Stafford, continued his superb season with two goals and two assists Friday night against ECAC rival Dartmouth, helping the 15th-ranked Bulldogs to a gritty 5-4 win at Thompson Arena. The game … Read more
In its first three games against Hockey East opponents this season, Connecticut was outscored by a tally of 16-5. As expected, the Huskies lost all three of those contests, falling to Merrimack (twice) and UMass-Lowell. Thursday night, UConn had its last shot at beating a member of one of the “Big Four” conferences in a … Read more
Making news in the ECAC: Union attracts national attention, Vermont returns in style, Princeton is perfect — and Becky Blaeser and Jayson Moy have a beef with the pollsters.
Marian scored its first-ever victory over an MIAC team Thursday night, beating Gustavus Adolphus 1-0. Mark Ewing scored the game’s only goal and Marian goalie Terry Dunbar stopped all 15 shots he faced. Both are freshmen, as is Kirk Joudry, who assisted on Joudry’s goal. Ewing scored his goal at 8:47 of the third period. … Read more
Under other circumstances, this would be a great week to explore the individual performances of players like Ambria Thomas of Minnesota or Tara Dunn of Harvard, each of whom recorded a hat trick last weekend. In a different week, two-goal games by players like Dartmouth’s Carrie Sekela, Minnesota’s La Toya Clarke and Nadine Muzerall, Harvard’s … Read more
With Wisconsin-River Falls edging further into the conference lead, the NCHA takes a break from beating itself up to try to do the same to the MIAC. Tim Somers reports.
The package features three Michigan-Michigan State contests as part of the 18-game schedule, as well as coverage of the Great Lakes Invitational and four CCHA Tournament games, including the CCHA Championship from Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.
The NCAA moved a step closer to revamping its amateurism rules during a recent meeting of the Division I Management Council. The amateurism deregulation package, which has been worked on for over a year and was first discussed on USCHO last fall, could see final approval by April, 2001. The deregulation proposal changes the definition … Read more
Freshman Shane Saum tallied his first collegiate hat trick to lead Air Force to a 7-1 win over Division III Augsburg and a sweep of the series. Saum put the Falcons on the board first with a power play goal at 7:23 but Jaro Cesky tied the game for the Auggies just 30 seconds later. … Read more
Iona College scored three times in the third period, twice on the power play, to earn a come-from-behind victory over Bentley College Sunday night at the Ryan Rink in Watertown. After Bentley led 5-3 in the second period and 5-4 after the second intermission, the Gaels tied the game 51 seconds into the third when … Read more
Wisconsin’s losing streak ran to five games Saturday night with a 3-2 loss at the hands of Alaska-Anchorage. The Badgers (7-5-0 overall, 4-4-0 WCHA) had plenty of opportunities throughout the course of the evening, but it was the Seawolves (4-3-1, 2-1-1) who took advantage of the chances presented to them. With the game tied at … Read more
Freshman forward Greg Kealey scored a power play goal at the 15:26 mark of the second period to give the Holy Cross Crusaders a 3-2 victory over the Army Black Knights on saturday evening. The win marked the first time since 1995 that the Crusaders have defeated the Black Knights. The win improves Holy Cross’ … Read more
There was a time when the Gophers were king, but North Dakota has been the dominant WCHA force in recent years. This classic battle had everything you would expect.
The Broncos continued their early season roll, and are already approaching last year’s win total. Niagara, on the other hand, suffered another in a string of tough defeats.
Ambria Thomas finished with a hat trick and two assists as third-ranked Minnesota skated to an 8-0 win Saturday night over fourth-ranked Minnesota-Duluth at Mariucci Arena. The Gophers jumped to a 3-0 lead after the first period on two goals from Thomas and Ronda Curtin’s seventh tally of the season. La Toya Clarke scored the … Read more