Tuesday Morning Quarterback: A Beanpot renaissance
The Boston tournament has a great first night, the standings tighten and other topics this week with Jim Connelly and Paula C. Weston.
The Boston tournament has a great first night, the standings tighten and other topics this week with Jim Connelly and Paula C. Weston.
Boston College goaltender Molly Schaus hunches over slightly as she stares down the forward skating towards her. She watches as the play develops, shifting in front of the net as she responds to the moves around her. Northeastern’s Kristi Kehoe finally took a shot; Schaus’s save looked as effortless as stretching her arm out to … Read more
Mike Connolly, Jack Connolly and Justin Fontaine were back together Saturday night. Their performance, and that of their Minnesota-Duluth teammates, brought an Amsoil Arena sellout crowd of 6,764 to pure elation on the way to a 6-4 Western Collegiate Hockey Association men’s victory. Junior left winger Mike Connolly of Calgary, Alberta, took the game in … Read more
Colonials forward Adam Brace, a Canisius transfer, picked the perfect night to net his first two-goal performance of the season, propelling the Colonials to a hard-fought conference victory Saturday night over the Canisius Golden Griffins at the Island Sports Center. Brace’s goals, coupled with a spectacular night from Colonials goaltender Brooks Ostergard, who made 48 … Read more
Down 3-0 to St Cloud State after Saturday’s first period of play and in clear danger of watching its hot-and-cold season grow chilly again, Nebraska-Omaha needed a hero. It didn’t get one; it got five. Despite outshooting the Huskies 18-8 through the opening 20 minutes, UNO looked well on its way to its fifth Saturday … Read more
Vermont came out strong against Providence Saturday night, decisively defeating the Friars, 7-1, in Hockey East Action at Gutterson Fieldhouse. This game followed a 1-1 tie that the teams had played on Friday night. Seven different Catamounts recorded the goals in the game. Sophomores Ben Albertson, Chris McCarthy, Anders Franzon and Tobias Nilsson-Roos scored for … Read more
After snatching victory from the jaws of defeat on the road at Northeastern, the No. 12 Merrimack Warriors returned home for their first meeting of the season against the Massachusetts Minutemen. The powder keg that was Merrimack’s offense exploded furiously for 11 goals with 11 players with multi-point games for an 11-2 decisive victory over … Read more
With her team leading 1-0 six and half minutes into Saturday night’s game against Minnesota, Wisconsin’s Brianna Decker started an innocent rush with the puck over 100 feet from the opposing net short-handed. About seven seconds later, Decker had the Badgers goal of the season and the game’s winning score, as Wisconsin polished off a … Read more
When the potent Nebraska-Omaha offense fires 59 shots on goal in a game, the general consensus seems to be that the 15th-ranked Mavericks should win. Comfortably, too. Problem is, nobody told Clarke Saunders. Nor did anyone tell Sebastian Geoffrion, who scored the game-winning goal 29 seconds into overtime to help Alabama-Huntsville upset UNO 2-1 on … Read more
One night after blowing a two-goal lead, the University of Maine men’s hockey team couldn’t preserve an early 1-0 lead, as Boston University fought back to earn the 1-1 tie and take three points from the Black Bears while on the road. The Black Bears sit at 11-7-6 and 8-5-4 in Hockey East, while the … Read more
After taking the first game of a weekend doubleheader, the No. 14 Merrimack Warriors looked to close out the season series with the Vermont Catamounts in front of a 2,489 sellout crowd and a NESN live broadcast. The Warriors did just that, winning 7-1, with six Warriors finishing the game with multi-point evenings, and senior … Read more
After its big win over Yale the previous night, Union kept on rolling, beating Brown, 4-2. The Dutchmen continued their dominance on the power play, scoring their first goal 13:44 into the first period after a tripping penalty against Brown defenseman Marc-Antoine Carrier. John Simpson scored the goal for Union after a backhanded feed from … Read more
No. 1 Wisconsin won a shootout victory on a goal by Hilary Knight after skating to a 4-4 overtime tie with No. 6 Minnesota Duluth at AMSOIL Arena Saturday night. The Bulldogs rallied from a 4-2 third-period deficit to send the game to overtime. Wisconsin led 3-1 after two periods and maintained the two-goal lead … Read more
The U.S. National Under-18 team made its way to Hamden on Saturday night for their 13th NCAA matchup this season and the final tuneup for Quinnipiac before finishing off the season with nine straight conference games. The Bobcats came away with a 4-2 win, thanks to solid play from senior goaltender Pat McGann. McGann made … Read more
Following a 6-1 loss last night against the Ohio State Buckeyes, the No. 8 Notre Dame Fighting Irish were led by a pair of freshmen in a 4-1 victory over the Buckeyes in Value City Arena Saturday evening. The loss snapped Ohio State’s three game home winning streak against top 10 teams. Notre Dame ended … Read more
Nebraska Omaha coach Dean Blais was smiling, even though he had just seen his Mavericks give up a third-period lead and lose 4-2 to North Dakota. “If someone had said that you’re going to play North Dakota four times and beat them twice, I absolutely would have taken it,” he explained. For UND, which suffered … Read more
Exactly one year ago tonight, Harvard goaltender Ryan Carroll had one of the best performances of his career, as he made a career-high 47 saves in a 4-1 win at Union. Tonight, Carroll looked as he was on his way to match that performance as he stopped 40 Union shots, but was unable to hold … Read more
It was a very different atmosphere at Gutterson Fieldhouse Saturday night as Massachusetts, coming off a 2-1 loss to Vermont, roared past that same team 6-0 in the second game of a weekend series. Junior assistant captain T.J. Syner scored twice for UMass. Junior assistant captain Danny Hobbs, freshman Michael Pereira, sophomore Kevin Czepiel, and … Read more
Knotted 1-1 going into the third period, Clarkson (12-9-2, 6-4-1 ECAC) scored twice (one of which was an empty-netter) to pull away from Brown (7-8-4, 5-6-1 ECAC) Saturday in Providence, R.I. The loss snaps the Bears’ two-game win streak after victories over No. 1 Yale and St. Lawrence, and drops them to eighth in the … Read more
Chris Rawlings notched his second consecutive shutout with 34 saves, and Northeastern skated away with a 3-0 win over Harvard on Wednesday in a Beanpot preview at in front of a crowd of 1,017 Matthews Arena. It was Huskies coach Greg Cronin’s 100th career win, 80 of which have come with Northeastern. “I honestly didn’t … Read more