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The Yale Bulldogs shocked the college hockey world and all the prognosticators by defeating the North Dakota Fighting Sioux, 3-2, for their first NCAA tournament victory since the 1952 consolation game. The selection committee threw Yale a curve ball by keeping them east against a much tougher first-round opponent than initially expected, but it never … Read more

Sometimes a player needs a game off to refocus and get his head back in the game. A good coach knows when to give this time off. For Miami coach Enrico Blasi and freshman forward Curtis McKenzie, the timing couldn’t have been better. McKenzie sat out last weekend’s CCHA consolation game against Ferris State before … Read more

On a team littered with productive seniors, John Mitchell had been the forgotten one. Once thought to be a potential early defector to the NHL after a junior season where he shared the team lead with 15 goals, the soft-spoken Mitchell has fluctuated in and out of the lineup early in the year, been held … Read more

Hello Detroit. Goodbye New Hampshire. The upstart RIT Tigers, competing in their first NCAA Division I tournament since moving Division I in 2005, continued their magical run with a convincing 6-2 win over third-seeded UNH Saturday at the Times Union Center. “We’re still having fun; it’s an accumulation of a lot of hard work from … Read more

There were many things that set this NCAA regional game apart from any of the other eight national tournament games St. Cloud State had played in before. Perhaps it was the fact that the Huskies drew a region berth in a location west of Lake Michigan and in the Central Time Zone for the first … Read more

RIT capitalized on a slow start by Denver with an early goal, battled hard for the next 45 minutes to hold the lead before adding some insurance, and then senior netminder Jared DeMichiel was able to stand tall in the waning minutes to vindicate the Atlantic Hockey champion for the second straight year. “It is … Read more

When Wisconsin gets a power play, the Badgers go to work with sticks in hand and a twig in mind. It’s a plan based on an acronym, and Wisconsin proved Friday night that it works. “We use a method our coaches call the TWIG — Take What Is Given,” said Wisconsin defenseman Brendan Smith. “The … Read more