Wisconsin Sweeps Minnesota State

Six times. the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team had played nearly flawless hockey in winning the opener of a Western Collegiate Hockey Association series and only twice had they finished off the sweep. One of those failed attempts was against Minnesota State in the second week of the season, following a dominant 6-0 victory … Read more

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Alaska Rallies to Tie Ohio State

The Alaska Nanooks rallied from two goals down to tie the Ohio State Buckeyes 3-3 in Value City Arena on Saturday night. The Nanooks got a total of four out of six points for the weekend following their 4-1 win on Friday against the Buckeyes. “I thought it was a pretty good college hockey game,” … Read more

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Merrimack Scores Two in 19 Seconds to Rally Past Vermont

In the final minutes of the third period, it looked as though Vermont had the game all wrapped up for a 2-1 victory. Merrimack had a different ending in mind and they made it happen, scoring two goals within seconds of each other with under two minutes to play, taking back the lead and defeating … Read more

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Miami Crushes Bowling Green

One night after clinching the CCHA regular season title, Miami sent a message, dominating last place Bowling Green in a 10-2 victory. While the scoreboard was clearly in favor of Miami all night, the physical play on the ice took precedence, as 186 penalty minutes were handed out by the officials. With just 37 seconds … Read more

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Williams Scores Twice as Colgate Beats Brown

At Starr Rink Saturday night, the Colgate Raiders scored two short-handed goals en route to a 6-2 win over the Brown Bears. Both goals came in the first 1:37 of the third period, completely changing the dynamics of what was a two-goal game at the second intermission. Colgate opened up the scoring early in the … Read more

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Lehrke’s Four Points Lead Bemidji State Over Robert Morris

The score remained the same tonight at the Island Sports Center. The Robert Morris Colonials and Bemidji State Beavers played their third consecutive 5-2 game in their conference series, only this time the Beavers ended up the victors. Bemidji State rode senior Tyler Lehrke’s four-point night, and two goals in a 2:03 span of the … Read more

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Saturday’s Alabama-Huntsville Game at Niagara Postponed

Alabama-Huntsville’s game at Niagara on Saturday has been postponed after a fatal shooting on UAH’s campus Friday. Three people were killed and three others were wounded in a school building. A biology professor is being held on murder charges. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Alabama-Huntsville community,” Niagara athletic director Ed McLaughlin said. … Read more

Yale Claims First in ECAC with Thriller Win Over Cornell in OT

Both No. 6 Yale and No. 8 Cornell had done what they needed to do to make tonight’s ECAC heavyweight bout before the seventh consecutive sellout of 4,267 at Lynah Rink all it was supposed to be; they had each won on Friday night to carry their first-place tie into Saturday. A Union loss at … Read more

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Butler’s Four Goals Buoy Wildcats

New Hampshire senior co-captain Bobby Butler did his best campaigning for the Hobey Baker Award by scoring four goals, including three in the third period, on Friday night as he led his Wildcats over Providence College, 5-2, in front of a sold out crowd at the Whittemore Center in Durham, N.H. “[Butler] kills penalties, he’s … Read more

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Northeastern Blanks Massachusetts, 2-0

Northeastern rookie goaltender Chris Rawlings posted a 31 save shutout to backbone the Huskies to a 2-0 victory at Massachusetts on Friday evening at the Mullins Center. “To go on the road, and especially to UMass which has not been hospitable place for Northeastern, and get a victory is a great night for us,” said … Read more

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Two Shorthanded Tallies Key Mercyhurst Win

A heated battle for position in the Atlantic Hockey standings was decided by a pair of shorthanded goals and — oddly enough — an even-strength goal by one of the nation’s leading shorthanded goal scorers as Mercyhurst collected a road victory over Canisius, 3-1, on Friday night at the Buffalo State Ice Arena in Buffalo. … Read more

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Harvard Falls to Rensselaer, 5-4

Harvard head coach Ted Donato’s undefeated 19-0-0 home record in February and unbeaten streak of 11-0-4 in post-Beanpot league games was no match for Rensselaer on Friday. Harvard squandered early momentum and an early lead, falling to the Engineers 5-4. “I thought it was a wild first two periods,” Donato said. “We got a couple … Read more

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Special Win: Badgers Three Power-Play Goals and Shorthanded Tally Key Victory

The man advantage never looked like such a disadvantage as far as Wisconsin was concerned. Minnesota State could not stay out of the penalty box, but third ranked Wisconsin couldn’t find fluidity in its first seven power-play chances, capitalize on its decisive advantage in shots, or solve the unknown riddle of Mavericks freshman goalie Phil … Read more

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Alaska Stymies Ohio State in 4-1 Win

The Alaska Nanooks used solid goaltending and timely scoring en route to their 4-1 win over the Ohio State Buckeyes on Friday night. Ohio State is now winless in their last four games and their chances of earning home-ice-advantage in the CCHA playoffs are in serious jeopardy as they are now No. 10 in conference … Read more

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Even Steven: Merrimack and Vermont Skate to 2-2 Tie

A hard- played game from both teams resulted in a 2-2 tie Friday night for Vermont and Merrimack in Hockey East action at Gutterson Fieldhouse. Juniors Kyle Medvec and Jack Downing scored for Vermont while sophomore Ryan Flanigan and freshman Stephane Da Costa scored the two goals for Merrimack. “There’s a fine line between winning … Read more

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Colonials Upset Beavers

The Robert Morris Colonials earned two huge conference points against the visiting Bemidji State Beavers at the Island Sports Center tonight, using two goal performances by forwards JC Velasquez and Nathan Longpre and a 23 save effort from starting goaltender Brooks Ostergard. “He was very good the first period and that was the difference.” Bemidji … Read more

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Miami Clinches CCHA Title

In their first game since the burial of former team manager Brendan Burke, the Miami RedHawks clinched the CCHA regular season title with a 3-2 win over Bowling Green. “I’m extremely proud of the guys, we’ve had a tough week for obvious reasons,” Miami head coach Enrico Blasi said. “We wanted to accomplish this right … Read more

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Mavericks Upset Wolverines

The old sports adage that a team would rather be lucky than good implies that the two terms should be mutually exclusive, but the Nebraska-Omaha hockey team was both of those things on Friday night. The Mavericks have been playing their best hockey of the season in recent weeks — especially at home — and … Read more

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Mavericks Upset Badgers

Forty-four times Minnesota State faced off against Wisconsin. Forty-four times they failed to defeat to the Badgers. Consider time 45 the charm. The Mavericks scored three goals on their first four shots, before holding off a late Wisconsin comeback for a 5-3 upset victory, Friday afternoon at the Kohl Center. “Well we’ve never beat Wisconsin … Read more

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