Site AdministratorIf you asked Lake Superior State Lakers’ coach Jim Roque how he expected the first game of their series with the Alaska Nanooks would go, it would have been similar to their contest Friday night. The Lakers beat Alaska, 4-3, at the Taffy Abel Arena in Sault, Michigan on Friday night in a tight game … Read more
The Boston University Terriers shutout the Boston College Eagles and won 4-0 at BC’s Conte Forum on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 in their second meeting this season. BC won the previous game at BU’s Walter Brown Arena. Their next and final regularly scheduled meeting is on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, at BU with a fourth … Read more
The struggling Niagara Purple Eagles desperately needed a big-time performance from somebody — anybody — to finally win a hockey game. They actually received two from freshmen, and it couldn’t have happened at a better time. Brent Vandenberg scored twice and Giancarlo Iuorio added a goal and an assist as the Purple Eagles finally got … Read more
USCHO Senior Writers Jim Connelly and Todd D. Milewski talk national championship contenders — in November. Too early? Never. That and more in this week’s edition of Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
Michigan State keeps climbing the USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Division I Men’s Poll. Next stop, top five? The Spartans are on the brink, checking in this week at No. 6 after a sweep of a home-and-home series with then-No. 6 Michigan. Miami retained the top spot after tying a pair of games against Ferris State at … Read more
Ibid. What better way to describe a poll where none of the top five teams (nor the top 15) change? For the second consecutive week, St. Norbert is the top team in college hockey, followed closely by Oswego, Plattsburgh, Manhattanville, and Adrian. What did change were the first place votes. Where last week saw five … Read more
Trailing 2-0 early in the second period, the No. 8 Notre Dame Fighting Irish fought back against Northern Michigan to force overtime and pick up two points in a shootout victory over the Wildcats. Sophomore right winger Billy Maday scored both goals in regulation to force overtime. Calle Ridderwall netted the shootout-winning goal to give … Read more
Sophomore winger Dave Kostuch’s fifth goal of the 2009-10 season — and second in two days — proved to be the game-winner as the Canisius College men’s hockey team sealed a three-point home weekend with a 1-0 victory over Atlantic Hockey rival Connecticut at the Buffalo State Ice Arena in Buffalo, NY. Kostuch’s tally at … Read more
Bemidji State had a two-goal lead going into the third also started the period on a power play. By 3:04 of the third, their lead was five goals, as Bemidji scored three goals on four shots, ushering Kent Patterson from the game. The Gophers brought back Alex Kangas, who had started the game and allowed … Read more
Making up for last night’s crushing defeat, the Northeastern Huskies bounced back to defeat the Maine Black Bears, 5-2, in a in front of 4,323 at Matthews Arena, splitting the weekend series 1-1. With their leading scorer Wade McLeod out on injury, 11 Huskies played a part in the victory over the Black Bears, bringing … Read more
When a team is only able to score three goals on a weekend two-game series, typically they would be happy with one victory. However, Air Force, who knocked off Holy Cross 1-0 on Friday night, skated to a 2-2 with the Crusaders tonight and took three out of a possible four points on the road. … Read more
It took the WCHA’s best power play six tries to score its first goal Friday night, but it didn’t take near that long for Colorado College to get its man-advantage clicking Saturday against Minnesota State. The No. 10 Tigers — who have converted on 31.7 percent of their power-play chances this season — added two … Read more
Former Mass.-Lowell River Hawks forward Ryan Golden was killed in the early hours Saturday morning when his car rolled over on the highway in his hometown of Reading, Mass. Golden, who played at Lowell from 1993 through 1997, was a member of the last two River Hawks teams to appear in the NCAA tournament in … Read more
St. Cloud State snapped No. 2 North Dakota’s 17-game home unbeaten streak behind an excellent 46-save effort by junior goalie Dan Dunn. “He was outstanding tonight, there’s no question,” SCSU coach Bob Motzko said of Dunn’s performance. In their 3-2 victory before 11,782 fans at Ralph Engelstad Arena, the Huskies turned the tables on the … Read more
Minnesota Duluth’s margin of winning or losing has been extremely narrow through the first third of the season. Entering Saturday’s home game with Michigan Tech, eight of UMD’s 11 games had been decided by two goals or less. The cumulative goal differential favored the Bulldogs only slightly, 34-32 (in Western Collegiate Hockey Association play, opponents … Read more
Scott Zurevinski’s two goals helped give the No. 20 Quinnipiac University Bobcats a 4-2 victory over the Dartmouth Big Green in ECAC Hockey action Saturday evening. The Bobcats (8-1-0, 4-0-0 ECAC Hockey) opened up the scoring with an early breakaway goal by Jean Marc Beaudoin just fifty-three seconds into the contest. Standing behind the Bobcats … Read more
Coming into tonight’s game at St. Thomas, Augsburg had been shut out for their past three games. None were blowouts, and the Auggies had chances, but just couldn’t seem to put the puck in the net. The streak started with a 3-0 loss against UW-Eau Claire, followed up by a well played game that saw … Read more
No. 15 Vermont hasn’t won a game at Boston College’s Kelley rink since 1994, and Saturday was no different, as the Eagles slaughtered the Catamounts 7-1 in a Hockey East showdown. BC, now 4-2-1, 3-2-1 HEA, produced four Eagles with multiple points. Sophomore Jimmy Hayes tallied four assists, and classmates Tommy Cross (one goal, two … Read more
So close. No. 19 Princeton is now unbeaten in its last three games after skating to a 3-3 tie with Harvard this afternoon at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink, although the Tigers were within a minute of their third straight win. The first deadlock between the two Ivy League rivals since March 2001 came after the … Read more
Two home games, two shutout wins, two burgeoning freshmen. After suffering a 2-1 defeat to Army (2-7-2, 1-4-1 AHA) in West Point on Friday night, American International College (2-6-1, 2-4-1 AHA) returned to the friendly confines of the Olympia Ice Center on Saturday, where they secured a 2-0 victory against the Black Knights. Goaltender Ben … Read more