Site AdministratorGustavus Adolphus (18-10-0 overall, 10-6-0 in MIAC) Gustavus Adolphus will make its first NCAA final four appearance Friday when the Golden Gusties face off at 4:30 p.m. Eastern against the University of Wisconsin-Stout for a spot in Saturday’s national championship game. This is a Gusties team, however, that was picked just third in the MIAC … Read more
Senior goalie Chad Johnson became the first Alaska Nanook to be named the CCHA Player of the Year, as announced at the annual CCHA Awards banquet Thursday. Nine individual awards were handed out at Detroit’s historic Fox Theatre, including six determined by a vote of the league’s 12 coaches. Johnson was second in the nation … Read more
Gridiron Club of Greater Boston president Steve Grogan announced today that senior defenseman Jeff Landers of Amherst College is the winner of the ninth annual Joe Concannon Award, which recognizes New England’s best American-born hockey player at the Division II-III level. Landers, from Hanover, MA, finished his career at Amherst with an outstanding season, leading … Read more
This week it’s prediction time for Jim Connelly and Scott Brown, who take on the Hobey Baker finalists as well as the conference championships.
With all six conferences now in postseason action, last weekend’s results produced changes up and down the line in the USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Division I men’s poll. That started at the top, where Notre Dame broke Boston University’s six-week headlock on the pole position. The Fighting Irish, who had been ranked second for each of … Read more
The Bentley Falcons jumped out to an early lead and never relinquished it as they defeated the Canisius Golden Griffins, 4-2, Sunday night in game three of their Atlantic Hockey quarterfinal series. Captain Jeff Gumaer had a hat trick for the Falcons, who will travel to Rochester Friday to face Air Force in the semifinals. … Read more
Jerry York and the Boston College Eagles proved to the country Saturday night that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves, holding on to a 1-0 lead to secure a sweep of New Hampshire in the quarterfinals of the Hockey East tournament. Sitting nine spots behind UNH in the rankings and three seeds … Read more
If there was any question whether or not the Wisconsin Badgers could carry over the effort from Friday’s 7-1 victory, the answer was a resounding one. A night after firing 66 shots on net, the Badgers continued to pepper goaltender Mike Zacharias and the Minnesota State Mavericks with 46 shots Saturday. Wisconsin secured a 4-2 … Read more
It wasn’t as easy for Notre Dame tonight as it was last night, but the No. 2 team in the country still got it done when it needed to get it done, and it meant scoring early and shutting down the opponent the rest of the way. Fighting Irish senior Jordan Pearce notched his second-straight … Read more
North Dakota’s senior captain Ryan Duncan called his final game at Ralph Engelstad Arena, a 4-3 win over Michigan Tech, a storybook ending. Not only did the former Hobey Baker winner’s rally the Fighting Sioux and send UND to the WCHA Final Five as the tournament’s No. 1 seed, but he also got to skate … Read more
The Canisius Golden Griffins struck first and Bentley was never able to pull closer than two goals in the Griffins 7-3 win Saturday night at the John A. Ryan Skating Arena. The win forced a third and deciding game set for Sunday night. “We played very hungry and we found the pucks around the net … Read more
Unlike last evening, when Yale spotted Brown a 2-0 lead and came from behind, the Bulldogs dominated the Bears from the opening faceoff en route to a 2-0 series-clenching victory before 2,770 at Ingalls Rink. “We knew exactly what we needed to do, and I give credit to everyone for coming out from the first … Read more
In a Hockey East quarterfinal match in which No. 7 Vermont had to win to force a deciding game three, fifth-seeded UMass.-Lowell completed the upset sweep Saturday night by securing a 4-2 victory over the fourth-seeded Catamounts before a sell-out crowd of 4,003 at Gutterson Fieldhouse. Scott Campbell led the River Hawks’ offense with two … Read more
Michigan and Western Michigan nearly followed the same script Saturday night as in Friday night’s opener in their CCHA quarterfinal series at Yost Arena. Michigan capitalized on a three-goal first period burst including one in the period’s final seconds, to close out a gritty, determined squad of Broncos, 6-1, in the series finale. The victory … Read more
Boston College is staying alive. The 18th ranked Eagles skated away with a 5-3 victory in the first Hockey East quarterfinal game against No. 9 New Hampshire at the Whittemore Center Friday night. Despite securing third seed in the tournament, UNH took a back seat to the sixth seeded Eagles as captain Brock Bradford, who … Read more
It took Yale a little over a period to skate off the rust formed during its first round bye, but when the Bulldogs finally got warmed up, they handed Brown a sound beating, doubling them up 4-2 in ECAC Quarterfinal action. Denny Kearney’s goal in the final seconds of the middle frame turned the tide … Read more
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Friday the 13th delivered on its promise tonight, as the visiting University of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks experienced a truly frightening horror show in Notre Dame’s Joyce Center. For the Fighting Irish, however, you couldn’t call this “luckâ€. This was something altogether more impressive than mere fortune: this was pure dominance from the get-go, as the Irish … Read more
Despite jumping to a quick three goal lead in the first period, Michigan had to hold on to best a gritty Western Michigan comeback performance, 5-2, Friday night at Yost Arena in the opening game of the CCHA quarterfinal round of playoffs. The Broncos grabbed two unanswered second period goals to announce their presence to … Read more
The St. Lawrence Saints registered a 5-3 victory over the Quinnipiac University Bobcats in game 1 of the ECAC Hockey quarterfinal round at Appleton Arena Friday night. The game-winning goal came when Mark Armstrong was sprung for a breakaway with a pass from Shawn Fensel. He controlled the puck and beat Quinnipiac’s Bud Fisher under … Read more