Site AdministratorThe Plattsburgh State Cardinals are one step away from claiming back-to-back NCAA titles. Plattsburgh defeated their archrival Elmira College 2-0 in the national semifinals and now move on to the championship game, where they will meet the Manhattanville Valiants. Plattsburgh improved to 24-3-1 on the season while Elmira dropped to 22-6-1. After a back and … Read more
They say opposites attract, and it’s hard to find a defensive pairing more opposite than North Dakota’s Chay Genoway and Joe Finley. Patrick C. Miller reports.
The Manhattanville Valiants advanced to the NCAA Division III National Championship for the third time in school history downing Wis.-Superior 4-3 in overtime at the Ronald B. Stafford Ice Arena. Manhattanville’s Jess Zimmerman was the hero of the day, scoring off a feed from Monique Rafferty 49 seconds into the first overtime period to send … Read more
The WCHA placed three teams in the final eight, both teams in the national championship game, and yet earned only three of 12 All-Americans. Is this “Eastern bias” in the voting? I would say there is bias only insofar as the system tends towards proportional representation. One simple reason for this is that if each … Read more
Erika Lawler has experienced a lot of things in NCAA play in her three seasons at Wisconsin. Until this season, heading to the locker room with her team behind on the scoreboard in the national tourney wasn’t one of them. Now she has found herself in that situation in consecutive games in this season’s tournament, … Read more
Heading into Minnesota Duluth’s NCAA semifinal versus New Hampshire, Saara Touminen’s chances of playing with a knee injury were listed as fifty-fifty. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, the wrong half of that probability came up on game day. “We just asked everyone to step up and do the best you could,†coach Shannon Miller said. To … Read more
First-Team All-Americans G Kim Martin, So., UMD D Tessa Bonhomme, Sr., OSU D Caitlin Cahow, Sr., Harvard F Meghan Agosta, So., Mercyhurst F Melissa Boal, Jr., WSU F Sarah Vaillancourt, Jr., Harvard Second-Team All-Americans G Christina Kessler, So., Harvard D Martine Garland, Sr., UNH D Annie Guay, Sr., St. Lawrence F Gigi Marvin, Jr., Minnesota … Read more
Colorado College freshman goaltender Richard Bachman was named WCHA Player of the Year and WCHA Rookie of the Year — only the second player in the 56-year history of the conference to win both awards in one season — in honors announced Thursday at the conference’s annual awards banquet in St. Paul, Minn. Bachman, a … Read more
Princeton junior forward Lee Jubinville was named ECAC Hockey’s Player of the Year at the League’s annual banquet. The junior was one of several individuals to earn recognition at the annual event, which marks the start of the 2008 Bank of America ECAC Hockey Championship weekend. Harvard sophomore Kyle Richter won the the league’s Ken … Read more
The Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation on Thursday announced the top 10 finalists for the 2008 Hobey Baker Award, honoring college hockey’s top player. Alphabetically, they are Nathan Gerbe, Boston College; Ryan Jones, Miami; Lee Jubinville, Princeton; Simon Lambert, RIT; Jean-Philippe Lamoureux, North Dakota; Ryan Lasch, St. Cloud State; Jeff Lerg, Michigan State; T.J. Oshie, … Read more
When Wisconsin’s Jessie Vetter is in net, the puck stops here — with “here” being about three feet in front of the goal line. Mike Scandura profiles the Badgers’ record-breaker.
Hockey East announced its 2007-08 All-Star teams, and eight of the 10 Hockey East teams were represented among the selections. Regular season champion New Hampshire led the way as all five of its seniors were chosen, making it one of the most decorated senior classes in Hockey East history. UNH goaltender and Hockey East Player … Read more
UMD coach Shannon Miller said at Thursday’s pre-game press conference that No. 2 scorer Saara Tuominen was 50-50 for Thursday night’s game. She suffered a sprained MCL in the quarterfinal win against Mercyhurst.
In any NCAA championship event, handling the pressure of the big stage is a major factor in determining the outcome. So it comes as no surprise that experience was a common topic of conversation in Wednesday’s pre-game press conferences at the Women’s Frozen Four in Duluth. Harvard vs. Wisconsin In some sense, the first semifinal … Read more
Notre Dame will be without the services of junior right wing Erik Condra for the remainder of the season, according to head coach Jeff Jackson. Condra, a native of Livonia, Mich., suffered an injury to his left knee during the first period of Sunday’s 2-1 win versus Ferris State in Game 3 of the CCHA’s … Read more
Minnesota senior Tom Pohl is in intensive care following surgery resulting from an injury suffered in the Golden Gophers’ double overtime victory over Minnesota State on Sunday in Mankato. POHL (photo: gophersports.com) Pohl sustained a skull fracture when his head hit the boards in front of the team’s bench at 6:09 of the second period. … Read more
With a pair of wins in its CCHA quarterfinal series, Michigan solidified its grip on the No. 1 position in Monday’s USCHO.com/CSTV Division I men’s poll. The Wolverines swept Nebraska-Omaha to move on to Joe Louis Arena, picking up 41 of 50 first-place votes this week. No. 2 was Colorado College, which won twice against … Read more
For the first time in nearly a decade, Princeton University is headed to the ECAC Championships. The second-seeded Tigers advanced to the league semifinals on Friday at the Times Union Center in Albany after recording a 4-0 victory over seventh-seed Yale University Sunday tonight in the deciding game of their best-of-three ECAC quarterfinal series in … Read more
With the deciding game of its best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinal series against Northeastern knotted at one, the Vermont Catamounts broke it open by scoring three times in just over 12 minutes of the third period en route to a 4-1 win at Gutterson Fieldhouse Sunday. The victory for No. 19 Vermont (16-14-7) sends it to … Read more
Michigan Tech made it anything but easy for North Dakota to earn a trip to the WCHA Final Five tournament in St. Paul this week. For the second straight night, the Fighting Sioux clung to a 2-1 lead with time winding down as the Huskies, their goalie pulled, applied furious pressure. Unlike Saturday’s game however, … Read more