Site AdministratorVermont goaltender Joe Fallon stopped 23 shots, helping the Catamounts move a step closer to clinching their first home-ice playoff series since joining Hockey East with a 2-0 victory over Maine at Gutterson Fieldhouse Friday. The shutout for Fallon is the second in as many games and the 19th of his career. He moved into … Read more
Maybe it should have been Junior Night. Last year’s NCAA Frozen Four hero, junior center Justin Abdelkader, registered a hat trick on Senior Night at Michigan State, stealing the spotlight from his senior teammates who helped lead the Spartans to the 2007 NCAA championship last year. With a three-goal flurry in the final 2:19 of … Read more
Even with just three wins in the CCHA this season coming into Friday night’s game, the Western Michigan Broncos (8-24-3 overall, 4-21-2 CCHA) could sense the win over the No. 11 ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The Broncos used two goals in the second period to net a 3-0 shutout win inside Lawson Ice Arena … Read more
It may not have been one of the prettiest games Union has played this season, but ugly wins still count the same as the beautiful ones. That is all that matters to the Dutchmen right now, who are on the verge of a first-round ECAC Hockey tournament bye. John Simpson and Michael Beynon scored, goalie … Read more
Freshmen Danny Dries scored the game winning goal to propel No. 2 UNH past Merrimack College 2-1 on Friday night at the Whittemore Center. The win extended the Wildcats current unbeaten streak to nine games. Craig Switzer had a goal and an assist. Merrimack’s Andrew Braithwaite had 37 saves on the night, including eighteen in … Read more
Against Boston College, the difference makers for Providence, two freshmen with four career goals between them coming into the contest, were surprising, . Providence forwards Jordan Kremyr and Ian O’Connor proved that late in the season, sometimes the contributions from the least expected sources. Kremyr netted two first period goals and O’Connor added some key … Read more
Sixty-five minutes proved not enough to settle the contest between No. 20 Harvard (13-11-4, 11-7-3 ECACHL) and Colgate (14-13-6, 8-8-5 ECACHL) at Starr Rink on Friday night. The lead exchanged hands three times according to the ebb and flow of penalties. Both coaches were visibly frustrated with the officiating, but would not comment specifically on … Read more
Michigan senior captain Kevin Porter’s regular season home career ended in storybook fashion, as he led his Wolverines to a 5-3 win over Ferris State that clinched the CCHA conference championship for No. 1 Michigan at Yost Arena Friday night. A top Hobey Baker Award candidate, Porter earned his post-game Senior Night tributes with his … Read more
What was billed as a battle of two of the best goaltenders in the WCHA didn’t disappoint, as the No. 7 Denver Pioneers’ Peter Mannino barely out-dueled the Michigan Tech Huskies’ Michael-Lee Teslak for a slim 1-0 win. In doing so, Mannino earned his fifth shutout of the season and the 14th of his career, … Read more
As the final horn rang to close Friday night’s regular season finale for the Miami RedHawks and the Ohio State Buckeyes, the RedHawks’ seniors knew they had locked up a second place finish in the regular season, as well as a first round bye during the CCHA tournament. The 4-3 win was a great way … Read more
Courtney Olson didn’t expect to end up playing college hockey. Then again, the Clarkson freshman probably didn’t anticipate roping cattle in Alberta, either. Mike Scandura reports.
When the Northern Michigan Wildcats and the Lake Superior Lakers met in late November earlier this season, the Wildcats came out with a sweep. This time around, the Lakers decided it was their time to shine, and they did so with a 3-2 win. The first period was evenly matched in every sense of the … Read more
The proverbial slate has been wiped clean, and a new season is upon the ECAC NE, which begins Saturday afternoon when the top two seeds, Curry College and UMass-Dartmouth, host their opponents. All four match-ups will be discussed below, many of which weren’t determined until the regular season ended on Wednesday night. Curry will host … Read more
Setting the Field The quarterfinal matchups are set in the MIAC with Hamline hosting St. John’s and Bethel traveling to St. Thomas on Saturday. Let’s take a look at how we got here before we delve into this weekend’s match-ups. Bethel was idle for the final week of the regular season, with St. Thomas lurking … Read more
Princeton wasn’t among the favorites when the ECAC Hockey season started, but Guy Gadowsky’s Tigers have proved the pundits wrong. Elliot Olshansky reports.
The USA Hockey Foundation Monday announced 10 candidates for the 2008 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, presented annually to the most outstanding player in women’s college hockey. The 10 candidates represent eight different schools, as No. 1 Harvard and No. 2 New Hampshire each have two candidates. The WCHA and ECACHL are the most represented conferences … Read more
Sometimes hockey truly is a game of inches, as was the case in Tuesday’s nonconference game between Nebraska-Omaha and No. 9 Minnesota State. MSU drilled a pair of posts in a scoreless first period before a critical major kneeing penalty in the second put UNO on a five-minute man-advantage. The red Mavericks scored twice on … Read more
The first regular-season conference champion has been crowned — who’s next? Jim Connelly and Scott Brown discuss the league races, the polls and the PairWise Rankings.
Last week, Gridiron Club of Greater Boston’s president Al Robichaud announced that 16 NCAA Division III players are semi-finalists for the eighth Joe Concannon Award, presented annually to the best American-born college hockey player in New England playing at the D-II/III level. The list is comprised of 12 forwards, three defensemen and one goalie, all … Read more
Falling one point — the margin between a first and second place tally — short of unanimity, the St. Norbert Green Knights enter the postseason on a 24-game unbeaten streak, after back-to-back shutouts of Lake Forest last weekend. The nation’s new No. 2, Plattsburgh, capitalized on a 6-0 blanking of Potsdam and the loss and … Read more