Site AdministratorThe No. 12 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (3-2-0; 1-0-0 CCHA) began their title defense of last year’s CCHA crown by holding off a gritty Bowling Green squad, defeating the Falcons 4-2 at the BG Ice Arena on Tuesday night. The Falcons (1-2-0; 0-1-0 CCHA) played a determined, physical brand of hockey against the defending league … Read more
In a weekend that went mostly to form, Air Force stood out. Jim Connelly and Scott Brown discuss the Falcons, early departures, the problems at Conte Forum last Friday, and more.
North Dakota remained unbeaten over the weekend, giving the Fighting Sioux another week atop the USCHO.com/CSTV Division I men’s poll, released Monday. UND received 42 of 50 first-place votes to handily retain the No. 1 spot in the rankings after a climate-shortened tie with Boston College and a win over Northeastern. Miami, which swept Ohio … Read more
It must have seemed like déjà vu for Ohio State (2-2-0, 0-2-0 CCHA) goaltender Joseph Palmer Sunday evening, who after giving up five goals Friday night against the Miami RedHawks (4-0-0, 2-0-0 CCHA), gave up five more goals Sunday, as the RedHawks skated away with a 5-1 victory and a series sweep at the Steve … Read more
The Vermont Catamounts erased two Boston College two-goal leads, scoring two in the third period en route to a 3-3 tie in the Hockey East opener for both teams at Gutterson Fieldhouse Sunday. The fourth-ranked Eagles led 2-0 late in the second and 3-1 with 17:31 left in the third, but junior Peter Lenes sparked … Read more
Looking for a sweep to open their WCHA schedule, the Michigan Tech Huskies jumped out quickly against the Minnesota State Mavericks. The Huskies (3-1-0 overall, 2-0-0 WCHA) scored four first period goals and junior winger Malcolm Gwilliam notched five points as the Huskies cruised to a 7-1 victory over the visiting Mavericks (0-2-0 overall, 0-2-0 … Read more
If defense is Minnesota Duluth’s strength this season, it’s most obvious in a lack of opposing goals. After two weekends, UMD has given up the fewest goals in the opening four games of a season since going to the NCAA Division I level in 1961-62. That’s led to an unbeaten start following UMD’s 4-2 victory … Read more
A night after blowing Colgate away in the first period, Michigan State seemed to be in control from the opening drop again on Saturday after building a 2-0 first period lead, yet the resilient Raiders rebounded to keep Saturday’s result in question until the final horn sounded in a 2-1 loss to the host Spartans. … Read more
Third period goals from junior Scott Crowder and freshman Shawn Saunders, playing in his first career collegiate game, proved to be the difference as the UMass Minutemen defeated the UConn Huskies 4-3 on Saturday afternoon at the Mullins Center. UMass and UConn (1-1-0) entered the final period tied at two, but the goals from Crowder … Read more
North Dakota got to play a full 60 minutes of hockey on night two in Boston at Matthews Arena on the campus of Northeastern University after only playing 40 minutes at Boston College the night before due to fog. In front of a crowd of 2,784, the Huskies and Fighting Sioux played a game that … Read more
The tenth-ranked Colorado College Tigers came into tonight’s game with a full head of steam. Just one night earlier, CC defeated Minnesota 3-1 thanks in part to its freshman goaltender, Richard Bachman, and some stellar play from its defensemen. Tonight however, Bachman and his counterpart Jeff Frazee had themselves a terrific goaltending battle. In the … Read more
For the first time in school history, the Air Force Falcons hockey team swept a ranked opponent, beating 14th-ranked Quinnipiac 3-1 Saturday at the Academy’s Cadet Ice Arena. The Falcons beat the Bobcats 4-1, on Friday. With the win, Air Force head coach Frank Serratore earned his 200th career victory. He has won 151 games … Read more
You’ve seen the games; you may even know some of the players and coaches. But what’s it really like to be part of a college hockey team? Former high school star Ruben Leavitt found out — at least for one day — with the Colgate women’s squad.
Clarkson looked dead in the water after one period of play Saturday night. The Golden Knights fell behind 3-0 to St. Lawrence after just 19:15 of play before 3,695 fans at Cheel Arena. Clarkson turned the momentum in their favor partway through the second period, however, and fueled a comeback that culminated in an overtime … Read more
History was made Saturday night at Schneider Arena, something to remember for visiting Holy Cross and something to quickly forget for host Providence College. Dale Reinhardt’s power play goal 2:52 into the third period snapped the third tie of the night and Peter Lorinser added an empty-netter as the final buzzer sounded to give the … Read more
Years from now, when Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute freshman forward Tyler Helfrich recalls how he scored his first collegiate goal, he will say thus: “A real nice goal. It was not garbage at all.” That would be stretching the truth. Helfrich’s first goal of the season was a controversial, yet winning one Saturday. He batted in … Read more
Great goaltending was the story in a 3-1 Western Michigan victory over Bentley College Saturday night at Lawson Ice Arena in Kalamazoo. Falcons’ netminder Joe Calvi stopped 22 Bronco shots in the loss while sophomore Riley Gill came up with 33 saves of his own to earn his second win of the season. “I wanted … Read more
Wisconsin freshman Podge Turnbull had been so close to getting his first collegiate goal three separate times on Saturday night. After twice watching the puck deflect to other teammates, Turnbull thought he had his first goal midway through the second period, even raising his hands in celebration, only to watch the puck clank off the … Read more
ECAC commissioner Rudy Keeling announced Friday that the ECAC Women’s West Hockey administrators voted to accept Potsdam as its tenth member during the annual league administrators meeting on Thurs., Oct. 18. Located in Potsdam, N.Y., and founded in 1816, Potsdam has roughly 4,300 undergraduate and graduate students. With the addition of women’s ice gockey, Potsdam … Read more
Michigan State unfurled its 2007 National Championship banner before its game with Colgate on Friday evening. Then the Spartans unveiled their potent offense, riding a three-goal first period to a 6-3 win before 5,926 at Munn Ice Arena. Freshman Dustin Gazley scored a pair of goals in the opening frame to pace MSU. Michigan State … Read more