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Prominently featured every week in the University of Maine men’s ice hockey game notes is a statistic that many around the state love to talk about. This week it was located on page four and read: when taking the lead into the third period, the Black Bears have been unbeaten in the last 115 games. … Read more

Hollywood couldn’t have drawn up Tony Lucia’s first goal much better. Sure, all he had to do to score the game-winning goal was poke the puck into an empty right side of the net, but try this script on for size: It was the game-winner against Minnesota’s archrival, Wisconsin. It was against an All-American goaltender … Read more

The Aaron Brocklehurst project seems to be coming along nicely in St. Cloud. The junior defenseman-turned-forward put up two goals and an assist in the span of 4:08 between the first and second periods to provide the spark, Nate Dey added two goals and two assists, and Andrew Gordon had a goal and four assists … Read more

Not only did New Hampshire freshman goaltender Brian Foster get his first career start for the Wildcats on Saturday night, he also earned his first career shutout as UNH defeated Massachusetts-Lowell 4-0 on Saturday night at the Whittemore Center. The win by UNH completed the weekend sweep of the River Hawks after UNH won 5-2 … Read more

The Ohio State Buckeyes (4-6-1; 4-4-2 CCHA) used a solid performance from freshman goaltender Joseph Palmer, coupled with a strong defensive stand and penalty kill as they cruised past the Bowling Green Falcons, 4-1, at the BG Ice Arena on Saturday night. Palmer stopped 20 of the 21 shots he saw, finishing up the weekend … Read more

Princeton had lost five games, all by one goal, entering Saturday’s match with visiting Colgate, which just wanted to win its first Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League game of the 2006-07 season. It was the latter school that broke out on Saturday as the Raiders tallied three power-play goals, all with a two-man advantage, … Read more

With a 5-1 victory Saturday night, Michigan accomplished its mission of taking both games at Ferris State. David Rohlfs scored the eventual game winning goal in the final minute of play of the first period. Matt Hunwick passed the puck over to Rohlfs, who put the puck into the open side of the net to … Read more

The Massachusetts (6-1-1, 4-1-0 Hockey East) offense exploded for eight goals — the Minutemen’s most in a single game since 2004 — to defeat Connecticut (3-8-0, 3-4-0 AHA) 8-1 on Saturday afternoon, remaining undefeated at home (4-0-1). The No. 20 Minutemen are riding a four game win streak and return to conference play Tuesday night … Read more

One night after the No. 5 Miami RedHawks (10-4-0, 7-3-0 CCHA) brought a tremendous offensive attack against the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks (3-6-3, 2-5-1 CCHA) by scoring seven goals, the RedHawks only needed two to tally the victory against their conference foe, beating the Mavericks 2-1 at the Steve Cady Ice Arena to complete the series sweep. … Read more

Western Michigan Bronco senior winger Kevin LaBatte struck the game-winning goal in overtime to beat the Northern Michigan Wildcats, 3-2 at Lawson Ice Arena. With 1:55 remaining in the overtime period, the native of Utah charged down the center of the ice, took a pass from the right wing from freshman Mark Letestu and smacked … Read more

In hockey, superstitions and luck can be found everywhere. Borrowing a tie from the school’s victorious swimming coach, whose team beat Maine for the first time in over a decade earlier in the day, Vermont hockey coach Kevin Sneddon watched his team skate past Merrimack, 4-1 Saturday. “Today in the hallway, I saw [swimming coach … Read more

The feeling was electric. With the opposing crowds chanting throughout the entire game, by the time the scoreboard showed no time remaining, the Quinnipiac Bobcats prevailed with a 5-2 win over the No. 12 Cornell Big Red in front of a sold-out crowd at the Northford Ice Pavilion Saturday night. The win was the first-ever … Read more

In a game that contained back-and-forth action from the first drop of the puck until the final whistle, the Michigan Tech Huskies (6-4-2, 3-3-2 WCHA) battled the Denver Pioneers (7-4-1, 5-2-1 WCHA) to a 3-3 draw in Western Collegiate Hockey Association action at Magness Arena Saturday night. Jordan Foote recorded a goal and an assist … Read more

Fourth-ranked Michigan State rebounded from its least-inspired effort of the young season Friday to blank No. 5 Notre Dame by a 2-0 score on Saturday evening. “Before the game, we talked about how if we are a legitimate team that we can’t be afraid to label a game as must-win, and this is a game … Read more

Before a near-sellout crowd of 6,096, the #11 Denver Pioneers rode a strong performance in net by Glenn Fisher to steal a 1-0 win over Michigan Tech. The visiting Huskys came out playing physical hockey, getting off several crushing checks, and had an excellent chance to get up on the Pioneers early when Pioneer junior … Read more

Boston University has cracked down on offensive behavior at Agganis Arena this season. Tonight was no exception, as BU and Providence College both struggled to generate anything on the offensive. After 43 minutes of scoreless hockey, Chris Higgins knocked in the rebound of a Kenny Roche shot to make a winner of John Curry in … Read more

Freshman Jase Weslosky, starting in only his second game of his collegiate career, stood tall in net for No. 17 St. Cloud State on Friday night by turning aside all 24 shots he faced against the nation’s fourth-best offense, while Andreas Nodl and Andrew Gordon each tallied a goal and an assist as the Huskies … Read more

The Ohio State Buckeyes used an offensive explosion on Friday night at the BG Ice Arena, which involved scoring nine goals on three different Bowling Green goalies to get back in the win column with a big 9-3 victory. Sophomore Corey Elkins, who came into the weekend with only two career points as a Buckeye, … Read more