Site AdministratorIf there is one good thing about starting the Central Collegiate Hockey Association playoffs, it is that all prior records are wiped out and every team starts at 0-0-0 again. For the Ohio State men’s hockey team, having the slate of the 2005-2006 regular season wiped clean is the best news they have had in … Read more
Over their four regular season meetings, neither Minnesota nor Minnesota State ever held a lead of more than one goal. Three of the games went into overtime. Many expected more of the same in their best of three WCHA quarterfinal series. Instead, Minnesota (25-9-1) got its offense untracked in a 5-1 victory, scoring more goals … Read more
The chances were there for Union against Yale Friday night in Game 1 of the ECACHL tournament first-round series. The Dutchmen had 41 shots on goal. They had 11 power-play chances, and had 20 shots on those opportunities. The Dutchmen even had a five-minute power play. But the Bulldogs, thanks to goalie Alec Richards and … Read more
Junior Mike Sullivan scored both Clarkson University goals as the Golden Knights defeated Princeton University, 2-1, in Game 1 of the ECAC Hockey League first-round series at Cheel Arena Friday night. Clarkson (17-15-3) and the Tigers (10-17-3) will face off on Saturday night in Game 2 of the best-of-three game series. After a scoreless first … Read more
This road trip has had a little more to offer Alaska-Fairbanks than its typical 3,500 mile treks. In all the Nanooks will have dealt with two consecutive weekends of cutthroat hockey, nearly two weeks in a South Bend hotel, a majority of the team falling ill and even the supernatural. Hunkering down After splitting last … Read more
Rookie Angie Keseley scored the first three goals in a 4-1 game to register the Badgers’ fourth season hat trick and the first win in the WCHA best-of-three playoff series vs. North Dakota. Keseley put Wisconsin (30-4-1) up early in the game with a low shot to the right side just 2:07 into the game. … Read more
Niagara University’s Armando Scarlato couldn’t have picked a better time to pick up his first career goal, scoring 40 seconds into overtime to lift the Purple Eagles to a 3-2 win over Robert Morris University at the RMU Island Sports Center on Saturday night. The win pushes Niagara (18-14-1, 11-6-1 CHA) into a first-place tie … Read more
The game of hockey can be a game of momentum. Though 60 minutes long, a game can be decided in seconds. Much was the case in Duluth tonight as UMD quickly turned a 2-1 first intermission lead into a dominating 7-2 victory in the first game of its WCHA quarterfinal series against Bemidji State. With … Read more
Brent Walton’s school record-tying 11th career game-winner couldn’t have come at a better time for the Western Michigan Broncos. Walton redirected Ryan Mahrle’s shot from along the boards at 6:46 of overtime to lift Western Michigan to a 3-2 victory over Lake Superior State in the opening game of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association Tournament … Read more
Air Force scored three second-period goals and then held off Wayne State for a 3-1 win in a CHA game Friday night at the Michigan State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Detroit, Mich. Air Force improved to 10-19-1 overall and 7-12-0 in the CHA. Wayne State is now 6-21-6 overall and 3-11-5 in the league. Air Force … Read more
Back to the basics, back to square one. That was the message during a 20-minute players-only meeting following Wisconsin’s Feb. 25’s 7-3 loss to Minnesota State. And that was the message through all of this week’s practices. And despite a mediocre Wednesday practice, the Badgers finished a refreshing week Thursday — one that harkened back … Read more
Leave it to Robbie Earl to score a big goal at a crucial point in a game for Wisconsin. After 40 minutes of stalemate hockey thanks to two of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association’s best goaltenders, the junior winger-perhaps the only player on the Badger roster worthy of being called flashy-broke the deadlock with the … Read more
John Rheault scored two goals and added an assist to lead Providence College past Merrimack College, 5-3, in Hockey East action Friday night at Lawler Arena. Freshman Rob Ricci tallied a goal and an assist for Merrimack (5-23-5, 2-19-5 Hockey East), who dressed only 10 forwards due to various injuries and illnesses. Senior Bryan Schmidt … Read more
Third-period goals by Kelly Czuy and Lucas Burnett snapped a 1-1 tie and gave the Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks a 3-1 win over Notre Dame on Friday night and a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three CCHA first-round playoff series at the Joyce Center. Czuy’s rebound off a T.J. Campbell shot at 11:55 of the third period … Read more
This time against Clarkson, Harvard made sure no dramatic last-minute goals would be necessary. A gritty 1-0 win sufficed. Harvard (15-11-4) had been down two goals at the first intermission in both regular season meetings against Clarkson (21-13-1), including last Saturday’s dramatic come-from-behind overtime win, but the Crimson owned the first period on this night. … Read more
Ferris State’s record in the CCHA playoffs at home remains undefeated. The story of the game was the Bulldogs’ stingy defense and the goaltending of Mitch O’Keefe. O’Keefe turned away all 30 shots and Matt Frank had a huge game with the game winner and an assist on an empty-net goal to defeat Ohio State … Read more
Freshman Christine Foster provided all of the offense and senior goaltender Roxanne Gaudiel did her job in net as No. 5 Princeton defeated Colgate 3-0 in Game One of the ECAC quarterfinals against Colgate, Foster, who had only two regular-season goals, was in the right place at the right time and earned the natural hat … Read more
Behind Brown’s first line of senior Keaton Zucker and sophomores Hayley Moore and Rylee Olewinski, the Bears grab a one game edge in the ECACHL Quarterfinals, with the 4-2 win over the Big Green this evening at Meehan Auditorium. The three line mates each recorded one of the Bear’s first three goals, to give Brown … Read more
Now this was a weird one. Boston University, with everything to fight for, playing at Northeastern, with seemingly nothing to play for. The No. 4 Terriers, the ice tilted in their favor all night, peppered the Northeastern net for a 28-12 edge in shots after two periods Friday night. And trailed, 2-1. The only thing … Read more
It is said that in a tie game, no shot is a bad shot. St. Cloud State proved this axiom true at an opportune time. Denelle Maguet took a shot that appeared to be simply thrown on net, and Ohio State’s Erika Vanderveer made the inital save, but senior Ashley Stewart was in the right … Read more