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Playing in its third straight CHA championship game, Bemidji State finally broke through Sunday for its first NCAA tournament bid as a Division I squad. The top-seeded Beavers, without injured CHA Player of the Year Andrew Murray, pulled away from No. 2 seed Alabama-Huntsville en route to a 3-0 win Sunday night at the IRA … Read more

What a time to score your first collegiate goal. Freshman defenseman Mark Lutz’s slapshot from just inside the blue line beat Dan Yacey cleanly for the eventual game winner, as Vermont took a 2-1 decision to close out its best-of-3 ECACHL quarterfinal series with Dartmouth. UVM squandered leads in all three games, but in the … Read more

Northern Michigan jumped out to a 2-0 lead after one period of play and never trailed in a 4-1 win over visiting Western Michigan at the Berry Events Center Sunday. With the victory, the Wildcats reached the CCHA Super Six championship at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, taking a two-games-to-one first-round series win over WMU. … Read more

Same situation … different outcome. One year ago, Wisconsin had just lost the decisive third game in its WCHA first-round playoff series with Alaska-Anchorage and failed to make the Final Five. This time around, the Badgers would not be denied. Thanks to two rebound goals in the second period, Wisconsin edged the Seawolves 2-1, earning … Read more

When the president speaks, Mercyhurst listens. Before this weekend’s CHA Tournament, the president of Mercyhurst College, Dr. Michael McQuillen spoke to the Mercyhurst women’s hockey team and inspired the team to represent the small Erie college in a positive way. The Lakers didn’t disappoint the President. Mercyhurst (28-6-2) won its fourth consecutive league title with … Read more

Colton Fretter put the exclamation point on a terrific see-saw battle of a playoff game in Munn Arena on Saturday night. The game-winner, scored at 7:45 of extra time, gave Michigan State a 5-4 victory and a berth in the CCHA Super Six. With MSU buzzing on the power play, the Spartans’ MVP so far … Read more

Connecticut took an early lead, then watched as Mercyhurst scored five unanswered goals, storming back for a 7-4 win Saturday in the teams’ Atlantic Hockey quarterfinal Saturday evening at the Mercyhurst Ice Center. UConn jumped out in front when sophomore Bill Magnuson notched a goal 1:49 into the first, from classmate Brian Burns and freshman … Read more

Three years have passed since the Nanooks of Alaska-Fairbanks (15-15-4) last played at Joe Louis Arena in the Super Six, but that drought ended Saturday when the eighth-seeded Nanooks completed their upset sweep of fifth-seeded Bowling Green (16-16-4) by another 6-3 count at the BGSU Ice Arena. Aaron Lee scored two goals for the Nanooks … Read more

Colgate goaltender Steve Silverthorn’s fifth shutout of the season kept Brown at zero in more than one category, as the Raiders completed a two-game sweep of the Bears in their best-of-3 ECACHL quarterfinal series with a 3-0 victory at Starr Rink on Saturday night. Silverthorn added to his school career record by collecting his eighth … Read more

When Anchorage freshman goalie Nathan Lawson got the start Friday, Jan. 14, in Madison, he faced a barrage of shots from Wisconsin, and the Badgers got the best of him. He made 31 saves in two periods before being pulled. The next night he came back to make 33 saves but still lost 3-2. After … Read more

Maine fans hauled their brooms out of the closet for Saturday night’s matchup against Massachusetts-Lowell, and when the final horn sounded at the end of the third period, they waved them high, as the 12th-ranked Black Bears swept the 15th-ranked River Hawks with a 5-1 win. Maine, the fourth-seeded team in Hockey East, continued its … Read more

What a difference a day makes. Just 24 hours after pummeling the Michigan Tech Huskies 7-1 in Game 1 of their WCHA playoff series on Friday night, the Denver Pioneers had to rely on late-game heroics to eke out a victory. Denver forward Adrian Veideman scored on a rebound with less than two minutes left … Read more

One night after putting up double digits on Notre Dame’s three goalies, No. 4 Michigan only managed to sneak one past Morgan Cey, but it was good enough to give the Wolverines a 1-0 overtime victory and send them to the semifinals of the CCHA Super Six. The senior goalie stopped 43 shots before senior … Read more

Wayne State coach Jim Fetter knew that CHA Rookie of the Year Ashley Riggs had to be stopped for his team to be successful in the league semifinal against Niagara. The Warriors (13-17-3) did limit Riggs to just one assist, but that was all the scoring Niagara (16-14-3) needed in a 3-0 win. Goalie Nikki … Read more

The Northern Michigan Wildcats (21-10-7) rebounded from a disappointing Friday performance to beat the Western Michigan Broncos (14-20-2), 4-2, at the Berry Events Center, evening the best-of-3 series between the two teams at one game apiece. The Wildcats had a difficult time pulling the game out, however. The Broncos owned a 2-0 lead at the … Read more

Junior Andrew Weber netted his first career hat trick to lead Holy Cross over Sacred Heart, 4-2, Saturday night in the Atlantic Hockey quarterfinals at the Hart Center. With the win, the Crusaders improve to 16-13-6 overall and advance to the semifinals on Friday, which will be hosted by top-seeded Quinnipiac. Sacred Heart concludes its … Read more

In a battle of two WCHA teams that underachieved throughout the season, one will move on in convincing style while the other is left to ponder what went wrong. North Dakota completed an impressive two-game sweep of Minnesota-Duluth with an 6-1 win before 9,784 fans at Ralph Engelstad Arena. “We weren’t very good this weekend,” … Read more

The Alabama-Huntsville Chargers used two first-period power-play goals to build a 2-1 lead they would not relinquish, holding on for a 4-2 victory over the Niagara Purple Eagles to advance to the CHA championship for the first time since 2002. Niagara closed to within 3-2 at 9:06 of the third period when Mark Norrington picked … Read more