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Before Friday night’s first round tilt against Princeton, Yale had never hosted an ECAC Hockey League women’s playoff game. The Bulldogs decided to make up for lost time. A third-period penalty shot by freshman Helen Resor tied the first ECACHL women’s playoff game at Ingalls Rink, eventually sending it to overtime, where Deena Caplette scored … Read more

Michigan added another regular-season championship to its mantle by defeating Bowling Green, 4-1, at the BG Ice Arena on Friday night. With the win, the Wolverines (25-7-3, 22-3-2 CCHA) pick up their second consecutive league title and the opportunity to play Notre Dame in the first round of the CCHA playoffs next week. Meanwhile, the … Read more

After Friday night’s game, Northeastern coach Bruce Crowder used boxing terminology to describe his team’s performance. “Our guys just didn’t answer the bell tonight,” Crowder said. If it was a boxing match, then terms like “rope-a-dope” would be applicable, because the Huskies and Massachusetts battled to a scoreless tie entering the final period. That, however, … Read more

With the way Union and Clarkson struggled to score goals during the regular season, it wouldn’t have been shocking to think that the first team to score in their first-round ECACHL tournament series was going to win a game. In Game 1 Friday night at Messa Rink, that was the case. After playing to a … Read more

Thanks in large part to junior Tiffany Hagge’s hat trick, Dartmouth scored early, added a couple of pretty goals, and took a 1-0 series lead against Colgate in their first-round ECACHL quarterfinal match up. Just under three minutes into the game, Hagge redirected a Kirsti Anderson slap-shot from the point between the legs of goalie … Read more

Minnesota-Duluth learned its playoff fate Friday night, but wasn’t terribly disappointed with having to go on the road for the WCHA’s first round. UMD’s 2-2 overtime tie with No. 7-ranked Wisconsin before 5,267 at the DECC means the Bulldogs will finish sixth in the league and travel to fifth-place North Dakota next Friday for a … Read more

North Dakota came into the National Hockey Center and accomplished a major task by earning the one point it needed to clinch the fifth and final home ice spot for the WCHA playoffs. However, it turns out that the 2-2 tie with St. Cloud State left more of a bittersweet taste in their mouth, rather … Read more

Come next Friday, when Mercyhurst hosts a first-round game in the Atlantic Hockey playoffs, the Mercyhurst Ice Arena may have to have its name changed to “Mike Ella’s Barn.” That’s because without Ella’s play of late, the building may have been dark. With Ella stopping 28 of 29 shots, and also gaining his fourth straight … Read more

According to Wisconsin coach Mark Johnson, one of the hardest things to do is to end an opponent’s season. Yesterday North Dakota proved that to No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth, and Bemidji State proved that to No. 1 Minnesota, as both favorites needed to come from behind to win. Today, it was St. Cloud State’s turn against … Read more

For the second night in a row, the MacNaughton Cup was awarded — this time to a different team. Denver goalie Peter Mannino made 31 saves and seniors Jeff Drummond, Luke Fulghum and Kevin Ulanski each scored a goal to pace the Pioneers to a 5-0 rout over the Colorado College Tigers. While Thursday night’s … Read more

Down 2-0 heading into third period, a desperate Michigan State team exploded for three goals in the third to beat Notre Dame, 3-2, keeping its hopes for CCHA home-ice playoff spot alive. The Spartans piggy-backed a pair of power-play goals by Drew Miller and Jim McKenzie to draw even halfway through the final period, but … Read more

John Zeiler scored a goal and assisted on two others to lead St. Lawrence to a 7-0 ECAC Hockey League first-round playoff win over Princeton in the first of a best-of-3 playoff series at Appleton Arena Friday night. Seven different players scored for the Saints, who improved to 16-17-2 overall with the win in their … Read more

The lower seeds battled. They held leads, even forced overtime. But in the end, the field for the WCHA semifinals looks just like it has every year since the formation of the conference. Ohio State (17-15-3) advanced to play top-seeded Minnesota with a 4-1 win over Minnesota State (9-20-6). Senior Jeni Creary led the way … Read more

That ‘D’ in the school name must stand for Direct. There isn’t much else to describe the way Dartmouth went at Yale in the opening game of their ECAC Hockey League tournament opener at Thompson Arena on Friday. The fifth-seeded Big Green took the direct route, exploding for three goals on 10 shots inside the … Read more

The regular-season series between the Brown Bears and the Rensselaer Engineers was as close as can be; first the teams skated to a 3-3 tie in early December at Meehan Auditorium, and then the Engineers broke a 2-2 tie, tallying a goal with nine seconds remaining in their win at Houston Fieldhouse in February. And … Read more

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ­ Colorado College won round one of its historic in-state battle with Denver for the WCHA regular-season crown and secured at least a share of the MacNaughton Cup in front of a standing-room-only record crowd of 7,881 at the Colorado Springs World Arena. Now it will be up to the Pioneers to … Read more

The Quinnipiac Bobcats took a 4-2 decision over Connecticut Huskies to win both the Heroes’ Hat and the Atlantic Hockey regular-season championship at the Freitas Ice Forum in front of 1,018 Thursday night. UConn came out fired up on senior night, with senior Tim Olsen scoring 32 seconds into the game. Bobcat netminder Jamie Holden … Read more