Site AdministratorOn an unusually warm Friday afternoon, Clarkson defeated Concordia 4-1 in a friendly exhibition match up. As the Golden Knights are preparing for their first season in the ECAC, this contest served as an excellent barometer to measure their progress thus far. Freshman Brooke Beazer, the highly touted MVP of the North American Hockey Academy … Read more
It wasn’t pretty, but Colgate will take it. As Colgate clung to a one-goal lead early in the third period, Marc Fulton’s power-play tally at the 8:34 mark was enough to get Colgate the win. With Ferris State reeling in its own zone, Fulton took a pass from the point to the side of the … Read more
Two quick goals were all it would take for St. Cloud State to defeat Ohio State Friday night. The Huskies managed to fend off a flurry of third-period shots to claim a 2-1 victory in the season opener for both teams. The Huskies (1-0-0, 1-0-0 WCHA) took a two-goal lead midway through the second period … Read more
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish spirit was echoing through the Joyce Center on Friday night. This was more than an hour before the second game of the college men’s hockey series between Minnesota Duluth and Notre Dame. About 12,000 packed the school’s basketball arena for a football pep rally leading to today’s home game with … Read more
A crowd of 2,823 fans turned out to watch the Fighting Sioux host their first ever game in the women’s WCHA. The home team’s effort did not disappoint, but Minnesota, showing too much experience and too much talent, pulled away to an 8-0 victory. Five Gophers scored goals, with newcomer Erica McKenzie and veterans Kelly … Read more
Playing its season opener, North Dakota overcame a lively, ThunderStix-wielding crowd in one of college hockey’s most feared arenas, taking a stunning 4-3 overtime decision from Maine on a Drew Stafford penalty shot. Despite a Black Bear power play to open OT — the result of a UND penalty near the end of regulation — … Read more
Plans for Quinnipiac’s new athletic complex, which will house a new on-campus hockey facility, are well under way after Thursday’s announcement that Hudson United Bank has agreed to a $5 million sponsorship of the project. The building will be known as the Hudson United Bank Center. “Over the last 30 years, Hudson United Bank has … Read more
Freshman goaltender Joe Fallon made 15 saves for a shutout in his first collegiate start, and senior assistant captain Scott Mifsud tallied two goals and three assists as Vermont skated past Sacred Heart, 6-0, Friday. “He made some great saves — the thing I really liked about him tonight is he just looked composed. He … Read more
The wait between games at the Joyce Center was nearly 24 years for Minnesota Duluth. The Bulldog men played Notre Dame on Feb. 9-10, 1980 when both were members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Thirty goals were scored in a UMD sweep in a high-scoring era. There weren’t nearly as many Thursday night as … Read more
There are those who believe that the best way to learn to swim is to be thrown into a lake. By the same token, two top-five teams will take the plunge on Friday night, as No. 5 North Dakota visits No. 2 Maine. There is truly no better way to kick off CSTV’s Friday Night … Read more
Rarely does a team a mere 30 seconds away from entering this season as three-time defending tournament champion have a change in leadership, but that’s exactly the kind of adjustment before the Harvard Crimson. Mark Mazzoleni’s return to Green Bay opened the door for the Crimson to bring former player Ted Donato back into the … Read more
Defending NCAA champion Minnesota is No. 1 for the second straight year in the WCHA Women’s Preseason Coaches poll. Minnesota received seven first place votes to claim the top spot. Wisconsin was picked second, receiving 64 points and one first place vote. Minnesota Duluth ranked third with 58 points while Ohio State was fourth with … Read more
The good news about the 2003-04 Princeton Tigers is that the club improved upon its win total over the previous campaign. The bad news is the Tigers won just five games. Recent history has not been kind to the sextet from New Jersey. They have not had a winning season since 1998-99 and are coming … Read more
The Brown Bears began last season on a torrid pace, only to flame out in the ECAC quarterfinals, falling to travel partner and eventual tournament winner Harvard. After rising quickly to the top of the league with a 6-1-1 start, head coach Roger Grillo’s club managed only one victory in its final eight contests. “Last … Read more
For the fourth straight season the Dartmouth Big Green came up short late in the ECAC tournament. Since the 2001-02 season, Dartmouth has finished fourth, fifth, third and fourth in the final stages of the league tournament despite having some squads that were capable of winning it all. And while there’s something to be said … Read more
With a strangling defense and an offense with the potential to put up big numbers, the 2003-04 Cornell Big Red looked to be one of the teams to beat in the ECAC. Decimated by injuries throughout the season, most notably to offensive threat Ryan Vesce, the team found itself clawing its way back from the … Read more
It isn’t often that one game defines a team’s season. It is even more unusual when that game is the season opener. When the Yale Bulldogs lost 8-4 to North Dakota last October, and repeated it with a 10-0 defeat the next night, it signaled the start of a season of defensive woes for a … Read more
Sarah Moe, a four-time all-MIAC honoree, two-time all-American and the 2002 NCAA Division III player of the year, has been named head women’s hockey coach at St. Olaf, Athletic Director Matt McDonald announced Monday. Moe, a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, was also named Minnesota’s NCAA Woman of the Year in 2002. “We are thrilled … Read more
St. Scholastica has chosen Mark Wick as its men’s hockey coach. Wick, a 1985 St. Scholastica graduate, and a two-time NCHA all-academic team honoree, was an assistant coach at Augsburg from 1990-95 and at Wisconsin-Superior from 1996-2000. Steve Lyons, St. Scholastica’s vice president for student affairs and interim athletic director, said Wick was the school’s … Read more
Defending champion Minnesota dominated the D-I women’s preseason All-USCHO teams by placing five players across all three teams, including three players on the first team. The three teams, announced by USCHO.com on Monday, include six 2002 Olympic medalists, four of which are on the first team. The previous two Frozen Four MVPs, Minnesota’s Krissy Wendell … Read more