Kealey’s Last-Minute Goal Gives Holy Cross Draw With Quinnipiac

The Crusaders’ Greg Kealey took a shot with two seconds left in regulation that snuck through Justin Eddy’s pads as Quinnipiac and Holy Cross skated to a 3-3 tie. Quinnipiac opened the scoring at the 13:37 mark of the first period when Aaron Ludwig scored on the power play. The play developed from the left … Read more

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Brown Wakes Up To Shutout Vermont

Brown broke a four-game losing streak with a convincing 6-0 home win in the last game of the regular season over Vermont to earn a first-round bye in the ECAC tournament. After being shutout in three of their last four games, the Bears poured on the offense tonight to finish off a successful season on … Read more

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Minnesota State Gets Split With MTU

It was a bit of a frustrating night for Michigan Tech. The Huskies outshot the visiting Mavericks of Minnesota State Mankato by a 38-27 margin, but could only manage a pair of goals as the visitors slipped by MTU, 3-2, in Tech’s final home game of the season. Michigan Tech had a clear edge in … Read more

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Engineers Shut Out Yale

Twenty minutes into the last regular season game for RPI and Yale, fans at Ingalls Rink figured they were in for a tightly matched, low scoring college hockey game. With both teams getting a number of quality scoring chances and both goalies coming up with big saves to stop them, the Engineers and Bulldogs went … Read more

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North Dakota Edges Minnesota-Duluth In Thriller

One of the best teams in Minnesota-Duluth history got to see one of the best games in the WCHA this season Saturday night. The 1983-84 Bulldogs, who finished second in NCAA Division I, sat in one end zone of the DECC during their reunion weekend and got to see the top two teams in the … Read more

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Dartmouth Edges Brown, Claims Ivy Title

After leading Dartmouth all season as a senior tri-captain, Sarah Clark led the Big Green to an Ivy League title on Saturday, scoring the game-winning goal with 5:09 to play as Dartmouth topped Brown, 3-2. “I think people were really worried about us after that little slide,” said Clark, whose Big Green had dropped four … Read more

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Grumet-Morris Backstops Crimson Past Big Green

On the final night of ECAC regular-season play, the Harvard Crimson met the Big Green of Dartmouth at Bright Hockey Center with playoff positioning hinging on the outcome. The teams were coming off diametrically different games; Dartmouth had traveled to Brown’s Meehan Auditorium and defeated the always-stingy Bears 3-0. Harvard, on the other hand, had … Read more

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Pioneers Sweep Gophers

Denver defenseman Matt Laatsch had been struggling in the first two periods, but during the second intermission he promised his coaches he would do better. He kept his word. Laatsch’s goal at 14:32 of the third period halted a Minnesota rally as the Denver Pioneers won 6-3 at Magness Arena in Denver. The win pulled … Read more

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UNO Ends Futility Streaks With Win Over UAF

It’s all over for Nebraska-Omaha. The CCHA season, yes. But UNO’s winless streak in its last 11, of 14 winless against Alaska-Fairbanks and a goal drought of over 200 all came crumbling down Saturday night at the Qwest Center Omaha. UNO built up a four-goal lead in the first period and went on to a … Read more

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Union Grabs Last Home-Ice Playoff Spot

As Union senior defenseman Brent Booth was being honored after his final regular-season home game last Saturday, he told the fans that the Dutchmen’s win over Cornell would not be the last game at Messa Rink at Achilles Center this year. While he didn’t guarantee that, Booth proved he can come through with a promise, … Read more

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Bemidji State Cruises To CHA Title

The circle is complete. Bemidji State, which established itself as a dynasty with 13 small-college national championships from 1967-1997, clinched its first conference championship since elevating its program to Division I with a resounding 9-1 demolition of the U.S. Air Force Academy. The win, coupled with Niagara’s surprising 8-3 defeat at the hands of Findlay … Read more

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Friars Topple Merrimack

Providence all but took Merrimack right out of the race for fifth-place in the final Hockey East rundown, and they did it, predictably, by beating the defensive-minded Warriors in the special teams department. The Friars scored two power play goals, one shorthanded goal and a four-on-four goal in running past Merrimack by a 5-1 count … Read more

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Dartmouth Clinches First-Round Bye

Dartmouth put itself in great position to win the Ivy League Championship with a 3-0 win tonight at Brown. Junior goaltender Dan Yacey was the star, as he stopped all 32 shots he faced to help his team leapfrog the Bears for the top spot in the race for the Ivy crown. Tomorrow night, Yacey … Read more

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Engineers Down Princeton

Kevin Broad used his head, both figuratively and literally, to help keep Rensselaer’s hopes of an ECAC tournament first-round bye alive. Broad was credited with a goal that bounced off of his facemask late in the first period that snapped a 1-1 tie, and then made heads-up nice play that set up Ryan Shields’ early … Read more

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Holy Cross Comes Back To Down Mercyhurst

Merychurst’s Rich Hansen put the Lakers up 4-2 with 12:27 left to play in the third, and Holy Cross’ dreams of clinching the Atlantic Hockey regular season title tonight seemed all but gone. But a four-goal explosion in the final 10 minutes of the game lifted the Crusaders over Mercyhust 6-4. Holy Cross’ five-goal third … Read more

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Irish Upset Wolverines, 4-1

Michigan needs two points in its next four games to seal up first place, but the Wolverines didn’t get them Friday night against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in South Bend at the Joyce Center, as the Irish controlled all aspects of the game and Jason Paige scored two goals to lead the Irish to … Read more

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Bowling Green Nips Northern Michigan, 2-1

Bowling Green got another outstanding effort from junior goalie Jordan Sigalet as his Falcons downed the Northern Michigan Wildcats, 2-1, at the BG Ice Arena on Friday night. The win allows the Falcons to remain in a ninth-place tie with Ferris State in a league where positioning for the postseason means everything. “It was a … Read more

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Quinnipiac Punches Out Win Over Bentley

Quinnipiac’s senior night versus Bentley featured plenty of emotion, on both benches. Aaron Ludwig scored the game-winning goal as Quinnipiac beat Bentley 2-1 in a game that featured 177 penalty minutes combined between two teams. In the first period, the Bobcats struck first at the 5:44 mark, when Rob Hammel scored his first goal of … Read more

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Vermont Continues To Roll

Matt Hanson’s Vermont teammates earned him another game puck Friday night. This time, he accepted it in person. Hanson, the sophomore goaltender who fractured his fourth cervical vertebrae two weeks ago, was standing upright at Bright Hockey Center, watching the Catamounts blitz Harvard with three power-play goals and score their first shorthander of the year … Read more

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Ferris State Makes Comeback to Down Lake Superior State

It wasn’t pretty, but it was a win. With Ferris State going into the final period trailing 1-0, it took two goals and then a frenzied final minute of the game to seal the victory for the Bulldogs, 2-1. The game winner came from Simon Mangos at 12:10 of the third period while on the … Read more

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