Big Second Period Powers Badgers

Wisconsin weathered an early storm by Minnesota State and rode a hot second period to a 6-2 win. The Badgers (13-4-5, 7-2-5 WCHA) were led by defenseman Tom Gilbert, who tallied two goals and an assist, and goalie Bernd Bruckler, who stopped 29 shots in front of 4,190 spectators at the Midwest Wireless Civic Center. … Read more

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Nanooks’ Voros nets hat trick in shutout of Bulldogs

Alaska-Fairbanks has been horrible on the road so far this season. From the looks of this game, there should be a turnaround in the making. It was a game of firsts for the Nanooks; Aaron Voros scored his first collegiate hat trick, and goaltender Keith Bartusch notched his first collegiate shutout. The rest of the … Read more

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Team USA Advances to Gold Medal Game

The United States defeated host Finland, 2-1, overcoming a raucous hometown crowd to advance to the Gold Medal game against Canada at the World Junior Championships. This is the second time the United States will play for the gold medal. It lost to Canada in the 1997 final. Last year, the U.S. lost to Finland … Read more

Wildcats Rally For Wild Victory Over Spartans

As expected, Saturday night’s game between Michigan State and Northern Michigan was better than Friday’s. For diehard fans, the outcome — the Wildcats earned a 6-5 overtime victory, in a close game after being embarrassed the night before — wouldn’t be surprising. It happened both times these two teams met last year during the regular … Read more

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Sioux Close In On WCHA Lead

North Dakota sent a little message to the rest of the WCHA this weekend. Matt Jones scored late in the game and Jake Brandt made 17 saves to outduel Adam Coole and put a stamp on an envelope that read pretty much like this: Here we come. Playing without three of their top four scorers, … Read more

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Tallari, Eghoetz Find Spark in Nick of Time

Niagara stormed back from a two-goal deficit to tie Colgate 2-2 in the final 10 seconds of play, as Barret Eghoetz fought off two defenders and found Joe Tallari for the tying goal before a packed house at Dwyer Arena. This was no “kissing-your-sister tie,” as both teams battled mightily for whatever meager offensive opportunities … Read more

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Steeves, Gartner Lead Way; Yale Shocks UNH

Ryan Steeves scored his third shorthanded goal of the season and sophomore Josh Gartner recorded 29 saves, as Yale stunned No. 7 New Hampshire, 3-2, at the Whittemore Center. Steeves had been stoned earlier in the second period by UNH senior netminder Mike Ayers, who made a point-blank save on the senior’s bid on a … Read more

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Clarkson Blows Out Mercyhurst

Trevor Edwards recorded his first career hat trick and Jay Latulippe posted a career-best four-point game with two goals and two assists to lead Clarkson to its most productive offensive outing of the season in a 8-2 victory over Mercyhurst before 2,046 fans at Cheel Arena Saturday night. Rob McFeeters also tallied twice as Clarkson … Read more

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Bemidji State Tops Air Force In Iron Range Game

Bemidji State scored two goals in the first period and two in the second for a 5-1 win over Air Force in a College Hockey America game at the Hodgins-Berardo Arena in Coleraine, Minn., hometown of the two head coaches, AFA’s Frank Serratore and his younger brother Tom of Bemidji State. Bemidji State improved to … Read more

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Rensselaer Frustrates Harvard

Coming off diametrically different games — Harvard’s a come-from-behind third-period offensive explosion at Union and Rensselaer’s a frustrating 1-0 shutout at the hands of the nation’s best goaltender, Brown’s Yann Danis — the Engineers and the Crimson came out with opposite results. Saturday it was Rensselaer’s turn on offense and Harvard’s turn to search in … Read more

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Cey Shuts Down Findlay Again

For the second consecutive game, Notre Dame has managed to score just one goal, and for the second consecutive game, that’s all Irish goaltender Morgan Cey needed as he turned aside 27 shots by Findlay in a 1-0 shutout victory in front of a sellout crowd of 2,763 at the Joyce Center on Saturday night. … Read more

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Crusco Pots Pair; Healey Earns First Shutout

After a tough start to the season, Merrimack headed into a three-week break with an impressive 7-2 win over New Hampshire. Not wanting to lose whatever edged the Warriors gained from that big win, there was no better opponent than struggling Princeton this weekend. Merrimack (7-10-3) completed a two-game road sweep of the Tigers on … Read more

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Dartmouth Remains Unbeaten at Home With Win Over Vermont

Last weekend at the Sheraton/Banknorth classic, Dartmouth and Vermont had nearly identical results on the ice, as each team tied Massachusetts and beat Minnesota State. However, Dartmouth’s plus-3 goal differential topped UVM’s plus-1, and Dartmouth took home the tournament title. Less than a week later, Dartmouth and Vermont, at opposite ends of the ECAC schedule, … Read more

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Estrada Hatter Leads Spartans Over Wildcats

The sixth meeting between the Michigan State Spartans under Rick Comley and the Northern Michigan Wildcats with Walt Kyle at the wheel went to the Spartans, 7-2. Junior forward Kevin Estrada became the fourth player of the season to produce a hat trick to lead his team to victory in a chippy, physical game (Northern … Read more

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Bochenski Leads Comeback, Nearly Wins It

When North Dakota senior Brandon Bochenski finally goes to bed tonight, he’ll still probably be hearing the clank from his what-could-have-been late heroics Friday night. Nonetheless he will still sleep pretty well, as the Minnesota native and the rest of the top-ranked Fighting Sioux climbed back from an early 3-0 deficit to skate to a … Read more

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Pettit Caps Furious Harvard Comeback

Union goalie Kris Mayotte did everything in his power to help the team end its winless skid. But a 47-save performance against Harvard on Friday wasn’t enough to prevent another third-period collapse by the Dutchmen. Tim Pettit’s goal with 1:01 left capped a furious three-goal comeback that gave the Crimson a 3-2 ECAC hockey win … Read more

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Bulldogs Run Unbeaten Streak to 8 With Wild Win over UAF

It was a wild one in Big Rapids. Three players scored two goals each in the game, and when the dust settled, it was Ferris State that ended up on top of Alaska-Fairbanks, 7-5. “We were very fortunate to win that game,” Bulldogs coach Bob Daniels said. “We took a lot of undisciplined penalties and … Read more

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Lucky Bounces Lead To Draw

Wisconsin got a little luck to take a 3-2 lead in the third. But a little bad luck for UW gave Minnesota State the equalizer as the teams skated to a tie. At 4:10 of the third period, Wisconsin’s Adam Burish took a seemingly harmless shot on net from just inside the blue line. Mavericks … Read more

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