Site AdministratorSenior defensemen Colleen Coakley scored the winning goal at 8:34 of the third period to give St. Lawrence a 4-3 win over the Cornell Big Red in the first game of a best-of-three quarterfinal series at Appleton Arena. The Saints came out with a jump and notched a goal just 52 seconds into the game. … Read more
Wisconsin (22-10-2) improved to 15-2-0 since the start of calendar year 2002 and advanced to its first WCHA Women’s Final Five championship game with a 4-1 victory over No. 3 Minnesota-Duluth (21-6-4) at Fogerty Arena on Friday. “I’m very proud of the fact the way our girls battled through a lot of adversity this year,” … Read more
It was a long time coming, but Dartmouth finally got payback for 1993. At 14:15 of the second overtime, the Big Green’s Pete Summerfelt unleashed a shot from the top of the left circle that sailed past David Cann and sneaked inside the far post, giving his team a 5-4 ECAC playoff win over Colgate … Read more
In the battle between the highest and lowest seeds in the ECAC Tournament, the regular-season champion Cornell squad eked out a 2-1 victory over the Yale Bulldogs in a classic college hockey game which featured crisp puck movement, tight defense, and stellar goaltending from both teams. “It was a very hard-fought game,” Yale head coach … Read more
Call it playing with a clean slate. Call it forgetting the past. You can call it whatever you like, but “dominating hockey” might be the best way to describe Harvard’s 4-1 win over Brown in game one of their first-round ECAC playoff series at Bright Hockey Center. After sputtering to a 2-8-1 record in its … Read more
For the second consecutive year, USCHO.com is sponsoring a Town Meeting to entertain and inform college hockey fans during the festivities at the NCAA Frozen Four. This year’s USCHO.com Town Meeting topic is “The State of College Hockey,” and the panel will include the commissioners from all six Division I hockey leagues. The Town Meeting … Read more
La Toya Clarke and Kelly Stephens led No. 1 Minnesota to a 4-1 victory against Ohio State in the semifinals of the WCHA Final Five Friday. Clarke and Stephens each had three points on the night. The Gophers had two goals in the first, one in the second and another in the third for the … Read more
The University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore Center is not the place where you want to break a losing streak. UNH, propelled by a goal and two assists from junior Lanny Gare, continued its dominance over Merrimack, as the top-ranked Wildcats won their sixth in a row, 6-2, in Game One of their best-of-three Hockey East … Read more
Wisconsin pulled out a 3-2 overtime victory in game one of a best-of-three WCHA playoff series with Mankato Friday, and in what has become a Kohl Center theme this season, the win came on a controversial goal. At 7:06 of overtime, senior center Matt Murray fired a wrist shot on Mankato sophomore goaltender Jason Jensen. … Read more
The Northern Michigan Wildcats had about a nine minute burst in the second period on Friday night to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three CCHA First Round series against Miami. With the 4-0 win the Wildcats are just one more win away from a trip to Joe Louis Arena next week and the next … Read more
Just a few weeks ago, having won seven of eight contests, sixth-seeded Western Michigan was one of the hottest teams in the CCHA. Saturday, they find themselves one loss away from an early off-season. Daymen Bencharski tallied at 19:31 of overtime to give seventh-seeded Ohio State a dramatic 3-2 victory over WMU in game one … Read more
The St. Cloud State Huskies took a page out of the history book and put it to use Friday night at the National Hockey Center. Before the game, assistant coach Brad Willner played a highlight tape for the team from last year’s Final Five championship that concluded with a 6-5 overtime win over North Dakota. … Read more
Brown improved to 21-7-2 overall by defeating Yale 5-0 in the first round of the 2002 ECAC North tournament on Friday night at Meehan Auditorium. The Bears lit up the scoreboard early, when freshman Jessica Link netted her fifth goal in three games at the 2:36 mark of the opening period. Senior Kristy Zamora and … Read more
Despite a 49-save effort by Wentworth’s Raj Bhangoo that held the potent Middlebury attack at bay until midway through the second period, the Panthers steamrolled the Leopards with a 6-0 win in NCAA quarterfinal action. Early on, Bhangoo and Middlebury’s Christian Carlsson showcased their goaltending talent, as back-and-forth action offered both goalies opportunities to wow … Read more
Martin Kariya has been a key to the Maine power play all season. Most of his power play points had come on assists this year, but he was the one being set up on Thursday. Kariya scored two goals with the man advantage for the Black Bears (21-9-7) in a 7-3 rout of Boston College … Read more
Wentworth has its hands full in its NCAA quarterfinal series with Middlebury, one of the most storied teams in Division III history. But the Leopards are confident, as Ed Seero reports.
Two goals within 34 seconds midway through the third period helped lead the UMass-Lowell River Hawks to a 5-2 victory over the Northeastern Huskies on Thursday night. The River Hawks take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinal series. This is the first home playoff series for Lowell since the 1995-96 season and … Read more
With one series left in the CHA, final playoff seedings have yet to be determined, but Geof F. Morris knows the score — and each CHA’s teams grade.
Jim McAdam has resigned as head coach at Bentley, according to a school news release today, and has already been replaced with assistant coach and former Falcon standout Ryan Soderquist.
The ECAC Playoffs have started and the race is wide open for Lake Placid. Becky Blaeser and Jayson Moy look at each matchup and hand out their hardware for the season.