Jim Connelly

If you’re returning from a long trip or a month away on a deserted island, you might not want to let the Boston College hockey team serve as the welcoming committee. As goaltender Cory Schneider returned from nearly four weeks on the shelf with a knee injury, his BC defense allowed Massachusetts forward Matt Burto … Read more

The opening game of the 2005 Hockey East Women’s Championship matched a tournament-tested, top-seeded Providence squad against a young Boston College squad playing its first Hockey East playoff game. In the end, Providence made no doubt about it: experience won out. The Friars, undefeated through the first two championships of the fledgling women’s league, played … Read more

For nearly two full periods Friday night, it appeared that the playoff coma that knocked Boston College out of the Hockey East playoffs last year — falling two games to one to eighth-seeded Boston University — had simply carried over nearly a year later. Then senior Dave Spina made his presence felt. Trailing 2-0 to … Read more

Many in sports will tell you a tie is like kissing your sister, but for Boston College on Saturday night, its dramatic tie against Maine was good enough for the conference championship. Bringing to a close the most exciting regular-season finish in the 21-year history of Hockey East, BC’s Peter Harrold blasted a slapshot past … Read more

For nearly two full seasons, Boston College head coach Jerry York has waited for forward Brian Boyle to live up to the challenges that the BC coaching staff has set for him. Friday night, Boyle picked the perfect time do just that. In the first of a two-game series against Maine that will help decide … Read more

For the Massachusetts-Lowell River Hawks, it’s mission accomplished — for now. Living in a do or die world to make the NCAA tournament, the River Hawks took care of business in their first of two games in the final week of the regular season beating Merrimack, 5-1, at the J. Thom Lawler Arena Thursday night. … Read more

What do Northeastern forward Mike Morris and Walt Disney have in common? On Saturday night, both helped Northeastern upset the Boston University Terriers. Morris’ contribution to the effort was notching both goals for Northeastern in the 2-1 victory, the second of which head coach Bruce Crowder called one of the prettiest goals he’s seen this … Read more

A month ago, many Hockey East fans pointed to this weekend’s games between Boston College and New Hampshire as the series that could decide the regular season. After Friday’s Game 1, though, nothing was decided. Thanks to a late third-period rally capped off by a Sean Collins goal with 1:23 remaining, New Hampshire earned a … Read more

For the second time in nine days, Northeastern and Boston University skated to a 2-2 tie through regulation. This time, though, there simply wasn’t enough overtime to render a decision. In a battle of two solid goaltenders, BU and NU skated to a 2-2 tie in front of a boisterous crowd of 3,249 at Matthews … Read more

Strange? Yes. Ugly? Certainly. An upset in the making? No doubt. All of that spelled doom for the No. 2 Boston College Eagles, which, on a night when seemingly everything went wrong, fell to 13th-ranked Massachusetts-Lowell, 3-1, at the Conte Forum. The combination of the River Hawks’ strong defense, limiting BC’s quality chances, and a … Read more

It wasn’t pretty and it took some early survival, but the UConn Huskies were “opportunistic,” according to head coach Bruce Marshall, and because of that were able to hand Bentley a 4-1 defeat in the second game of the Atlantic Hockey doubleheader played in front of 4,055 at the FleetCenter. The survival came early, when … Read more

Led by a two-goal performance by senior Andrew McKay, Holy Cross skated to a 5-2 victory over Quinnipiac in the first game of Saturday’s Atlantic Hockey doubleheader at the FleetCenter to take sole possession of second place in Atlantic Hockey. The victory placed the Crusaders one point ahead of third-place Canisius and one point behind … Read more