Jim Connelly
If you’re a fan of the Massachusetts Minutemen, we don’t blame you if you feel like you’ve ridden a roller coaster over the last decade-plus of hockey (photo: Shelley M. Szwast).
Each week during the season, we look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
No. 2 Notre Dame captured the Ice Breaker tournament with a 3-0 victory over No. 4 Providence, a night after surviving an overtime tie and shootout to advance (Omar Phillips)
Rick Gotkin’s Mercyhurst Lakers pushed No. 2 Notre Dame to a 6-6 overtime tie but will play in the consolation game of the IceBreaker after losing, 1-0, in a shootout (photo: Mercyhurst Athletics).
Last year’s national runner-up Notre Dame headlines the four-team field at this weekend’s Ice Breaker Tournament in Erie, Pa. (File photo/Jim Rosvold)
Each week during the season, we look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback (photo: Melissa Wade).
Vermont goaltender Stefanos Lekkas stopped a career-high 48 shots as the Catamounts upset #4 Michigan, 5-2, to open the season on Saturday. (Photo: Patrick Barron/UVM Athletics)
At times, it’s difficult to believe that it’s been 35 years since a group of athletic directors, led by Providence’s Lou Lamoriello, came together to form what three and a half decades later would be considered one of the game’s strongest sports conferences (photo: Melissa Wade).
NCHC commissioner Josh Fenton is more than pleased with the success of the league over its first five seasons and hopes more is to come. (photo: NCHC)
Two of last season’s top freshmen in college hockey are among the top prospects heading into Friday night’s NHL Draft taking place at American Airlines Center in Dallas (photo: Jeff Cox).
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Team of Destiny, Minnesota Duluth, closed out an improbable run through the NCAA tournament and earned the school’s second national title with a 2-1 victory over Notre Dame on Saturday. The final at-large team in the NCAA field, qualifying by one ten-thousandth of a point in the Ratings Percentage Index, … Read more
It’s the Team of Destiny versus the Cardiac Kids for the 2018 national title on Saturday (photo: Melissa Wade).
Michigan won 16 of 18 faceoffs in taking a 2-0 lead, but Notre Dame made things more even afterward (photo: Melissa Wade).
Michigan won 16 of 18 faceoffs in taking a 2-0 lead, but Notre Dame made things more even afterward (photo: Melissa Wade).
ST. PAUL, Minn. — When you’re playing a big game on a big stage, you have to love a fast start, and in Thursday’s national semifinal between Minnesota Duluth and Ohio State, it was an explosive beginning that meant everything to the Bulldogs. Two goals in the opening 3 minutes, 4 seconds was all the offense … Read more
WORCESTER, Mass. — It’s great to be good and nice to be lucky. When you’re both, you’re probably going to win. Michigan, underdogs in many people’s eyes, including their own, wasn’t picture perfect but got what coach Mel Pearson admitted was a dose of puck luck in Sunday’s Northeast Regional final to head to the … Read more
WORCESTER, Mass. — It might not be too wise to refer to Boston University as Cinderella, even if it seems like the glass slipper fits. A highly talented Terriers club that has needed to win to avoid the clock striking midnight on its season captured the Hockey East tournament title last weekend to advance to … Read more
Check out our preview of the Northeast Regional, which includes Cornell, Michigan, Northeastern and Boston University (photo: Omar Phillips).
Each week during the season, we look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback (photo: CS Genovese).
“There are no powerhouses in college hockey,” NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey Committee chair Tom McGinnis says. “There’s lot of parity so it will be interesting to see how this year’s tournament plays out.” (photo: John Crouch)