Jim ConnellyHANOVER, N.H. — In a goaltenders’ duel, Minnesota Duluth rookie Kobe Roth, without a goal on a season, scored the winning goal in a shootout as the Bulldogs took home the crown of the Ledyard Bank tournament. The game will officially go down as a 2-2 tie, but Duluth earns the championship on a 2-1 … Read more
BURLINGTON, Vt. — The Crimson scored the game’s final three goals –- all from the stick of Ryan Donato –- to skate to a 4-1 win over host Vermont and take third place at the Catamount Cup. Donato also assisted on the game’s opening goal scored by Ty Pelton-Byce to finish with a four-point game. … Read more
Sophomore Ryan Edquist led Boston College to a 2-0 shutout of Connecticut.
There was just a single game on tap on Hockey East when we last picked and a tie helped neither of us. Jim last week: 0-0-1 Jim to date: 72-48-12 Dave last week: 0-0-1 Dave to date: 72-48-12 Catamount Cup (at Burlington, Vt.) UMass Lowell vs. Harvard Jim’s pick: Neither team lived up to expectations … Read more
There was just a single game on tap on Hockey East when we last picked and a tie helped neither of us. Jim last week: 0-0-1 Jim to date: 72-48-12 Dave last week: 0-0-1 Dave to date: 72-48-12 Catamount Cup (at Burlington, Vt.) UMass Lowell vs. Harvard Jim’s pick: Neither team lived up to expectations … Read more
After a one-year hiatus, Vermont will once again host the Catamount Cup, looking to turn around a disappointing performance in the first half of the season.
Dartmouth, Yale, New Hampshire and Minnesota Duluth make up the field for this season’s Ledyard Bank Classic tournament in Durham, N.H.
Providence has to be considered the favorite, but Robert Morris has sent the home crowd home happy with title wins in 2012, 2015 and 2016, knocking off a ranked team each time.
The sad news that came from Boston College on the passing of former head coach Len Ceglarski leads this week’s Hockey East blog. 1. Len Ceglarski defined Boston College hockey Sadly, my career in college hockey began too late to know Len Ceglarski. I met him just once when writing a story a few years … Read more
The sad news that came from Boston College on the passing of former head coach Len Ceglarski leads this week’s Hockey East blog. 1. Len Ceglarski defined Boston College hockey Sadly, my career in college hockey began too late to know Len Ceglarski. I met him just once when writing a story a few years … Read more
Easily the best week of the season for both me and Dave, and I even gained a game in the process to tie things up. Jim last week: 9-1-1 Jim to date: 68-40-10 Dave last week: 8-2-1 Dave to date: 68-40-10 Friday, December 8 Boston University at UMass Lowell Jim’s pick: These are the teams … Read more
Easily the best week of the season for both me and Dave, and I even gained a game in the process to tie things up. Jim last week: 9-1-1 Jim to date: 68-40-10 Dave last week: 8-2-1 Dave to date: 68-40-10 Friday, December 8 Boston University at UMass Lowell Jim’s pick: These are the teams … Read more
It certainly has been a topsy-turvy type of year in Hockey East. And for the league’s top teams, there has been no immunization from those types of roller coaster experiences. Northeastern has hardly been immune to the bumps in the road. Early in the season, the Huskies were swept by Quinnipiac despite holding the lead … Read more
Northeastern entered this weekend in one of its toughest stretches of this season having lost three of four. But the Huskies turned what at time was a weakness into a strength and got the train back on the tracks. 1) Defense, goaltending strong suit for Northeastern against Merrimack There probably weren’t a lot of people … Read more
Northeastern entered this weekend in one of its toughest stretches of this season having lost three of four. But the Huskies turned what at time was a weakness into a strength and got the train back on the tracks. 1) Defense, goaltending strong suit for Northeastern against Merrimack There probably weren’t a lot of people … Read more
Dave gained a single game last week, which closes the gap as we hit Thanksgiving, or about the 1/3 point in the season. Jim last week: 5-4-1 Jim to date: 54-33-8 Dave last week: 6-3-1 Dave to date: 53-34-8 Friday, November 24 Providence vs. Maine at Friendship Four (Belfast, N.I.) Jim’s pick: I guess it … Read more
Dave gained a single game last week, which closes the gap as we hit Thanksgiving, or about the 1/3 point in the season. Jim last week: 5-4-1 Jim to date: 54-33-8 Dave last week: 6-3-1 Dave to date: 53-34-8 Friday, November 24 Providence vs. Maine at Friendship Four (Belfast, N.I.) Jim’s pick: I guess it … Read more
While there have been plenty of anomalies in the first half of this season, one that has left many fans scratching their collective heads is the struggled that the Vermont Catamounts have suffered through to date. Vermont had high expectations coming into the season, returning a goaltender in Stefanos Lekkas along with a pretty experienced … Read more
If you asked many people after the first few weeks of the college hockey season, they might use the word “crazy” to describe some of the results in Hockey East. But as we reach Thanksgiving and most teams have played at least one-third or more of their season, the teams atop the Hockey East standings … Read more
If you asked many people after the first few weeks of the college hockey season, they might use the word “crazy” to describe some of the results in Hockey East. But as we reach Thanksgiving and most teams have played at least one-third or more of their season, the teams atop the Hockey East standings … Read more