John Doyle
Boston has always been the geographic hub and spiritual home of Hockey East. The city hosts the conference championship every spring, three of its member schools are located right in the city and four more are less than an hour away. This year Boston could very well be where the best hockey in the league … Read more
Here’s a look at the Terriers ahead of the 2023 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four in Tampa, where they play Minnesota in the semifinals.
Wilmer Skoog and Ethan Phillips score in tight game that sends the Terriers to their 23rd Frozen Four appearance.
William Skoog and Ethan Phillips score in tight game that sends the Terriers to their 23rd Frozen Four appearance.
Junior forward Jack O’Leary scored early and the rest of the Big Red, including goalie Ian Shane, shut the door for a 2-0 win over Denver to advance to the Manchester regional final (photo: Matt Dewkett/Cornell Athletics).
Junior forward Jack O’Leary recorded a goal and an assist to lead Cornell to a 2-0 win over Denver (photo: DU Hockey).
Boston University advanced to the Manchester regional final with a 5-1 win over Western Michigan in their tourney opener on Thursday.
A three-goal flurry in the second period powered Boston University to a 5-1 win over Western Michigan Thursday afternoon.
BRIDGEPORT REGIONAL When: Friday, March 24 & Sunday, March 26 Where: Total Mortgage Arena, Bridgeport, Conn. Matchups (all times Eastern): Harvard vs. Ohio State, March 24, 2 p.m., ESPNU; Quinnipiac vs. Merrimack, March 24, 5:30 p.m., ESPNews; championship, March 26, 4 p.m., ESPN2 1. QUINNIPIAC How they got here: At-large bid Overall season record: 30-4-3 … Read more
MANCHESTER REGIONAL When: Thursday, March 23 & Saturday, March 25 Where: SNHU Arena, Manchester, N.H. Matchups (all times Eastern): Boston University vs. Western Michigan, March 23, 2 p.m., ESPN2; Denver vs. Cornell, March 23, 5:30 p.m., ESPNews; championship, March 25, 4 p.m., ESPNU 1. DENVER How they got here: At-large bid Overall season record: 30-9-0 … Read more
Each week, USCHO.com will pick the top 10 moments from the past weekend in our Monday 10 feature. 1. And then there were 16 At long last, the field for this year’s Division I men’s tournament was released, and as expected the Minnesota Golden Gophers are the overall top seed for the first time since … Read more
BOSTON — If Boston University freshman Lane Hutson was expressly showing off for the Hobey Baker Award voters, he could have done a lot worse than the performance he turned in during the Hockey East championship game. Hutson scored twice, including the game winner at 1:57 of overtime to lift the Terriers to a 3-2 … Read more
BOSTON — Like Moses parting the Red Sea or Paul Bunyan carving the Grand Canyon, Merrimack’s Ottoville Leppänen can now also lay claim to creating a legendary chasm. Leppänen’s work with the puck pulled UMass-Lowell goalie Gustavs David Grigals out of position to create the opening Matt Copponi needed to flick Leppänen’s centering pass into … Read more
BOSTON — For a split second, Boston University freshman forward Quinn Hutson didn’t know if he could trust what his eyes were telling him. “It was pretty crazy,” Hutson said. “I saw it go in, it was kind of slow motion. I wasn’t sure, then everyone was celebrating.” Hutson’s goal at 10:52 of overtime gave … Read more
One doesn’t have to look too far back in time to know how significant it is for Boston University and Providence to face off at TD Garden. There was the 2018 Hockey East championship game, won by the Terriers 2-0. And with all due respect to the Hockey East tournament, there was a meeting with … Read more
It was only three weeks ago that the Boston University men’s hockey team was mired in the throes of a four-game losing streak, its longest of the season. The streak, in which the Terriers were outscored 15-7, put BU’s national standing and chances of securing the Hockey East regular-season title in peril. At the time, … Read more
Most of the national chatter surrounding ECAC Hockey this season has centered around Quinnipiac and Harvard, and for good reason. Both have spent plenty of time at or near the top of both the ECAC standings and the USCHO.com men’s D-I poll and are two of the favorites heading into the quarterfinals of the conference … Read more
Hockey East commissioner Steve Metcalf acknowledges there are pros and cons to running a league known for parity. Pros: Hockey East is widely acknowledged as an “any given night” league where there’s little surprise when a team low in the standings beats a contender. See: The second-half resurgences of Maine and New Hampshire, which are … Read more
With just four games left in the regular season, Connecticut coach Mike Cavanaugh has no intention of his team taking its foot off the gas. The Huskies — currently in fifth place in Hockey East with an 11-8-2 record (17-10-3 overall) and 16th in the latest USCHO.com men’s D-I poll — are very much in … Read more
New Hampshire coach Mike Souza has had a front-row seat to the rivalry between his school and state-line rival Maine for the better part of three decades, both as a player and a coach. Going back to the 1999 season as a player, when Maine and UNH were the toast of Hockey East, if not … Read more