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Niagara winger Ryan Murphy’s backhander on Canisius goaltender Tony Capobianco snapped a 0-0 tie at the 15:36 mark of the third period and would be all the offense that the 14th-ranked Purple Eagles would need in a 2-0 home win over their Atlantic Hockey archrivals. The victory gave Niagara (18-5-5, 17-2-2 AHA) a 2-1 season … Read more

Following a 150-minute delay, a bizarre antifreeze leak and ultimately, 60 minutes of hockey, North Dakota finally came away a winner in its first-ever outdoor game. Calling Saturday’s event at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb., a stop-start affair would be generous. All the off-time didn’t put UND off, though, as the visitors put away … Read more

Seeing another lead start to slip away into thin air against one of the league’s lowliest teams, No. 19 Wisconsin referenced back to its strength. Instead of trying to tack on insurance with an offense ranked 50th in the country, the Badgers grinded out the final period with the fifth-best scoring defense in the country. … Read more

Mark Yanis blasted a one-timer for the game-winning goal late in the third period as Penn State defeated Alabama-Huntsville 4-3 at the Greenberg Ice Pavilion. As the game entered the final moments, Yanis, who missed more than two months with a broken foot earlier in the season, blocked a shot off his leg with just … Read more

To anyone who might believe that even-strength goals are overrated, tonight’s contest between Robert Morris and Rochester Institute of Technology must have seemed like a perfectly-played, hard-fought conference battle. Yet, it was the game’s only even-strength marker midway through the final period that proved decisive as the Tigers downed the homestanding Colonials 4-3. The teams … Read more

After surrendering the game’s final four goals Friday night, host Michigan Tech stormed out of the gates on Saturday, scoring three times in the first period en route to a 6-1 victory over Alaska-Anchorage. The Huskies got two goals each from wingers Milos Gordic and Alex Petan. Gordic finished the weekend with four points, receiving … Read more

Even as the Canisius offense starved through a bleak opening to its 2012-13 season — a meager 25 goals in its first 14 games and five shutout losses before the end of December — there was always at least one bright spot: junior goaltender Tony Capobianco. Capobianco allowed a total of six goals in three … Read more

Maine finally picked up its first home win of the season against the No. 13 Massachusetts-Lowell Sunday afternoon as Joey Diamond scored his fourth goal of the weekend 3:59 into overtime and goaltender Martin Ouellette turned aside 35 shots – seven in overtime – to give Maine a 4-3 victory. The win also moves Maine … Read more

Holy Cross is waging a war of attrition on the Atlantic Hockey Association. Since the new year began, the Crusaders (14-10-2, 10-7-2 AHA) have grinded through four AHA two-game series, earned four splits and contributed their fair share to the knock-down, drag-out brawl for playoff position in the middle of the conference standings. The 5-1 … Read more

After scratching for goals all this season and a night after being shut out, Minnesota-Duluth had one of its better games Saturday night against No. 10-ranked Denver. And the Bulldogs lost. Denver twice trailed by two goals and then rallied with three goals in 91 seconds late in the third period to complete a remarkable … Read more

There’s obviously no significant reptilian presence in the arctic North Dakota landscape, but all the same, the lack of scoring by UND’s second, third and fourth line was widely attributed to several players being “snakebitten.” Whatever the term, the antidote was finally found Saturday night. Second-line right wing Michael Parks’ pair of goals paced North … Read more

Michigan Tech forward Mikael Lickteig’s first goal of the season Saturday was one to remember for a variety of reasons. The senior forward’s tally 2:56 into overtime gave the Huskies a 2-1 win at No. 14 Nebraska-Omaha, giving MTU its first points in four games against UNO this season. What’s more is that it was … Read more

Sometimes the most exciting hockey doesn’t happen until the end of the game, as was the case in Ferris State’s 2-2 tie with Western Michigan. After giving up two power plays and the lead midway through the third period, Ferris State fought back to tie the game with just 42 seconds left. With CJ Motte … Read more

The Penn State Nittany Lions came back from a 3-2 third-period deficit to defeat the Ohio Bobcats of the ACHA 5-3 at the Greenberg Ice Pavilion Saturday night. Penn State completed the weekend sweep after dispatching the Bobcats 6-1 on Friday at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pa. For the second straight night, the Bobcats … Read more

Perfection was achieved at the 84 Lumber Arena as the Robert Morris Colonials scored on every one of their four power-play opportunities en route to a decisive 7-4 victory over the visiting Sacred Heart Pioneers. The Colonials’ power play, which entered the game clicking at a very modest 8.4 percent rate, came to life in … Read more

The No. 9-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish dominated many facets in Saturday’s contest against the Ohio State Buckeyes, but were unable to find the game-winner as the two squads skated to a 2-2 tie. Notre Dame won a postgame shootout 1-0 in four rounds for an extra conference point. Andres Lee had the lone goal … Read more

Who’s going to fade first in the Atlantic Hockey Association? Right now, the even money is on no one. By the end of Saturday’s action, the second through tenth spots in the conference will be separated by a logjam of no more than eight points and theoretically, eight teams could be crunched within three points … Read more

Yale and Quinnipiac ended Saturday afternoon’s matchup in a 2-2 draw after the Bulldogs opened up the game with two goals and the Bobcats closed the final frame in the same manner. Neither could gain an edge in the overtime period. As the clock wound down and momentum picked up, Quinnipiac broke through with just … Read more

Cody Murphy potted two power-play goals, powering Miami to a 2-1 victory over Bowling Green and giving the RedHawks all the offense they needed in order to secure head coach Enrico Blasi’s 300th career victory. Murphy had been on a six-game point drought and hadn’t scored a goal in his last 11 games. He said … Read more

New Hampshire came into Lawler Arena Friday night looking to send the sellout Merrimack crowd home unhappy. The No. 4 team in the country has been a less-than-stellar 3-3-0 to start their second half and it showed tonight. Merrimack came out strong, looking confident that they could play with the some of the best competition … Read more