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This weekend begins in earnest the six-week season sprint for the UCHC championship as the league commences play as the only conference in the East to do so. With nine teams playing, King’s opted out of the season, the schedule is both condensed and intense in the travel schedule with teams playing eight of the … Read more
A quick breakdown of where each team stands heading into the final two months of the season.
With the NCAA announcing the sites for its men’s Division I Frozen Four through 2026 on Wednesday, there was plenty for fans to be excited about and the ability to build up anticipation (photo: t-mobilearena.com).
After a terrific season, that was unfortunately cut short by the current COVID-19 crisis, the difficult task of selecting three teams for this year’s All-USCHO lists was a very challenging project. Thirteen different teams across the country are represented with multiple players from Geneseo, Norwich, Utica, Wilkes and Wisconsin – Eau Claire. Repeating on the … Read more
Standing at only 5’9” and weighing 175 pounds, freshman Brandon Osmundson played a big game for the Utica Pioneers as he led all freshmen in the country in scoring with 13 goals and 29 assists for 42 points. Osmundson fit right in with the veteran talent at Utica and quickly established himself as a very … Read more
Despite the abrupt end to the college hockey season and cancellation of the NCAA tournament, Utica and their head coach Gary Heenan can take great pride in the many achievements of their team this season despite some early challenges and team chemistry changes. Heenan led the Pioneers through those challenges on the way to the … Read more
Every so often there is a season and individual statistics amidst the trappings of the ultimate team sport that are truly astounding at every level. Such is the case for USCHO Player of the Year Tom Aubrun who completed his senior season for the Cadets riding a nine-game shutout streak and posting 13 shutouts overall … Read more
Editor’s note: At the time of publishing, NCAA quarterfinals were still scheduled to be played and teams were en route to the host universities. Sunday was a historic day in women’s DI hockey as both Ohio State and Princeton won their first-ever conference tournament titles. In the WCHA, Wisconsin, Minnesota and UMD had won all … Read more
For the very first time ever in program history, Wesleyan has reached the summit of NESCAC hockey by winning the men’s hockey conference championship. With that comes the conference auto-bid, so in just one short week, the list of firsts grows with their first NCAA tournament appearance with a first round game against Babson on … Read more
As expected, championship weekend had a bit of everything including a big upset, an extension of an incredible shutout streak, and home favorites closing out their title dreams with wins in front of their faithful fans. Auto-bids have been claimed and now teams that didn’t win their league are anxiously awaiting the NCAA tournament announcements … Read more
It’s nearly impossible for a goalie or defender to win the Patty Kazmaier, so it’s time to talk about what to do to fix it.
Conference quarterfinal matchups have brought some of the best games of the past decade.
A lot of movement in the standings was seen in the NESCAC, SUNYAC and NE-10 amidst the last weekend of regular season play. The NEHC playoff saw a big quarterfinal upset with No. 2 Babson losing to No. 7 Southern Maine and all across the remaining conferences regular season title winners were determined before playoffs … Read more
The ECAC, Hockey East and NEWHA regular season champs have been crowned, but there’s still a lot to be decided in the final weekend of the regular season.
As a true indication of the competitiveness in the conferences, it took right up to the penultimate week of play to determine a couple of regular season conference winners in Geneseo and Norwich. That said the ride in the rest of the conferences has suspense in every game and it looks like the No. 1 … Read more
Josh Boyko got his start as a goalie thanks to a friend who lived in his neighborhood. His friend’s team no longer had a goalie because he quit and Boyko’s mom was asked by his friend’s mom if her son could fill the void. The rest is history. “I’ve been a goalie ever since,” … Read more
Clarkson’s Elizabeth Giguere has a new role this season, but she’s been just as prolific and dangerous leading the Golden Knights’ offense.
Despite her best efforts across the region, not even Mother Nature could get in the way of some great hockey this weekend. Yes, there were some postponements but the delay only kept building on the suspense of key outcomes among league leaders. Trinity had a bounce back weekend, St. Michael’s continued their torrid play, Wilkes, … Read more
Ryan Cusin has always been a hockey guy. There was that one season he played lacrosse at Adrian, but other that, hockey has been his game. He transferred into Wisconsin-River Falls last season and started playing for the Falcons midway through it. But this has been the season where he’s really been able to showcase … Read more
Junior goalie Lindsay Browning has found success this season with Cornell by not trying to fix what wasn’t already broken.