Feature stories
This week, CSTV’s Friday Night Hockey heads to what some people call “God’s Country,” as we’ll be in Manchester, N.H., for a Hockey East showdown between Boston University and No. 8 UNH. Legend has it that Daniel Webster personally chased the devil out of his home state once upon a time, and the Wildcats would … Read more
Brian Schulz previews Sunday’s inaugural USCHO women’s hockey broadcast, featuring two-time defending Hockey East champion Providence and defending ECAC regular season champion St. Lawrence.
Two decades ago, a lad from Weston, Ont., led Rensselaer to a 30-game win streak and an NCAA championship, then went on to a record-breaking pro career. This weekend, NHL great Adam Oates returns to Troy, N.Y.
For four of Boston University’s freshmen, being together on the ice is nothing new. Chris Bourque, Brian McGuirk, Dan McGoff and Bryan “Boomer” Ewing played side by side long before any of them came to the Terriers.
It’s happened only two times before and never in Boston. And for once this week, we’re not talking about anything to do with the Boston Red Sox. Jerry York became just the third coach in college history, joining coaching legends Ron Mason and Bob Peters, to reach 700 career wins Friday when his No. 2 … Read more
So many of college hockey’s great rivalries are, as one might expect, conference battles: BC-BU, Michigan-Michigan State, Harvard-Cornell, etc. But, as we’ll see this week on CSTV’s Friday Night Hockey, it doesn’t have to always be that way. Just take a look at the two teams we’ll see this week, North Dakota and Boston College. … Read more
Most teams know that success doesn’t begin when the puck is dropped: it starts with the preparation beforehand. The art of devising the perfect college hockey schedule has taken this adage to the extreme, however.
BU has a lot of alums in the NHL, and right now, they don’t have much to do. So they came back to BU for fun and a good cause.
They paraded out one by one, the gray hairs becoming less prominent and the memories less dusty with each successive tribute.
Note: This week, CSTV’s game of the week airs on Saturday evening, but Friday will still consist of its regular “Thank God Its Hockey” programming, with original pre- and wrapup coverage, wrapped around a repeat of last week’s Michigan-UNH game. So far this season, CSTV has shown you two very dramatic hockey games, with both … Read more
College hockey tries to open things up by enforcing the rule book. It’s only one step.
The first weekend of the season was certainly wild, and it’s only going to get wilder as CSTV’s Friday Night Hockey heads to Ann Arbor.
From U.S. Camp to U.S. Team in One Month Princeton sophomore Liz Keady was named to her first U.S. national team on Thursday – a feat all the more remarkable given that she was not even on the U.S. Under-22 roster six weeks ago. But Keady broke through with an outstanding effort at August’s U.S. … Read more
There are those who believe that the best way to learn to swim is to be thrown into a lake. By the same token, two top-five teams will take the plunge on Friday night, as No. 5 North Dakota visits No. 2 Maine. There is truly no better way to kick off CSTV’s Friday Night … Read more
Editor’s note: This is the first part of USCHO.com’s CCHA season preview, featuring a look at the league as a whole and six individual team previews — Western Michigan, Bowling Green, Alaska-Fairbanks, Lake Superior State, Ferris State and Nebraska-Omaha. Part two, featuring the remaining six teams, will appear Sunday. As September slips into October and … Read more
Opening the game? An open letter to the college ice hockey community, as submitted by the NCAA commissioners and supervisors of officials.
Kelly Stephens, senior on the defending champion Minnesota Gophers, has left no question that she’ll be leading by example when the college season begins. For the second straight evening, Stephens led the U.S Under-22 team to victory over Canada with two goals, including the game-winner. Her pair was part of a three-goal explosion in the … Read more
Whether it’s the World Championships, the NCAA championships or the Under-22 Championships, still no one can find an answer to Minnesota’s Kelly Stephens and Natalie Darwitz. Kelly Stephens Stephens scored two second-period power play goals and Darwitz added some insurance in the third to carry the United States to a 3-1 victory over Canada in … Read more
If this afternoon’s game is any indication, U.S. Under-22 team head coach Alana Blahoski will have quite a decision to make when choosing her goaltender for next week’s series against Canada. Colgate’s Rebecca Lahar and Wisconsin’s Meghan Horras took turns putting on a netminding clinic this afternoon, combining to save all 26 shots they faced … Read more
The U.S. Under-22 team showed considerable spark during a late comeback bid, but it wasn’t enough to overcome Cammi Granato and the U.S. Red Team at the USA Hockey Women’s Festival in Lake Placid Friday night. Granato led the Reds with two goals in their 5-3 victory, and Angela Ruggiero and Minnesota junior Krissy Wendell … Read more