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On Ice and Off, Gunn a Humanitarian

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Northeastern coach Joy Woog says what impresses her most about Chanda Gunn is her humbleness, which she maintains despite all she’s accomplished. The only hockey player ever to be honored as Humanitarian winner and first-team All-American in the same season, Gunn is always searching for improvement. That showed even in her reflections in her Humanitarian … Read more

Lessard Restores Two-Goal Lead For Duluth

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The ballots for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award have already been cast, but Junior Lessard is making a strong showing on the Frozen Four stage just to confirm his candidacy. Lessard scored just 69 seconds into the first national semifinal at the FleetCenter on Thursday, then added a second goal to cut short Denver’s run … Read more

Eagles, Black Bears Head To Third Tied At 1

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After two periods, it’s a 1-1 tie between Maine and Boston College in the second Frozen Four semifinal Thursday. Jon Jankus had the first-period goal for Maine, Ryan Shannon tied it up for BC early in the second, and Maine goaltender Jimmy Howard put on a show of his own. Jon Jankus shoots on Matti … Read more

Wednesday At The Fleet

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Ice To See You Besides the Frozen Four games themselves, the leading story this week at the FleetCenter could be ice conditions. On Wednesday, the building will see five practices (the Montreal Canadiens and each of the Frozen Four teams) plus a Boston Bruins’ Stanley Cup playoff game at 7 p.m. Thursday, BC and Maine … Read more

Sidebar

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Books Lose Out to Hot Tub With 10 U.S. players and four Canadian players still in U.S. colleges, it raises the obvious question, what happens with academics during the two to three weeks of preparation and competition? Not much. “It kind of takes a back seat in tournament like this,” said Dartmouth sophomore Gillian Apps. … Read more

Maine Line

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They played together in different combos this year, but the trio, recently united, proves the whole is greater than its parts.

Canada Wins Eighth Straight World Championship

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The names Cherie Piper and Gillian Apps didn’t show up in the scoring summary of the gold medal game, but the Dartmouth sophomores did everything but score in lifting Canada to a 2-0 win over the U.S. to win their first World Championships in front of a sellout crowd of 10,508 at the Halifax Metro … Read more

Preview: National Semifinal No. 1

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Minnesota-Duluth vs. Denver Thursday, noon ET, FleetCenter, Boston Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs Final USCHO.com ranking: No. 5 Record: 28-12-4 NCAA seed: Midwest No. 2 How they got here: beat Michigan State 5-0, beat Minnesota 3-1 Junior Lessard was at dinner the other day when he was greeted with congratulations. Evan Schwabe was walking through the halls at … Read more

Preview: National Semifinal No. 2

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Boston College vs. Maine Thursday, 6 p.m. ET, FleetCenter, Boston Boston College Eagles Final USCHO.com ranking: No. 4 Record: 29-8-4 NCAA seed: Northeast No. 1 How they got here: beat Niagara 5-2, beat Michigan 3-2 Entering the NCAA tournament, Boston College had its share of doubters. The Eagles had virtually gone wire-to-wire as the number … Read more