Feature stories
Team unity is an important ingredient to success in the game of hockey, particularly college hockey. Twenty-some guys have to learn to live together on the bus and in hotel rooms during long road trips. They must have that competitive fire to battle as a group through the adversity and setbacks that are inevitable during … Read more
Oswego and Wentworth know each other quite well. They faced off twice this season. The first time was in the finals of the Ben McCabe Tournament in Amherst. Oswego won 5-1 after leading 5-0, and outshot Wentworth, 45-34. A month later, the game was in the Romney Field House, and Oswego again easily won at … Read more
Picked deep in the WCHA, MSU-Mankato has surprised with what could be its best season ever. Next stop: the NCAAs?
Nebraska-Omaha says goodbye to a building that’s treated it well in the program’s fledgling years.
Boston University and Providence are no strangers to each other in the HEA playoffs.
Bill Beaney took a year off from his successful program to watch his son play. He’ll be back, but are bigger things ahead?
The landscape in the CCHA is looking a little different this season. Surprising Ferris State is taking on the league’s traditional powers — and winning.
At a national powerhouse, a true walk-on — an unsolicited unknown — is a rare thing. Meet Matt Radoslovich, who went from D-III rejection to BU.
Their names of late had become synonymous with one thing: dumb penalties. Not just dumb, but so mind-bogglingly stupid that BU coach Jack Parker had to act. After Brian McConnell and Justin Maiser unwittingly conspired to doom BU’s chances against New Hampshire on Jan. 25, Parker said, “It’s difficult to watch how stupid we are. … Read more
Maybe next year they’ll skip the hockey and go straight to the trophy presentation. Boston University won another Beanpot with its 3-2 victory over Boston College on Monday night — the Terriers’ eighth tournament championship in nine years, their 11th in 14 years, their 13th in 18 years. In all, BU has claimed 25 titles … Read more
Boston University had a goal coming into the 51st Beanpot championship game — stay out of the penalty box. Hockey East’s most-penalized team, the Terriers were facing one of the country’s best power play in the Boston College Eagles. Measured against that goal, the Terriers failed miserably. BU took nine minor penalties that accounted for … Read more
Reaction to Thursday morning’s announcement that Fairfield was ending men’s ice hockey in a cost-cutting measure. Gene Doris, Fairfield athletic director “It’s obviously a tough day for us in terms of needing to cut two programs. It was based on the institution’s priorities on where the money needed to be allocated and where the sports … Read more
The issue of the WCHA and CHA automatic NCAA tournament bids being put into jeopardy was all but rectified as quickly as it arose. But the catalyst to the recent crisis remains an interesting issue, with major implications to the future of the MAAC. As reported by USCHO’s Jim Connelly in a recent MAAC column, … Read more
On a team full of offensive threats, CC defenseman Tom Preissing is going for some lofty numbers of his own.
Harvard and Northeastern in the Beanpot championship game; Boston College and Boston University in the consolation. Now that would be something new. In the tournament’s 50-year history, it’s never happened. Make that 51 years. As has been the case of late, BU and BC will tangle for all the beans while relegating the Crimson and … Read more
Being just the second college goalie to play in the World Juniors for Team Canada was a cherished experience for Cornell’s Dave LeNeveu.
Rest Factor In Beanpots past the Harvard Crimson had a legitimate gripe to claim the role of underdog. Hockey East, the conference of the other three Beanpot schools — BC, BU and Northeastern — allowed those teams to play only one game the weekend before each Beanpot Monday. Harvard’s conference, the ECAC, wasn’t as generous. … Read more
The Beanpot, now past half a century old, continues to capture the imaginations of hockey fans in Boston, around New England and nationwide.
Overcoming serious illness and the death of their mother, North Dakota’s Hale brothers have the Sioux contending for another title.
In 1996, she won Minnesota’s first Ms. Hockey. It’s been a strange ride since, but Winny Brodt has earned many plaudits along the way.