Feature stories
With a weekend of reckoning on its way, Chris Lerch offers a complete look at the Division III playoff picture, and handicaps the field for good measure. Also: the Rant of the Week makes its return, in doubletime.
The first-ever NCAA women’s Division III championship is just around the corner. Chris Lerch previews the tournament, including roundups of the playoff situation in each conference.
Chris Lerch runs through the playoff situations for every Division III league, ponders the RIT-Neumann massacre, and offers congratulations to a first-ever for D-III.
Anonymous except when he’s being lambasted by player, coach or fan, the referee’s job might seem like a thankless one. Don’t try telling that to Hockey East and ECAC official Scott Hansen, whose Olympic moment is underway in Salt Lake City. Jim Connelly reports.
This was supposed to be the year of the underdog. With four Beanpot titles in the 1980s – none before, none since – Northeastern was poised at the edge of a come-from-behind victory in yesterday’s championship game. It seemed like the destiny, like the movies. But as Dave Hendrickson tells us, some things are too good to be true.
Eleven years ago, Boston Herald reporter John Connolly sat down with the late Northeastern athletic director Herb Gallagher to discuss the formation of the Beanpot.
There’s one unbeaten team left in all of college hockey, and it’s Bowdoin. Chris Lerch inspects the Polar Bears, who are slowly gaining the esteem of their peers.
With a victory at Princeton Feb. 2, Mark Morris reached the coveted 300-win mark. USCHO’s Dan Fisher takes a look at the Clarkson head man’s career.
Goaltenders Matt Underhill and David LeNeveu have complemented each other all season, helping Cornell rise to the top of the ECAC. Scott Weighart gets the skinny on the netminding duo with the effortless teamwork.
Harvard and Northeastern play each other to overtime in the Beanpot? It was hardly a surprise.
Keni Gibson may have backstopped Northeastern to the Beanpot title game just Monday, but the Gibson family’s Boston hockey roots run deep indeed. Dave Hendrickson traces the goaltender’s glove from one generation to the next.
The story of a guy named Rocky, and his not-so-humanitarian counterparts in Plattsburgh.
At the Olympics, hockey’s collegians have given way as NHLers take over many rosters. Not so UMass-Lowell’s trio of Baptiste Amar, Yorick Treille and Laurent Meunier, who will represent France in Salt Lake City. Dave Hendrickson reports.
He doesn’t offer motivational speeches. He’s not a shouter. What he is, however, is UMass’ leading scorer and the glue of its on-ice effort. USCHO.com’s Matthew F. Sacco gets the inside scoop on Tim Turner.
A week ago, Chris Lerch predicted status quo in the USCHO.com poll. Apparently, a couple of teams weren’t listening. Also: an upcoming weekend of big matchups, and a goaltender who’s not averse to mixing it up a bit.
Almost 15 years have gone by, but Mike Richter remembers. Long after his college days under head coach Jeff Sauer at Wisconsin, the New York Rangers goaltender offers his take on the man behind the Badgers’ bench. Adam Wodon reports.
After years as a second-tier member of the CCHA, Alaska-Fairbanks has come into its own this season. Under the tutelage of third-year coach Guy Gadowsky, the Nanooks have caught opponents off guard with depth, hard work and a mix of skill and character.
If you like the looks of the current USCHO.com Division III poll, that might be a good thing, since it could be pretty familiar for a little while. Also: Chris Lerch runs down the favorites, and offers a mea culpa.
His roots shaped him. His will made him. St. Cloud center and captain, Nate DiCasmirro, is leading the Huskies through another stellar season, with major NCAA aspirations.
When Jason Krog won the Hobey Baker Award in 1999, he had every reason to believe he was destined for NHL stardom. Signing a lucrative free-agent contract with the New York Islanders did nothing to squash the notion. But it’s hardly been that easy.