Game coverage from USCHO’s crew of writers
Regional semifinal Quinnipiac vs. Syracuse The Bobcats earned their first NCAA tournament win in program history with a 4-0 defeat of Syracuse on Thursday. The two teams played a close battle for the first half of the game, but Quinnipiac began to pull away in the second. Taylor House opened the scoring, finding the back … Read more
Sammy Walker scored late in regulation as Minnesota advanced past Penn State to earn a date with Michigan next Saturday in the Big Ten title game (photo: Jim Rosvold)
Jack Donato redirected a shot two minutes into sudden-death overtime to complete one of the craziest comeback for Harvard, which scored three goals in the final four minutes of regulation to force overtime in a 4-3 win over RPI (Photo: Edward Jacobs/Team Shred)
Boston College celebrates after Marc McLaughlin scored at 10:56 of overtime to lift the Eagles to a 4-3 first-round victory over New Hampshire and a date with top-seeded Northeastern in Saturday’s quarterfinal round of the Hockey East tournament (photo: Boston College athletics)
ECAC Tournament Princeton vs. Yale Yale advanced to their first-ever ECAC championship game with a 3-1 win on Friday. Mia Coene scored right away in the first to put Princeton on the board first. It took more than a period for the Bulldogs to respond. When they did, it was a redirection from Emma Seitz … Read more
No. 7 Notre Dame survived a scare from Wisconsin in its best-of-three Big Ten quarterfinal series with a 4-2 victory on Sunday (Photo: Fighting Irish Media)
How it happened: The teams skated to a scoreless tie in the first. Ohio State had one unsuccessful power play and outshot the Gophers 12-9 through the first 20 minutes. In the second, a defensive breakdown at the blue line allowed Taylor Heise and Abigail Boreen to enter the zone with the puck. The Buckeye … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS — Ohio State used two goals in the span of three minutes in the second period to defeat Wisconsin and advance to their third-straight WCHA tournament title game. This will be the first time in nine years that Wisconsin does not make an appearance in the title game. It was a hard-fought, close game. … Read more
Northeastern celebrated its first-ever Hockey East regular season title, scoring the clinching goal with 9.6 seconds remaining for a 1-0 victory over Merrimack (photo: Northeastern Athletics)
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota women’s hockey team advanced to their 18th WCHA tournament championship with a decisive 5-1 win over Minnesota Duluth on Saturday afternoon. The Gophers scored 51 seconds into the game on their first shot as Catie Skaja put a pretty innocuous-looking shot on Chobak from her right side. The puck squeezed between … Read more
Despite a feverish pitch in the closing seconds, Boston College hung on to upset No. 9 Massachusetts, 2-1, keeping the Minutemen from clinching the Hockey East regular-season title (photo: Rich Gagnon)
CHA RIT vs. Lindenwood The Tigers won just their second game of the season thanks to Abby Davies’ hat trick. After a scoreless first, RIT went up 2-0 thanks to goals from Davis and Lindsay Maloney. Gigi Pora cut the lead in half and the teams headed to the locker rooms for the final time … Read more
Neither team wanted its season to end. St. Norbert and Aurora, both nationally ranked, gave it their all in their NCHA tournament semifinal showdown Saturday night. One team had to win, and when it was all said and done, it was the Green Knights, who escaped with a 5-4 victory in overtime. Brendan Mark scored … Read more
No. 13 Boston University jumped to an early 3-0 lead and never looked back, earning a 6-3 victory against archival Boston College (Photo: Robert Branning/BU Athletics)
MADISON — Wisconsin’s top line – nicknamed the WOW line for the first initials of their last names – lived up to the moniker on Saturday afternoon. Casey O’Brien, Makenna Webster and Daryl Watts were responsible for nine of Wisconsin’s 15 points in the game. O’Brien led the team with two goals and three assists. … Read more
Goals came easy for Minnesota, which skated to an important 5-0 win over Wisconsin to take control of the Big Ten standings (photo: Jim Rosvold)
(1) Minnesota at St. Thomas The Gophers clinched their program’s 11th regular season title with a sweep of St. Thomas this weekend. On Friday, Taylor Heise reached 150 career points while leading Minnesota with two goals and two assists. Abigail Boreen added a goal and three assists to help the Gophers to a 7-1 win. … Read more
There has been plenty to celebrate of late for No. 5 Minnesota and that was no different on Saturday as the Gophers scored the games final four goals to rally from a three-goal deficit in a 6-4 victory over Penn State (File photo: Jim Rosvold)
Reggie Lutz had a goal and an assist and became the school’s career games played leader as top-ranked Minnesota State downed Bemidji State 5-1 Friday in Mankato, Minn. With 164 games played, Lutz surpasses Bryce Gervais, who had 163 games played as a Maverick from 2012 to 2016. Another current Minnesota State senior, defenseman Jack … Read more
I am an interested observer who lives in Beanpot land and to be honest, the Beanpot seems like such a meaningless tournament to much of the country every year. And as someone who has lived in Massachusetts his whole life, why should anyone care about a Beanpot? I will tell you why: The Beanpot is … Read more