Game coverage from USCHO’s crew of writers
It didn’t take long for spectators, experts, and fans to notice a partisan crowd cheering on lower seed Providence. The Friars rallied from a 3-0 deficit to upset top-seeded Minnesota State, 6-3.
Despite a 34-13 disadvantage in shots on goal, American International won its NCAA tournament debut with a shocker over St. Cloud State (photo: Jim Rosvold).
Cam Morrison scored at 15:53 of overtime after Notre Dame tied the game with 2:20 remaining in regulation (photo: Melissa Wade).
Along with Filip Larsson’s heroics, the Pioneers got a goal from defenseman Les Lancaster in the final minute of the second period and added an empty-net goal by Colin Staub in the last minute of the third period to move within one win of earning a trip to the Frozen Four (photo: Jim Rosvold).
UMass defeated Harvard 4-0 Friday in Northeast Regional semifinal game that was lopsided territorially, but remained scoreless into the second period and only 1-0 well into the third (photo: Melissa Wade).
In a back-and-forth game in front of 10,621 fans at the Xcel Energy Center, Minnesota Duluth won the first NCHC championship game to be decided in overtime, 3-2 over St. Cloud State (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
For the second year in a row, Clarkson found itself in overtime in the ECAC Hockey championship game. This time, it ended differently for the Golden Knights (photo: Clarkson Athletics).
Luckily for Minnesota State, regulation time for a hockey game is still 60 minutes (photo: Tim Brule).
Cam Morrison appears to have a knack for delivering championships. Morrison scored the game-winning goal Saturday for Notre Dame as it captured a 3-2 victory over Penn State to win its second straight Big Ten tournament title (photo: Mike Miller/Fighting Irish Media).
Hugo Reinhardt’s goal 1:16 into overtime led American International to its first Atlantic Hockey championship in school history, a 3-2 victory over Niagara (photo: Omar Phillips).
Northeastern won the Hockey East championship on Saturday, 3-2 over Boston College, and now will work to win games in the NCAA tournament beginning next weekend (photo: Melissa Wade).
Behind four points from defenseman Ian Mitchell, three points each from Liam Finlay and Tyson McLellan, and 22 saves from goalie Devin Cooley, Denver defeated rival Colorado College in the NCHC Frozen Faceoff consolation game 6-1 Saturday night (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Senior Sam Cogan led the Badgers with a goal and two assists while senior Annie Pankowski added two goals to lead Wisconsin (photo: Matt Dewkett).
Boston College became the first seventh seed to advance to a Hockey East championship game (photo: Melissa Wade).
The Bulldogs rode 25 saves from Hunter Shepard and an early third-period goal from Cole Koepke to a win over the Pioneers (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Brown had already beaten one of ECAC Hockey’s co-regular season champions. Cornell made sure it didn’t take down the second one (file photo: Omar Phillips).
The top-ranked Pointers will get their chance to cap off an unbeaten run to the title after knocking off Hobart 5-3 in a national semifinal at K.B. Willett Arena on Friday night.
Niagara freshman Ludwig Stenlund’s goal 7:03 into overtime broke a scoreless tie between the Purple Eagles and Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers in the second semifinal of the Atlantic Hockey tournament (photo: Omar Phillips).
The Minnesota women’s hockey team will play for their seventh NCAA title on Sunday as they advanced to the championship game with a 2-0 win over Cornell Friday (photo: Matt Dewkett).
Norwich’s special teams were middle of the pack in the Division III men’s hockey rankings throughout the regular season. But Friday was a different story (photo: Norwich Athletics).