Not all the favored teams are headed to the WCHA Final Five this weekend in St. Paul. Not Denver. Not Wisconsin. Minnesota-Duluth made it out of the playoff’s first round by the slimmest of margins Sunday night at the DECC, and the Bulldogs are more than happy to have survived. UMD outlasted Minnesota State 6-5 … Read more

Freshman center Jason Paige came up with the biggest goal of his rookie season when he beat Western Michigan goaltender Eric Marvin at 12:35 of overtime to give Notre Dame a 5-4 win and the Irish the series, two games to one. The win sends Notre Dame to the CCHA Super Six for the third … Read more

Saturday night, second-seeded Mercyhurst flirted with playoff death. Sunday, the Lakers’ hopes perished. A two-goal game for rookie sensation Pierre-Luc O’Brien, along with a 22-save performance by netminder Kevin LaPointe, propelled fourth seed Sacred Heart to a 3-2 upset victory in the second semifinal of the Atlantic Hockey tournament, ending the Lakers’ hopes of repeating … Read more

In Game 1 between Dartmouth and Rensselaer at Thompson Arena, the story was the Engineers’ Nathan Marsters, who made 33 saves in a 3-1 RPI win. In Game 2, it was the Big Green’s Dan Yacey, who stopped 33 shots in a 6-0 Dartmouth shutout that tied the series at one apiece. So, who was … Read more

Mercyhurst won its second straight College Hockey America Women’s Championship Sunday, March 14, with a 3-1 win over Niagara. Despite losing a dozen seniors to graduation last year, the Lakers now have a team-record 26 wins (26-6-4) while the Purple Eagles ended with a 9-23-3 mark. The Lakers entered the tournament ranked seventh nationally.. The … Read more

In the longest game in league history, No. 2 seed Niagara defeated top seed Bemidji State, 4-3, in overtime to claim the CHA championship. Joe Tallari, a Hobey Baker Memorial Award finalist a year ago, scored the winner for Niagara at 13:27 of the extra session to put the Purple Eagles in the NCAA tournament. … Read more

John Hill had an idea it was going to take three goals for his Alaska-Anchorage players to beat Wisconsin. He was right. Hill had an idea that the Seawolves’ best-of-three first-round WCHA playoff series would go three games, and he wanted goaltender Chris King to be rested for the third game. He was right. Hill … Read more

Greg Kealey is making an early case to be the inaugural MVP of the Atlantic Hockey championship. Thanks to a two-goal, three-point performance for Kealey in the semifinals, the top-seeded Crusaders advanced, 4-1, past six seed Canisius Sunday. They will face Sacred Heart, the winner of Sunday’s second semifinal, next Saturday night with the winner … Read more

In the span of just a few minutes, Michigan went from a team on the brink of elimination to the team that everyone expected it to be — crisp, energetic and overpowering. The Wolverines trailed Nebraska-Omaha 2-1 heading into the third period Sunday, but they took total control of the game, scoring three goals in … Read more

Once Wisconsin coach Mark Johnson knew his team only had five minutes of overtime in the WCHA consolation game, he was ready to make one of the most unorthodox of moves — pulling his goaltender with the score tied. That’s how desperately the Badgers were looking to make a final positive statement to the NCAA … Read more

In the entire 46-year history of Lynah, Cornell had lost two whole playoff games entering the weekend, including one to Clarkson in 1988 and one to Providence in 1978. And Clarkson hadn’t won in Lynah Rink in over five years. Not only did Clarkson win once, but Sunday, the Golden Knights made it two straight, … Read more

With one perfectly placed deflection on her first shift, Minnesota co-captain Kelsey Bills ensured that the lead story of the WCHA final would be her return from injury and her team’s spirited response to one embarrassing first-period mistake. Bills’ injury-plagued senior year took another turn for the worse when she couldn’t play the first period … Read more

By the end of the night, Colgate had outscored St. Lawrence 4-3 — for the weekend, that is. The Raiders edged out a 2-1 Sunday win over the Saints in Game 3 to advance in the ECAC playoffs. Colgate (21-11-5, 14-6-2 ECAC) and St. Lawrence (14-21-6, 7-12-3) engaged in another hard-checking contest at Starr Rink, … Read more

Dave Steckel had two goals to cap a four-point weekend as the Buckeyes beat the Falcons, 5-2, to advance to the CCHA Super Six. “I thought our guys came to play tonight,” said Ohio State head coach John Markell. “I thought Bowling Green came to play. Look at the scores — it’s tough to put … Read more

For a moment Saturday, St. Cloud State had a chance to get back in its playoff series with Minnesota. Then the Gophers’ Troy Riddle slammed the door on the Huskies’ season. With Minnesota up just 3-2 after giving up a shorthanded goal early in the third period, Riddle scored his second goal of the game … Read more

It happens all the time that a fluke goal wins a playoff game in overtime. What doesn’t usually accompany that is when a coach draws the goal up on the chalkboard before in-between periods. Sparked by an overtime goal at 1:37 by Justin Carre that deflected off a defenseman’s skate, and a shutout performance by … Read more