Having just one win at Lynah Rink with one week left in January is not just unusual, it’s practically unprecedented. Considering the 6-1-1 record away from home, Cornell knew just a few adjustments could turn things around. It was back to basics for the Big Red on Friday, and as a result, they came away … Read more

The Michigan State Spartans broke their six-game winless streak against the Ohio State Buckeyes with a solid 4-2 win in Columbus, but the topic of conversation postgame was the Spartans’ new best friend: the crossbar. With 2:20 remaining in regulation and trailing 3-1, OSU pulled goaltender David Caruso in favor of an extra skater, a … Read more

Let’s just say Friday wasn’t Troy Jutting’s day. Early in the afternoon, the Minnesota State-Mankato head coach took a puck to the head during his team’s pregame skate. Then, four stitches and a few hours later, he watched as his team sputtered though an 8-5 loss to St. Cloud State before a standing room only … Read more

Friday’s confrontation between Minnesota and North Dakota had all the elements that were expected. Up-and-down skating — scoring chances aplenty? Check. Bad blood? Hard hitting? Special teams in a critical role? Check. An hour-long delay due to unplayable ice conditions? Check. In a game with a little of everything, North Dakota shook off a lengthy … Read more

Minnesota-Duluth won a seventh consecutive game Friday night by doing most everything right. In a grinding effort against Michigan Tech, the Bulldogs had more than twice as many shots on goal, blocked more than twice as many shots, and got another solid goaltending performance. That translated into a 3-1 WCHA victory before 4,667 at the … Read more

To Northern Michigan, being the “hardest-working team in college hockey” means something. Friday night, the Wildcats showed a little of that determination and cashed in. With 44.9 seconds left in overtime, freshman Darin Olver scored his second goal of the night to seal the victory for Northern, 4-3, over Notre Dame at the Berry Events … Read more

The Union Dutchmen were 15.8 seconds away from not only having their winless streak extended to 13 games by Sacred Heart — they were about to become the first ECAC team to lose three times to an Atlantic Hockey team. But the Dutchmen found a way to prevent those things from happening Friday at Frank … Read more

Every hockey player and every hockey club eventually knows the sting of losing a game in which all the effort in the world can’t seem to overcome the breaks that go against you. The Broncos were stung on Friday night as Western Michigan fell 4-1 to the Michigan Wolverines before a capacity crowd at Lawson … Read more

For two periods, Findlay hung tough. Outshot, outchanced and dominated territorially by Ferris State, the Oilers fought the Bulldogs to a 2-2 draw through 40 minutes of play. But at 2:25 of the third period, Simon Mangos’ power-play goal — his second goal of the game — was just what the Bulldogs needed. Mangos took … Read more

Steve Saviano 4, Merrimack College 1. And that’s not even the half of it. Saviano, New Hampshire’s senior captain, equaled his career-high with four goals, assisted on another and, truth be told, probably should have scored a few more, as the No. 8 Wildcats let it be known they didn’t appreciate the five-goal beating the … Read more

The battle between the penthouse and the doghouse in Hockey East looked more like the battle between the top two teams in the conference. For 40 minutes, at least. In the end, No. 2 Boston College used a three-goal third period to spark a comeback, as Ryan Shannon scored two goals and added an assist … Read more

In the workplace, one sometimes hears the expression “Work smarter, not harder.” Boston University would have been well-advised to live by this adage Friday in their game against Maine. Even when they fell behind, the Terriers continued to play hard, only to repeatedly suffer from self-inflicted wounds on the way to an embarrassing but action-packed … Read more

RIT coach Wayne Wilson and Geneseo coach Brian Hills share a Florida condo for their joint annual family vacation. They are longtime friends, former teammates and former coaching mates at Bowling Green, whose families are as close as two families can be. So, perhaps it was appropriate that in their third meeting against each other … Read more

For the second straight year Colgate welcomed a Dartmouth team that bounced it from the playoffs the year before, but this time, it got some revenge. Friday night the Raiders upset the Big Green, 3-1, as Darryl McKinnon’s goal with less than two minutes remaining broke a 1-1 tie and gave the Raiders their third … Read more