Mercyhurst’s out-of-conference success continues — could the Lakers be this season’s Niagara? — and a few overlooked teams are making noise within the league. And in the week’s biggest story, Quinnipiac breaks the ice against Hockey East, leading Jim Connelly to a little speculation.
Saturday night, one of the nation’s premier rivalries is renewed when Harvard hits the ice at Cornell’s Lynah Rink. Also: Yale looks for improvement after a tough start, and Dartmouth gets maximum performance from Dan Yacey in net. Juan Martinez reports.
Defending regular-season champion Ferris State starts to get its legs; Nebraska-Omaha gives visiting Massachusetts a rude welcome; and fresh off a disappointing College Hockey Showcase, Michigan and Michigan State get to take their frustrations out on each other in Paula C. Weston’s CCHA Games of the Week.
Seven is an especially lucky number for North Dakota — it adorns the back of the Sioux’s Brandon Bochenski, a goalscorer’s goalscorer.
Improving Air Force gets all the leadership it needs from a pair of linemates; Niagara’s offense forges on without a big contribution from sniper Joe Tallari; and Bemidji State comes home. Mike Volonnino reports.
Boston University is getting its O from its D — which isn’t entirely a good thing; Maine bounces back from a tough road trip; Merrimack finds itself on the wrong end of an historic result; and to his chagrin, Dave Hendrickson finds that his mysterious power to curse is intact.
Wins are not coming easily this season for No. 3 Harvard, but they do keep on coming. For the second time in three days, Harvard found itself tied 1-1 with a Hockey East power. Sunday it was No. 8 UNH, and this time it was No. 10 Providence. And just like on Sunday, the team … Read more
Michigan sophomore forward Jeff Tambellini is the lone NCAA representative at the Team Canada World Junior Selection Camp, being held in Kitchener, Ont., Dec. 11-15. The invite will keep Tambellini away from the Wolverines’ games on Dec. 12-13 at Nebraska-Omaha. If he makes the team, he will also miss the Great Lakes Invitational. This year’s … Read more
This time Harvard’s practice in defensive zone paid off. The No. 3 Crimson (7-0) took until late into the third period to get their second goal, but thanks to a defensive effort that limited New Hampshire to just eight shots in the last two periods, the No. 8 Wildcats (6-4-2) had just had one goal … Read more
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Between the two of them, Boston University coach Jack Parker and Yale coach Tim Taylor have been behind the bench for over 55 years. However, they both saw something that they’ve never seen before on Sunday night. Terrier defensemen Kevin Schaeffer and Ryan Whitney each notched hat tricks as BU beat Yale, 7-2, in front … Read more
Perhaps it was a sleepiness brought on by too much Thanksgiving turkey, but the atmosphere at the World Arena Saturday night was more like a placid mountain lake rather than a raucous college hockey rink. Nevertheless, the smooth-skating Tigers, led by the patient play of their smallest line, defeated the visiting Findlay Oilers, 4-0. Linemates … Read more
Jeff Hristovski scored twice in the third period and had a four-point night as Yale handed Princeton a 5-3 loss before 3,486 at Ingalls Rink. Christian Jensen added two goals and an assist and the Elis (3-7, 3-5 ECAC) also got a score from Jeff Dwyer, while Josh Gartner picked up the win in net … Read more
Quinnipiac earned an historic victory Saturday night, as Matt Craig scored two goals, the second the game-winner, as the Bobcats beat Merrimack 3-2 to record Atlantic Hockey’s first-ever win over a Hockey East opponent. Coming into Saturday, Hockey East had been 40-0-5 against the AHA, including its formative years as the Metro Atlantic conference’s hockey … Read more
Saturday, it was clear early that Brown was on its way to another easy win at home. Junior Brent Robinson and freshmen Sean Dersch and Brian Ihnacak each scored a pair of goals in front of Yann Danis’ 11th career shutout to pave the way to an 8-0 lambasting of St. Lawrence. “I thought we … Read more
It may not have been the win the giant killers have become accustomed to, but for Mercyhurst, it might as well have been one. Already with nonleague wins at Ohio State and Western Michigan this season — Atlantic Hockey’s only nonleague wins against ‘Big 4’ teams — the Lakers notched another on their belt Saturday, … Read more
Senior co-captain Steve Saviano scored two goals and junior linemate Justin Aikins added to his team-leading point total with the game-winning goal, as No. 4 New Hampshire came from behind in the third period to defeat Rensselaer, 4-3, at the Whittemore Center. The goal was Aikins’ fifth of the season. He also recorded his 15th … Read more
Michigan State’s lack of discipline is beginning to hurt where it counts most — the scoreboard. Such was the case in the 2-1 overtime victory for Wisconsin Saturday night. A penalty on Spartan junior forward Ash Goldie for tripping with 48 seconds left in the third period with the game tied at one apiece ended … Read more
Nebraska-Omaha finally pulled out of its Saturday funk. Kind of. On a third period goal by David Morelli, UNO pulled out a 1-1 tie against Massachusetts at Qwest Center Omaha. The tie came on the heels of a 7-2 Maverick win the night before. Despite the No. 7 Minutemen carrying much of the play for … Read more
If a single word could describe Western Michigan’s season to date, it would have to be “inconsistent.” After defeating Colgate 4-1 on Friday night, the Broncos fell to the Raiders by a 4-1 margin Saturday. The Raiders received goals from four different players on the night, including the first career tallies by forward Anthony Masotto … Read more