With a 2-0 lead in the second period Saturday night following a 6-2 win the night before, Minnesota-Duluth seemed headed for a two-game sweep of Dartmouth. Then in the words of Duluth coach Shannon Miller, her team just checked out. The No. 2 Big Green (8-1) scored three goals in the final seven minutes of … Read more

History was made at the Bright Hockey Center tonight, but this particular record was one Harvard could have done without. Riding a three-game win streak, the Crimson (4-3-1, 3-3-1 ECAC) was shut out for the first time in its history against the Golden Knights (6-4-3, 3-3-1), losing 3-0. Harvard’s defeat came a night after it … Read more

Jeff Tambellini lay face down near the blueline as the clock wound down Saturday. The Michigan sophomore knew Minnesota’s Barry Tallackson was putting the game away with an empty-netter, and Tambellini didn’t want to watch. The goal gave the Golden Gophers a 4-2 victory in a hard-fought College Hockey Showcase game. Minnesota (6-7-1 overall, 3-6-1 … Read more

Late Friday, deep inside the National Hockey Center, Alaska-Anchorage head coach John Hill pondered which direction his team was heading after getting roughed up 5-1 by eighth-ranked St. Cloud State earlier that night. Would they respond by trying to make immediate changes towards improvement, he asked? Or would they fold up and find a nice … Read more

It was a special-teams kind of night for the Ohio State Buckeyes, who scored three times on the power play and twice shorthanded en route to a 7-0 win over Bowling Green. After a scoreless first period that had all the markings of a classic goaltenders’ showdown, Ohio State exploded for four second-period goals, including … Read more

Late in the second period it seemed possible that Northeastern could be on its way to its first win of the season — and over No. 2 Boston College, no less. As the Huskies went on a five-on-three power play holding a 2-0 lead, there was an eerie sense for the Eagles that a third … Read more

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish (8-3-2, 7-3-2 CCHA scored three goals in the third period, including two from senior center Rob Globke, as they handed the Northern Michigan Wildcats (5-7-0, 4-6-0 CCHA) their fourth loss in five games, 4-2. The win by the Irish stretches their unbeaten streak to six, and keeps them in a … Read more

Perhaps St. Cloud State didn’t get enough turkey to eat on Thursday. And if that’s the case, hopefully for their sake they didn’t eat too much on Friday. The eighth ranked Huskies feasted on Alaska-Anchorage Friday night at the National Hockey Center, erupting for five first period goals en route to a 5-1 WCHA win … Read more

When Dartmouth’s Cherie Piper emerged from the penalty box after a 10-minute misconduct penalty, the game she had left was gone forever. Everything had been going according to plan for Dartmouth in the opening minutes against No. 4 UMD. The No. 2 Big Green had the 1-0 lead in front of 1,250 fans and the … Read more

Soft ice due to a power outage got the game at Ritter Arena between RIT and Williams off to a slow start. But yeoman work by the rink crew during the intermissions allowed the game to proceed on schedule with very little effect. A spate of goals late in the first period gave Williams a … Read more

Brown relied on its dominant power play and great goaltending on the way to a 4-1 win to improve to 5-1-1 overall and grab the lead in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Clarkson, despite outshooting the host Bears 32-27, failed to beat Brown’s Yann Danis on a number of good chances. Danis was spectacular again, … Read more

Merrimack continued its successful work on the power play, scoring three goals with the man advantage Friday night in a 4-1 victory over Quinnipiac in front of a small Thanksgiving break crowd at the J. Thom Lawler Arena. Brendon Clark, Steve Crusco and Nick Pomponio all tallied power play markers as the Warriors went three … Read more

Just as the leftover turkey and stuffing began to settle in it was time to hit the ice. Western Michigan and Colgate did just that as the Broncos downed the Raiders 4-1 on Friday night. The Broncos improved to .500 for the first time in over a month behind 23 Scott Foster saves and a … Read more

In a matchup between the nationally ranked Harvard Crimson (4-2-1, 3-2-1 ECAC) and the struggling St. Lawrence Saints (3-9-3, 2-4-0), few people expected the score to be knotted at nothing after the first period. But Crimson coach Mark Mazzoleni was not surprised about the nature of Harvard’s 3-0 win. “It was the exact type of … Read more

Wisconsin stretched its unbeaten streak to nine games Friday with a 3-1 victory over Michigan that ranked as one of the biggest wins in the program’s recent history. It was the first time Wisconsin (7-3-3 overall, 3-2-3 WCHA) beat Michigan (9-4-0 overall, 5-3-0 CCHA) since 1993, the inaugural year of the annual College Hockey Showcase. … Read more

With a career-high 44 saves, Dartmouth goaltender Dan Yacey may have seen his share of shots against Boston University tonight, but he missed seeing the most exciting goal of all-the one that the Big Green scored when Yacey was pulled for the extra attacker to tie the game 2-2 with 14.7 seconds left in regulation. … Read more

Down 2-1 in the final period, Ferris State had to look no further than its captain. With time winding down, Ferris State’s pressure paid off as Derrick McIver got a partial breakaway, and with a Niagara defender all over him, McIver chipped the puck off the post, but McIver’s stick was there to tip it … Read more

Rensselaer junior Andrew Martin made 24 saves in his first appearance in net this season, while sophomore Kirk MacDonald buried the game-winner at 9:35 of the second as the Engineers outmaneuvered UMass Lowell Friday evening at the Tsongas Arena in front of 2,373 fans. “It was a hard fought battle,” said Engineer bench boss Dan … Read more

There was no Thanksgiving hangover for Nebraska-Omaha Friday night. In front of 7,901 at Qwest Center Omaha, the Mavericks pounded away at No.7 Massachusetts and came away with a 7-2 upset, snapping an 11-game non-conference unbeaten streak for the Minutemen. UMass-Amherst played just last Tuesday in a tough game against Vermont, but Minutemen head coach … Read more