Minnesota’s baffling slide continues; injury-riddled CC manages to lose players even during its off week; at Wisconsin, Adam Burish’s comeback is complete; and Denver’s Gabe Gauthier turns heads. Todd D. Milewski rounds up the WCHA.
Fresh off two more games with a CHA neighbor, Wayne State tries to build a new rivalry with nearby Michigan State. Also, Bemidji State didn’t bring home Babe the Blue Ox, but the Beavers did get a big win last Friday. Mike Volonnino reports.
Boston University has trouble getting puck in net; Providence’s second line steps up; and another Boston College goaltender exceeds the pundits’ expectations. Dave Hendrickson reports.
No. 14 Michigan State has been having a little trouble with teams from the CHA in recent years, so Spartan head coach Rick Comley was a little apprehensive with Wayne State coming to East Lansing for a two-game series Thursday and Friday night. He warned his team that losses against teams like the Warriors are … Read more
CSTV’s first season has featured the first national home for college hockey. Together, they forge new ground.
Annie Annunziato set a single-game school records with five goals and eight points and Augsburg set a single-game scoring record in a 12-1 rout of host Hamline in a [nl]Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game Thursday night at the State Fair Coliseum. Augsburg broke its previous single-game scoring record of 11 goals, set twice in the … Read more
New favorite Holy Cross leaps ahead of the pack, thanks to senior leadership and consistent goaltending; meanwhile, depleted Quinnipiac is just looking for warm bodies to fill uniforms. Jim Connelly reports.
Already a force, Brown gets even better with the return of Les Haggett; Dartmouth raises sibling-smooching to an art form; Colgate’s new scholarship policy pays immediate dividends; and the Battle for the North Country starts Saturday, says Juan Martinez.
Finally, the Gang’s All Here For some patient fans, the Division III hockey season starts this weekend, a full six weeks after teams from other conferences began play. The last 20 of the 74 Division II and Division III teams kick things off as the NESCAC, ECAC East and St. John’s from the MIAC finally … Read more
College Sports Television (CSTV), has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Official College Sports Network (OCSN) from Student Advantage, Inc. The OCSN network is billed as the largest network of college sports news and information in any medium, attracting 7.5 million unique users and more than 167 million combined page views in October. OCSN … Read more
Boston College head coach Jerry York proved Tuesday night that he’s a gambling man. Merrimack almost made York pay for his gamble. With a lineup depleted by injuries, the No. 2-ranked Eagles took to the ice against Merrimack with rookie goaltender Joe Pearce making his first collegiate start, one that he’d likely wish he had … Read more
A grassroots effort has saved the sport of hockey at Skidmore.
Merrimack sophomore forward Matt Johnson suffered a broken jaw in a 6-1 loss at No. 10 Boston University on Nov. 15 and is expected to miss the remainder of the season. Johnson had surgery to set the jaw at a Boston hospital and was released. He will have to avoid contact for three to four … Read more
Union captain Glenn Sanders suffered a lacerated spleen in the Dutchmen’s 1-1 tie with Dartmouth on Nov. 14 and had surgery the next day to remove the spleen. As a result, Sanders, a senior forward, could miss the rest of the season, although one doctor’s prognosis had him missing only six to eight weeks. “He … Read more
A $2.5 million donation to the college’s athletics program has preserved men’s hockey at Skidmore. A group of alumni, parents and friends launched a fundraising effort in September after the college announced that budget constraints would force the elimination of men’s hockey after the 2003-04 season, and the use of the those resources for other … Read more
Matt Hendricks contemplated all summer whether to return for his senior year for SCSU, before deciding he would.
Brent Shepheard opened a three-goal first period at 8:37 with an unassisted tally for Maine and the Black Bears never looked back, as they downed Massachusetts-Lowell, 4-0 in front of 5,410 at Alfond Arena in an afternoon Hockey East game. “Maine came out all charged up, and they played well in the first period,” commented … Read more
By Sunday the effects of jet lag had started to wear off for No. 1 Minnesota, so Natalie Darwitz turned on the jets right away. Darwitz skated right past the Brown defense just 47 seconds into Sunday’s game, and scored the first of eight consecutive goals in an 8-1 Minnesota win over the Bears (1-3). … Read more
Sophomore left wing Jon Smyth recorded a career-high four goals and to lead Colgate to a 6-1 victory over Clarkson before 2,609 fans at Cheel Arena Saturday night. The Raiders, who snapped an eight-game winless stretch (0-7-1) against the Golden Knights, improved their record to 4-3-1 overall and to 2-2 in the ECAC. Clarkson drops … Read more
New Vermont hockey coach Kevin Sneddon received a rude welcome Saturday from the Union power-play unit in his return to the place he called home for 10 years. The Dutchmen took advantage of undisciplined penalties by the Catamounts to score three power-play goals, including two by Jason Visser, and cruise to a 5-1 ECAC victory … Read more