Miami (20-15-3, 13-12-3 CCHA) earned home ice for the first round of the CCHA playoffs with a 3-0 shutout of Lake Superior State (6-26-4, 3-24-1 CCHA) gave the RedHawks the No. 6 seed. Senior goalie David Burleigh shined in his final regular-season game in Goggin Ice Arena as he made 28 saves in his Miami … Read more

Middlebury advanced to the NESCAC championship game for the fourth straight season after a 5-3 win over Hamilton Saturday. The Panthers will take on Trinity, a winner over Colby in the second semifinal. The win extends Middlebury’s unbeaten streak to 20 (18-0-2) games. Hamilton ends its season at 14-10-2. Middlebury jumped out early as Kevin … Read more

The series seemed destined to last three games from the beginning. After 76-plus minutes of grinding, grueling hockey, Colgate senior P.J. Yedon’s blast from the top of the right circle broke one tie and created another, as the Raiders defeated St. Lawrence, 3-2, in overtime. By taking game two of their best-of-three ECAC Tournament series … Read more

Freshman defenseman Mike Prsa, the game’s most outstanding player, scored a goal and assisted on three others, and senior goalie Jamie Vanek made 27 saves to lift Wentworth to a 5-1 win over Lebanon Valley and give the Leopards their second consecutive — and third in the last four seasons — ECAC Northeast Championship in … Read more

With Merrimack goaltender Joe Exter still battling a major head injury sustained in Friday’s opener, few minds Saturday night were on the rematch between Merrimack and Boston College in game two of the Hockey East quarterfinals. That, though, didn’t translate onto the ice, as both teams treated the 2,513 in attendance to an entertaining game … Read more

At 4:23 of overtime, Jeffrey Natale skated down the right wing and wristed a shot into the top of the net to give Trinity a 3-2 overtime win over Colby in a NESCAC semifinal matchup. Trinity will take on Middlebury, a 5-3 winner over Hamilton, in the championship on Sunday at 1 p.m. Trinity took … Read more

A game can change in an instant. The Rensselaer Engineers and the Union Dutchmen both know that. In game two of their ECAC First Round series, both teams were reminded of that once again. With the Dutchmen leading 2-1 and on the power play with 8:29 left in the third period, things went … well, … Read more

Once again there was a two-goal lead. Once again, the trailing team came back to knot it up. Once again, Michigan and Ohio State skated to a tie, this time with OSU coming from behind to knot it up 3-3 and earn the point necessary to secure third place in the final CCHA standings. In … Read more

Brown struck late and quickly for the second game in a row, scoring three times over a span of 2:16 in the middle of the third period to sweep Princeton in the first round of the playoffs. Yann Danis was spectacular all weekend, making 36 saves Saturday and stopping 72 of 74 for the series. … Read more

Betting on the Mavericks Saturday night should have been a safe wager, considering both Minnesota State-Mankato and Nebraska-Omaha claim that as their mascot. But in the final game at Omaha’s Civic Auditorium, UNO goalie Dan Ellis and MSU goalie Jason Jensen each allowed just two goals as the respective Maverick teams skated to a 2-2 … Read more

So what’s up with that? No. 3 New Hampshire, the top seed in the Hockey East tournament, had a power-play percentage that sat near the bottom of the league during most of the regular season. However, on Saturday night, something must have gotten into the water supply in Durham, as the potent Wildcats erupted for … Read more

The story behind Saturday night’s Iona-Fairfield game was not the Gaels’ 6-0 victory over the Stags to close out the regular season. Instead, it was the way Fairfield’s faithful decided to celebrate their team rather than dwell on the passing of the program after more than three decades. With Fairfield eliminating its hockey program, it … Read more

In a game with little tangible benefit to either team, Minnesota and St. Cloud State skated to a 1-1 draw on Senior Night at Mariucci Arena Saturday. SCSU netminder Jason Montgomery made 40 saves to preserve the tie. “He’s an athletic goalie,” smiled St. Cloud coach Craig Dahl, “but he makes me nervous sometimes.” Minnesota … Read more

Four times this season Boston University and Providence faced each other. Four times they took their games into overtime. The fifth contest, however, proved to be a horse of a very different color. BU seized an early 2-0 lead and blew open the game in the third period, 7-1, to advance to the Hockey East … Read more

They did it again. For the second time in three years, Vermont eliminated Clarkson, on the road, in the first round of the ECAC playoffs. In 2000 the 10th-seeded Cats defeated the No. 1-seeded Knights in one of the biggest upsets in ECAC playoff history. This year, the 10th-seeded Cats knocked off No. 7-seed Clarkson … Read more

Senior night at the Kohl Center was one to forget for the home team as the No. 11 North Dakota Fighting Sioux routed the Wisconsin Badgers 5-0. North Dakota (24-9-5, 14-9-5 WCHA) not only gains a weekend sweep, its seventh of the season, but also defeats the Badgers for the fourth time this year. Furthermore, … Read more

One night after Massachusetts pulled off one of the most incredible upsets in the program’s history, the Minutemen outdid themselves. UMass finished off its Hockey East quarterfinal sweep at Alfond Arena Friday night by stunning Maine again by a 4-2 count. The Minutemen now advance to the FleetCenter and the conference semifinals for the first … Read more