St. Lawrence goalie Kevin Ackley stole the show and helped his team steal a game on the road from Colgate, as the Saints held off the Raiders, 2-1, at Starr Rink on Friday in Game 1 of the best-of-three ECAC quarterfinal series. Colgate fired shot after shot on Ackley, but the sophomore turned away 37 … Read more

On Feb. 15, in a 6-1 victory for Merrimack over Boston College, BC’s Andrew Alberts delivered a late-game hit to Merrimack’s then-leading scorer Marco Rosa. The hit resulted in Rosa breaking his wrist and suffering a concussion that ended his season. The hit also set off a series of conversations and a request to Hockey … Read more

Michigan State must wish every road game were played on the opposing team’s Senior Night. One week after ruining No. 8 Michigan’s Senior Night in Ann Arbor, Mich., the Spartans (20-13-2, 16-10-1 CCHA) spoiled Western Michigan’s Senior Night festivities, 4-0, in front of a capacity crowd of 3,726 at Lawson Ice Arena behind a smothering … Read more

Since it was built in 1991, Clarkson has lost two playoff games at Cheel Arena, both coming at the hands of the Vermont Catamounts. Make it three. Vermont defeated Clarkson for the third time in four ECAC playoff matches Friday night, 3-2. The win puts Vermont in good position to upset Clarkson in the first … Read more

Sports are all about taking an opportunity and making the most of it. That is probably the motto for Plattsburgh goaltender Curtis Cribbie, who was prepared to watch the playoffs from the bench as Craig Neilson’s backup. Cribbie was given an opportunity when Neilson got hurt in practice just days before the start of the … Read more

With playoff seeding on the line, the North Dakota Fighting Sioux rode their high-powered offense to a 5-2 victory over the Wisconsin Badgers Friday night. Kevin Spiewak notched two goals for the Sioux (23-9-5, 13-9-5 WCHA) while Quinn Fylling picked up assists on all but one of North Dakota’s goals. UND’s best defense was a … Read more

It was a sweet victory for Ferris State, but it was far from easy. Troy Milam scored the game winner on a two-on-one at 11:51 of the third period to lead the Bulldogs to a 4-2 victory over Bowling Green, giving them sole possession of their first-ever CCHA regular-season title. BGSU goalie Jordan Sigalet kept … Read more

Even in hockey, three of a kind beats a pair. Although Friar forward Jon DiSalvatore potted two goals in a losing effort, Terrier junior Kenny Magowan notched his first career hat trick to help Boston University beat Providence, 5-4, in game one of the best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinals before 2,437 fans at Schneider Arena. In … Read more

Senior Jim Abbott recorded his first career hat trick, and five other players scored for the Wildcats, as No. 3 New Hampshire defeated Massachusetts-Lowell, 8-4, in Game 1 of the best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinal series between the two teams. Top-seeded New Hampshire (22-7-6) raced out to leads of 2-0 and 5-1, only to see the … Read more

Wayne State closed out its home portion of the regular season Friday night in style with a 3-0 shutout of Findlay. But the game itself was really a sidebar to the postgame activities. In the school’s first “Senior Night,” the team’s dozen seniors who have been part of the program since its inaugural 1999-2000 season … Read more

It was about this time last year that Minnesota got on a roll that carried the Gophers all the way the a national title. After two impressive come-from-behind performances last weekend, and Friday night’s 5-3 win over St. Cloud State before 6,685 at the National Hockey Center, the Gophers look to be getting back on … Read more

A hat trick by Tiger defenseman Ryan Fairbarn carried RIT to a 6-2 victory over Hobart in their ECAC West semifinal Friday. Fairbarn scored all three of his goals during the first 30 minutes of the contest. “We played well in both the first and second periods, but we got rewarded for it in the … Read more

Hockey, like baseball, is a game of inches sometimes. You score a goal by a matter of inches, you make a save by a matter of inches. You get the goalie to move an inch and you score. That’s the way it was on Friday evening in game one of the first-round playoff series between … Read more

Once again, Tom Serratore got the best of his big brother. Grady Hunt stopped 31 shots for his third career shutout as Bemidji State blanked Frank Serratore’s Air Force Falcons, 5-0, in front of 1,261 fans at the Cadet Ice Arena on Friday. The younger Serratore improves to 5-0-1 lifetime against his older brother. The … Read more

After two periods of scoreless hockey, Princeton jumped ahead 1-0 early in the third and looked to poised to upset Brown on the road. But the Bears responded with two quick goals and played it safe to ensure a 2-1 win to kick off the ECAC playoffs. In an evenly-matched game that featured hard hitting … Read more

In a tight game throughout, Elmira and Manhattanville traded goals, neither holding a two-goal edge until the Soaring Eagles’ empty netter sealed a 5-3 victory in their ECAC West semifinal match Friday. Elmira will face RIT in the ECAC West final on Saturday. “It was another classic Elmira/Manhattanville game,” said Elmira coach Tim Ceglarski. “In … Read more

With second place on the line and serious postseason implications, Michigan and Ohio State delivered an emotionally charged, end-to-end 4-4 tie in front of nearly 13,000 fans at Value City Arena. Eric Nystrom scored twice for the Wolverines, as did Rod Pelley for the Buckeyes, but the real hero — from Michigan’s perspective — was … Read more