Notre Dame goaltender Morgan Cey continued his stellar play on the weekend as he stopped 30 of 32 shots to upend the Bowling Green Falcons, 3-2 at the BG Ice Arena. Notre Dame (11-13-6, 9-10-3 CCHA) halted its nine-game winless streak in style with a sweep of Bowling Green (7-19-2, 4-16-2 CCHA), its first since … Read more
This one was the Border Blowout. Minnesota scored four straight goals in the first nine minutes of the game en route to an 8-1 rout of visiting Wisconsin Saturday night. As opposed to Friday’s freshman-led effort, Saturday’s game featured scoring across the Gopher board. Matt Koalska netted two of the first three Minnesota goals, and … Read more
Different location, different game, different result. After struggling to score goals against Michigan goaltender Al Montoya in a 3-1 loss on Friday in Ann Arbor, Michigan State beat Montoya four times in the rematch at Munn Arena on Saturday en route to a 5-3 win and a split of the weekend home-and-home series. Senior defenseman … Read more
The concern of any team coming off a big win against its archrivals is, how well will it play the next night? One night after beating Elmira, RIT answered that question Saturday when it jumped out to solid first period lead en route to an 8-4 win over Utica. “It’s a very difficult game to … Read more
After losing two straight games, both at Achilles Rink, Union had to wonder if it was starting another February fade like last year. The Dutchmen emphatically put an end to such thoughts Saturday against Princeton. Kris Goodjohn had two goals and two assists, and Nathan Gillies added two goals and an assist to lead the … Read more
No goals were the most exciting in this game. In the latter stages of the third period, two dramatic goals were scored then disallowed, one for each team, which left the game at 2-1 in favor of Boston University over Massachusetts-Lowell and the crowd of 2,952 breathless. The more important of the two was waved … Read more
With one of its star players on the sidelines and following a 7-1 rout one night earlier, No. 3 Minnesota was looking for some players to step to the forefront in its rematch with No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth at Mars-Lakeview Arena Saturday. The Gophers got goals from each of its three forward lines and a stellar … Read more
Senior defenseman Aaron MacKenzie scored with two seconds remaining to give the Denver Pioneers a 2-1 win over the North Dakota Fighting Sioux on Saturday at Magness Arena in WCHA play. The dramatic victory moves Denver into a sixth-place tie with St. Cloud State in the WCHA, while North Dakota falls to fourth place in … Read more
Brown overcame an early 2-0 hole by scoring five unanswered goals to top Colgate 5-2 at home. With the win, the Bears snapped a nine-game losing streak to the Red Raiders, dating back to February of 1998. The Brown offense came from the usual sources. Junior Brent Robinson had three assists. Linemate Les Haggett and … Read more
Brent Williams’ second goal of the game at 1:10 of overtime lifted Iona to a 3-2 come-from-behind victory over Bentley as the Gaels salvaged a split of their weekend series with the Falcons. Williams intercepted goaltender Simon St. Pierre’s clearance pass along the right mid-boards. The Prince George, British Columbia native then skated in on … Read more
Dartmouth needed just the final four minutes and 31 seconds of regulation to find some puck luck, coming back to bury Clarkson with three unanswered goals, 3-1. “We had a sense that we were going to win the hockey game,” Dartmouth head coach Bob Gaudet said. “They’re a good team, they did a good job … Read more
Tim Plant scored the winning goal on the power play to give Vermont a 3-1 win over St. Lawrence Saturday at Gutterson Fieldhouse. Brady Leisenring made the play that sealed the victory for the Cats. Leisenring, whose line played with jump all weekend, started the play with an end-to-end rush, coming down the left boards … Read more
Sixth time is a charm, right? Wrong. After Saturday night’s 1-1 tie with Northeastern, the sixth-ranked New Hampshire Wildcats are winless in their last six ventures to the Huntington Avenue grounds. “They play well here, it’s a tough place to come and win,” UNH coach Dick Umile said. “They work hard, and it’s a credit … Read more
Merrimack suffered its most significant loss of the season the same night it posted its most impressive win. Moments after notching the first hat trick of his college career in Saturday night’s 6-1 manhandling of No. 4 Boston College, Warriors junior Marco Rosa was reported lost for the season with what was diagnosed as a … Read more
Two shades of carmine met at the Bright Hockey Center Friday night, with the ECAC lead at stake. The sellout crowd sure got its money’s worth. Conference-leading Cornell was outshot 28-19 over two periods, and was outscored 3-1, as Harvard gradually picked up its game and controlled the last 20 minutes. It’s too bad for … Read more
It was a great day to be a Bulldog Saturday. Ohio State lost, Michigan lost, and Ferris State gained ground on claiming its first CCHA title with a 2-1 victory over Western Michigan at Ewigleben Ice Arena. “The way this game went, it should have been a 5-4 game,” Ferris State coach Bob Daniels said. … Read more
Air Force hadn’t scored four goals in a game since Dec. 28. Friday, the Falcons ended their dubious streak in just one period. A quartet of second-period markers helped Air Force erase a two-goal deficit, as well as an 11-game winless skid, as the Falcons defeated Quinnipiac, 5-4, in front of 1,009 fans at the … Read more
Fifteenth-ranked St. Cloud State added another twist to the WCHA race with a 4-2 win over No. 1 Colorado College Friday. In the first period, the two squads dueled to a 0-0 gridlock as the Huskies outshot CC 14-10. The scoreboard continued to show zeroes until three-fourths of the way through the second period. SCSU … Read more
The Vermont Catamounts beat the Clarkson Golden Knights 6-3 in a crucial ECAC matchup at Gutterson Fieldhouse on Friday. Six different UVM skaters lit the lamp as Vermont avenged a previous 1-0 shutout at the hands of Clarkson starting goaltender Dustin Traylen. The win, combined with a St. Lawrence loss at Dartmouth and a Colgate … Read more
The Sacred Heart Pioneers scored four special-teams goals, three on the power play, and cruised to an 8-3 win over Mercyhurst Friday night at the Ice Center. The Pioneers scored twice in the first, added four more in the second, and two in the third to steadily outdistance the Lakers. Sacred Heart jumped to a … Read more