Minnesota simply doesn’t know the meaning of a losing streak. The Golden Gophers, faced with the prospect of dropping two consecutive games for the first time since the 2000-01 season, rallied for two third-period goals to edge top-ranked Colorado College, 3-2, before a capacity crowd of 7,604 at the Colorado Springs World Arena on Saturday. … Read more

After building a 3-0 lead, Wisconsin answered Bemidji State’s comeback attempts to claim a 5-3 win Saturday. Amber Fryklund led a late Bemidji State surge, collecting a goal and two assist in a three-goal third period, but Wisconsin held off the Beavers to collect two critical points in WCHA playoff positioning. The teams in the … Read more

The New York Rangers had the GAG Line. The Philadelphia Flyers had the Legion of Doom. You can add Iona’s CHecK line to the list of inventive hockey line nicknames. The trio of Jamie Carroll, Mark Hallam and Tim Krueckl combined for three goals and two assists as Iona defeated Connecticut 5-2 in what appears … Read more

Michigan sophomore Eric Nystrom hasn’t filled the net as often as he’d like this season, so he decided to focus on playing defense. But Friday night, he and Dwight Helminen, another sophomore who hasn’t been as productive as he hoped, took over the Wolverines’ offense. The forwards were responsible for all of Michigan’s scoring in … Read more

On Friday, the top-ranked team in the nation was led by the shortest player on the ice. Five-foot-eight Brett Sterling notched four goals for his first career hat trick as Colorado College, in its first game as the No. 1 team in the country, defeated No. 7 Minnesota, 6-2, in front of a sellout crowd … Read more

Adam Mitchell’s late third-period goal broke a 1-1 deadlock, unleashed a Colgate scoring spree, and proved to be his second game-winning goal in three outings, as the Raiders defeated the Vermont Catamounts 4-1 at Starr Rink on Friday night. Perhaps the prettiest part of Mitchell’s first goal after downing Cornell in overtime a week ago … Read more

It was a game of singular interest. One post hit early in the first. One third-period shot, the go-ahead goal. One shot in overtime. Two points for Ohio State. RJ Umberger scored 31 seconds into overtime to salvage the game for the Buckeyes, giving OSU a 3-2 win over Western Michigan, keeping the Buckeyes in … Read more

Cornell was sick and tired of “The Streak” already when it went to Dartmouth in November. They realized then that being fed up with it wasn’t enough; they had to play well, too. As a result, the winless streak against the Big Green reached eight games in a 5-2 loss. Friday at Lynah Rink, the … Read more

It took Union just over two periods to finally solve Brown goalie Yann Danis. By then, it was too late. Two late third-period goals weren’t enough to overcome Danis and the Bears as the Dutchmen’s five-game winning streak ended with a 3-2 ECAC loss Friday night at Achilles Rink. The Dutchmen (8-6-2 ECAC, 12-12-4 overall), … Read more

Ryan Geris scored one goal and notched an assist, and Beau Geisler added three assists to lead the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs to a wild 6-5 win over the No. 9 Denver Pioneers in WCHA action Friday at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center. With the loss, Denver falls to 17-8-4 overall and 8-7-4 in the WCHA. Minnesota-Duluth … Read more

RIT’s special teams were rolling in the first period with five goals against Utica, and the Tigers held the lead for the rest of the game on the way to an 8-3 win. RIT opened the scoring 4:55 into the contest with a shorthanded tally. Mike Tarantino intercepted a cross-ice pass across the Pioneer slot … Read more

Technically, college hockey games last 60 minutes. This one, however, was over after 14. Massachusetts-Lowell opened the game in near comatose fashion and Providence made the River Hawks pay, grabbing a 4-0 lead by the 13:59 mark. The four goals, scored in a span of little more than nine minutes, gave the Friars their quickest … Read more

Four days after being named one of the 10 finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award, Minnesota’s Krissy Wendell scored four points, including the game’s first two goals, as the Gophers (21-3-1, 14-2-1 WCHA) handed Ohio State (8-17-2, 5-10-2) a 5-3 loss at Ridder Arena. Wendell figured in the scoring on Minnesota’s first four goals, scoring … Read more

Understandably, Michigan Tech coach Mike Sertich wasn’t in much of a talking mood after his Huskies lost 8-0 to North Dakota at Ralph Engelstad Arena. The one topic he was willing to discuss at length was how avalanches are caused. MTU was buried under a blizzard of Sioux goals midway through the second period when … Read more

In a match between the two basement-dwellers of the WCHA, it was two goals in 12 seconds that propelled the Wisconsin Badgers to a 4-1 win over the Seawolves of Alaska-Anchorage. A pair of freshmen, Ryan MacMurchy and Nick Licari, dealt Alaska-Anchorage (1-19-7, 0-17-6 WCHA) a knockout blow halfway through the second period. Before the … Read more

Chris Higgins notched his second hat trick of the season and Zachary Mayer and Joe Zappala each had a goal and an assist as Yale scored the game’s final five goals to defeat St. Lawrence, 7-2, before a sellout crowd of 3,486 at Ingalls Rink. The Bulldogs set season bests in shots on goal (45), … Read more

In a typical Harvard-Dartmouth grudge match featuring 17 penalties, the defenses on both sides were so solid that one first-period power-play goal by the Crimson’s Angela Ruggiero proved to be the difference in a 2-1 Harvard win. The goal came on a two-man advantage 13:43 into the period. As Dartmouth’s Cherie Piper valiantly dived to … Read more

Many of the 6,286 in attendance at the Mullins Center left wondering what they had showed up for. That was because Boston University used its trademark defense to make a first-period lead stick in a 2-0 win over Massachusetts. Netminder Sean Fields aided the defensive effort with a spectacular performance, making 25 saves for his … Read more

Northeastern coach Bruce Crowder was desperate. His club hadn’t scored on Merrimack goalie Joe Exter in nearly two hours of hockey this season. So when the Huskies were given their sixth power-play opportunity of the game Friday night, trailing by three goals with five minutes remaining, it was time for a desperate move. Crowder pulled … Read more

Trailing 2-1, Harvard scored five goals in the second period and went on to defeat Rensselaer, 6-4. Harvard, which saw six different players score goals, remains in first place in the ECAC, tied with Cornell with 26 points, while the Engineers are in 11th place in the league. RPI, which has six points, has now … Read more