While Minnesota-Duluth got two huge wins against traditional rival Minnesota this weekend, the big winner was Harvard, which climbed to No. 1 in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll. The Crimson captured ten of the fifteen first-place votes after a 3-2 win over No. 8 Brown, and ascended to the top with the win, … Read more
Things tightened up quite a bit in this week’s USCHO.com Division III Women’s Poll, although in the end, Elmira still captured the No. 1 spot as it has all season long. Elmira is 1-2-1 in its last four games, although two of those games — both losses — were to a Division I team, Wayne … Read more
Capitalizing on a wild weekend among the top teams, North Dakota used a 6-6 tie and a 5-4 win over Minnesota State to improve to 12-1-1 and capture first place in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll. North Dakota moved up when last week’s No. 1 team, Boston College, lost to unranked Dartmouth on … Read more
Norwich won two games at the Primelink Great Northern Shootout, which featured a remarkable field with the Cadets being joined by No. 7 Middlebury, No. 8 Plattsburgh and No. 10 Potsdam. With a 5-4 win over Middlebury Friday and a 5-2 win over Potsdam, Norwich took the title and, in the process, narrowly edged out … Read more
For 32 years, Bob Olson was behind the mic for Michigan Tech, but he influenced the whole sport.
Cornell knew it was good. How good? That’s a question it is still finding out. But even the most optimistic supporters probably didn’t expect a 9-2 weekend manhandling of No. 11 Boston University. Cornell (8-1-0, 5-1-0 ECAC) closed out a sweep of the much-anticipated weekend series with a 5-1 win at Lynah Rink on Sunday … Read more
The last time Minnesota and Michigan faced off, a trip to the NCAA title game was on the line. Sunday’s contest might not have carried the same gravity, but on the ice it was hard to tell. In an up-tempo affair at Mariucci Arena, Michigan’s red-hot special teams provided all the offense the Wolverines needed … Read more
Pick your story line. A – Minnesota-Duluth’s Tricia Guest scores a hat trick against archrival Minnesota, leading her team to a 6-5 win and a weekend sweep. B – With a weekend off preceding an important weekend series, UMD (11-1-2, 7-0-1 WCHA) looked more rested, controlled five-on-five play and upended the top-ranked Gophers (13-2-1, 7-2-1 … Read more
After falling to his mentor, 5-3, Princeton coach Len Quesnelle didn’t take much to a stroll down memory lane. He had other things to worry about, like his team’s inability to compete with Don Cahoon’s UMass squad five-on-five. “For me it was obviously a first,” Quesnelle said. “It definitely gave me an appreciation for what … Read more
Vermont’s Billy Kelly scored twice and Bryson Busniuk added a goal and three assists as the Catamounts defeated Army, 8-4, in a nonconference game Saturday. Vermont broke open a tight game with four goals from four different players in the first 8:02 of the third period and never looked back. Army (5-8-0), took a 1-0 … Read more
Mike Ryan scored two power-play goals and added one assist to lead Northeastern to a come-from-behind 3-1 victory over Clarkson at Cheel Arena Saturday night. The Huskies posted their third straight win to improve to 5-7-2 overall. The Golden Knights, who saw their two-game winning streak come to a close, slip to 4-6-1 overall. Trailing … Read more
Vin Hellemeyer had two goals and Peter Cohen stopped 24 shots as Yale beat Princeton 6-1 before a sellout crowd of 3,486. A 2-0 contest at the second intermission quickly became a rout, with the home team scoring two goals in 16 seconds on the first shift of the third period. It was Yale’s third … Read more
Union’s young and speedy forward lineup scored two goals in the first and two in the second to cruise to a 4-1 win on the road over Brown. Sophomore Marc Neron had two even-strength goals and captain Nathan Gillies had a pair of shorthanded goals to give freshman goaltender Tim Roth his first career win. … Read more
Maria Rooth recorded a hat trick, including the game’s final two goals, as No. 3 Minnesota-Duluth (10-1-2, 6-0-1 WCHA) overcame a two goal deficit to beat No. 1 Minnesota (13-1-1, 7-1-1-) 4-3. With 3,056 fans looking on, the Bulldogs scored three unanswered goals in the final period, including Rooth’s two goals in the last two … Read more
With his team down 1-0 to Connecticut less than a minute into the second period, New Hampshire freshman goaltender Jeff Pietrasiak still believed that sooner or later his teammates would come to the rescue. That they did, as the No. 2 ranked Wildcats scored three unanswered goals in the second period to defeat a gritty … Read more
Western Michigan extended its winning streak to four games and kept Lake Superior State winless in the CCHA by completing a weekend sweep of the Lakers with a 3-0 victory at Lawson Ice Arena. The Broncos took advantage of the conference’s worst penalty kill by tallying all three goals with the man-advantage. WMU came into … Read more
The days of the classic Boston University-Cornell rivalry are long over, but with the two teams meeting for back-to-back games for the second straight season, each in the national rankings, it felt a lot like old times. In fact, it was more like the really old times, in the late ’60s, when Cornell dominated the … Read more
Wisconsin and Michigan State both entered Saturday looking for a win in the College Hockey Showcase. For 60-plus minutes, neither got it. In overtime, though, Spartan defenseman John-Michael Liles finally scored the game winner, firing from the high slot past Wisconsin goaltender Scott Kabotoff for the victory. The goal, unassisted, came at 3:50 of the … Read more
Coming off a rough-and-tumble affair with Union, the Harvard Crimson engaged in a quick-skating, up-tempo transition game against Rensselaer. The result was the same — a Crimson victory, by a 3-1 score — even if the games themselves had vastly different feels. Harvard (7-3-0, 7-2-0 ECAC) took over first place in the ECAC with the … Read more
Dartmouth coach Bob Gaudet wouldn’t take the easy way out. Instead of succumbing to standard media prodding and dismissing his team’s 7-2 loss to Massachusetts as a letdown after an overtime win over top-ranked Boston College take the easy way out, Gaudet gave his due credit. “Hockey is a game of intensity, emotion and passion,” … Read more