In the season opener for both teams, top-ranked Minnesota-Duluth began defense of its national title by defeating Providence 6-4 Saturday. The defending champions wasted little time taking control of the game, jumping out to a 3-0 first period lead on goals by Maria Rooth at 8:58, Erika Holst at 9:54 and Jenny Potter at 12:04. … Read more

The Alaska-Fairbanks Nanooks shutout the Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves 4-0 on Saturday night at the George M. Sullivan Arena. The blanking of the Seawolves ties the teams at one game apiece in the annual Governor’s Cup — the four game non-conference series for Alaska’s college hockey crown. Due in large part to the stellar play of UAF … Read more

Western Michigan opens its season 2-0 for the first time in 11 years, thanks to two power-play tallies and freshman forward Vince Bellissimo’s second game-winning goal in as many nights, as the Broncos completed a two-game sweep of the Bowling Green Falcons with tonight’s 3-2 win. The last time the Broncos started out 2-0 was … Read more

Rick Comley now has 598 wins. One as head coach of Michigan State. The Spartans squeezed by Colgate 2-1 Saturday in the consolation game of the Maverick Stampede in Omaha to take home the third-place trophy. “Every game feels more comfortable,” Comley said. “But you can’t just walk into a program as rich in tradition … Read more

The U.S. Under-18 Team completed the weekend sweep of the Fairfield Stags with a 3-2 shootout victory on Saturday night at the Ann Arbor Ice Cube. It took ten shooters to settle the game. Jeff Likens scored the only goal of the shootout to lift Team USA to the 3-2 win. Team USA spent most … Read more

Wayne State recorded a 6-0 exhibition win over Wilfrid Laurier Saturday night at Great Lakes Sports City. Senior captain Jason Durbin had two goals, while John Grubb, Dustin Kingston, Nathan Rosychuk and Jack Redwood each scored once for the Warriors. Senior netminder David Guerrera made 24 saves as WSU outshot the Golden Hawks, 36-24, in … Read more

Friday night, Michigan State welcomed new coach Rick Comley in the same way they bid farewell to his predecessor, Ron Mason: with a shutout loss. Denver gave Spartan netminder Justin Tobe a trial by ice, as the Pioneers flamed the Spartans for a 5-0 win Friday in the first game of the Maverick Stampede. The … Read more

If he does it again in Buffalo six months from now, the Sioux will be real happy, but nevertheless, highly-touted freshman Zach Parise got his college career off with a bang.

Western Michigan freshman Vince Bellissimo was credited with the winning goal — his second of the game — on a batted puck 25 seconds into the overtime period as the Broncos picked up a wild win at the Bowling Green Ice Arena, 6-5, in the CCHA opener for both teams. The goal was credited to … Read more

Usually, when a team of the caliber of Maine schedules a game against a Canadian college, you would expect an easy win. Somebody forgot to tell the University of New Brunswick. The Black Bears got everything they could handle from the Varsity Reds Friday night at Alfond Arena in the second game of the Black … Read more

Frank Anzalone came back to LSSU last season hoping to recapture past glory. That hasn’t happened yet, but he did get win No. 200.

Tom Preissing made his final season opener at Colorado College one he’ll never forget. The senior captain notched his first collegiate hat trick, including the game-winner, with under 10 minutes remaining to lift the 12th-ranked Tigers to a 6-4 win over Mass.-Lowell before a sellout crowd of 6,642 at Colorado Springs World Arena Friday night. … Read more

It is games like Friday’s St. Cloud State-Ferris State contest that people remember for a long time. In a matchup where both teams came out with great intensity and the goaltending was stellar, to say the least, St. Cloud edged Ferris 2-1 on Matt Hendricks’ second-period rebound goal. SCSU’s Matt Hendricks puts away the eventual … Read more

Peter Fregoe netted three goals for Providence, leading the Friars to a win in their first contest of the season, 5-2 over Union in nonconference action. For Fregoe, beginning his last season in college hockey on a strong note was important not only for himself, but also for team chemistry and confidence. “It was the … Read more

As the Northeastern Huskies hosted the Connecticut Huskies on Friday night, it was easy to rush around the press box with that overly-obvious old line, “I bet the Huskies will win tonight.” Barring a tie, those folks are right, but in the back of everybody’s mind, the simplicity of the expression was that it would … Read more

It was a battle of two teams in transition, one with a new head coach, and one losing two All-Americans. In the end, the team with the new coach took the early lead, but the other team took it going away. The Rensselaer Engineers fell behind 1-0 early to the Wisconsin Badgers, but scored five … Read more

Brad Zancanaro made some noise in his college debut — literally and figuratively. The figurative: Zancanaro scored a goal in regulation to help Boston University to a 4-4 tie with Northern Michigan in the semifinals of the Ice Breaker Invitational on Friday. The literal: He scored the winning goal in the eighth round of a … Read more

Brian Haaland had played just over two full games of total college hockey (120:08 in four appearences) before being thrown into a sticky situation Friday night at the Civic Auditorium in Omaha. At the second intermission of a 5-5 game against Colgate, after giving up four goals in 10 minutes, heralded Nebraska-Omaha goaltender Dan Ellis … Read more