Steve Saviano’s unassisted goal at 6:45 of overtime capped a furious rally by New Hampshire, as the top-ranked Wildcats came back from a 3-0 deficit to defeat Merrimack, 5-4, winning their Hockey East quarterfinal series, two games to none. The win sends New Hampshire to the Hockey East semifinals at the FleetCenter in Boston on … Read more

For the second night in a row, a Wentworth goalie put on an impressive show, doing everything possible to keep the top-ranked Middlebury Panthers off the board in their NCAA quarterfinal matchup. Yet for the second night in a row, once the Panthers found their rhythm, the Leopards were unable to hold off an onslaught … Read more

Minnesota needed overtime to complete its series sweep of North Dakota, but finally got the win at 18:36 of overtime. Blueliner Keith Ballard scored the winner, overcoming a spirited UND effort to send the Gophers to the WCHA Final Five.

Baptiste Amar scored the winning goal as UMass-Lowell won its Hockey East quarterfinal series, 3-1 over Northeastern. The River Hawks were forced to eke out a win despite dominating territorially most of the game.

Laura Hurd scored the game winning goal as Elmira won the inaugural NCAA Division III women’s championship in its first year as a program. The Soaring Eagles upended Manhattanville, 2-1, in the final Saturday.

After Saturday’s game between Boston University and Providence, Yogi Berra would have been quite correct in saying it was deja vu all over again. For the third consecutive time in games between the Hockey East foes, the Terriers rallied from a 2-1 deficit in the last 21 minutes to knock off the Friars. Kenny Magowan’s … Read more

For the second night in a row, 8,314 fans at the Omaha Civic Auditorium got their monies worth as Notre Dame and Nebraska-Omaha turned in another exciting CCHA playoff hockey game. And, for the second night in a row, the game went to overtime. This time though, the results weren’t the same. David Inman snapped … Read more

WCHA regular-season champion Denver advanced to the Final Five with a convincing 8-1 win over Michigan Tech on Saturday night at Magness Arena. The Pioneers (30-7-1) completed the weekend sweep of Michigan Tech (8-28-2), their seventh straight win over the Huskies and sixth of the season, to advance. The 2001-02 Pioneer squad becomes only the … Read more

The consolation game. The game nobody wants to play in. The funny thing is, if you asked a lot of players and teams at the start of the season, they would say that just to make the Frozen Four is an accomplishment. Of course, once you get there, your sights change. Bowdoin, a 2-1 overtime … Read more

The crowd was in its typical Lynah Rink frenzy, the bench was standing in tribute to the six seniors on the ice, anticipating the post-game celebration. So, OK, Yale scored a goal with two seconds left. It did nothing to put the slightest dent in anyone’s celebratory mood. Two seconds later, Cornell finalized a 4-2 … Read more

Nebraska-Omaha’s Jeff Hoggan scored 40 seconds into the second overtime to give the Mavericks a 3-2 win over Notre Dame in a playoff thriller Friday night at the Omaha Civic Auditorium. Hoggan, a first team all-CCHA selection this season, took a lead pass from Andrew Wong at center ice and barged down the left wing, … Read more

The Alaska-Fairbanks took the first home opportunity in the CCHA Playoffs and used it to their full advantage scoring a 6-3 win over Ferris State to take a 1-0 lead in the series. Cory Rask skated in and scored a power play goal at 3:17 in the 1st for the Nanooks before Ferris’ Brett Smith … Read more

Ten minutes away from pulling off an upset over second-seeded Boston University, Providence College saw Game One of the best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinal slip away with the help from an improbable bounce. With 9:22 remaining and BU trailing 2-1, Terrier frosh Ryan Whitney dumped the puck into the zone high on the glass when misfortune … Read more

Senior Chris Paradise recorded two goals and junior netminder Wade Dubielewicz turned away 13 shots to lead second-ranked Denver to a resounding 5-1 win over Michigan Tech on Friday night at Magness Arena. Denver is now just one win away from its first WCHA Final Five appearance since the 1998-99 season. Sophomore Greg Keith opened … Read more

Thirteen seconds. That’s all it took for all the hard work Princeton put in during the first two periods to go up in smoke. And that’s all it took for “Mr. Clutch” — otherwise known as Chris Migliore — to score twice, early in the third period, to give Rensselaer a two-goal lead it would … Read more

In a game that sometimes looked more like target practice than hockey, third-ranked Minnesota put forth a dominating effort to top North Dakota 7-2 Friday night at Mariucci Arena. The first line of John Pohl, Troy Riddle and Nick Anthony scored the first three goals and totaled 10 points; Pohl led the way with two … Read more

The battle for the North Country began on Friday night at Clarkson’s Cheel Arena. What heroics could Golden Knight and St. Lawrence Skating Saint fans look forward to this time around? Would the game erupt into a high-scoring shootout reminiscent of this year’s two regular-season meetings of the teams, or would Clarkson and SLU rekindle … Read more

Bemidji State’s late-season struggles continued Friday as the Alabama-Huntsville Chargers blew open a tight game with a four-goal third period en route to a 5-3 win over the Beavers at the Van Braun Center. The Chargers’ win gives them 19 points in College Hockey America play, even with Niagara for third place in the league … Read more