The team that would not have qualified for the CCHA Tournament a year ago is on the verge of the second round. After jumping out to a 4-0 lead in the second period, 12th-seeded Lake Superior State held on to beat Michigan, 4-3, at Yost Ice Arena on Friday night. Lake Superior finished dead last … Read more

Bowling Green came into Friday’s game against Michigan State as a playoff giant killer, having won each of its last two CCHA first-round playoff matches as the underdog on the road. And the Falcons seemed ready to fulfill that role again, taking a 3-1 third-period lead in front of a stunned crowd of 5,408 at … Read more

There will be a new Hockey East and NCAA Division I champion in 2002. That was assured Friday night as the 2001 National Champion Boston College Eagles lost their second Hockey East Quarterfinal game to the Maine Black Bears, 4-2, at Alfond Arena. The two-game sweep makes the Black Bears the first team to advance … Read more

Senior defensemen Colleen Coakley scored the winning goal at 8:34 of the third period to give St. Lawrence a 4-3 win over the Cornell Big Red in the first game of a best-of-three quarterfinal series at Appleton Arena. The Saints came out with a jump and notched a goal just 52 seconds into the game. … Read more

Wisconsin (22-10-2) improved to 15-2-0 since the start of calendar year 2002 and advanced to its first WCHA Women’s Final Five championship game with a 4-1 victory over No. 3 Minnesota-Duluth (21-6-4) at Fogerty Arena on Friday. “I’m very proud of the fact the way our girls battled through a lot of adversity this year,” … Read more

It was a long time coming, but Dartmouth finally got payback for 1993. At 14:15 of the second overtime, the Big Green’s Pete Summerfelt unleashed a shot from the top of the left circle that sailed past David Cann and sneaked inside the far post, giving his team a 5-4 ECAC playoff win over Colgate … Read more

In the battle between the highest and lowest seeds in the ECAC Tournament, the regular-season champion Cornell squad eked out a 2-1 victory over the Yale Bulldogs in a classic college hockey game which featured crisp puck movement, tight defense, and stellar goaltending from both teams. “It was a very hard-fought game,” Yale head coach … Read more

RIT came back from deficits twice to tie Plattsburgh during this NCAA Quarterfinal contest, once from a two-goal deficit and once when the Tigers were down by a single goal. Overtime was a wild affair but neither team could get the puck past the stellar goaltending and the game ended in a 4-4 tie. Neither … Read more

Call it playing with a clean slate. Call it forgetting the past. You can call it whatever you like, but “dominating hockey” might be the best way to describe Harvard’s 4-1 win over Brown in game one of their first-round ECAC playoff series at Bright Hockey Center. After sputtering to a 2-8-1 record in its … Read more

Out of the last 24 Northeastern games, he’d started only one. Yet Jason Braun was the goaltender coach Bruce Crowder turned to with the Huskies’ season on the line. The senior delivered, stopping 31 of 33 shots to lead the way to a 4-2 win over UMass-Lowell. As a result, the two teams will face … Read more

La Toya Clarke and Kelly Stephens led No. 1 Minnesota to a 4-1 victory against Ohio State in the semifinals of the WCHA Final Five Friday. Clarke and Stephens each had three points on the night. The Gophers had two goals in the first, one in the second and another in the third for the … Read more

The University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore Center is not the place where you want to break a losing streak. UNH, propelled by a goal and two assists from junior Lanny Gare, continued its dominance over Merrimack, as the top-ranked Wildcats won their sixth in a row, 6-2, in Game One of their best-of-three Hockey East … Read more

Wisconsin pulled out a 3-2 overtime victory in game one of a best-of-three WCHA playoff series with Mankato Friday, and in what has become a Kohl Center theme this season, the win came on a controversial goal. At 7:06 of overtime, senior center Matt Murray fired a wrist shot on Mankato sophomore goaltender Jason Jensen. … Read more

The Northern Michigan Wildcats had about a nine minute burst in the second period on Friday night to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three CCHA First Round series against Miami. With the 4-0 win the Wildcats are just one more win away from a trip to Joe Louis Arena next week and the next … Read more

Just a few weeks ago, having won seven of eight contests, sixth-seeded Western Michigan was one of the hottest teams in the CCHA. Saturday, they find themselves one loss away from an early off-season. Daymen Bencharski tallied at 19:31 of overtime to give seventh-seeded Ohio State a dramatic 3-2 victory over WMU in game one … Read more

The St. Cloud State Huskies took a page out of the history book and put it to use Friday night at the National Hockey Center. Before the game, assistant coach Brad Willner played a highlight tape for the team from last year’s Final Five championship that concluded with a 6-5 overtime win over North Dakota. … Read more

What a start to the first NCAA Division III Women’s Frozen Four. A tightly-contested goaltenders’ battle between NESCAC champion Bowdoin and ECAC East champion Manhattanville went to overtime, where on a shot from the point through a wall of players, Manhattanville’s Melanie Grover scored the game winner at the 3:20 mark, giving the Valiants a … Read more