Fairfield will play its final two home games this season at the newly-built Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Conn. The arena is the current home of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League. The games will be played on Friday, Feb. 22 and Saturday, March 2 against Quinnipiac and Holy Cross, respectively. … Read more
Wisconsin’s comeback against North Dakota finds its place in history; the NCAA’s potential new policies on playoff travel, and their impact on college hockey; Minnesota State-Mankato finds its crunch-time guys; and the Craig Dahl-Jacques Lemaire comparison. Todd D. Milewski reports.
North Dakota assistant athletic director Kathy McCann announced that the athletic department will interview three candidates for the new women’s hockey coach position on campus between December 18-21. “We have three quality candidates coming in to interview for the coaching position. Each of the candidates coming in has extensive experience and background in hockey,” said … Read more
As the ECAC West heads into the break, Scott Biggar offers thoughts on the first half, including playoff possibilities for RIT and Elmira.
For the first time ever … again It seems that each week the phrase “for the first time ever” is being written in regards to the Northeast, providing further support for the assertion that the league is advancing its national presence at a healthy rate. Once again, we have a week of firsts in the … Read more
In front of the largest crowd ever assembled to watch a collegiate event in the state of New Hampshire, it was Colin Hemingway and the UNH Wildcats downing in-state rival Dartmouth to claim the Riverstone Cup.
Expansion of the D-III men’s tournament was overdue, but fraught with potential dilemmas, says USCHO columnist Ed Trefzger.
The NCAA announced today that the Division III men’s hockey tournament will expand to from eight to nine teams beginning this season.
The Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs finished off a two-game series with the St. Lawrence Saints by beating the Saints 4-1 Sunday afternoon, making the Bulldogs 6-0-0 all-time in the series. The game was physical from the start with each team tallying 11 penalties before the end. The Bulldogs didn’t waste any time putting themselves on the scoreboard. … Read more
Seventh-ranked Brown defeated Providence, 4-0, in the seventh annual Mayor’s Cup on Sunday at PC’s Schneider Arena. The Bears scored the only goal they would need at the 3:36 mark of the first period as senior Kristy Zamora scored the first of her three goals to put Brown ahead, 1-0, after one period. The Friars … Read more
It looked like UMass-Amherst might just come away with its first win against Boston University in Boston since — would you believe? — 1920. Once again, though, the Terriers proved to be the Minutemen’s nemesis, as BU spotted its opponent a 2-0 lead before rallying with three unanswered goals.
Wisconsin allowed more goals than any other game this season at Hobbs Ice Arena on Sunday in a 5-1 loss to Bemidji State. The Beavers took a 1-0 lead for the second straight afternoon when Amber Fryklund got BSU on the board. Lill Raynard poked checked a Badger at the UW blue line and the … Read more
Army scored four unanswered goals to erase a 4-0 Air Force lead, but a power-play goal with 56 seconds left spoiled the comeback attempt Saturday night as the Falcons held on for a 5-4 decision. Air Force defenseman Brian Reaney’s second goal of the evening in the final minute of play accounted for the Falcons’ … Read more
Denver and Minnesota played a carbon copy of their previous night’s game on Saturday, with the Pioneers taking the decision the second time by a margin of 4-3.
In a rematch of the 2001 NCAA championship game, the outcome was much the same as Minnesota-Duluth rolled to an 8-2 win Saturday over St. Lawrence. Erika Holst’s four-goal performance, which included a natural hat trick, paced the defending champions.
History means little when speaking of the current hockey season. The Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks historically win at home. The home team wins the games between the Mavericks and the Alaska-Fairbanks Nanooks. A top-ten team should historically have little trouble with a conference bottom dweller. None of these rang true as the Nanooks completed a road sweep … Read more
Rene Bourque scored his second game-winning goal in as many nights, getting Wisconsin’s go-ahead marker in a 3-1 series-sweeping victory over North Dakota Saturday.
The Wisconsin Badgers scored three third-period goals to erase a 1-0 deficit and snapped their five-game losing streak in a 3-1 win over Bemidji State at Hobbs Ice Arena on Saturday. Badger captain Sis Paulsen left the game after an injury in the first period, and Bemidji State scored at 7:32 of the second to … Read more
Rae Metz scored the first goal of the game for Fairfield but Findlay came back with three unanswered tallies in the second period to build a 3-1 lead and eventually pull out a 4-2 win. Junior Dan Cotter had a goal and an assist in the effort. Fairfield took control of the tempo early and … Read more
For the first 10 minutes, it looked like Brown was well on its way to its first series sweep of Harvard in 23 years. But then the Crimson stepped it up. After early dominance by the host Bears, sophomore forward Dennis Packard’s two goals ignited Harvard to an impressive 5-2 win. It was Packard’s first … Read more