Anders Strome hasn’t had a night like this in a couple of years. “I think in juniors a couple of years ago,” said Strome when questioned about his last hat trick. A scoring error almost cost him his dream night, as Strome wasn’t originally credited with the second goal of the game. “Baptise [Amar] knew … Read more

Mercyhurst took third place at the Syracuse Invitational with a 5-2 win over Colgate on Saturday afternoon, and removed a couple monkeys from their backs in the process. The victory was the first ever for the Lakers (6-5-1) in four tries against Colgate (3-8-0), and snapped a 12-game winless streak (0-11-1) in independent contests. The … Read more

Northeastern coach Bruce Crowder calls his team “mysterious.” But there’s no question that the Huskies are playing well. They finished off a pair of 4-1 wins on the weekend by toppling St. Lawrence.

The Denver Pioneers, the second-ranked men’s ice hockey team in the country, got a pair of strange second-period goals from Greg Keith and Jon Foster and went on to a 4-1 win over Vermont in the first round of the New England Conference Classic at the University of New Hampshire Saturday. Vermont’s Shawn Conschafter was … Read more

The 2001-02 USA Hockey Women’s National Team downed St. Lawrence, 13-1, in the championship game of the 2001 Thanksgiving Tournament. With the victory, the U.S. improved its record to 12-0-0 overall on the “Skate To Salt Lake” Tour.

Michigan, which had a weak power play so far this season, turned in a strong game against a strong penalty killing team in Wisconsin to take the second game of the College Hockey Showcase. Friday, the Wolverines were pummeled by No. 1 Minnesota.

The Zamboni ate a t-shirt. Mike Johnson took care of all the pucks. In a game that featured a 20-minute delay after the Zamboni ran over a t-shirt in a promotional giveaway and became temporarily disabled, the Massachusetts Minutemen received another sterling night from Johnson en route to a 3-0 win over Dartmouth Saturday in … Read more

The Yale Bulldogs scored three goals in a 44-second span of the third period to seal their 6-1 victory over the Princeton Tigers before a sold-out Ingalls Rink crowd of 3,486. “We just came apart at the seams in the early part of the third period,” Tiger head coach Len Quesnelle said. The Bulldogs’ third-period … Read more

Wisconsin skated to a 1-1 tie with the Beatrice Aeros — a Toronto-area team — in the consolation game at the Thanksgiving Tournament on Saturday. Playing in the 1932 Olympic Rink, the Badgers tallied once in the first, and allowed one in the second to account for the game’s scoring. It took 48 seconds for … Read more

Mercyhurst, ranked 10th in Division I, rallied for a hard-fought 2-1 win over visiting Cornell on Saturday afternoon, at the Mercyhurst Ice Center. The meeting was the first ever between the two schools. Cornell scored first as senior defender Jenel Bode scored her third goal of the season at 14:01 of the first. The Lakers … Read more

BU and Cornell have a long history, and the two foes renewed acquaintances in the first game of a weekend set. Mike Pandolfo picked up the game winner for the Terriers.

In terms of territorial play, shots and almost every measure conceivable, New Hampshire dominated Ohio State. Even so, the game’s outcome remained in the balance with the score 1-0 until Josh Prudden’s power-play goal late in the second period gave the Wildcats a two-goal cushion they never relinquished en route to a 3-1 win. UNH … Read more

St. Cloud State dropped a 3-1 decision against the No. 3-ranked Wildcats from New Hampshire on Nov. 24, at the National Hockey Center in St. Cloud. UNH moves to 9-1-0 overall with the non-conference win. SCSU (3-5-1, 3-4-1 WCHA) will complete its weekend with a 12:05 p.m. game at home Sunday against Dartmouth. The Wildcats … Read more

For a change, things started early for Providence on Saturday night. The Friars jumped out of the gates in the first period, scoring two power play goals on the way to a 4-2 win over Clarkson in a non-conference game. The Friars rebounded from an overtime loss to St. Lawrence on Friday, while Clarkson dropped … Read more

If it wasn’t for Mike Fraser, the Rensselaer Engineers would have beaten the Iona Gaels by more than a 3-1 margin. The Gael netminder made 45 saves on the evening, and was all over the place, but he couldn’t hold the Engineer off the board in the third period as the Engineers broke a 1-1 tie with two goals to win the game.

In a near-carbon-copy of Friday’s game, Western Michigan sophomore Jeff Campbell capped off a three-point effort with the game-winning goal, while Canisius’ Brad Kenny scored twice to keep the game close before the Broncos escaped with a 4-3 victory and a series sweep. Canisius received another stellar effort in goal Saturday, this time from freshman … Read more

After tying defending national champion Minnesota-Duluth last weekend, Brown expected a better result in Saturday’s game against a Harvard team with nowhere near the acclaim of the Bulldogs this season. Yet when the final buzzer sounded, the score was 4-2 Harvard, and the No. 3 Bears had fallen to 1-3-1 in their last five. As … Read more

First the power went out in the Great Lakes Sports City. Then Wayne State lost power and eventually the game as Michigan Tech came back from a 3-1 deficit and defeated the Warriors, 4-3, behind freshman goaltender Cam Ellsworth’s first collegiate win. Ellsworth was nearly knocked out of the game, literally, in the third period … Read more

Jeff Taffe scored three goals, two coming in a Minnesota offensive outburst in the opening minutes of the game, as the top-ranked Gophers rolled past Michigan, 5-2, Friday night at the College Hockey Showcase.

Junior Alex Sikatchev scored four times for Merrimack, as it rallied past Colgate, storming by with six unanswered goals in the third period at the Syracuse Invitational Tournament.