The age-old adage in the sports world dictates that the good teams always find a way to win. Saturday night, at least, the Spartans proved that axiom truthful, overcoming a 2-1 deficit to sink Alaska-Fairbanks in overtime, 3-2. When Sean Patchell netted the game-winner 7:18 into the extra frame, the 6,329 at Munn Arena exploded … Read more

St. Cloud will make its sixth consecutive trip to the WCHA Final Five this season thanks to an 8-2 win over Alaska-Anchorage. The opening period proved to be all SCSU needed as it hit four goals, starting with Chris Purslow’s seventh of the season at 1:16. Joe Motzko continued the attack with his 15th goal … Read more

Nebraska-Omaha (23-14-3) evened up its best-of-three playoff series with Ohio State (17-17-2), winning 2-1 on goals by Billy Pugliese and David Brisson and forcing a third game slated for Sunday night in the Omaha Civic Center. Once again the Mavs scored early to force the Buckeyes to play from behind, when Pugliese picked up James … Read more

The Rensselaer team that has given Dartmouth fits in recent years never made an appearance this weekend at Thompson Arena. The fifth-seeded Big Green completed a convincing sweep of the sixth-seeded Engineers Saturday night, scoring three second-period goals en route to a 5-1 win and a berth in the Final Five in Lake Placid, N.Y., … Read more

This is not the way the MSU-Mankato Mavericks wanted their season to end. For Colorado College, it’s the perfect way to roll into the WCHA Final Five. The Tigers spanked MSU-Mankato 7-3, defeating the Mavericks for the third straight time and giving Colorado College a 2-0 playoff series win. The 24-11-1 Tigers move on in … Read more

Once again, the Middlebury Panthers showed the hockey world that they are the class of the field. Saturday night, Middlebury won its second consecutive AWCHA Division III national championship, 6-0, over Gustavus Adolphus. Megan Hutchinson registered the shutout, stopping all 24 shots.

Harvard has not come from behind in the third period all season long. Until now. Yale reversed a 3-1 deficit to a 4-3 lead on a power-play goal by captain Ben Stafford at 4:48 of the third period. But Harvard ripped off four goals in 5:48 to catapult the Crimson to a 7-4 victory and … Read more

Brian Schroeder scored 4:03 into overtime, giving the Iona Gaels a 3-2 victory over the Sacred Heart Pioneers in the MAAC quarterfinals. As the Gaels moved the puck around in the Pioneer zone, Schroeder gathered the rebound of Paul Fisher’s shot that caromed to the blue line. Without wasting any time, Schroeder blasted a shot … Read more

Saturday night was supposed to belong to Alabama-Huntsville. The Chargers were supposed to skate away with the CHA Final Five championship trophy. UAH was supposed to be the team celebrating at the Von Braun Center. Somebody forgot to tell Wayne State, which stunned the Chargers 4-1 to claim the CHA postseason title before an announced … Read more

A night after surprising top-seed North Dakota in the first game of their WCHA series, Minnesota-Duluth jumped out to a 2-0 lead in Game 2. That’s where the bubble burst. The Sioux scored six unanswered goals and evened the series with a 6-2 victory at Engelstad Arena. The teams will decide the series Sunday night. … Read more

The top-ranked Tigers of RIT (26-0-1) scored four goals on nine power plays and rolled over the Lebanon Valley Dutchmen (18-9-2) by a 10-2 score in the second and final game of their NCAA quarterfinal Saturday night. The opening stanza was remarkably like the first period of the first game. Lebanon Valley once again came … Read more

All week, the Michigan coaches stressed that to succeed come playoff time, their players would have to perform better in two ways — defensively and on special teams. The sixth-ranked Wolverines answered that call this weekend, completing a two-game sweep of Ferris State with a 3-0 victory Saturday night at Yost Ice Arena. Michigan connected … Read more

Apparently there were no history majors playing in Saturday night’s game two of the Hockey East quarterfinal series between Boston University and Providence College. Coming into Saturday, BU was 1-7-1 in its last nine games of this season. By a curious coincidence, the Terriers also held an identical 1-7-1 record in their last nine visits … Read more

Russ Bartlett scored the third St. Lawrence power-play goal of the game just 54 seconds into the third period to send the Saints to a 4-2 win over Union and sweep their first-round ECAC playoff series. St. Lawrence, now 18-12-4 on the season, will advance to Lake Placid for the third consecutive year and will … Read more

Seventh-ranked Wisconsin (21-9-5) won the third-place game at the WCHA women’s championship over third-ranked Minnesota (23-9-2) Saturday by the score of 4-3. Steph Millar scored the game-winning goal at 8:35 of the third period, breaking a three-all deadlock. Sis Paulsen pinched deep along the boards, skated behind the net with the puck and made a … Read more

The Mercyhurst Lakers scored seven second-period goals to break open a tight game and went on to defeat the Fairfield Stags, 10-5. Mercyhurst jumped to a 2-0 first period lead on goals by Adam Tackaberry and Jody Robinson, but Fairfield got back in the game late in the period when senior captain Tim Viens scored … Read more

If you could take every Cornell (15-11-5, 13-8-3 ECAC) victory from the past season and wrap them up into one package, the Red’s 2-1 victory over Princeton (10-16-5, 9-11-4) to clinch a spot in the ECAC’s final five would be it. The game featured everything a Cornell victory could want to have, great special teams … Read more

Rob McFeeters scored the winning goal with just seven seconds left in the second overtime as Clarkson defeated Vermont, 3-2. The number-one seeded Golden Knights, who improved their record to 21-10-3, evened the best-of-three series and will face Vermont at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday in the deciding game. The 10th-seeded Catamounts (13-17-2) won the first … Read more

Jeff Boulanger scored both River Hawks goals, including the game-winner at 8:35 of the third period, to send UMass-Lowell to the Fleet Center for the first time since 1998 with a 2-1 victory over New Hampshire in Game 3 of a Hockey East series on Saturday. In a great individual effort, Boulanger skated from behind … Read more