Niagara is still struggling, but the Purple Eagles tightened up a little after allowing nine goals on Friday. Still, Wayne State won, 4-3.

The Boston College Eagles held off a late UMass-Lowell River Hawk charge to post a 2-1 victory at the Tsongas Arena Friday evening. Chuck Kobasew’s goal midway through the third period was the game-winner for the Eagles, who extended their winning streak against Lowell to 13 straight games. BC moves into sole possession of first … Read more

Thanks to Roxanne Stang’s hat trick and a clicking St. Cloud offense, the Huskies administered No. 8 Wisconsin its worst loss of the year, 9-4 on Friday at the National Hockey Center. SCSU scored four goals in both the first and third periods en route to the win. The Badgers played a defenseless first period … Read more

Goaltender Phil Osaer’s amazing saves and Rob Collins’ goal and two assists helped propel the Ferris State Bulldogs over the Miami RedHawks, 5-3 on Friday. The scoring started early in the first period when Ferris was awarded the first power-play opportunity. Off a Kevin Swider pass, Collins made no mistake as he buried the puck … Read more

The sold-out crowd at Ingalls Rink was surprisingly quiet as the final minutes of the ECAC contest between Yale and Brown ticked away. It wasn’t that the fans weren’t excited — they were simply taken aback by what they saw: a blowout victory for the home team. Indeed, Yale pounded Brown 6-1, marking the first … Read more

The RIT Tigers scored early and often against the Cortland Red Dragons Friday night, building a 5-0 lead and coasting to a 9-3 final score. Here’s a hockey strategy brainteaser for you. Your team has a 76.0% penalty-killing percentage. You are playing a team, whose power play is chugging along at 51.9%. As a coach, … Read more

Mark McRae slammed home a rebound with 14 seconds left in overtime to lift Cornell to a 3-2 win over Vermont. The goal came on the power play and was McRae’s second of the evening. With the win, Cornell improves to 7-4-3 overall and 5-1-1 in the ECAC, while Vermont falls to 9-5-1 (5-2-1 ECAC). … Read more

The long-awaited and anticipated return of Bowling Green to the Omaha Civic Auditorium had finally come, and Nebraska-Omaha was ready, as the Mavericks defeated the Falcons, 3-2. “I thought it was a pretty hard fought hockey game,” BGSU coach Buddy Powers said. “Neither team wanted to give an inch.” UNO Head Coach Mike Kemp agreed. … Read more

David Evans’ late goal gave Clarkson an uplifting road win at Rensselaer.

Junior Peter Fregoe recorded his first career hat trick as the No. 10 Providence Friars defeated the Iona Gaels, 6-2, on Friday at Schneider Arena. It marked the Friars’ first game ever against a team from the MAAC. The Friars opened up a 3-0 first-period lead with goals by Micheal Lucci at 3:57, Peter Fregoe … Read more

How bad was the Niagara defense Friday night in a 9-6 loss to Wayne State? A public defender would provide better defense than the Purple Eagles gave freshman netminders Scott Lindsay and Rob Bonk. The Eagles were outworked by the second-year Warriors in a College Hockey America contest played before 901 fans. Wayne State outscored … Read more

If the UNH Wildcats were salesmen, they’d be the best closers around. Well, at least they are on the ice. Leading 2-1 on the road at Merrimack through forty minutes of play, the Wildcats took the play to the Warriors in the final twenty minutes, adding two goals early in the period to account for … Read more

There are some nights when a tie can feel like a win. For Jack Parker and his Boston University Terriers, Friday night in Alfond Arena exemplified that feeling. “We were very, very fortunate to get that point, there’s no question about that,” said Parker. Fortune had smiled on BU with 1:41 remaining in the third … Read more

Northern Michigan overcame a three-goal deficit to tie Alaska-Fairbanks, 4-4, on Friday night. Terry Harrison scored twice in the third period — including a goal with 59 seconds left — to help the Wildcats climb out of a 4-2 second-intermission deficit. NMU (10-6-6 overall, 6-5-5 CCHA) had earlier trailed by 3-0 and 4-1 scores, following … Read more

Down 2-0 on the road, but set to enjoy a lengthy 5-on-3 power play to open the second period, Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni knew his team wouldn’t get a better chance to turn the game around. “We didn’t play with a real good edge in the first period, and we got what we deserved,” Mazzoleni … Read more

After 58-plus minutes of scoreless hockey, Michigan State’s John Nail scored at 18:34 of the third period to send the Spartans to a 2-0 victory over the Lake Superior State Lakers at Taffy Abel Arena Friday night. On the play, Andrew Bogle passed to Nail, who sent the puck past Laker netminder Jayme Platt for … Read more

The defensive effort was much better. But the result was the same for Union. The Dutchmen made a conscious effort to play a stronger game in front of goalie Brandon Snee on Friday against St. Lawrence at Achilles Rink than they did Tuesday against UMass-Lowell. Although they dropped a 5-2 ECAC decision to the Saints, … Read more

Down 1-0 early, St. Cloud rallied for five unanswered goals to gain a 5-2 win over visiting Michigan Tech on Friday night at the National Hockey Center. MTU gained a quick lead when Tom Kaiman scored on an unassisted goal at 12:52 before the Huskies tallied five straight to take control of the game. First … Read more

During the first intermission of Friday night’s game pitting Dartmouth against Colgate, junior Ryan Sinclair told teammate Frank Nardella that he was lifting the metaphorical monkey off Nardella’s back. Nardella then went out and promptly scored his first goal of the season, leading the surging Big Green to a 3-2 win before 2,176 fans at … Read more

A win is a win is a win. That’s what Northeastern coach Bruce Crowder had to be telling himself after his Huskies emerged from a downward spiral with a 4-2 victory over UMass-Amherst. In truth, it was an unattractive, if not ugly, win in a game filled with 30 penalties and 92 penalty minutes. However, … Read more