Bryce Cockburn scored two goals and Craig Kowalski stopped 30 shots to lead No. 15 Northern Michigan to a 5-2 win over Upper Peninsula rival Michigan Tech on Saturday night. The win allowed the Wildcats (9-5-5, 5-5-4 CCHA) to earn a weekend sweep over the visiting Huskies, after NMU beat Tech (3-13-1, 3-11-0 WCHA) 4-1 … Read more

Jeff Gould scored directly off a faceoff with 0.9 seconds remaining in regulation, snapping a 1-1 tie and lifting Mercyhurst to a 2-1 win over a stunned Army team before 1,497 at Tate Rink Saturday night. An Army defenseman was whistled for closing his hand on the puck with 3.3 seconds remaining in regulation, resulting … Read more

Iona shut out Connecticut, 6-0, in a MAAC game Saturday evening. UConn, having dropped four of five games, falls to 5-8-2 overall (5-5-1 MAAC), while Iona improves to 9-6-2 (8-3-2 MAAC). The Gaels opened the first period with three unanswered goals. Ryan Carter and Ryan Manitowich nailed the first two goals past UConn keeper Artie … Read more

It was a weekend of hockey that rivaled a Kasparov-Karpov chess match. Strategy and thinking replaced unbridled skating and fluid puck moving. But in the end, thanks to a late goal by Tony Johnson breaking a 1-1 tie, the Merrimack Warriors earned a two-game sweep of Niagara with a 2-1 victory on Saturday. Merrimack won … Read more

It took a while, but top-ranked Michigan State broke out of its offensive funk and kept its unbeaten streak alive at 14.

The Rensselaer Engineers were in Princeton, N.J., but for all that anyone could tell, they were still in New Haven, Conn., playing an extension of Friday’s third period. Friday night, the Engineers scored four times in the third period to defeat Yale, and on Saturday, the Engineers scored four times in the first period — … Read more

Saturday night at the BGSU Ice Arena, the goal-scoring Grinch left the Bowling Green locker room as the Falcons got an early Christmas present: a five-goal victory. The Falcons’ 7-2 win over the Mavericks of Nebraska-Omaha started in a most unusual way. Bowling Green freshman Erik Eaton found a loose puck in front of UNO … Read more

For the second night in a row, MSU-Mankato came from behind to beat visiting Alabama-Huntsville. The Mavericks (8-8) received stellar goaltending from junior Eric Pateman and a late goal by defenseman Joe Bourne to win 3-2. The win also gave MSU its first home sweep of the season. MSU head coach Troy Jutting was not … Read more

RIT converted three times on an Air Force major penalty midway through the second period to defeat the host Falcons 4-3, winning the championship of the Radisson Inn Hockey Classic at Air Force. It was the fourth tournament victory so far this season for the Tigers (11-0 NCAA, 12-1 overall). “This was a goal for … Read more

FRASER, Mich. – In their short two-year existence, Wayne State has never been above the .500 mark. But after Saturday’s 1-0 whitewash of American International, the Warriors are now in unfamiliar territory. Wayne State (9-8-1, 2-3-1 CHA) needed just one goal for the win. Freshman Jarrett Gibbons’ power-play tally at 12:23 of the second period … Read more

Quinnipiac got a taste of the big-time in the first-ever matchup between teams from the MAAC and WCHA. Minnesota pounced on the Braves, winning 11-2 behind a hat trick from senior Stuart Senden.

The ECAC’s hottest teams of November and coldest of December met at Ingalls Rink on Saturday night to determine which would head into winter break with any kind of momentum. Adam Sauve’s goal with 6:19 left in the third period gave Yale a 4-3 win over Union, ending a four-game losing skid and ensuring that … Read more

Northeastern squeaks out an inter-conference win against ECAC foe Dartmouth, getting back to the .500 level at 6-6-2, despite getting outshot, 37-29.

The ECAC’s hottest teams of November and coldest of December met at Ingalls Rink on Saturday night to determine which team would head into winter break with any kind of momentum. Adam Sauve’s goal with 6:19 left in the third period gave Yale a 4-3 win over Union, ending a four-game losing skid and ensuring … Read more

For the second straight night, No. 5 Michigan shut down the top-ranked St. Lawrence power play and capitalized on the Saints’ mistakes to earn a 6-2 victory and a sweep of the weekend series. “I was a little disappointed on the power play,” said St. Lawrence coach Joe Marsh, whose team finished 1-of-12 with the … Read more

UMass-Lowell led Colgate, 7-2, after two periods and appeared to be home free in its last game before the holiday break. With 5:31 left in the contest, however, a head injury to Yorick Treille threatened to render the victory a Pyrrhic one for the River Hawks. Treille, who ironically led the team with two goals … Read more

Netminder Scott Meyer gained his first shutout of the season, the team-record eighth of his career, in No. 8 St. Cloud State’s 5-0 win over No. 14 Wisconsin Saturday. The win improves SCSU’s record to 11-4-1, 6-4-0 WCHA, while UW falls to 11-9-0, 8-6-0 WCHA. MEYER Meyer was stellar once more with 24 saves in … Read more

North Dakota exacted some revenge as Jay Panzer’s OT goal gave the Sioux a 4-3 win and a split of the weekend series with Colorado College.

Talk about bad omens. The Minnesota Golden Gophers should have realized it was going to be bad day when they were called for a two-minute protocol penalty before their contest with Dartmouth even began. The penalty was assessed to the Minnesota bench because the team failed to take the ice on time before the opening … Read more