Jean-Francois Dufour and Dave Steckel each scored a pair of goals for Ohio State as the Buckeyes opened the CCHA season with a 5-3 victory over Northern Michigan.

In a long-awaited rematch of last season’s NCAA semifinal, nothing was settled as goaltenders Karl Goehring and Matt Yeats kept the shots out of the net, forcing a 1-1 tie between North Dakota and homestanding Maine.

Three freshmen provided the offense for St. Cloud State on Friday as the Huskies defeated Ferris State 3-1 at the National Hockey Center. Andy Lundbohm, Brian Schuster and Jeff Finger scored to erase a 1-0 Bulldogs lead as the Huskies won their season opener for the first time since the 1995-96 season. Kevin Swider scored … Read more

Matt Hussey and Kent Davyduke each had a goal and an assist, and Graham Melanson made 26 saves as Wisconsin blanked host Michigan Tech 5-0 on Friday night. It was the second consecutive shutout for Melanson and the Badgers, who blanked Umass-Amherst last Saturday. After a scoreless first period in which Michigan Tech outshot Wisconsin … Read more

In the first-ever meeting between the two schools, Lake Superior State overcame the loss of All-American netminder Jayme Platt to a migraine headache, defeating Wayne State 2-1 Friday at the Taffy Abel Ice Arena. Play on the ice was perhaps not as close as the score indicated, as the Lakers outshot the Warriors 57-21 with … Read more

Mark Cullen’s shorthanded goal 2:41 into the third period helped Colorado College break open a tight game with Minnesota State-Mankato as the Tigers beat the Mavericks 6-2 going away Friday night at World Arena. Faced with helping kill a four-minute Mankato power play at the beginning of the third period after Tiger winger Jesse Heerema … Read more

Nebraska-Omaha held Niagara to just 17 shots to preserve the program’s fourth shutout with a 4-0 win on Friday in the opening round of the Maverick Stampede. While the Purple Eagles came flying into the Civic Auditorium in wearing their purple and black flare jerseys, the Mavericks came out with a new look. To the … Read more

For St. Lawrence, it was time to start proving it could thrive without Derek Gustafson. For Northeastern, it was a chance to establish how this year is something different. In the end, it was the Huskies’ Mike Ryan who stole the show.

Western Ontario scored four unanswered goals in the second period on Friday and defeated Canisius 9-2 in the opening round of the Oktoberfest Invitational at the University of Waterloo. Marc Bouffard and Jeff Street scored for Canisius, but Bouffard’s goal didn’t come until Western Ontario had amassed a 7-0 lead. Jeff Attard scored a pair … Read more

Merrimack jumped in front of No. 2 Michigan 2-1 after one period Friday night, but the Wolverines scored a pair of goals in the second period and downed the Warriors 4-2 in the Johnson Nissan Classic. Senior forward Josh Langfeld posted his second multi-point game of the season with a goal and two assists. He … Read more

Air Force jumped in front of American International early, but had to hold off a late charge in a 4-2 Falcons victory.

The first Maverick Stampede kicked off Friday night with the Boston College Eagles defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 4-1. The Eagles came out flying in the first period despite an Irish attempt to take BC out physically. The Eagles worked through the hitting and got on the board 17:47 into the first period on … Read more