The Gridiron Club of Greater Boston announced Monday that 23 NCAA Division I players are semifinalists for the 65th Walter Brown Award, presented annually to the best American-born college hockey player in New England. The nation’s oldest nationally-recognized college hockey honor, the Walter Brown Award was established in 1953 by the members of the 1933 … Read more
Hockey East announced Saturday that Vermont senior forward Brady Shaw has been suspended for one game stemming from an incident at approximately 15:11 of the first period on Friday, Feb. 3, at Notre Dame. Shaw will miss the game on Saturday, Feb. 4 at Notre Dame, and will be eligible to return to the Catamounts … Read more
Northeastern junior forward Dylan Sikura has been named the Hockey Commissioners’ Association National Division I Player of the Month for January, while the National Rookie of the Month for January is Boston University’s Clayton Keller. Sikura helped the Huskies end the first month of 2017 on a five-game unbeaten streak and leading the nation over … Read more
Bowdoin coach emeritus Terry Meagher will be recognized as the 2017 recipient of the Parker-York Award, given by the New England Hockey Writers Association. The award, given annually since 1959 for outstanding contributions to New England collegiate hockey, will be presented at the association’s banquet on April 11 at the Prince Restaurant in Saugus, Mass. … Read more
Merrimack announced Thursday a multi-year contract extension for head coach Mark Dennehy. The 2009-10 and 2010-11 All-New England Coach of the Year, Dennehy is in the midst of his 12th season behind the bench of the Warriors. “Mark has done an excellent job in developing and elevating the profile of the men’s ice hockey program … Read more
You learn a lot about a team when times are good. Does it become a bit full of itself and become easy to knock of its perch, or does it stay hungry to keep the good times rolling? Almost certainly, though, you learn even more when adversity hits. Does the team have what it takes … Read more
It’s time for the annual fan ballot contribution to determine the winner of the 2017 Hobey Baker Award. Awarded annually to college hockey’s top player, the Hobey Baker’s highly popular fan-voting opened on Monday, Jan. 30. College hockey fans can cast their vote by going to the Hobey Baker website. Follow the prompts to make … Read more
There are exactly five weekends left in the Hockey East regular season. Depending on the team, each member has either seven, eight, nine or 10 regular-season games remaining. Certainly, there will still be a lot of unexpected twists and turns (see Merrimack’s victory over newly-minted No. 1 Boston University on Tuesday night). But at this … Read more
Representatives of the Autonomy Five conferences met in Nashville, Tenn., on Friday, Jan. 20, to take additional action to “improve the experiences of students who play sports,” according to a press release sent out Friday by the Big Ten. Over the last three years, the Autonomy Five conferences have passed significant reforms to help student-athletes … Read more
Merrimack announced Friday the addition of defenseman Jeff Solow to the roster for the second half of the 2016-17 season. Solow, a Naples, Fla., native, arrived in North Andover, Mass., this week as a mid-year enrollee after playing 33 games for the Amarillo Bulls of the NAHL. “Jeff was the best player on his team … Read more
The road can be a difficult place in sports — hockey, in particular. Raucous fans create atmospheres that can spur on the home club, maybe even make enough noise to draw attention to something that results in a penalty. For Massachusetts-Lowell, a six-game road swing away from the friendly confines of the Tsongas Arena, where … Read more
For American hockey fans, last Thursday night was a very special one. A group of 23 players under the age of 20 – with 20 of them coming from U.S. college hockey – withstood a tournament filled with future NHL talents and brought home the gold medal from the World Junior Championship. For Hockey East, … Read more
In consideration of Saturday night’s AFC Divisional Round matchup between the New England Patriots and the Houston Texans, Fenway Sports Management and Hockey East announced Tuesday that Saturday’s Capital One Frozen Fenway doubleheader will start two and a half hours earlier. Maine will take on Connecticut at 1:30 p.m. EDT, moved up from the originally … Read more
Hockey East announced Tuesday that Boston University senior forward Tommy Kelley has been suspended for one game stemming from an incident at 8:05 of the second period on Sunday, Jan. 8, against Massachusetts. Kelley will miss this Friday’s game against Boston College and is able to return to the Terriers’ lineup Monday, Jan. 16, against … Read more
Here is a rundown of how the top 20 teams in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll of Jan. 2 fared over the Jan. 5-8 weekend. No. 1 Minnesota-Duluth – tied, lost to Colorado College No. 2 Denver – swept Arizona State No. 3 Penn State – split with No. 11 Ohio State No. 4 … Read more
The New Hampshire men’s game at Brown originally scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 7 at 7 p.m. EDT has been postponed until Sunday, Jan. 8 at 4 p.m. due to the impending Winter Storm Helena.
Saturday’s Frozen Fenway Hockey East doubleheader at Fenway Park has been postponed due to the winter storm forecast for Saturday in the Fenway area. The games will be made up on Sunday, Jan. 8, with Boston University and Massachusetts set to take the ice at 1:30 p.m., and Boston College and Providence scheduled to play … Read more
ECAC Hockey schools Rensselaer, Clarkson, Yale and Union and Hockey East’s Providence, Maine, Boston University and Connecticut are slated to compete in the next two iterations of the annual Northern Irish Connections Friendship Four Tournament to be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The announcement was made Friday from Boston’s historic Fenway Park. The 2017 and … Read more
Merrimack will honor a veteran of the Global War on Terror, and father of a current Merrimack student, at Saturday night’s home game against Cornell. Navy Reserve Lt. Cmdr. Robert Dunne of Peabody, Mass., will be recognized in a brief ceremony at center ice Jan. 7 at Lawler Rink. His daughter Sarah, a Merrimack junior, … Read more
There are different levels of dominating your opponents. You can win handily. You can win handily while sweeping them. And then you can win handily, sweep them, and shut them out in the process. That’s precisely what Notre Dame did to Alaska in a New Year’s Eve-New Year’s Day twin whitewashing. And what’s got to … Read more