One Last Time This is the third straight Frozen Four appearance for Boston College, and the fourth for North Dakota. Every senior on the ice tonight has had his season ended, at some point in his career, by the seniors on the other side of the puck. This is the third year in a row … Read more
One of the most difficult things to have in sports is regrets. When you’re on the national stage such as Michigan was at the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night, that statement is magnified. The Wolverines’ regret came in the form of the opening 20 minutes of its national semifinal game against Notre Dame. Michigan started … Read more
It’s extremely difficult to predict much in the game of college hockey, but as we head into Thursday’s opening semifinal game between Boston College and North Dakota, you almost get the feeling that people saw this game coming. Ignore the fact that this is the third time the two teams have faced one another in … Read more
Possibly the story of the weekend at the Frozen Four will be Notre Dame making its first appearance in school history on college hockey’s ultimate stage. No team has made its Frozen Four debut since 1998, which Ohio State reach the pinnacle for the first time. One thing that will help the Fighting Irish, though, … Read more
Possibly the story of the weekend at the Frozen Four will be Notre Dame making its first appearance in school history on college hockey’s ultimate stage. No team has made its Frozen Four debut since 1998, which Ohio State reach the pinnacle for the first time. One thing that will help the Fighting Irish, though, … Read more
There is one women’s hockey award that year after year goes to the most outstanding player in the clutch. Its honorees have included Olympians, schools’ all-time leader scorers, and all-star goaltenders who have delighted fans one March after another. Does this description refer to the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award? Actually, this is the Women’s Frozen … Read more
Erika Lawler has experienced a lot of things in NCAA play in her three seasons at Wisconsin. Until this season, heading to the locker room with her team behind on the scoreboard in the national tourney wasn’t one of them. Now she has found herself in that situation in consecutive games in this season’s tournament, … Read more
Heading into Minnesota Duluth’s NCAA semifinal versus New Hampshire, Saara Touminen’s chances of playing with a knee injury were listed as fifty-fifty. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, the wrong half of that probability came up on game day. “We just asked everyone to step up and do the best you could,†coach Shannon Miller said. To … Read more
MADISON, Wis. – For the last two seasons, the University of Wisconsin swept all sorts of awards in women’s collegiate hockey. It’s deja vu all over again. For the third straight season the eight member head coaches in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association have installed the defending national champions as the pre-season favorite for the … Read more
So, you’re playing for a national championship for the first time in 20 years, and the eyes of the college hockey world are on you, and you’re the first team from your league to make it this far since 1998. What are you going to do? If you’re the Michigan State Spartans, you’re going to … Read more
Though Boston College, riding a 13-game winning streak, is easily the hottest team in college hockey, things haven’t always been that smooth this season for the Eagles. At the midway point, not only were things not going well on the ice, the team’s makeup and unity was extremely tested when head coach Jerry York stripped … Read more
With their top line of Josh Soares, Michel Levielle, and Keith Johnson clicking, the Black Bears led by two goals before this contest was five minutes old, making their first score just 23 seconds in. Right after the opening faceoff and just 23 seconds in, Johnson gave Maine the 1-0 lead with a one-timer from … Read more
It may be a much different squad than last year’s Sioux, but Paula C. Weston finds that it’s not a surprise for North Dakota to be back in the Frozen Four.
Notre Dame goaltender David Brown leads the 2006-07 Division I men’s All-USCHO awards, announced Wednesday. The senior from Stoney Creek, Ont., was named the USCHO.com national Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year to head up this season’s list of honors. In his senior season for the Fighting Irish, Brown led the … Read more
With two top goaltenders in net, it’s no surprise that it took extra time for even a single goal to be scored in the East Regional Semifinal. Chris Lerch takes a look at UMass’ Jon Quick and Clarkson’s David Leggio.
One Is All It Takes Today’s win by Massachusetts was the ninth 1-0 final in NCAA tournament history but the seventh since 2003. Two others were overtime games: last year’s epic three-OT win by Wisconsin over Cornell in the Midwest Regional Final and Minnesota’s 2005 West Regional Semifinal win over Maine. “There’s a thin line … Read more
Ending The Drought Maine came into the NCAA tournament having lost four straight, all of them to Massachusetts: two to end the season and a sweep at the hands of UMass in the Hockey East tournament, the team the Black Bears face on Saturday. “How could you not respect a team that beat you four … Read more
Maine goaltender Ben Bishop missed four games after a groin injury against Merrimack. He came back strong — and stood tall — for Maine in the East Regional Semifinal as Russell Jaslow reports from Rochester.
The Blue Devils surprised the league last season by knocking off Wis.-River Falls in the first round of the NCHA playoffs. Though they dropped their semifinal game at St. Norbert, there is still plenty of optimism surrounding this year’s club. With the return of sophomore Matt Koenig and junior Mike Stone in goal, head coach … Read more
At the end of every season, college hockey fans across the country say goodbye to seniors they’ve known for four years, young men whose careers and lives they’ve followed into the early stages of adulthood. Among college hockey fans, there is a certain snobbery regarding “our” players, the arguable assertion that guys who play hockey … Read more