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Last Friday night’s game felt like a dream come true for Bentley senior Jonathan Desbiens (photo: Presto Sports/Bentley Athletics).
The landscape of the NE-10 conference so far this season has been one where literally, anyone can win on any given night. With just eight points separating first from sixth and two points separating third place from sixth place, there is ample opportunity for a team like last year’s champions from Southern New Hampshire to … Read more
After 10 losses in a row, Brown’s season was circling the drain. It was mid-January and they desperately needed to string some wins together to rekindle their confidence and stop their freefall in the ECAC standings. And that’s just what they did (photo: Shelley M. Szwast).
When the month of October ended, Lake Superior State was 2-6-0, having lost consecutive games to Denver, Michigan and Notre Dame. The Lakers followed that up with a sweep of Ferris State to open November only to drop 11 of their next 14 games and find themselves on the outside looking in as 2019 ended (photo: LSSU Athletics).
Respectfully, though, perhaps a story just as big as Michigan State football coach Mark Dantonio stepping down is how a hockey team picked to finish last in the Big Ten has a good shot at capturing a regular-season championship (photo: Omar Phillips).
Every now and again, the stat nerd inside of me makes an appearance and my love of number attempts to clarify what, this year at least, is a very crowded playoff picture (photo: Rich Gagnon).
Seldom do hockey people stop being hockey people. Somehow, the sport finds ways to keep its claws dug in. Noah Grant knows that all too well (photo: Noah Grant).
Some of that uncertainty for Alaska has actually led to some positives for coach Erik Largen and his Nanooks coaching staff, namely on the recruiting trail. But their new hotspot isn’t one of their “traditional” recruiting areas like western Canada (photo: Alaska Athletics).
Following this past weekend’s important sweep of Massachusetts-Boston and Babson, the No. 1 ranked Norwich Cadets are solely focused on their next opponent and seem to be very locked in on avoiding distractions and the constant attention that is found in polls, stats and other outside influences they can’t control. Part of that outside avoidance … Read more
Picked to finish 11th in the coaches’ preseason poll, Colgate enters the final month of the regular season in contention for a first-round bye in the ECAC Hockey playoffs (photo: Bob Cornell/Colgate Athletics).
Rick Gotkin has been behind the Mercyhurst bench for 32 seasons, but he’s never had one quite like this (photo: Ric Kruszynski/Mercyhurst Athletics).
The Big Ten standings seem to change every time one looks at them but, currently, Wisconsin finds itself in the cellar (photo: Greg Anderson/Wisconsin Athletics).
Good hockey teams know how to redeem themselves following a setback. Great teams don’t worry about having that happen too often. This season’s North Dakota team is comfortably somewhere on that line, with the Fighting Hawks looking at holding the No. 1 overall seed for the NCAA tournament if it began today (photo: Jim Rosvold).
Having reeled off a 17-2 record to this point in the season, Endicott has moved into the USCHO.com poll and is hoping to return to the NCAA tournament.
USCHO has learned that 11 candidates for the Hockey East commissioner job were interviewed this week, led by an executive search firm and a panel of both coaches and athletic directors. From the original group of 11, four have become finalists and will interview again in the second week of February before someone is finally chosen (photo: Rich Gagnon).
Curtis Hall scored 10 minutes into Yale’s season opener on Nov. 1, and he’s been piling up goals ever since (photo: Nina Lindberg/Yale Athletics).
On a night when Rochester Institute of Technology honored its 2010 Frozen Four team, the current edition of the Tigers generated some magic of their own (photo: Omar Phillips).
One bright spot for Ferris State has been the play of freshman defenseman Jake Willets. Through 27 games this season, Willets leads the team in assists (17) and points (19) (photo: Ferris State Athletics).
A murderer’s row of top teams while your team is fighting injuries is not a good recipe for success, and that certainly was the case for Western Michigan (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
“It’s been a funny year.” That may seem like an unusual statement from a coach whose team is struggling, but Jeff Jackson isn’t really laughing here. Nor is he crying (photo: Jim Rosvold).