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Mercyhurst got off to a slow start, opening the season with just one win over the first first seven games. But since then, the Lakers have taken 19 of a possible 28 points in league play (photo: Omar Phillips).
Western Michigan coach Andy Murray doesn’t want to talk about the roll his Broncos have been on lately if it means piling pressure on his players (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Merrimack has won its last three games (two of them league contests) to position themselves in a tie (sort of) with Maine for eighth place, one point behind seventh-place New Hampshire (photo: Melissa Wade).
Colgate was riding high coming into the final nonconference series of the season this past weekend against UMass Lowell (photo: Colgate Athletics).
Tim Sestak made 47 shots over the weekend in Wesleyan’s shutout wins over Bowdoin and Colby, Oswego tied Utica, and Norwich edged Hobart.
Trine took No. 2 Adrian to overtime, No. 10 Wisconsin-Eau Claire split with Lake Forest, and No. 4 St. Thomas got a win and tie with No. 9 Gustavus Adolphus.
No. 5 Princeton rolled over Cornell, 5-0, then tied No. 9 Colgate, while No. 1 Wisconsin and No. 3 Northeastern split series with No. 7 Ohio State and No. 10 Boston College, respectively. Nicole Haase recaps the weekend.
Marian upset No. 6 St. Norbert, No. 1 Wisconsin-Stevens Point rallied to beat No. 4 Augsburg, and St. Thomas swept Gustavus Adolphus.
After winning a national championship last year, Norwich has its sights set on another.
Coaches don’t usually have time to reflect upon their past (photo: Jason Cohn).
Though they have one of the youngest rosters in D-III college hockey, Babson has come together and bonded after a trip out West and is looking to move up in their conference.
The longest winter break in program history came at a good time for Cornell (photo: Omar Phillips).
Johnny Panvica is back from an injury and playing well, which is good for St. Thomas’ chances of climbing back to the top of the MIAC.
Rob Morgan will be the first coach at new program LIU-Brooklyn, and he is using his previous experience building a program at St. Norbert and coaching at Yale to look for quick success.
For the past few years, UMass Lowell has led Hockey East in attendance, often cracking the top 10 in the nation in number of fans in the seats per game (photo: Melissa Wade).
For No. 3 Denver, this season has been one of steady growth (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
For Bob Motzko, the magic number is three. Or four. Anything more than two, really (photo: Jim Rosvold).
It’s been just over a month since Northern Michigan’s Atte Tolvanen became only the 11th goalie in college hockey history to score a goal. And he’s still all the talk around town in Marquette (photo: NMU Athletics).
The East/West Showcase pitted four of the top five teams in women’s D-III college hockey, and the results will certainly have the rankings shifting in the next few polls. Olivia Spellmire recaps that and the rest of the weekend.
Cortland got a huge performance in net from Nick Modica to capture the Codfish Bowl, Plattsburgh rallied to win its tournament in a shootout, and New England College won the Boston Landing Invitational. Tim Costello recaps the weekend.