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Wisconsin-Stevens Point looks to return to the top Wisconsin-Stevens Point is one of the powerhouses of NCAA Division III hockey, and this tournament is their 14th in program history. Though the Pointers are in familiar territory, getting to this point in the postseason is something they know doesn’t come easy. They come in sporting a … Read more
While Colby and Salve Regina don’t have the Frozen Four experience of their opponents, they do have plenty to draw from as they prepare for the final weekend of the men’s D-III season.
The Atlantic Hockey regular season defines itself by months-long chaos. Every week seems to have unintended consequences, and no college hockey league can claim impacts from October in quite the same way (photo: Omar Phillips).
Don’t count on seeing many people out and about in the Upper Peninsula starting at about 7 p.m. EDT on Saturday. If you don’t like college hockey, it’s probably an ideal time for you to go grocery shopping or see a movie (photo: Jim Rosvold/USCHO.com).
It was quite the weekend for Harvard junior forward Ryan Donato, who had four goals and four assists in three games against Dartmouth in the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals (photo: Melissa Wade).
The Frozen Four this year features intriguing storylines, with Hamline trying to upset Norwich, and Plattsburgh looking for its fifth straight national championship. We preview the semifinal matchups.
Augsburg, seeking a return to the Frozen Four for the first time in 20 years, has a familiar opponent in St. Norbert standing in its way. The Auggies hope they can reverse their recent string of results against the Green Knights.
The four teams left standing — Boston College, Northeastern, Providence and Boston University — are the top four teams from the regular season. In many ways, there’s little separating them from each other, which should make for an awesome weekend of hockey at the TD Garden (photo: Melissa Wade).
Sean Lawrence, a transfer from Division I Quinnipiac, hit the reset button in the second half with his teammates for the Colby Mules, and now they find themselves one game from the Frozen Four.
North Dakota has been in this position before. In fact, it was just a few years ago, in the inaugural season of the NCHC (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Well, here we are. The top two teams in the Big Ten – Notre Dame and Ohio State – survived the season to meet for the championship this Saturday (photo: Jim Rosvold).
For much of the season, Notre Dame was the toast of the Big Ten, to the point where the Irish had the regular-season crown wrapped up with games to spare despite going 4-5-1 down the stretch (photo: Jim Rosvold/USCHO.com).
The WCHA has been, for the past two seasons, a one-bid conference (photo: Jim Rosvold).
The seven teams from the East in the NCAA tournament include several making their first-ever appearance. Tim Costello previews each squad and their chances of making the Frozen Four.
Nearly all hockey teams like to have a No. 1 goaltender established before the postseason appears on the horizon. North Dakota seems to have one — the one most people expected — but took its time getting there (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
The five teams from the West include three of the top four teams in the country in St. Norbert, Adrian, and Wisconsin-Stevens Point, as well as No. 11 Augsburg and No. 14 Marian. Brian Lester previews all five, and offers his opinion and why the will or won’t make the Frozen Four.
Quinnipiac was in an unfamiliar place to start the ECAC Hockey tournament, but the Bobcats turned in a familiar performance (photo: Melissa Wade).
As freshmen at Colgate, the players only got seven wins. Every year since, they’ve set a new program record for wins, and this year, the seniors led a team that won their first regular season ECAC crown and advanced to their first-ever NCAA tournament.
It’s quarterfinals time in Atlantic Hockey and you can throw out the records at this point of the season — it’s all about who’s playing the best hockey when it matters most (photo: Omar Phillips).
Last weekend, hosting a series, this time a first-round set with Vermont, was a big step forward for UMass. Escaping that series with a two-games-to-one victory to advance to play Northeastern this weekend in the Hockey East quarterfinals is a very big deal (photo: UMass Athletics).