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).
Quinnipiac was in an unfamiliar place to start the ECAC Hockey tournament, but the Bobcats turned in a familiar performance (photo: Melissa Wade).
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).
The NCHC revealed Wednesday its 2017-18 All-Conference First and Second Teams, led by four players from Denver, while seven teams placed players on one of the two teams (photo: Candace Horgan).
It’s time once again to do what we like to call Bracketology, college hockey style. It’s our weekly look at how we believe the NCAA tournament might look like come selection time, using what we know now (photo: Michelle Bishop).
Each week during the season, we look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback (photo: Melissa Wade).
Northeastern junior forward Adam Gaudette has been named the Hockey Commissioners’ Association National Division I Player of the Month for February, while St. Cloud State goaltender Dávid Hrenák was selected the HCA National Rookie of the Month (photo: Melissa Wade).
One night after winning a triple-overtime thriller in game two, Sacred Heart completed the upset of RIT. They were the only road team to win a game three on Sunday (photo: Sacred Heart Athletics).
Six series saw a split on Saturday night and will need a Game 3 on Sunday to determine who moves onto the next round (photo: Candace Horgan).
In a night full of playoff games, one of the most surprising results came in Hockey East, with Merrimack stunning UMass Lowell in OT (photo: Candace Horgan).
Considering that they don’t have a single player averaging a point a game or higher, Minnesota Duluth’s 14-goal explosion for a road sweep of Western Michigan, by 8-0 and 6-1 scores, could be looked at as an oddity, but Duluth coach Scott Sandelin feels it’s how his team is built (photo: Candace Horgan).
The regular season is over. Minnesota State, thanks to an 11-game unbeaten streak to end the season, clinched its third MacNaughton Cup in four years (photo: Jim Rosvold).
For Clarkson, the first-round bye in the ECAC Hockey playoffs couldn’t come soon enough as the Golden Knights finished the regular season on a 1-5-2 skid (photo: Shelley M. Szwast).
The Hockey East regular season is complete and the playoffs are upon us (photo: Melissa Wade).
At American International College, a strong character team has always been built on sportsmanship and academic progress (photo: Omar Phillips).
It’s Big Ten playoff hockey time, and while top-seed Notre Dame watches to see who advances from the first weekend of play, everyone else will try to survive a best-of-three series to face off in single-elimination semifinal action next weekend (photo: Jim Rosvold/USCHO.com).
It’s time once again to do what we like to call Bracketology, college hockey style. It’s our weekly look at how we believe the NCAA tournament might look like come selection time, using what we know now (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Each week during the season, we look at the big events and big games around Division I men’s college hockey in Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
Here is a rundown of how the top 20 teams in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll of Feb. 19 fared over the Feb. 23-24 weekend (photo: Omar Phillips).