Nicole: Halloween may be over, but we’ve got a special treat this week as Gabriella Fundaro joins me as a Guest Contributor to Wednesday Women. Gabs writes about women’s college hockey at The Ice Garden and has been covering the sport for various outlets for 10 years. Gabs and I both wrote this week about … Read more
(1) Wisconsin at Minnesota State Makenna Webster scored on the power play five minutes into the game to give Wisconsin the lead. Brooke Bryant tied it up for Mankato midway through the frame to send the teams into the first intermission tied. Daryl Watts slotted one top shelf early in the third and that would … Read more
ECAC Hockey announced today it is extending its rights agreement with ESPN+ to stream more than 350 games each season through 2028-29. Every regular-season and post-season game (conference and nonconference) hosted at an ECAC Hockey venue will be streamed on ESPN+ with no blackout restrictions. That includes the annual women’s championship, and men’s championship in … Read more
Only four ECAC teams competed in the abbreviated season last year, so there is a lot of unknown in the conference to start this season. Many of the squads have two years – half the roster – of new players to acclimate. There are some very intriguing rookies that seem to be a bit under … Read more
It’s been a very active offseason in women’s hockey as Olympic centralization, transfers and bonus Covid years have all affected how rosters will look this season. There have also been a number of coaching moves. This is my attempt at putting all that information in one place. I’ve done my best to get all this … Read more
Dartmouth has announced that Liz Keady Norton has been named head coach of the women’s hockey team. She is the Big Green’s 11th head coach in the program’s 44-year history and sixth in the last 35 years. “Liz brings unique experience to Dartmouth women’s hockey,” Dartmouth interim director of athletics Peter Roby said in a … Read more
In the before times, the best case scenario for season previews was to give somewhat educated guesses. Those guesses came from watching teams last season, watching many of the incoming freshmen in U-18 World Championships and looking at how teams’ schedules might benefit or hurt them. Most of that isn’t available to us this year. … Read more
Nearly nine months after the abrupt end to the 2019-20 college hockey season, ECAC Hockey will officially commence its 2020-21 campaign this weekend. Clarkson, Colgate, Quinnipiac, and St. Lawrence will represent the league this year, as the other eight ECAC Hockey members announced they will not compete due to COVID-19 concerns. RPI and Union announced … Read more
The Ivy League released an announcement Thursday evening cancelling the hockey seasons for men’s and women’s hockey. Consistent with its commitment to safeguard the health and wellbeing of student-athletes, the greater campus community and general public, the Ivy League Council of Presidents has decided that league schools will not conduct intercollegiate athletics competition in winter … Read more
Conference quarterfinal matchups have brought some of the best games of the past decade.
Wisconsin eked out a tie to win the WCHA regular season crown outright and the NEWHA conference tournament was historic in more ways than one.
Clarkson and Boston University play for fractions of a point in the Pairwise while Wisconsin tries to hold off Minnesota to win the WCHA.
The ECAC, Hockey East and NEWHA regular season champs have been crowned, but there’s still a lot to be decided in the final weekend of the regular season.
Minnesota State upset (1) Wisconsin in a 3-1 win on Saturday and (9) Minnesota Duluth swept (5) Ohio State.
Bemidji State looks to pull off another upset while Harvard hopes to gain some ground in the ECAC.
Minnesota split their series with Minnesota Duluth while Cornell and Clarkson tied.
(2) Minnesota hopes to hold off (9) Minnesota Duluth and (7) Clarkson hopes to gain ground in the ECAC.
With four weeks of games left to play in the regular season, Nicole looks at the likely final standings of each Division I conference.
St. Lawrence split their series with (7) Clarkson and (4) Cornell made a statement against (9) Harvard.
Syracuse and Robert Morris fight for the top spot in the CHA while Harvard looks to hold their ECAC lead in games against Cornell and Colgate.