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
Harvard has announced the addition of Alicia Scarpa as the women’s hockey director of operations. Scarpa most recently spent the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons assisting the team before being elevated to this new position for the 2021-22 season. “We are thrilled to have Alicia rejoining our staff as the first director of hockey operations fully … Read more
Longtime Harvard women’s hockey coach Katey Stone has been named the recipient of USA Hockey’s 2021 Distinguished Achievement Award. The Watertown, Conn., native has had a storied career at Harvard, a tenure that began with the 1994-95 season. The 2021-22 season will mark her 27th at the helm of the program. Stone has guided the … 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 2021 men’s and women’s Beanpot championships have been canceled for the first time in the history of the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Beanpot committee announced on Friday. “The Beanpot, TD Garden’s annual college hockey tournament, will not be played in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” reads a statement from TD … 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
Overtime periods in the quarterfinals could affect the play of a number of teams in this week’s women’s DI semifinals.
Nicole and Arlan discuss conference quarterfinal results, what could happen in the conference tournaments and the Patty Kaz top-3.
CHA Robert Morris at Syracuse Kyleigh Hanzlik and Michaela Boyle scored to give Robert Morris a 2-0 win on Friday. On Saturday, Lexi Templeman had the Colonials up 1-0 after the first period. In the second, Madison Beishuizen scored a short-handed goal and Abby Moloughney added an even strength tally to put Syracuse up 2-1 … Read more
Conference quarterfinal matchups have brought some of the best games of the past decade.
Mercyhurst has a one-point lead on Robert Morris as the CHA enters its final week of regular season play. Meanwhile, post-season tournaments kick off for the ECAC, Hockey East and WCHA.
Nicole and Arlan breakdown the first round of ECAC, Hockey East and WCHA conference tournaments and talk about who might be named a Patty Kazmaier finalist.
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.
Wisconsin looks to rebound against Ohio State, Clarkson hopes to solidify their spot in the national conversation with a win over Princeton and Robert Morris and Mercyhurst faceoff for the top spot in the CHA.
Nicole and Arlan talk conference races and try to predict the Patty Kazmaier Top Ten.
Minnesota State upset (1) Wisconsin in a 3-1 win on Saturday and (9) Minnesota Duluth swept (5) Ohio State.