Hockey East, ECAC Hockey, and the Odyssey Trust jointly announced Wednesday the return of the Friendship Series for the 2023-24 season as Princeton and Providence will renew the women’s college hockey event with a two-game series Jan. 6-7, 2024 at the SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The weekend will be part of a homestand … Read more
Former Boston University standout and Olympic gold medalist Tara Watchorn has been named the second head coach of the Terriers’ women’s hockey team. The first alumna of the BU women’s program to serve as a Division I head hockey coach, Watchorn played at BU from 2008 to 2012 and went on to serve as an … Read more
Elven different programs are represented on the All-USCHO Women’s Division I teams this year. Wisconsin leads the way with four players on the list. Ohio State, Minnesota and Colgate each had three players honored, while Minnesota Duluth, Northeastern, Penn State and Yale each had two players make the lists. First Team F: Danielle Serdachny – … Read more
Boston’s TD Garden will host the 45th women’s Beanpot championship on Jan. 23, 2024. The annual showcase will include both the consolation and the championship games, featuring Boston’s four major college hockey women’s programs from Boston College, Boston University, Harvard and Northeastern in a battle for the city’s bragging rights. The consolation and championship games … Read more
DULUTH — The defending national champion Ohio State Buckeyes will defend their title on Sunday after defeating Northeastern 3-0 in their national semifinal. The Buckeyes absolutely dominated Northeastern in all 200 feet of ice and for 60 full minutes on Friday afternoon, smothering the Huskies and never letting them find their footing. The game-winning goal … Read more
The top 12 women’s hockey players in the nation have been recognized as 2022-23 CCM/AHCA All-Americans. Northeastern graduate forward Alina Mueller becomes the first NCAA hockey player to earn All-American status for a fifth time. A first team selection this year, she was first team in 2020 and 2021 and a second team choice in … Read more
For again leading his team into the NCAA semifinals, Dave Flint of Northeastern has been chosen CCM/AHCA Women’s Division I Coach of the Year. This is the second CCM/AHCA Coach of the Year honor for Flint, who also captured the award in 2021. Flint and his Huskies take on defending NCAA champion Ohio State on … Read more
The Women’s Hockey Commissioners Association has announced that Northeastern senior Gwyneth Philips has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Women’s College Hockey Goalie of the Year Award. It is the third year this award has been handed out and all honorees have come from Northeastern. (NU’s Aerin Frankel won in 2021 and 2022.) … Read more
DULUTH — With three of the four teams coming out of the WCHA (who I see play more often than other conferences by virtue of my living in Milwaukee and writing about women’s hockey not being lucrative enough to allow me to travel all over for games) I have been writing previews of these teams … Read more
The 2023 Frozen Four field was set on Saturday as Ohio State, Minnesota, Northeastern and Wisconsin punched their ticket to Duluth with quarterfinal wins. Top seed Ohio State will face Northeastern at 2:30 pm CT on Friday. Minnesota will face Wisconsin for the sixth time this season in the second semifinal, scheduled for 6 PM … Read more
The USA Hockey Foundation announced Wednesday that Sophie Jaques (Ohio State), Alina Mueller (Northeastern) and Danielle Serdachny (Colgate) have been named the top-three finalists for the 2023 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. The winner will be announced during a live show on Saturday, March 18 at 11:30 a.m. CT at the AMSOIL Arena ticket lobby. The … Read more
Nicole: Hey Grant and Lindsay! It’s NCAA Tournament time! There was a lot more movement in the Pairwise last weekend than I expected and we really didn’t know the tournament field or where they’d fall into the rankings until things wound down on Saturday. Clarkson made things interesting with their semifinal defeat of Yale and … Read more
It’s conference tournament championship weekend and by Sunday at lunchtime, we’ll know which 11 teams are heading to the NCAA Tournament this season. The ECAC and WCHA still have semifinal games left, while the other three conferences have played everything but the title game. The whole sport shifted their postseason schedules a bit this year … Read more
Hockey East has announced that Northeastern graduate forward Alina Mueller has been awarded the 2023 Cammi Granato Award as conference player of the year. It is the third time Mueller has been so honored, tying Kelli Stack’s record during her tenure with Boston College. Alongside Mueller, Northeastern’s Dave Flint is coach of the year for … Read more
The Women’s Hockey Commissioners Association has announced the three finalists for the Women’s Hockey Goalie of the Year Award. The finalists are Yale’s Pia Dukaric, Northeastern’s Gwyneth Philips, and Minnesota Duluth’s Emma Soderberg. Dukaric is a sophomore, Philips is a senior and Soderberg is a graduate student. Voting was carried out by a panel of … Read more
Bemidji State at (1) Ohio State In the first game, Sophie Jaques scored a hat trick to lead OSU to a 4-1 win. She put in a shot off the faceoff in the first, lit the lamp with .2 seconds left in the second and added a shot from the slot in the third to … Read more
Hockey East has announced its 2022-23 women’s all-star teams as voted by the women’s league’s 10 head coaches. Northeastern graduate forward Alina Mueller was the lone player selected unanimously to the All-Hockey East First Team. Joining Mueller on the first team are goaltender Gwyneth Philips (Northeastern), defenders Megan Carter (Northeastern) and Sini Karjalainen (Vermont) and … Read more
Hockey East announced Wednesday the 2022-23 all-rookie team and five other season-long awards as voted by the women’s league’s 10 head coaches. The 2022-23 Pro Ambitions All-Rookie Team consists of seven players and includes defenders Casey Borgiel (Holy Cross) and Brooke Disher (Boston University) and forwards Lara Beecher (Vermont), Reichen Kirchmair (Providence), Lily Shannon (Northeastern), … Read more
(1) Ohio State at (6) Wisconsin Wisconsin powered out to a 4-0 lead in the opening period thanks to two goals from Jesse Compher as well as tallies from Casey O’Brien and Britta Curl. After regrouping at the first intermission, Ohio State began their comeback. Jenn Gardiner lit the lamp in the first two minutes … Read more
It’s the final weekend of the regular season and while some things have been secured, there’s still a lot on the line with this weekend’s games. Penn State has won the CHA, Northeastern has wrapped up Hockey East and LIU took their first NEWHA regular season title. Each has already secured the top seed in … Read more