Women’s D-I: Hockey East

Hockey East announces Maine-UMass Lowell, Merrimack-UNH series set for Dec. 19-20 will not be played; other men’s, women’s games updated

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Hockey East announced Thursday more schedule updates for men’s and women’s teams. The Northeastern at Holy Cross women’s game on December 19 will now be played at 3:30 p.m. and aired live on NESN. Massachusetts’ home game against Vermont on Saturday, December 20 will now be seen live on NESN at 6 p.m. The UConn … Read more

Changes to 2021 Hockey East tournaments include all eligible teams qualifying, regular-season standings determining seeding

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Hockey East announced Tuesday that all eligible teams in both the men’s and women’s conferences will qualify for their respective 2021 Hockey East tournament. Additionally, all games played by Hockey East teams in 2020-21 will count toward the final standings used to determine tournament seeding, including all games previously played under the “flex game” designation, … Read more

Hockey East announces schedule updates for men’s, women’s games being played Dec. 18-23

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Hockey East announced Tuesday schedule updates for the upcoming week. Massachusetts is now scheduled to host Vermont for two games, December 19-20. Both games will begin at 6 p.m. and Sunday’s game will be aired live on NESN. The men’s teams at Northeastern and Providence are now scheduled to play two games, December 19-20, beginning … Read more

Hockey East announces schedule updates, including cancellations, for men’s, women’s games Dec. 11-13

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Hockey East announced Wednesday the following schedule updates: The men’s series between New Hampshire and Maine on December 11-12 will now take place in Durham, N.H. Both games will be aired live on NESN+ at 7 p.m. from the Whittemore Center The UConn at Boston College men’s game on Friday, December 11 will be aired … Read more

Weissbach, Roy, Bronte, Kaltounkova, LaFontaine, Bench named HCA award winners for November

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Six players have taken home Hockey Commissioners Association monthly awards for their November performances. Men’s Player of the Month: Linus Weissbach, Sr., F, Wisconsin Weissbach went for five goals and 10 points in eight games for the Badgers in November. He had four multi-point games in that stretch and had 19 shots on goal as … Read more

Minimal COVID issues have Northeastern men’s, women’s hockey back playing games later in December

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Northeastern will return to competition for men’s hockey and women’s hockey later this month. These teams showed minimal COVID-19 related issues during the recent pause in activity. “Adjustments were made after an environmental scan of all teams with respect to COVID-19,” said Northeastern director of athletics and recreation Jeff Konya in a statement. “This is … Read more

DI Women: Weekend Wrap

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(1) Wisconsin at (3) Ohio State Sophie Jacques scored in the opening minutes and Madison Bizal extended the Buckeye lead to 2-0 around the midway mark of the first period on Friday. Daryl Watts quickly responded to cut the lead in half, but Jenna Buglioni’s goal just before the buzzer had Ohio State up 3-1 … Read more

Hockey East announces postponements for Nov. 27-29 men’s, women’s hockey games

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Hockey East announced schedule updates Wednesday afternoon. The women’s series between Holy Cross and New Hampshire scheduled for November 27-28 will no longer be played. Holy Cross and New Hampshire remain scheduled to play February 19-20. Following earlier announcements from Northeastern and Maine, rescheduled games for all postponed contests involving those schools’ men’s and women’s … Read more

Positive COVID results at Maine mean men’s, women’s hockey paused until at least Dec. 8

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Maine athletics are paused until at least Dec, 8 due to positive COVID-19 tests among varsity athletes. University president Joan Ferrini-Mundy, in consultation with the University of Maine system and other campus leaders, announced the decision Tuesday. This decision will most immediately impact students participating in the men’s and women’s basketball, and the men’s and … Read more

Northeastern pauses winter sports, including men’s, women’s hockey, through Dec. 18 due to COVID

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Due to a small cluster of recent COVID-19 cases that led to quarantining athletes on five varsity teams, Northeastern has canceled games and practices for all winter sports through Dec. 18. Northeastern athletic director Jeff Konya said he is hopeful that the winter teams will resume practices in early December and launch abbreviated seasons after … Read more

Hockey East announces changes to weekend men’s, women’s series

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Hockey East announced Friday the following schedule updates: The women’s programs at Providence and UConn are now scheduled to play a home-and-home series Nov. 21-22. “The scheduling of this series is consistent with the league’s commitment to a flexible scheduling model to provide meaningful opportunities for competition for all student-athletes throughout the 2020-21 season while … Read more

Women’s DI Hockey: 2020-2021 season preview

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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

Ongoing pandemic cancels men’s, women’s Beanpot college hockey tournaments for 2020-21 season

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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