(5) Minnesota at (1) Wisconsin The Gophers snapped an eight-game winless streak against the Badgers with a 3-2 win on Friday night. It was Wisconsin’s first loss of the season. Taylor Heise put Minnesota on the board just 27 seconds into the game. It looked like the Badgers might escape a sloppy first down just … Read more
RIT at (3) Minnesota On Friday, seven different Gophers scored goals, including Emily Zumwinkle, who scored her first career goal. Goalie Makayla Pahl earned her first career point on a goal from Taylor Heise. The Gophers outshot the Tigers 59-12 and earned a 10-0 win. In the second game, Emma Connor scored her first as … Read more
Bemidji State at (1) Wisconsin On Saturday, Wisconsin out-shot Bemidji 56-14, but a career game from sophomore goalie Hannah Hogeson kept the Badgers off the board and this one ended a 0-0 tie. It was Hogeson’s first career shutout and upped her career high in saves – she had set the number at 52 last … 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
(2) Ohio State at (1) Wisconsin The first series between these teams as the top two ranked squads in the country did not disappoint. On Saturday, the Buckeyes came out strong in the first and headed into the break with a 1-0 lead thanks to a snipe from Gabby Rosenthal. The Badgers picked it up … 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
Whitney Colbert has been named the new head coach for the Hamline women’s hockey team, the fifth coach in the program’s history. Colbert takes over for Natalie Darwitz, who left Hamline earlier this summer to take an assistant coaching position with Minnesota. “Whitney emerged from the talented pool of candidates as someone who shared a … Read more
Union has announced that Chris Ardito and Breanne Wilson-Bennett have been named assistant women’s hockey coaches. “I’ve been very fortunate to be surrounded by some great assistant coaches, and I’m really excited to work with Chris and Breanne,” said Union head coach Josh Sciba in a statement. “Going through this process, it was very important … 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
Union College today announced the cancellation of its men’s and women’s 2020-21 hockey seasons, one day after ECAC Hockey rival Rensselaer made a similar announcement and following last week’s Ivy League decision not to play this season.
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.
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.
With four weeks of games left to play in the regular season, Nicole looks at the likely final standings of each Division I conference.
Arlan and Nicole discuss how the Badgers swept the Gophers, who’s the best goalie in the country and whether Northeastern or Cornell should be ranked above Minnesota.
Nicole and Arlan talk about how Bemidji shut down Wisconsin, what’s happened to Boston College and how the CHA might shake out in this week’s Wednesday Women.