Hartford, CT- Mike Cavanaugh's young pups have authored a curious season through a month and change. The Connecticut Huskies have hovered around .500 all season and have shown both flashes of talent and bouts of frustration, particularly in closeout moments. They...
Providence, RI- The college hockey weekend began with a bang on Thursday night. Providence College and Massachusetts combined for a top-ten matchup and entertaining game in Amherst. UMass landed a season-defining victory in front of their largest crowd in years. On...
Boston, MA- Wind howled and rain filled the streets of Boston as Connecticut and Northeastern met at Matthews Arena. The chaotic New England weather reflected the curious seasons authored by both teams and the style of play. Both sets of Huskies entered Friday night...
Amherst, MA- Providence College has served as a measuring stick for Greg Carvel’s team since he arrived in Amherst. His Minutemen lost three consecutive games to the Friars to close the 2016-2017 season. The next year, UMass picked off two wins in three attempts...
The first month of the new college hockey season is complete. The results have been curious. Some teams have met expectations, some have surprised, and others have disappointed wildly. Let's take a look at how the stories have sorted themselves out through October....
Allston, MA- The Harvard Crimson entered an important transition year with a road trip to Dartmouth last week. Star skater Ryan Donato and Assistant Coach Paul Pearl departed for the Bruins and BU Terriers respectively, among others. Still, the Crimson showed...
Boston, MA- Boston University opened Albie O'Connell's tenure very poorly. Four consecutive losses and two embarrassing conference shellings signaled trouble for one of college hockey's blue blood programs. The Terriers had a tall task to reverse course on November's...
Providence, RI- Ivy League hockey teams began their seasons on Friday night. Brown hosted Yale to open the schedule and lost a narrow game. Vermont, meanwhile, opened their season with a high profile upset over Michigan but struggled in close games since. The most...
Boston, MA- St. Cloud State rightly secured a top ranking in the nation through their first five games. They trailed only twice in five games, won all of them, and shut out their last two opponents, Northern Michigan and Boston College. Northeastern, meanwhile, earned...
Chestnut Hill, MA- Boston College began their hockey season with championship aspirations and the talent to reach them. Through three games, however, the results were not there. The Eagles lost twice in Madison to Wisconsin, 3-0 and 7-5. They then traveled to...
North Andover, MA- Boston University began their season with a trip to Mankato, Minnesota, last weekend to face Minnesota State. They trailed in both games, battled back, but didn't have enough to overcome the Mavericks. On Saturday night, they began their Hockey East...
Boston, MA- 2018 was a banner year for Northeastern. The Huskies claimed their first Beanpot in 30 years and Adam Gaudette won the school's first Hobey Baker Award. On Friday night, the Huskies celebrated their successes with new banners at Matthews Arena and standing...
Lowell, MA -- Norm Bazin's UMass Lowell River Hawks are the biggest wild card in Hockey East this year. They have an interesting mix of championship experience from their 2017 Hockey East and near Frozen Four run, pain from that run ending and the next season being a...
Amherst, MA- The Massachusetts Minutemen hit the ice with expectations and optimism. Against the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Engineers on Friday night, UMass delivered on their expectations and flaunted their offensive talents. The opening 10 minutes were even,...
Amherst, MA- Saturday, October 6th brought college hockey back to the ice. Regulation and exhibition games filled the schedule across the nation. Among the exhibition games was a matchup in western Massachusetts between the Royal Military College of Canada and UMass...
North Andover, MA- Perhaps no collegiate hockey program underwent as much offseason turmoil as the Merrimack College Warriors. Immediately after their season ended in Hockey East's second round of playoff action, after a stunning upset of rival UMass Lowell, Merrimack...
College Hockey's most enigmatic conference opens play this weekend. Last season provided a perplexing conclusion in the standings, a fun tournament, three NCAA Tournament teams, and some of the sports' top talent. Let's preview the new season for the 11 New England...
The 12 members of the ECAC are gearing up for a new round of long bus trips, competitive play, and championship runs. Before the schedule ramps up, let's take a look at the teams contending for the Whitelaw Cup 12. Brown University Bears Since reaching the ECAC's...
Looking back, 2017-18 was a strange season for the New Hampshire Wildcats. The team started 5-1 over the first three weeks and looked poised for a great finish to Dick Umile's legendary career. Unfortunately, after October, the Wildcats went 5-20-5, finished in last...
College hockey teams are a week away from the 2018-2019 season. On 60 collegiate campuses in the United States, optimism for a competitive season is high. Perhaps nowhere is that sense of optimism stronger than in a former college hockey ghost town: Amherst,...
Boston, MA -- On May 19th, David Quinn shocked the hockey world by announcing his departure from Boston University and hiring by the New York Rangers to be their head coach. Almost immediately, BU started a whirlwind hiring process that included input from all corners...
North Andover, MA- Merrimack College has an interesting spot in Hockey East. The small Catholic college north of Boston has a well earned reputation as a gritty hockey team that trips up opponents, hits hard, and plays whistle to whistle like few teams can. Mark...
St. Paul, MN -- On April 8th, 2017, the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs fell just short of a National Championship against NCHC rival Denver in Chicago. Duluth lost much of their defensive corps and their goaltender and looked to regress with the young players getting big...
Since their creations in 2013, the Big 10 and the National Collegiate Hockey Conference have been the most talked about conferences in the sport. The Big 10 for their controversial origin and the NCHC for their dominance. Penn State joining Division 1 Men's Hockey and...
St. Paul, MN -- Northeastern University has developed a reputation for high scoring skaters since Jim Madigan became the Head Coach of the Huskies in 2011. Kevin Roy, John Stevens, and Zach Aston-Reese all lit up the rink at Matthews Arena in their careers. However,...
St. Paul, MN -- Notre Dame and Michigan share one of college sport's greatest rivalries. Their college football teams have written the record books on the gridiron. The competition hasn't translated onto the ice until recently. Michigan has the most National...
St. Paul, MN -- The Frozen Four returned to the State of Hockey for the first time since 2011. That year, Minnesota-Duluth outlasted Notre Dame and Michigan to claim the program's first National Championship only two hours away from campus. Seven years later, Duluth...
College Hockey's biggest event returns to the State of Hockey. Last time the event was here in 2011, a memorable chapter was added to the annals of the sport. Every game was tight and the championship went to the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs in overtime. This year, the...
Worcester, MA- After missing the 2017 NCAA Tournament, legendary Head Coach Red Berenson retired from his post atop the winningest program in collegiate history. In his place came Mel Pearson, an assistant with Berenson for ten Frozen Four appearances and two National...
Worcester, MA -- On November 25th, the Boston University Terriers and Cornell University Big Red met at Madison Square Garden for their biannual Red Hot Hockey matchup. Cornell got the early lead and survived a late Terrier push for overtime. That game marked Matt...
