Boston, MA. - The Boston Bruins finally beat the New York Islanders, 4-1, after failing to in five tries this season. Tuukka Rask (22 saves) made his long-awaited return to the Bruins lineup and picked up his 300th career win in the process. Brad Marchand scored...
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Minutemen Dominate Huskies, Earn First National Championship
Pittsburgh, PA.- The University of Massachusetts Minutemen are NCAA Ice Hockey National Champions. The Minutemen took the game to the St. Cloud St. Huskies from opening puck drop and never looked back. A stout team defense mirrored the physical offensive effort, lead...
NCAA National Championship Preview
Pittsburgh, PA - The stage is set, the combatants are ready, and the 2021 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship will take place on Saturday evening at PPG Paints Arena in downtown Pittsburgh at 7 pm. The winner is guaranteed to be a first-time National Champion. Will it...
Minutemen End Bulldogs Reign, Head Back to Finals
Pittsburgh, PA. - It took 14:30 of overtime, but the Massachusetts Minutemen knocked off two-time defending Champion Minnesota Duluth to earn a return trip to the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship. Garrett Wait knocked in a loose puck at the side of the Bulldogs net...
Huskies Punch Ticket
Pittsburgh, PA- Senior Nolan Walker tipped a Seamus Donohue slap shot from the blue line past Hobey Baker Finalist Dryden McKay with just 53.2 left in the game to break a 4-4 tie and send the St. Cloud St. Huskies to their first-ever National Championship game on...
2021 Frozen Four Preview
Pittsburgh, PA- The Frozen Four is back! After missing out in 2020 due to the COVID 19 Pandemic, the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship will take place this coming weekend at PPG Paints Arena, home of the five-time Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins. The field...
Bruins Slip Against Flyers in OT
BOSTON, MA - Boston Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron's night summed up the team's recent run of play. His goal early in the second period put the team ahead 2-1. His stumble in overtime led to Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Travis Sanheim's breakaway game-winning goal...
Penguins Beat Bruins 4-1
BOSTON, MA- The Pittsburgh Penguins came into TD Garden seven points ahead of the Boston Bruins and in third place in the Mass Mutual East Division. After sixty minutes of play and a resounding 4-1 win, they would exit the ice with a nine-point lead on Boston and in a...
Marchand, Bruins Outlast Devils in OT
BOSTON, MA - Boston Bruins winger Brad Marchand missed the last two games while being on the NHL's COVID Protocol list. The Bruins struggled in those two games. They eked out a 3-2 win over the lowly Buffalo Sabres on Saturday and lost 1-0 to the slightly not as low...
UMass Road to Pittsburgh Paved With WCHA
Bridgeport, CT. - Two seasons after making their first-ever appearance in the NCAA Frozen Four, the University of Massachusetts Minutemen are going back to college hockey's Promised Land after a convincing 4-0 shutout of the Bemidji State Beavers at Webster Bank...
Minutemen Knock-Off Lakers
Bridgeport, CT - The Massachusetts Minutemen ended the Lake Superior State Lakers cinderella season 5-1. The past met the future in the second game of the NCAA East Regional in Bridgeport. The last time Lake Superior was in the NCAA tournament, 1996, the Minutemen...
Eager Beavers Outwork Badgers to Advance
Bridgeport, CT - The Bemidji State Beavers squeaked into the NCAA tournament last Sunday. In Bridgeport, they loudly announced that they deserve to be in the big dance with a convincing 6-3 win over the top seed Wisconsin Badgers to advance to the East Regional Final...
NCAA East Regional-Bridgeport Preview
Bridgeport, CT. - The East Regional kicks off the 2020-21 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament on Friday, March 26 at 1:00 pm when Wisconsin takes on Bemidji St at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport. CT. This regional has two post-season tourney champs in UMass-Amherst and...
Isles Ruin Boston Fans’ Opening Night
Boston, MA. - The Boston Bruins welcomed 2,191 of their loyal fans into TD Garden for the first time in over a year. Unfortunately, they also had their nemesis New York Islanders in the building too. Boston blew a two-goal lead en route to a 4-3 overtime loss on an...
UML Outlasts BC in 2OT Thriller
Chestnut Hill, MA - It took 92 minutes for the University of Massachusetts-Lowell River Hawks to overtake the Boston College Eagles, 6-5, in the Hockey East Semifinals but sophomore Matt Brown's swatted goal with eight minutes remaining in double overtime did just...
BC Holds On, Advances to Semis
Chestnut Hill, MA - The #1 Boston College Eagles hosted the unranked University of New Hampshire Wildcats in the Quarter-Final round of the Hockey East Tournament on Sunday afternoon. The two teams split their regular season match-up by winning in overtime on the...
Rangers Return Shutout Favor
BOSTON, MA - The New York Rangers shutout the Boston Bruins 4-0 on Saturday afternoon at TD Garden. Goalie Keith Kinkaid earned his first win as a member of the Rangers by stopping all 18 shots. Kinkaid carried over 34:44 minutes of scoreless hockey after coming on in...
Bruins, Halak Shutout Rangers
BOSTON, MA - The Boston Bruins have been answering questions all week about a lack of scoring. Tonight they let their play answer those questions. Four goals from four different scorers paced the Bruins over the visiting New York Rangers 4-0. Jaroslav Halak stopped...
Brown, UML Oust Catamounts
LOWELL, MA- A second-period offensive explosion by the University of Massachusetts-Lowell River Hawks was the difference in calling it a season or moving on to the next round of Hockey East playoffs. Four goals in the first 15 minutes of the period proved too much for...
New Jersey Tips Boston 1-0
Boston, MA - Pavel Zacha's seventh goal of the season was the difference in the New Jersey Devils beating the Boston Bruins 1-0 at TD Garden on Sunday. Scott Wedgewood turned back all 40 shots that the Bruins put on net, to earn his second shutout of the season. Both...
Bruins Answer Bell Against Capitals
Boston, MA - A second-period outburst propelled the Boston Bruins to a 5-1 victory over the visiting Washington Capitals at TD Garden on Friday night. Boston blew open a 1-0 lead when Trent Frederic, Patrice Bergeron, and Brad Marchand all netted goals in just over...
Capitals Edge Bruins in Shootout, 2-1
Boston, MA - Jakub Vrana's shootout goal was the difference between one or two points for his Washington Capitals on Wednesday night as they eeked outa 2-1 win over the Boston Bruins. The clash between two of the MassMutual East Division's top three teams shows that...
Bruins Look to Leave Mini-Slump Behind Them
Boston, Ma - What a difference a week makes. The Boston Bruins 7-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on the banks of Lake Tahoe had a 90's rave feel to it, complete with Walk-Man, fluorescent one-piece ski suits, and "I'm a Barbie Girl" choruses. Then back-to-back...
Devils, Palmieri Outlast Bruins
Boston, MA - The New Jersey Devils played spoiler in the Boston Bruins' homecoming. Riding a pair of goals from Kyle Palmieri and 25 saves from MacKenzie Blackwood, the visitors outlasted the Bruins 3-2 in their first game back at TD Garden in three weeks. It was the...
Road Warriors, er Bruins, Return Home
Boston, MA - It's been almost a month since the Boston Bruins hosted a fellow MassMutual East Division opponent at TD Garden. Tonight the New Jersey Devils will take on the Bruins in an empty Garden. For the Bruins, it's just a quick, one-stop homestand before jetting...
A Tale of Two Halves
Lowell, MA. - The visiting Boston College Eagles rode their "second" line to a 4-3 victory over the UMass-Lowell River Hawks on Saturday night at Tsongas Arena. Nine total points for Jack McBain, Nikita Nesterenko, Colby Ambrosio, and Drew Helleson. McBain and...
Eagles Soar Over River Hawks
Chestnut Hill, MA - The Boston College Eagles kept the University of Massachusetts-Lowell River Hawks grounded in a 7-1 rout on Kelley Rink at Conte Forum. The top-ranked Eagles were paced by two goals apiece from Mike Hardman and Alex Newhook. Sophomore...
Washington Capitalizes in OT
Alex Ovechkin did what Alex Ovechkin does, scores. The future Hall of Fame goal scorer ended the Boston Bruins (5-1-2) comeback bid just 28 seconds into overtime when his wrist-shot beat Tuukka Rask (19 saves) blocker side high. The Washington Capitals (6-0-3) have...
Minutemen Hold Off River Hawks
Lowell, MA - Filip Lindberg turned back 27 shots on his way to backstopping the visiting University of Massachusetts-Amherst Minutemen to a 2-1 win over Commonwealth rival University of Massachusetts-Lowell River Hawks. Two second-period goals by the Minutemen proved...
Bruins Stifle Crosby, Penguins
Boston, Ma-The Boston Bruins completed a 4-0 TD Garden homestand after beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 on the strength of two Patrice Bergeron goals. Jaroslav Halak turned back 16 of 17 shots to bolster the Bruins backline and improve his record to 2-0-1. The...
