As an appetizer ahead of the big game on Sunday night, The Maine Black Bears (13-13-3, 7-9-2 in HE) and the UMass Lowell River Hawks (15-10-3, 9-6-3) played some college hockey on Sunday afternoon. The middle of the Hockey East standings is starting to get bunched up, which made Sunday afternoon’s game at Tsongas Center […]
Unbeaten in the last four games (3-0-1), the River Hawks looked to keep things going in the right direction Saturday night as they hosted the University of New Hampshire Wildcats. UNH freshman Cy LeClerc has been on a bit of a goal-scoring surge of late scoring goals in four of his last five games. His […]
The Hobey Baker Award is college hockey’s biggest individual prize. 82 nominees were selected to take part in the first phase of this process. Fan voting, along with votes from every division one head hockey coach, will trim the number from 82 to 10 by March 15. The voting itself comes to an end on […]
UMass Lowell, winners of four of their last five games, hosted the UMass Minutemen in their only game of the weekend before a sellout crowd of 6369 fans. The River Hawks are getting back to playing the way they did before the Christmas break. They have outscored their opponents by an 18-12 margin in these […]
In college football you have the Heisman Trophy, in college baseball, it’s the Golden Spike award, and in basketball, it’s the Naismith award. In college hockey, it’s called the Hobey Baker award. It is handed out at the Frozen Four which this year will be held in Tampa, Florida April 6-8. The award presentation is […]
DURHAM, N.H.—A three-point night from senior Jake Stella (Karlstad, Sweden) helped the No. 19/20 UMass Lowell River Hawks men’s hockey team (14-9-1, 8-5-1 Hockey East) surge back and claim a 3-2 overtime win against New Hampshire (7-18-1, 2-13-1 HEA) Saturday night at the Whittemore Center. “I thought we played spurts of this game where we did […]