While 16 teams are preparing to make a run at the National Championship held in St. Paul, Minn. next weekend, the Big Ten announced on Monday it will start competing in men’s ice hockey beginning with the 2013-14 season.
Freshman forward Brodie Reid is the highest-scoring rookie in the Hockey East with 11 goals, 17 assists and 28 points. His performance earned him Huntington News Player of the Week honors.
Boston College’s 5-4 win in Friday night’s Hockey East semifinal at the TD Garden left the Eagles with a one-goal win.
But as Northeastern head coach Greg Cronin said after the game, it was more than one specific goal that left the Huskies heading back to Huntington Avenue without a conference title for the 23rd straight year.
After each of the three games last weekend between Northeastern and Boston University, the same theme started to emerge: The team that wanted it more – and got a little bit of luck – seemed to come through on the victorious end each time.
The sixth-seeded Huskies survived a chaotic finish at Agganis Arena on Sunday to outlast the third-seeded Terriers, 5-4, and advance to the semifinals for the third time since 1994.
The baseball team dropped its home opener 6-4 as Brown University spoiled the Huskies’ debut at a renovated Friedman Diamond Tuesday. Sophomore shortstop Jimmy Filter’s triple scored two baserunners, temporarily giving the Huskies a 2-1 lead. After a big third inning that featured two home runs for the Bears, the Huskies again found themselves behind 5-1 in a game that they could ultimately not tie up or win.
Junior Ida Cance and senior Jonathon Hall contributed first-place finishes at the Seahawk Invitational in North Carolina this past weekend.
The men’s team finished second out of 11 teams with 107 points, with the University of North Carolina-Wilmington winning the meet with 222 points. The women’s team came in third with 133 points behind Elon Univeristy (165 points) and UNCW (159 points).
Senior forward Steve Silva is tied for league lead in postseason points for the Hockey East Association with six points, three goals and three assists. He also has scored at least one point in the past six games, a career-best streak.
Silva’s performance has earned him Huntington News Player of the Week honors.
The Huskies’ quarterfinal series victory over Boston University was, in a word, surreal. I wrote back in December that in Greg Cronin’s coaching career at Northeastern, he had only two wins in 22 tries against BU. In my four seasons (including this one) at Northeastern, I had only witnessed one of them. But in the last two weeks alone, I saw not only three wins, but three wins in Agganis Arena – a building that the Huskies have struggled to succeed in for the past six years.
It’s been a long time since Northeastern has defeated conference rival Boston University in the Hockey East playoffs.
Ever since coach Greg Cronin’s arrival on Huntington Avenue in 2005, Northeastern has gone 4-16-5 in games with BU.
Head coach Greg Cronin could only shake his head in disbelief during a third period call that went against his Northeastern squad, which was down 4-2 to Boston University and facing its 10th man-down opportunity on Friday night.
It was that type of game for the Huskies, who are third in the nation in penalty minutes per game and couldn’t get rolling during the second game of the Hockey East quarterfinals at Agganis Arena, losing 5-2 to the No. 13 Terriers.
