The freshman class of the men’s hockey team arrived at Northeastern from all over North America – a small lake town in Northeast Quebec to the cold, snowy heart of Wisconsin to nearby South Boston.
Northeastern’s men’s hockey team is off to a phenomenal start this season. They are ranked 14th in the country by the latest USCHO poll after beating the defending NCAA champion and then-No. 1 Boston College and then-No. 19 Merrimack last week.
The men’s hockey team’s 3-1 victory over reigning national champions and United States College Hockey Online No. 1 Boston College tonight at Matthews Arena headlined Homecoming Weekend.
For much of Wednesday night’s Hockey East season-opener, the men’s hockey team gave the 1,350 fans at Matthews Arena a glimpse of the future, and began to rectify previous seasons’ woes by winning their first season-opener since 2007 with a 4-2 win over Merrimack College.
The Huskies opened the season in fine fashion as they unleashed three goals in the game’s first nine minutes, leading to a 4-2 win over the Merrimack University Warriors tonight at Matthews Arena.
In its first competitive game of the 2012-13 season, the men’s hockey team came out on the losing end of a 4-3 exhibition decision Sunday to St. Francis Xavier University of Canada. But despite the loss, the Huskies gave fans a lot to be excited about.
In a rematch of last year’s preseason exhibition, the men’s hockey team faced off against the St. Francis Xavier X-Men on Sunday afternoon, falling 4-3 at Matthews Arena.
As students and fans file into Matthews Arena next Wednesday night, the scene will seem familiar as the men’s hockey team opens another season, but the team and fans will be looking to erase last year’s sour ending.
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Fern Flaman, a hockey Hall of Famer and the longest tenured Northeastern men’s hockey head coach, died Friday night. He was 85. As head coach of the Huskies between 1970 and 1989, Mr. Flaman amassed a record of 255–301–23 and brought four Beanpot championships to Huntington Avenue.
The Northeastern men’s hockey team will no longer be the only Huskies playing in Hockey East. The University of Connecticut officially announced on June 29 that it will move from the Atlantic Hockey Association (AHA) to the Hockey East Association. Eight of the last 20 NCAA champions have come from Hockey East.
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