By Scott McLaughlin/DFP Staff 1) No. 9 University of Massachusetts-Amherst (9-3-0, 5-2-0) The Minutemen are simply the best team in the conference. In addition to having the best overall winning percentage and best in-conference winning percentage, UMass is the only team to rank in the top three in Hockey East […]

By Scott McLaughlin/DFP Staff NEW YORK –– Trailing 3-1 at the start of the third period, the Boston University men’s hockey team dominated No. 7/8 Cornell University in the final 20 minutes and forced a 3-3 tie in the second Red Hot Hockey at Madison Square Garden. Sophomore forward Chris […]

By Jake Seiner/DFP Staff NEW YORK – During his postgame press conference, Boston University men’s hockey coach Jack Parker aimed to describe his team’s most positive feature during its 3-3 tie with No. 7/8 Cornell University. Try as he might to scour the English language for the perfect phrase, it […]

All photos by Sarah Gordon/DFP Staff

By Scott McLaughlin/DFP Staff Head coach Mike Schafer Opening statement It was a great event. We got off to a good start. Obviously, I’m disappointed in the fact that it ended up being a tie. But I’m proud of our guys. They battled tonight and we got the lead, but […]

By Jake Seiner/DFP Staff Connolly on his tying goal: “We had actually worked on a 6-on-3 earlier this week. It’s funny that we actually got it the first game we tried it. I think the first one had expired, not sure if we were still on the power play or […]

By Jake Seiner/DFP Staff BU coach Jack Parker’s opening statement: “I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that was an exciting college hockey game. I thought after we played in a box for the first 10 or 12 minutes of the first period, I thought from […]

By Scott McLaughlin and Jake Seiner/DFP Staff Offense – B+ The Terriers were the dominant offense in every way other than goals. They more than doubled the Big Red in shots on goal (35-17), including a 13-3 differential in the third period. Shots attempted were even more lopsided –– 87-38 […]

Boston University vs. Cornell University

By Scott McLaughlin/DFP Staff The Boston University men’s hockey team plays its first of two regular-season games at marquee venues when it faces No. 7/8 Cornell University at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night (8 p.m.) in the return of Red Hot Hockey. Two years ago, the Terriers defeated the […]