COLLEGE HOCKEY CAPSULES
Looking ahead
No. 6/7 Quinnipiac women (11-1-2, 5-1 ECAC) at Cornell (3-4-1, 2-3-1), Friday, 3 p.m.: Quinnipiac comes in after a brand-new experience: The Bobcats' first loss.
Franklin Pierce women (6-4-1, 3-1 NEWHA) at Post (2-9, 2-6), The Rinks at Shelton, Friday, 4 p.m., Saturday, 3:30 p.m.: The visiting Ravens started 0-3 but are near-perfect since, including a 7-0 win at Post on Oct. 22.
No. 9/ARV Yale women (6-2, 4-2 ECAC) at St. Lawrence (5-5-3, 2-2), Friday, 6 p.m.:
Ranked for the first time in program history in the USCHO poll and one point behind No. 10 Boston College in the USA Today/USA Hockey poll, Yale comes in strong. But four of the Saints' five wins are by shutout, and three of their five losses are by one or two goals.
UConn women (11-2-1, 6-2-1 Hockey East) vs. No. 4 Northeastern (10-2-1, 9-2-1), Friday at Freitas Ice Forum, 6 p.m.; Saturday at Northeastern, 1:30 p.m.: Northeastern is 8-0-1 in its past nine (and won the shootout in the tie). UConn picked up a vote in the USA Today/USA Hockey poll.
Clarkson men (6-4-1, 2-2 ECAC) at No. 5 Quinnipiac (9-1-2, 2-0), Perrotti Arena, Friday, 7 p.m.: The Bobcats have won five in a row and are unbeaten in seven since their top-10 split with North Dakota.
Sacred Heart women (5-5-1, 3-2-1) at Saint Michael's (0-7, 0-6), Friday, 7 p.m., Saturday, 4 p.m.: The Pioneers return after a weekend off. They already defeated Saint Michael's once this season, 7-0.
Yale men (0-4, 0-3 ECAC) at Colgate (6-7, 1-3), Friday, 7:30 p.m.: Seeking their first win, the Bulldogs start a threegame week with Colgate, which has lost six of seven but did score five twice in there, while beating RPI and losing to Western Michigan.
Sacred Heart men (3-4-3, 1-1-2 Atlantic Hockey) at Air Force (1-6-3, 1-2-1), Friday, 9:05 p.m., Saturday, 7:05 p.m., Monday, 9:05 p.m., Tuesday, 7:35 p.m.: Four games in five nights, at altitude? Sounds like fun. The Pioneers haven't played a game that counted in a couple of weeks, but they did win an exhibition game against Yale at Ingalls Rink 3-1.
Quinnipiac women at No. 5 Colgate (13-3, 5-1 ECAC, play Friday vs. Princeton), Saturday, 3 p.m.: The first
of two meetings between these top-five teams. Colgate's losses are to then-No. 4 Minnesota twice and now-No. 9 Yale.
Yale women at No. 7/8 Clarkson (11-1-2, 4-0 ECAC, play Friday at Brown), Saturday, 3 p.m.:
Back to the nationally ranked opponents for the Bulldogs, who've defeated two top-10 teams in this four-game winning streak, Colgate and Harvard.
UConn men (6-5, 4-3 Hockey East) vs. No. 15/ARV UMass Lowell (6-1-2, 4-0), Saturday at Lowell, 3:35 p.m. (NESN); Sunday at Freitas Ice Forum, 3:35 p.m. (Ch. 20): Lowell and its potent power play hasn't lost since opening night at Arizona State
Yale men at No. 10/9 Cornell (5-1, 3-1 ECAC, play Friday vs. Brown), Saturday, 7 p.m.: New Haven connection: Junior forward Matt Stienburg, a Colorado draft pick, is the son of former Nighthawk Trevor Stienburg. Matt shares the Big Red scoring lead with nine points.
St. Lawrence men (2-3-4, 1-1-2 ECAC, play Friday at Princeton) at Quinnipiac, Perrotti Arena, Saturday, 7 p.m.: These teams last met here in March in the final of the three-team ECAC playoffs. St. Lawrence won in overtime to earn its first NCAA bid since 2007... only to lose it the next day on COVID-19 protocols. Let's never have a year like 2020-21 again, please.
Post women at Sacred Heart, The Rinks at Shelton, Tuesday, 1:30 p.m.:
The teams meet for the third time; the Pioneers have won both meetings 5-1.
Yale women at LIU (6-6, play at Saint Anselm Friday/Saturday), Tuesday, 3 p.m.: The Sharks went in to the weekend perfect in the NEWHA and winless outside the league. They met twice in 2019-20, a pair of wins for Yale, 9-2 and 5-1.
Vermont men (1-6-1, play Providence Friday/Saturday) at Yale, Ingalls Rink, Wednesday, 7 p.m.:
Yes, but: The Catamounts are 1-2-1 in the past four heading into this weekend, and the win was against Boston College, and none of the six losses were by more than two goals.
Looking back
The Quinnipiac men came from 3-0 down to beat Arizona State 5-3. Senior
Wyatt Bongiovanni scored the tying and winning goals less than three minutes apart in the third period. Sophomore Ty Smilanic also scored twice. The Bobcats won 5-2 the next night behind graduate student Oliver Chau's hat trick. (The first game started at four-on-four with Quinnipiac's Christophe Fillion and Arizona State's Johnny Walker called for delay-of-game minors: Both, reported the Bobcats' Twitter feed, "refused to let the other be the last one on the ice during warmups."
Quinnipiac's women outshot Princeton 37-18 but lost 1-0, the Bobcats' first loss of the season. They'd defeated the Tigers 3-1 the night before with three third-period goals, the last from junior
Jess Schryver of Ansonia, her first at Quinnipiac after transferring from Northeastern.
The Yale women beat Harvard 3-1 and Dartmouth 8-3. Junior Charlotte Welch had a goal and an assist to help beat the Crimson, and senior Gianna Meloni made 20 saves. Junior defender
Emma Seitz had three points against Dartmouth, and junior Claire Dalton had six assists.
The UConn women outshot Maine 29-8 but lost 1-0. The teams tied 4-4 the next day; UConn scored the tying goal with 1:46 left. The Huskies had won four in a row.
The Yale men fell at Army 6-3 despite junior Connor Hopkins' 43 saves. The Bulldogs had only nine healthy forwards. Sophomore Niklas Allain had two assists.
Boston College scored the winner with 1:22 left to beat the UConn men 2-1 at the XL Center. Sophomore Ryan Tverberg scored the Huskies' goal. Tverberg scored again the next night in a 6-4 loss at Providence; he has a goal in five games in a row. East Haven's Nick Capone, a sophomore, also scored.
The Post women's losing streak reached eight as the Eagles were swept at Saint Anselm, 5-1 and 3-0, then lost at RPI 4-1. Junior forward Jenna Abeyta scored both goals for Post. A different goalie played each game for Post, and all three had at least 38 saves.
Awarded
Yale junior Emma Seitz was the ECAC's women's player of the week, with three goals and an assist in the weekend sweep.