After experimenting with the shootout for the 2020-21 season, the ECAC Hockey women’s coaches, by a unanimous 12-0 margin, have voted it down. This season, if no team scores following 3-on-3 five-minute overtime, games will end in a tie. Three points will be awarded to teams that win in regulation. … [Read more...]
Becca Gilmore, Harvard eager for return of ECAC campaign
She had no idea she was about to score the biggest goal of her life. This is what Becca Gilmore did know: She was exhausted. When she jumped over the boards for her shift in triple overtime, the Harvard University star tried to forget her physical state. She may have been skating on empty but she … [Read more...]
Poulin’s golden goal leads Canada to Women’s World Championship title
It took overtime – and a flick of the wrist from a former Boston University star – but Canada won the IIHF Women’s World Championship for the first time since 2012 when Marie-Philip Poulin placed a 20-foot wrist shot into the United States net Tuesday night in Calgary, Alberta. Poulin, 30, played at … [Read more...]
BC captain Marc McLaughlin amped for senior season
Marc McLaughlin knows a thing or two about leadership. He was a captain of his Cedar Rapids team in the United States Hockey League. He won the Curt Hammer Award as the USHL’s Gentleman of the Year in 2018. Now the North Billerica, Mass., native has been named a captain, for the second straight … [Read more...]
Women’s IIHF World Championship: Caroline Harvey, Team USA ready for challenge
The United States team that again will look to strike gold at the IIHF Women’s World Championship has a distinct local flavor. Two assistant coaches and eight players with New England roots are in Calgary prepping for the tournament, which will run Aug. 20-31. The U.S. opens play Aug. 20 with a game … [Read more...]