Top 10: Providence takes over the top spot from UMass

Junior captain Kasper Bjorkqvist has been on the left wing on Providence's top scoring line. (Rich Gagnon)

Friday was not a friendly night to be a ranked college hockey team as UMass, Quinnipiac, and St. Cloud State all lost in conference play. The Minutemen did bounce back from their first Hockey East loss of the season against UMass Lowell with a Saturday afternoon win over local foe American International, while Quinnipiac finished the weekend with a point against Cornell.

Providence continued its eight-game unbeaten streak with a 1-0-1 weekend against Miami, and it’s now New Hampshire that follows the Friars among New England’s hottest teams as it has not lost in a five-game span after defeating Merrimack and tying another regionally-ranked team in the ECAC’s Yale.

Another notable scores from the weekend include Northeastern losing its nation-long unbeaten streak against the same Warriors that lost in the Granite State, while Harvard returned to ECAC play with a win, Brown won the Three Rivers Classic championship, and Boston College fell twice at Arizona State.

Without further ado, here’s the second New England Hockey Journal Division 1 Top 10 of 2019: