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When UMass Lowell coach Norm Bazin sat before the media alongside players Connor Hellebuyck, Chad Ruhwedel and Scott Wilson on Saturday, the second-year bench boss looked almost bewildered. "It's almost like a surreal experience for us," Bazin sai...

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- One of the refrains repeated by UMass Lowell River Hawks coach Norm Bazin during last week's Hockey East finals was simple but direct: "Why not Lowell?" After a 6-1 dismantling of Wisconsin on Friday night, and a Saturday date ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- UMass-Lowell (27-10-2) served notice on Friday: not only do they deserve the Northeast Regional's No. 1 seed, but they are gunning for a spot in the Frozen Four after dismantling a white-hot Wisconsin Badgers squad, 6-1. Norm B...

Boston College may have lost its first Hockey East playoff game in four years this past weekend, but the Eagles still have an ace up their sleeve as they get their head coach back just in time for the opening round of NCAA tournament play on Saturday...

If Saturday's Hockey East final in Boston proved anything, it was that everyone loves a winner. UMass Lowell, just two years past missing the league playoffs altogether, had its fair share of the 13,738 fans at TD Garden, matching the Boston Universi...

BOSTON -- Adieu, Coach Parker. There would be no storybook ending in the storied career of the best hockey coach in Boston University history. Faced with a must-win scenario, and his Terriers unable to duplicate Friday's stunning comeback victory ...

BOSTON -- Jack Parker's farewell tour picked up steam Friday night, as his Boston University Terriers fought back from a 2-0 deficit to beat archrival Boston College 6-3 in the Hockey East semifinals at TD Garden. The third-seeded Terriers (21-15-...

BOSTON -- Providence College's bid to get back to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2001 was derailed on Friday, as the top-seeded Lowell River Hawks upended the Friars, 2-1, in the opening Hockey East semifinal tilt at the TD Garden. T...

It was a scene that bordered on the bizarre. Moments after his team swept Merrimack in the Hockey East quarterfinals, just before he left the ice, Boston University coach Jack Parker was hugging the on-ice officials. Most notably, he embraced Tim Ben...

The Hockey East semifinals are Friday, with the opening match (5 p.m. ET) pitting two of the best young minds in Hockey East. Lowell's Norm Bazin and Providence's Nate Leaman each arrived at their respective campuses two years ago in the hopes of tur...

BOSTON -- On Friday, the Hockey East championships move to TD Garden with a pair of semifinals that couldn't be more different in terms of familiarity. The first pits league regular-season champion UMass-Lowell against fourth-seeded Providence in...

BOSTON -- When BU coach Jack Parker announced his retirement Monday, he got a laugh from the assembled crowd with his characterization of the Terriers' hockey program. "I always talk about BU being a family," said Parker. "I've got two daughters, ...

College hockey's "second season" -- highlighted by the Hockey East quarterfinals -- resumes Thursday in Lowell, with the River Hawks hosting Maine. The remaining three quarterfinal matchups start Friday. The Hockey East championship has been won b...

When the smoke finally cleared on the final night of one of the craziest, most hotly contested regular seasons in the 29 years of Hockey East, history had been made. For the first time, one of the league's perennial "top four" powers -- Boston Col...

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- Late last year, the Providence Friars threw a wrench into Boston College's celebration plans, denying Eagles head coach Jerry York a record-setting 925th career victory by grabbing a last-second 3-3 tie on Dec. 7 against the t...

BOSTON -- The Boston University Terriers have a pulse after all. Barely clinging to their top-20 ranking with a .500 record, the No. 19 Terriers put it all together Tuesday night to pin a 5-2 loss on No. 17 Merrimack at Agganis Arena. "It was nice...