A third-period, two-goal lead was too hot to handle for the Bowdoin men’s ice hockey team Thursday. David Titanic and Mike Montagna scored goals 38 seconds apart midway through the third period to knot the score and Titanic made a brilliant backhand pass to Alex Botten with 2:20 to play in regulation to lead Oswego […]
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Empty Bowdoin College hockey bus slides into N.Y. restaurant
OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) — Bowdoin College officials say no one was aboard the men’s hockey team bus when it slid down a hill during Wednesday’s blizzard and hit a central New York restaurant. Nick Canale told The Post-Standard of Syracuse (http://bit.ly/1fyEMSW ) that the bus driver was having lunch inside his Italian restaurant in Oswego […]
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Streaking Bruins top Habs, 4-1
MONTREAL (AP) — Carl Soderberg, Patrice Bergeron and Milan Lucic scored in the second period and the Boston Bruins beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-1 on Wednesday night for their sixth straight victory. Tuukka Rask made 35 saves, and Zdeno Chara also scored for Boston. The Bruins improved to 43-17-5 and pulled within a point of […]
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NCAA hockey: Bowdoin stuns top seeds in NESCAC tourney
John McGinnis has scored and assisted some pretty big goals for Bowdoin College this season. The junior topped it all Sunday. Twenty-two seconds into the second overtime, McGinnis converted on a breakaway to lift the No. 5 Polar Bears to a stunning 3-2 win over No. 2 Amherst in the New England Small College Athletic […]
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HS Hockey: High drama at the mountaintop, and hardly surprising
LEWISTON — From the first week of December through the third week of February, choosing co-favorites to win the Class A hockey state championship could have been accomplished by plucking names written on folded pieces of paper from an unused helmet. So why should the second Saturday of March have been any different? Falmouth and […]
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In the Crease: Rivalries aside, hockey community stays strong
LEWISTON — Blue Devils don’t cheer for Saints, and Saints most certainly do not applaud the blue and white. Neither have the time for the Red Eddies. What is a Red Eddie, anyway? But Saturday, when for the 12th time in 13 seasons at least one of the three schools bearing those nicknames played in […]
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Class A Hockey Final: St. Dom’s felled by Falmouth in OT
LEWISTON — Everyone thought, and rightfully so, that Saint Dominic Academy was this schoolboy hockey season’s poster personality for overcoming lost causes and jarring disappointments. Falmouth High School defenseman Jake Grade skated off with that unofficial title in about a four-minute window Saturday night, however. And as a result, his team is a back-to-back Class […]
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HS Hockey: Messalonskee captures first title, 6-1 over Gorham
LEWISTON — Messalonskee passed its early-game test with flying colors, and the Eagles soared to their first hockey state title Saturday at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. Jared Cunningham dipped and ducked his way through the defense and past Gorham goaltender Justin Broy with a set of jaw-dropping moves for the go-ahead goal at 5:19 of […]
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AHL: Devils edge Pirates in shootout
LEWISTON — The Portland Pirates showed an ability to come from behind Friday, erasing two-goal deficit to force overtime. They also showed a continued propensity to lose games in extra time or a shootout. Stefan Matteau picked the right corner past Portland keeper Mark Visentin in the fifth and final round of the shootout to […]