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5-Minute Major: The 4 Nations Face-Off is an all-star game with a lack of all-stars

Annika Morris January 29, 2025
The NHL’s nation-based tournament is not the Olympics, and it isn’t really an all-star game either. Instead of the typical all-star format used by nearly every other professional sports league, the NHL opted to create the 4 Nations Face-Off, featuring teams of players from Canada, the United States, Finland and Sweden.
Dropping the Gloves: Hollywood’s award season is over, but the NHL’s is just getting started

Dropping the Gloves: Hollywood’s award season is over, but the NHL’s is just getting started

Jessica Citronberg March 11, 2018
The Stanley Cup playoffs are less than one month away. The greatest prize of the season will be hoisted when the playoffs end, but there are some individual awards that are also sought after.
Senior forward and assistant captain Victoria Bach finished her career at BU with 104 goals and 198 points. PHOTO BY MADDIE MALHOTRA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

A look back at the 2017-18 women’s hockey season

Lily Betts February 27, 2018
After a transitional season marred by injury, the Boston University women’s ice hockey team ended its 2017-18 campaign with a 3-4 overtime loss to the University of Maine in the Hockey East quarterfinals.
Burn the Boats: Olympic hockey spotlight

Burn the Boats: Olympic hockey spotlight

Matt Dresens February 25, 2018
The Winter Olympics. You know, that sporting event that comes around every four years where we pretend to intricately know the proceedings of curling, luging and Nordic skiing combined? Oh yeah, and then there’s the hockey.

In need of momentum, women’s hockey readies for UConn on Sunday

Jacob Gurvis January 17, 2018

With only one month remaining in the regular season, the Boston University women’s hockey team heads to the University of Connecticut Sunday afternoon to take on the Huskies (7-10-7, 1-9-4 Hockey...

Rodgers and Bach reflect on their careers with the Terriers. PHOTO BY MADDIE MALHOTRA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Women’s hockey seniors reflect on their time at BU

Nicole Havens September 28, 2017

This past August, seniors Victoria Bach and Nina Rodgers spent their time anxiously waiting for their names to be called during the third annual National Women’s Hockey League Draft. The draft...

Freshman forward Clayton Keller scored his sixth goal of the season at Vermont after returning from an injury. PHOTO BY JUSTIN HAWK/DAILY FREE PRESS

Men’s hockey looks for 10th win to close out 2016

Nick Frazier December 12, 2016

Fresh off arguably their best game of the season, the No. 6 Boston University men’s hockey team will take the ice once more before an extended break. The Terriers (9-5-2, 4-2-2 Hockey East) will...

DeBrincat has 160 points in 98 career games for the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League. PHOTO BY JONATHAN SIGAL/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Team USA Outlook: Alex DeBrincat hopes to bring goal-scoring success to World Juniors

Judy Cohen December 17, 2015

In the second period of an Oct. 17 game against their division rival Guelph Storm, the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League found themselves trailing by a score of 1-0. With 7:26 gone in the frame,...

Poulin propels Canada to gold medal

Daily Free Press Admin February 20, 2014

At this time last year, forward Marie-Philip Poulin and the Boston University women’s hockey team were on a run that eventually saw the Terriers reach the Frozen Four and National Championship Game in...

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