St. Cloud State rolls on
St. Cloud’s impressive offense continued to have success as St. Cloud posted an impressive sweep of Boston College. On Friday, after falling behind 2-0, the Huskies rallied for a 5-2 win. The three Poehling brothers continue to be spark plugs. Ryan assisted on Kevin Fitzgerald’s goal at 10:48 that started St. Cloud’s rally, and then Jack scored the tying goal just 1:22 later, while Nick scored an empty-netter at 19:59 of the third. Ryan also assisted on Jack Ahcan’s game-winning power-play goal in the third, a bullet shot from the blue line.

In Saturday’s 3-1 win, Jack started the scoring with a power-play goal just 2:17 into the game, with an assist going to Ryan, and then Ryan scored at 12:47. Mikey Eyssimont scored the game-winner at 19:30 on a power play. David Hrenak, making his first start in net, made 36 saves. Defenseman Jimmy Schuldt, who leads the team in scoring and is average two points a game, had three assists on the weekend for the undefeated and untied Huskies.

St. Cloud’s offense is currently tie with Northeastern for the top offense in the country, averaging 4.6 goals per game. The Huskies power play is 12th in the country, clicking at a 29.17 percent success rate.

North Dakota’s inconsistent offense overcome with stout defense
The Fighting Hawks renewed their fierce old WCHA rivalry with Minnesota over the weekend, emerging with a split. On Friday, the offense again struggled in a 2-1 loss, firing 34 shots on net and only getting a single power-play goal past Eric Schierhorn. Saturday, the power play was productive for North Dakota with three goals, including two from Christian Wolanin, one at 19:59 of the first period and one at 3:43 of the second. Ironically, the only even-strength goal North Dakota scored all weekend turned out to be the game-winner, a goal from Nick Jones at 4:59 of the first.

Cam Johnson was in net for both games, and made 16 stops in Friday’s loss and 22 in Saturday’s win. Behind Johnson and a strong corps of defenders, North Dakota has the best team defense in the country, giving up only 1.17 goals per game, and has the second-best penalty kill, clicking at 96.3 percent.

Miami records first win of year
Miami went on the road to Orono for a pair against Maine, and recorded its first win of the year, which is the positive. The negative is the RedHawks gave up 11 goals on the weekend. Friday, Miami’s Gordie Green assisted on Karch Bachman’s power-play goal at 5:16 of the first, then scored 19 seconds later to give Miami a lead it would never relinquish. Green had two more assists in the second period, including on Kiefer Sherwood’s four-on-four goal at 17:44 of the second that made it 5-3, and then scored just eight seconds into the third to make it 7-3. However, Maine made it interesting by scoring twice in the third for a 7-5 final. The Black Bears then used that offense to strike quickly Saturday, building a 5-0 lead in the first period, including two five-on-three power-play goals, before Miami scored its first goal. Patrick Holway had a goal and two assists for the Black Bears in the first.

It was a big sweep for the Quinnipiac Bobcats over the Northeastern Huskies. On Friday the Bobcats won the opening contest 6-4 and on Saturday they needed overtime for a 3-2 victory. The sophomore class had a big part of Quinnipiac’s success.

Chase Priskie finally found the scoresheet this weekend after going scoreless in his first three games played on On Friday, he had an assists and Saturday he had a big game. He scored the Bobcats first two goals of the game.

Alex Whelan had the game winning goal on Saturday while on Friday night he had a goal and an assist. Kārlis Čukste also had a goal and assist on Friday and added an assist on Saturday night. Nick Germain had three assists Friday night.

Andrew Shortridge picked up the victory in goal on Saturday.

Clarkson continues its strong early start

For the second time this season the Golden Knights have beaten a top ten team in the USCHO poll. Two weeks ago it was Penn State and this weekend it was a 4-0 victory over Providence College.

Just like the Quinnipiac, Clarkson is also getting production from their sophomore class. Devin Brosseau had a big game with two goals while Sheldon Rempal had two assists over the Friars. Rempal is starting to find has groove the past two weekends as he has six of his eight points in that stretch.Brosseau has also scored his six points on the season during the past two weeks.

A lot of the goaltending talk heading into the season evolved around Harvard’s Merrick Madsen and the tandem the Bobcats have in Shortridge and Keith Petruzzelli, but Jake Kielly is showing he can backup last season’s play as a freshman. He already has two shutouts as a sophomore. The most goals he has let up this season in a game was Friday night in a 3-1 loss to UMass-Lowell.

The Golden Knights have another stiff test this weekend when they face another top program in the University of Minnesota for a pair of games in Minneapolis.

RPI and Union find the win column

The two rivals each at least picked up one victory over the weekend as they both traveled to upstate New York to take on Niagara and Rochester Institute of Technology.

The Dutchmen earned the sweep as the defeated RIT on Friday night 6-1 while defeating Niagara 5-1 on Saturday night. Union had 12 different players find the scoresheet on Friday and nine players on Saturday evening. Ryan Scarfo had four points on the weekend.

After a tough defeat Friday night against Niagara with a 4-3 loss in overtime, Rensselaer took out their frustrations out on RIT with a 8-3 victory over the Tigers for the team’s first victory of the season and Dave Smith’s first win as RPI’s coach. Viktor Liljegren and Troy York each had two goals in the victory.

That leaves St. Lawrence as the lone non-Ivy League team in the ECAC to win a game this season. The Saints lost to Providence College 6-5 on Saturday and suffered a 5-0 loss to UMass-Lowell on Saturday