It’s the #CollegeHockey Scoreboard Show for December 28, 2024. Welcome back from the holiday layoff. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, we’re back to the show here in the Speakeasy. As always, there’s no analysis, no breakdowns. It’s JUST. THE. SCORES.

The college hockey world fired right back up on Saturday with a couple of tournaments, some non-conference games and a few exhibitions. Normally, we’d leave the exhibitions with no real details because they don’t count.

Oh that’s NOT going to happen tonight. Why? It was a wild and I mean WILD 6-6 tie with No. 5 Denver and the club team from UNLV with the visiting Rebels taking a shootout 1-0 at Magness Arena in front of a pretty full crowd that included my high school classmate and Jeopardy alum Ryan Hall. Probably the only other guy in the world I could walk past and yell “Anteaters” and he’d reply “UC Irvine.”

Anyway … Preston Brodziak scored twice and while it was an exhibition and a tie, no one tell UNLV that shootout win didn't matter. What made this fun to watch was you could see the comeback happening - Denver rallied from 5-1 in the third to tie it and force OT. UNLV goaltender Jeremy Forman, a grad student who played IN FOUR career games in four seasons at New Hampshire, gave up 6 goals but also made 58 saves. Is this the death of Lord Farquad? It’s surely going to revive fans on the internet adding points to shootout wins. It’s an exhibition, it doesn’t count, but man, it was fun to watch.

At the Kwik Trip Holiday Faceoff in Milwaukee, Jake Percival scored his eighth goal of the season to lead UConn to a 4-1 win over Alaska, with UConn jumping out to an early 3-0 lead. In the other game in Milwaukee, Wisconsin dominated Ferris State 8-0, with four different players scoring two goals each, setting up the Sunday final against UConn.

At the Ledyard Bank Classic in New Hampshire, No. 17 Dartmouth rallied three times to edge Alaska-Anchorage 5-4, with five different scorers for the Big Green, including Hayden Stavroff’s seventh of the season, while Ryan Johnson notched his ninth goal in the loss for the Seawolves.

No. 7 Providence beat Northeastern 3-1, with Tanner Adams scoring his ninth of the year, setting up a Sunday final against Dartmouth.

In Atlantic Hockey action, Reid Pabich and Max Dorrington each scored their seventh goals of the season as Sacred Heart cruised past American International 4-1 to improve to 10-7-3.

In non-conference play, Liam Devlin’s two goals and two assists powered New Hampshire to a 7-4 win at RPI, while Princeton edged Army West Point 1-0 behind Jake Manfre’s first-period power-play goal and a 24-save shutout by Arthur Smith.

In other exhibition action, Aydar Suniev recorded a hat trick as UMass (Flagship!) scored twice in the third period to secure a 4-3 win over Simon Fraser … of the aforementioned ACHA. Finally, No. 19 Arizona State edged the USNTDP 4-3 in Tempe with third-period goals from Bennett Schimek and Benji Eckerle.

I’m Jason Bryant @jasonmbryant on the socials and that’s your College Hockey Scoreboard for December 28, 2024.