It’s the #CollegeHockey Scoreboard Show for December 29, 2024. We’ve got some major upsets on Sunday with pairwise bombs hanging around Hockey East. The year is coming to a close, but here, you won’t find any breakdowns, any analysis, it’s just your dose of what you need to know - the scores. JUST. THE. SCORES. 

We start with the Rolls Royce of upsets on Sunday - Bentley stunned No. 4 Maine 4-2 at the Alfond, with four different players scoring and delivering Hockey East’s first Pairwise bomb of the night. Maine now sits at 1-3 all-time against the Falcons. 

No. 12 St. Cloud State completed a home-and-home sweep of St. Thomas with Barrett Hall’s late game-winner securing a 2-1 victory, completing a home-and-home series sweep that started 84 days ago. 

Yale delivered the other pairwise bomb, defeating No. 13 Boston University 7-5 in New Haven behind two goals from David Chen, marking just the Bulldogs’ third win of the season. BU dropped to 9-7-1. 

Jeremy Wilmer’s late game-winner helped No. 18 Quinnipiac edge AIC 6-5. 

At the Ledyard Bank Classic, No. 7 Providence topped No. 17 Dartmouth 5-3 in the finals with Logan Will and Graham Gamache each scoring their sixth of the year, while Cam Lund’s ninth of the season in overtime lifted Northeastern to a 4-3 win over Alaska-Anchorage in the third-place game. 

In the Kwik Trip Holiday Faceoff, Wisconsin edged UConn 4-3 in the championship game thanks to a somewhat controversial empty-net goal by Cody Laskosky (luh-SKAW-skee), and Alaska defeated Ferris State 4-1 in the third-place game with Chase Dafoe scoring his fifth of the year. 

At the Great Lakes Invitational, No. 1 Michigan State blanked Northern Michigan 2-0 with Isaac Howard scoring his 10th of the year and Luca Di Pasquo making 15 saves in the sted of primary goaltender Trey Augustine, who’s with Team USA at World Juniors. No. 6 Western Michigan beat Michigan Tech 4-3 in overtime on Tim Washe’s goal just 44 seconds into the extra frame, setting up a Michigan State-Western Michigan tussle in Grand Rapids. 

Elsewhere, Brown’s Max Scott scored his fifth of the year and Lawton Zacher made 43 saves in a 3-0 win over LIU despite being outshot 43-20. 

Ryan O’Hara’s first goal of the season proved the difference as Bowling Green edged RIT 2-1. 

Vermont cruised past Army West Point 6-0 with six different players scoring and Alex Mangbo making 25 saves for the shutout. In exhibition play, No. 8 Colorado College slapped UNLV’s club team 8-0, No. 19 Arizona State edged the USNTDP 1-0, Concordia (Que.) stung No. 20 Clarkson 5-1, and Omaha shut out Manitoba 5-0. 

I’m Jason Bryant @jasonmbryant on the socials and that’s your College Hockey Scoreboard and inserted bad puns for December 29, 2024.