The Monday after the Frozen Four, reigning MacNaughton Cup and Mason Cup champion Minnesota State introduced their new head coach Luke Strand, the former Ohio State assistant and the head coach of 2022 Clark Cup champions Sioux City of the USHL. Strand’s hiring ended a frantic 11-day search to replace Mike Hastings.

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Penn State will host a trio of teams for their Allentown-based regional and while they’ll have home ice advantage, it’s going to be a battle.

The NCAA men's hockey tournament gets started Thursday with the first set of regionals including out west with the Fargo Regional. That grouping is highlighted by No. 1 overall seed Minnesota, which won't be terribly far from home to start what they hope is a return trip to the Men's Frozen Four.

The 2023 NCAA Men’s Hockey Tournament is set and each of the 16 teams participating know the road they’ll have to travel to get to Tampa for the Men’s Frozen Four April 6-8. All four of last year’s Frozen Four participants are back in the tournament, with three of them among the No. 1 seeds in the tournament.

The CCHA All-Rookie team was announced this week, as was CCHA Rookie of the Year.

The Mason Cup semifinals are upon us. Expect a barnburner in the early game and a stern statement in the later game.

The semifinals of the Mason Cup CCHA Playoffs begin on March 11 as teams look to advance to the championship game and inch closer to the NCAA hockey tournament.

This week's CCHA RinkRap focuses on the last four squads racin’ for Mason. A gunslinger prowls the Great Lakes, a masterful resurrection in Big Rapids, small games on the large ice of Marquette, and the Big Three of Minnesota State rekindle memories of an NHL dynasty.

It’s here, hockey’s version of March Madness, earlier and richer than its more ballyhooed sibling college hoops.

Could the essence of Saturday’s Kafka-esque Ghost of MacNaughton weekend in Mankato really just boil down to a simple statistic? It might allow beleaguered Michigan Tech coach Joe Shawhan some peace knowing that losing both the MacNaughton Cup and the No. 1 seed—twice in forty-six seconds—was not a grand conspiracy, but a collapse of his supreme penalty-killing unit.

Ordinarily, there would be four story capsules leading up to CCHA action this weekend, especially with Northern Michigan’s late-season sprint for home ice against Bowling Green, but this weekend belongs to the Michigan Tech-Minnesota State series.

This week on CCHA RinkRap: A scoring faucet is cranked wide open in Marquette, a Mankato-themed sequel in Bemidji and a gripping horse race for CCHA Rookie of the Year award.

Week 20 of the CCHA has all the makings of golf’s “Moving Day,” the Saturday of the majors when the power brokers jockey for position. Whether they admit it or not, both Ferris State and Bemidji will be watching the out-of-town scoreboard as they jostle for that all-important fourth place perch to guarantee home ice in the CCHA tournament.

The race for the 2023 Hobey Baker Memorial Award is heating up and is far from decided at this point. Many players are still firmly in the mix for college hockey's top individual award as the postseason looms.