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This year’s ECAC championship weekend looks a lot like last year’s — Cornell, Dartmouth and Clarkson have all returned to Lake Placid, looking to claim the coveted Whitelaw Cup.One usual suspect will not be in attendance — Quinnipiac, after being swept by J.F. Houle’s Golden Knights in the quarterfinals. Instead, Princeton takes the place of the Bobcats, making its first trip to Herb Brooks...

For the second-straight year, the CCHA’s champion will be decided in a duel between Minnesota State and St. Thomas in Mankato, Minn.The championship scenario is almost a one-to-one recreation of the 2025 final, with the only difference being that the Tommies enter the game as the conference’s two-seed instead of being the three-seed like the previous championship game. And also, this year, if ...

The first year of the NCHC Championship game being on campus is here, and Denver wins the prize of getting to host. Of course, it earned it with a No. 2 seed and by winning its semifinal, while No. 1 seed North Dakota was knocked off.The team that knocked off North Dakota is Minnesota Duluth, which comes in at No. 6 in the NPI, while the Pioneers are No. 5. Last week, Denver defeated No. 4 Western...

For the first time in three years, there will be a new Big Ten Tournament champion.In a rematch of last year’s championship game, where Michigan State downed Ohio State in double overtime, the Buckeyes were in another tight battle with the Spartans.But this time, the underdogs got the better of the defending back-to-back champs thanks to Felix Caron’s overtime winner 2 minutes, 36 seconds into...

It's not exactly a surprise that Bob Motzko is no longer the coach at Minnesota. After every recent season, there's been speculation he would retire.The school called Wednesday's move a "mutual" agreement.Coming one day after athletic director Mark Coyle fired women's coach Brad Frost, it does seem, however, that Motzko was squeezed out the door.It's a move that you can understand, on some level, ...