A trio of Lakes Region teams qualified for the NEPSAC playoffs the last time they were held in March 2020.
Kimball Union appeared in the Elite 8 for the sixth straight campaign, while New Hampton and Tilton qualified for the Piatelli/Simmons. For KUA, it marked the first time since 2016 that the school fell short of reaching the title game.
While none of those teams walked away with a championship, all three of them, and the five others that failed to qualify, once again enter a new season with the goal of bringing home a piece of hardware.
This article appears in the November/December print edition of New England Hockey Journal.