Six teams from New England will compete in this year’s NCAA Division 1 Hockey Tournament with hopes of winning it all at the 2022 Frozen Four at the TD Garden in Boston. Quinnipiac, UMass, UMass Lowell, Northeastern, Harvard and American International are the six teams from the region with a shot at winning the national...
Six teams from New England will compete in this year’s NCAA Division 1 Hockey Tournament with hopes of winning it all at the 2022 Frozen Four at the TD Garden in Boston.
Quinnipiac, UMass, UMass Lowell, Northeastern, Harvard and American International are the six teams from the region with a shot at winning the national championship on April 9. The tournament begins Thursday with regionals in Albany, N.Y., Loveland, Colo., Allentown, Pa., and Worcester, Mass.
Michigan is the first overall seed in the tournament while Minnesota State, Western Michigan and Denver are the other top seeds at their respective regionals. Quinnipiac, winner of the ECAC Hockey regular season championship, is the highest-ranked New England entrant and gained the second seed at the Allentown, Pa., Regional.
Hockey East Tournament winner UMass, the defending national champion, will be the highest-ranked team in the league. The Minutemen are the third seed in Worcester, drawing Big Ten regular-season champion Minnesota as their first-round opponent. In a down year for Hockey East, the league will not have a first or second seed at any of the four regional sites. UMass Lowell and Northeastern round out the trio of Hockey East teams in the tournament, both getting four seeds. The River Hawks and Huskies face Denver and Western Michigan, respectively.
Harvard had to win the Whitelaw Cup at the ECAC Hockey Tournament in order to gain the league’s automatic bid. The Crimson did that with a 3-2 win over Quinnipiac in Saturday night’s final in Lake Placid, N.Y. Ted Donato’s squad goes up against Minnesota State in a first-round matchup in Albany.
Atlantic Hockey regular season and tournament champion American International is the last New England team in the field. The Yellow Jackets, coached by Eric Lang, will have the unenviable task of facing top-ranked Michigan.
2022 NCAA Tournament Bracket
Albany, N.Y. Regional
1. Minnesota State (35-5-0)
2. North Dakota (24-13-1)
3. Notre Dame (27-11-0)
4. Harvard (22-10-3)
Loveland, Colo. Regional
1. Denver (27-9-1)
2. Minnesota Duluth (21-15-4)
3. Michigan Tech (21-12-3)
4. UMass Lowell (21-10-3)
Worcester, Mass. Regional
1. Western Michigan (25-11-1)
2. Minnesota (24-12-0)
3. UMass (22-12-2)
4. Northeastern (25-12-1)
Allentown, Pa. Regional
1. Michigan (29-9-1)
2. Quinnipiac (31-7-3)
3. St. Cloud (18-14-4)
4. American International (22-12-3)
