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This Week in Atlantic Hockey: No longer an underdog, AIC wrapping arms around fact school is now a ‘hockey destination’

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“Our guys embraced, initially, that underdog role, and I think that has morphed and transformed itself into the fact that we wanted AIC to be a hockey destination. There’s not a lot of people that knew where Gonzaga was, but there’s a lot of people that know that they’ve got a really good basketball team. That’s the goal here for AIC. They might know that there’s this little school in Springfield, Massachusetts, but that school has a pretty good hockey team. We’re pretty proud of that.” – AIC coach Eric Lang

This Week in Hockey East: Northeastern seeing Murphy ‘carry the load the whole year’ from between the pipes

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Connor Murphy has played roughly 1,100 more minutes than he did a year ago.

He went into the season expecting to fight for the top Northeastern goaltending job with Devon Levi, who spent the first part of the season with Team Canada for World Juniors.

But Levi broke a rib, and hasn’t seen game action with Northeastern yet.

Bracketology: What teams are in the NCAA tournament, what teams are not with men’s college hockey playoffs starting

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We promised it last week, that in this week’s Bracketology, Jayson and I would try to find some sort of agreement on a field, just like being on the NCAA committee.

If we’re able to do that (spoiler: we’re not), we’ll attempt to put together what we think the regionals should look like.

Hockey East playoff picks: 3/10

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Wednesday night has a slate of two Hockey East playoff games, where the winners advance to face the top two seeds on Sunday – Boston College or Boston University. The lowest seed to come out of tonight with a win heads to Chestnut Hill to face the Eagles in the quarterfinals and the highest will … Read more

Women’s Division I College Hockey: NCAA tournament bracket contains surprising picks

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The bracket for the women’s NCAA tournament was announced Sunday evening. Northeastern received the number one overall seed. The other teams, in order, are Wisconsin, Ohio State, Colgate, Minnesota Duluth, Boston College, Providence and Robert Morris. Quarter final games are normally hosted on the campus of the higher seed, but this year, the NCAA consolidated … Read more