The NCAA hockey season will now to switching to the postseason, so I thought I’d do a quick write up explaining how it all works. It took me a while to understand, because there are three phases. Because Toronto will have one high profile prospect and a few other lower profile guys with chances to win the ultimate championship, I thought I’d do a quick explainer.
So, in short there are three steps to the NCAA post season for men’s ice hockey.
1) Conference tournaments
2a) NCAA Tournament
2b) NCAA Frozen Four
Here’s how each of the phases works.