Looking Ahead to the NCAA DI 2022-23 Season

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I'll be collecting early announcements of next season's events & general news in this thread, as they come to my (or anyone else's) attention.

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From: USCHO.com > DI Men > News

Air Force, Denver to co-host 2022 Ice Breaker Tournament; event to feature two host schools for first time in history

By USCHO Staff - December 7, 2021

Air Force and Denver will co-host the Ice Breaker Tournament, slated for Oct. 7-8, 2022, at the Cadet Ice Arena in Colorado Springs and Magness Arena in Denver.

The Ice Breaker Tournament, the traditional start to the college hockey season, will also include Maine and Notre Dame.

The Ice Breaker Tournament, which began in 1997 in Madison, Wis., annually brings together four teams, typically from different conferences, to celebrate the start of the college hockey season. College Hockey Inc. administers the Ice Breaker on behalf of the Hockey Commissioners Association. ...

Read more at: https://www.uscho.com/2021/12/07/ai...e-two-host-schools-for-first-time-in-history/

 

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From: College Hockey News

December 4, 2021

Belfast Tournament Scheduled Again for 2022

UMass, Lowell, Quinnipiac and Dartmouth Tagged to Participate

CHN Staff Report

The Friendship Four ice hockey tournament will return to Belfast, Northern Ireland in November 2022. The tournament will feature Massachusetts and Mass.-Lowell from Hockey East, and Quinnipiac and Dartmouth from ECAC Hockey.

Taking place at The SSE Arena, Belfast on November 25-26, 2022, the teams will compete for the Belpot. Lowell won the first tournament in 2015. Quinnipiac and UMass participated in 2016. This will be Dartmouth's first time in the tournament.

The tournament was devised and has been developed by The Odyssey Trust, "to promote education, social welfare, and community integration in Northern Ireland, building on the sister cities agreement between Belfast and Boston." The tournament last took place in Belfast in 2019 — last season it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Read more at: Belfast Tournament Scheduled Again for 2022

 

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And in news that not only @Dakota Sioux could love ...

2022 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game - Las Vegas!

• Game date - Saturday, October 29, 2022 at 7pm (Pac)
• North Dakota vs Arizona State
• T-Mobile Arena / Las Vegas
• Detailed ticket information will be released on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 with tickets going on sale to members of the North Dakota Champions Club on Monday, February 7, 2022 and to the general public on Saturday, February 12, 2022. ...

Read more at: Vegas 2022 | Ralph Engelstad Arena

 

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And in news that not only @Dakota Sioux could love ...

Me and 15,000 other Sioux fans

 

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From: ECAC Hockey

ECAC Hockey Men's Championship Returning to Lake Placid

December 10, 2021

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- ECAC Hockey and The New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) today announced a three-year agreement for the ECAC Hockey Men’s Championship, which will take place at the newly modernized 1980 Herb Brooks Arena in the Olympic Center. This season’s elite tournament will be held March 18-19, 2022, with the event remaining in Lake Placid through 2024. ECAC Hockey is one of six conferences that compete in NCAA Division I ice hockey. ...

Since the last ECAC Hockey Championship in Lake Placid, the 1980 Arena has undergone significant upgrades. It is now equipped with new dasher boards that allow it to be converted to either international or NHL size standards. The Championship in March will utilize the 200ft x 85ft NHL size, which is more typical of the rinks that ECAC Hockey programs compete on each season.

The 1980 Arena’s other impressive upgrades will be completed in January 2021, and include new seating, modernized media and concession areas, hospitality suites, new restrooms, a renovated concourse, LED event and broadcast-quality lighting, and a new air handling/dehumidification system. The 1980 Arena will be networked to the Olympic Center’s new industrial refrigeration plant, designed to make ice with improved reliability and efficiency. Ice is now maintained with a new electric Zamboni. ...

Read more at: ECAC Hockey Men's Championship Returning to Lake Placid

 

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A mixed bag of look-ahead thoughts from CHN, while the conference playoffs roll in on the men's DI side & the DI women start hitting the road to their Frozen Four ...

March 8, 2022

Between the Lines: Heading to the Playoffs Amid Another Crazy Year

Possible Coaching Changes, On-Ice Oddities and More

by Adam Wodon/Managing Editor

The playoffs are here, and specifically the point in the playoffs where there's a ton of best-of-3 quarterfinals going on, along with single-game semis nowadays. I call this weekend College Hockey Christmas.

This has been such a strange college hockey season in so many ways, that it feels nice to be getting down to the nitty gritty of the season, where the drama is all about what's going on with the game outcomes, and who the heroes and goats will be, and not the peripheral hullaballoo.

And it's not just COVID that has caused yet another season to be weird, although that certainly has been part of it. But you have to throw in the two unfortunate, and crazy, coaching situations; plus teams getting disrupted by players going to the Olympics; programs coming and going, some unexpectedly; plus all the stats issues college hockey has been dealing with — and it's been quite the crazy stew. ...

Read more at: Between the Lines: Heading to the Playoffs Amid Another Crazy Year