The regular season is done in the ECAC, CCHA, and Atlantic Hockey, with the bottom teams kicking off the tournaments next week for each. Hockey East and the WCHA all have one more week of regular season hockey to set up their conference tournaments, but that's all fine and dandy because ladies and gentlemen, TOURNAMENT TIME is here BABY!!!
Here is this week's predicted tourney bracket, with two changes from the straight pairwise rankings. I swapped Merrimack with Denver to avoid a HE first round matchup but to still keep Merrimack out east. I then swapped Minnesota and Miami to put the Gophers in St Paul (where they are required to be as hosts). After that, it seems like attendance is as good as possible everywhere, as the eastern regionals are tough to make strong attendance-wise due to only 6 eastern-based teams making the tourney as of today.
East Regional (Bridgeport - 8,412)
4 Ferris St 15 Merrimack
5 BU 12 Northern Michigan
West Regional (St Paul - 18,064)
1 UMD 16 Air Force
7 Minnesota 9 Union
Midwest Regional (Green Bay - 8,709)
3 Michigan 14 North Dakota
6 UMass Lowell 11 Michigan St
Northeast Regional (Worcester - 12,239)
2 BC 13 Denver
8 Miami 10 Maine
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