The time has come to decide the 2025 NCAA men's hockey championship. The Frozen Four is set, with Boston University and Penn State set to do battle for the chance to take on the winner of the Denver-Western Michigan contest for the national championship.

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Ohio State, Minnesota and No. 2 Michigan State all fell in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, leaving Penn State (22-13-4) as the final team remaining from the conference in the tournament. After their miserable start in conference play, the Nittany Lions proved it isn’t how you start, it’s how you finish.

College hockey's overtime rules surprisingly can vary by conference until the NCAA tournament and Frozen Four roll around.

UConn is coming off a 5-2 loss to Maine, the No. 3 overall seed in the 2025 NCAA Men's Hockey Tournament in the Hockey East championship game on Friday. The Huskies are 22-11-4 overall on the season and a dark horse team to make the Frozen Four, per former Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player Colby Cohen on the ESPNU bracket reveal show.

That fact was never displayed more prominently than when Cerrato had the instincts to know his teammate was trailing behind him for the game-winning overtime goal in Sunday night’s 2-1 win over UConn to send Penn State to its first Frozen Four in program history.

The two teams went into the second intermission knotted at 2-2, and the third period saw a stalemate once again to send the game into overtime. UConn took some of the momentum with aggressive play and outshot the Nittany Lions in the third period.

To understand how Connor Caponi has impacted the Denver Pioneers amid their pursuit of a third NCAA championship in four seasons, rewind the tape to his senior season at Culver Military Academy in

Penn State left wing Matt Dimarsico, left, celebrates with his teammates Friday after scoring a goal against Maine in the second period during the first round of the NCAA college hockey tournament in Allentown.

Two veteran area high school hockey coaches, once rivals but now on the same bench, will square off again in a nostalgic-themed competition tied to the NCAA Division I men’s