In honor of the college hockey playoffs starting, I thought I'd share this puck. It features the founding eight members of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC), home to 7 of the last 9 D-1 national champions. The original teams are Denver University, University of North Dakota, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Universityof Minnesota-Duluth, Colorado College, St. Cloud State University, Miami of Ohio, and Western Michigan University. This was before Arizona State joined in 2024 and St. Thomas joins next season, giving the NCHC 10 teams.

I had the honor of meeting Trenton Bliss this 4th of July! We got to talk hockey, cards, and everything in between! He’s a super chill guy and was a blast to talk to!

Pretty neat piece in my PC from my time playing hockey. This comes from the Holiday Classic tournament held at the John Macinnes Student Ice Arena, home of the the Michigan Tech Huskies D1 hockey program.

The goal came against our biggest rival, the Hancock Bulldogs - which was also my old school from K-8.

This roster was absolutely STACKED for a high school program. Future Pros, college D1/2/3 players, and Junior Players across the country. 12-0 in the conference, 23-3 final record, which was eventually broken by 24 wins my SR year. We lost in the state quarter finals this season - which was a complete upset. SR season we lost in the state finals.

Bonus points if you can find me in this team photo from 2013 🙃