The 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season began in October 2017 and ended with the
Frozen Four
The annual NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament is a college ice hockey tournament held in the United States by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to determine the top men's team in Division I. Like other Division I cham ...
in April 2018. This was the 71st
season
A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's axial tilt, tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperat ...
in which an NCAA ice hockey championship was held, and US college hockey's 124th year overall.
Conference realignment
The only conference change for 2017-18 was that
Notre Dame moved from
Hockey East
The Hockey East Association, also known as Hockey East, is a college ice hockey conference which operates entirely in New England. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference.
Hockey East came into existence in 1984 for ...
to the
Big Ten
The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives in 1 ...
as an associate member for men's hockey.
Polls
Regular season
Standings
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2018 NCAA tournament
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Player stats
Scoring leaders
''GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes''
Leading goaltenders
The following goaltenders lead the NCAA in
goals against average
Goals against average (GAA), also known as average goals against (AGA), is a statistic used in field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, and water polo that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender or goalkeeper (depending on spo ...
while playing at least 33% of their team's total minutes.
''GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% =
Save percentage
Save percentage (often known by such symbols as SV%, SVS%, SVP, PCT) is a statistic in various Goal (sports), goal-scoring sports that track Save (goaltender), saves as a statistic.
In ice hockey and lacrosse and association football, it is a sta ...
; GAA = Goals against average''
Awards
NCAA
Atlantic Hockey
Big Ten
ECAC
Hockey East
NCHC
WCHA
Hobey Baker Award
Bold names are Hobey "Hat-trick" finalists
Mike Richter Award
2018 NHL Entry Draft
† incoming freshman
See also
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2017–18 NCAA Division II men's ice hockey season
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2017–18 NCAA Division III men's ice hockey season
References
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NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates College athletics in the United States, student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and Simon Fraser University, 1 in Canada. ...