After a few weeks of pretty heated tournament action across six conferences and some really spirited regional games, the NCAA has gotten down to its last four remaining teams, and they’ll clash on Thursday and Saturday in Las Vegas, Nevada in this year’s Frozen Four!

North Dakota, Wisconsin, Denver and Michigan will clash, with one team emerging as the top dogs in college hockey for 2025-26. Four Calgary Flames prospects will be represented over the next few days – Cole Reschny, Abram Wiebe and Cade Littler with North Dakota, and Eric Jamieson with Denver – and we’ll see if any of them capture the national championship.

Here’s a quick snapshot of Thursday’s game action, with both semi-final games available for streaming on TSN+.

Dylan James (DET) – Ellis Rickwood – Will Zellers (BOS)
Mac Swanson (PIT) – Cole Reschny (CGY) – Ben Strinden (NSH)
Cody Croal – Jack Kernan – Tyler Young
David Klee (SJS) – Cade Littler (CGY) – Josh Zakreski

Jake Livanavage – Bennett Zmolek
Abram Wiebe (CGY) – E.J. Emery (NYR)
Andrew Strathman (CBJ) – Keaton Verhoeff
Sam Laurila (NYI)

Jan Spunar
Gibson Homer
Zach Sandy

The thing that the Fighting Hawks have in abundance is high-end depth throughout their lineup. They have the ability to mix and match different players in their top six and top two defensive pairings for different situations, and they’ve gotten some pretty effective contributions from their third and fourth lines, too. And Jan Spunar is one of the best goalies in the nation. If he gets hot, he can steal games on his own.

Christian Fitzgerald – Gavin Morrissey – Quinn Finley (NYI)
Ryan Botterill – Oliver Tulk – Simon Tassy
Blake Montgomery (OTT) – Vasily Zelenov (BUF) – Jack Horbach
Finn Brink – Grady Deering – Adam Pietila
Kyle Kukkonen (ANA)

Joe Palodichuk – Ben Dexheimer
Luke Osburn (BUF) – Aiden Dubinsky
Weston Knox – Jack Phelan (DET)

Daniel Hauser
Eli Pulver

Wisconsin is arguably the less star-studden team in their semi-final, but they don’t lack quality. They’re a pretty balanced group from top to bottom, which has allowed them to get this far. They’re without Ottawa Senators prospect Logan Hensler due to injury, but there’s some chatter that New York Islanders pick Zach Schulz may be able to return after breaking his leg back in December. We’ll see if the Badgers have enough in the tank to grind out another couple wins this season.

Rieger Lorenz (MIN) – Samu Salminen (NJD) – James Reeder (LAK)
Sam Harris (MTL) – Clarke Caswell (SEA) – Kristian Epperson (LAK)
Kyle Chyzowski – Kieran Cebrian – Brendan McMorrow (LAK)
Reid Varkonyi – Jake Fisher (COL) – Hagen Burrows (TBL)
Brady Milburn

Eric Jamieson (CGY) – Eric Pohlkamp (SJS)
Boston Buckberger – Kent Anderson
Cale Ashcroft – Garrett Brown (WPG)
Payton Nelson

Johnny Hicks
Quentin Miller
Paxton Geisel

The Pioneers haven’t lost a game since late January. They boast a strong netminder in Johnny Hicks and some pretty strong pieces up and down their lineup, led by Hobey Baker finalist Eric Pohlkamp. They have a really promising group of “secondary” stars, too, including Flames prospect Eric Jamieson.

Other teams may be flashier, but Denver’s been good, and consistently so, for months. Heck, pretty much all season.

Malcolm Spence (NYR) – T.J. Hughes – Jayden Perron (CAR)
Will Horcoff (PIT) – Cole McKinney (SJS) – Nick Moldenhauer (TOR)
Adam Valentini – Kason Muscutt – Aidan Park (EDM)
Garrett Schifsky – Kienan Draper (DET) – Josh Eernisse
Michael Hage (MTL)

Tyler Duke – Luca Fantilli
Ben Robertson – Drew Schock (ANA)
Dakota Rheaume-Mullen – Asher Barnett (EDM)

Jack Ivankovic (ANA)
Stephen Peck
Julian Molinaro

Michigan is missing a few key players, notably Flames prospect Henry Mews, and they were without Habs prospect Michael Hage for their regional semi-final game against Bentley… but damn, these guys are a wagon. They have not lost a game since the end of February, and their season has only a few blemishes on it.

Led by Hobey Baker finalist T.J. Hughes, the Wolverines can beat their opponents in a lot of different ways. If you don’t have the right game plan, they can get away from you in a hurry.