PLAYOFF OPENER
• No. 20 Michigan Tech opens the CCHA Mason Cup Playoffs with a best-of-three quarterfinal series against Bowling Green.
• The Huskies are the No. 4 seed and the Falcons are the No. 5 seed.
• The puck will drop on Friday at 7:07 p.m., Saturday at 6:07 p.m., and, if necessary, Sunday at 5:07 p.m. at the John MacInnes Student Ice Arena.
• The Huskies are 21-12-3 overall and went 16-7-3 in the CCHA.
• BGSU is 18-9-7 overall and went 15-7-4 in the CCHA.
 
OTHER FIRST ROUND MATCHUPS
• No. 1 Minnesota State hosts No. 8 Ferris State.
• No. 2 St. Thomas hosts No. 7 Lake Superior State.
• No. 3 Augustana hosts No. 6 Bemidji State.
 
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
• The CCHA Semifinals are a single game played on Saturday, March 14.
• The CCHA Mason Cup Championship Game is on Friday, March 20.
• NCAA Regionals are March 26-29.
• The 2026 Frozen Four is April 9 and 11 in Las Vegas.
 
ON THE RADIO
• Mix 93.5 FM WKMJ broadcasts all Michigan Tech hockey games.
• Fans can listen live on the radio at Mix 93.5 FM WKMJ, online at TheMix93.com or Pasty.com, or by using your favorite radio streaming app.
• Dirk Hembroff will call all the action in his 24th year behind the microphone.
 
WATCH THE GAMES
• All Michigan Tech home and CCHA games during the 2025-26 season will be live-streamed on Midco Sports Plus 2.
• Fans can stream all CCHA games live and on-demand, on their home televisions, computers, tablets, and mobile devices via Midco Sports Plus.
• The app is available on mobile/tablet apps (iOS and Android), connected TV device apps (AppleTV, FireTV and Roku) and a web-based browser interface.
 
HUSKIES RANKED
• Michigan Tech is ranked No. 20 in this week's USCHO.com Poll and is receiving votes in the USA Hockey Polls.
• Tech has been ranked in the top 20 since Jan. 19.
 
SCOUTING THE FALCONS
• BGSU is 18-9-7 overall and went 15-7-4 in the CCHA.
• The Falcons are receiving votes in both national polls.
• BGSU is 10-4-4 in road games and ranks third in the nation in faceoff winning percentage and sixth in most penalty minutes per game.
• Quinn Emerson leads the team with 31 points, and Tyler Hotson has 12 goals. Four players have over 25 points.
• Goaltenders Jacob Steinman (8-3-3, 2.14, .921), Cole Moore (5-4-3, 2.40, .912), and Tyler Palmer (5-2-1, 2.15, .910) have split time between the pipes this season.
• Dennis Williams is in his second season as head coach.
• The Falcons went 18-14-4 overall last season and 12-10-4 in the CCHA.
• They were picked fifth in the CCHA Preseason Coaches' Poll and third in the Media Poll.

SERIES INFO
• Tech is 28-29-6 all-time against BGSU, dating back to 1972.
• The Huskies are 13-12-4 in Houghton against the Falcons.
• Tech is 4-6 against BGSU in the conference playoffs, which includes a win in the 2017 WCHA Championship Game in Houghton and a win in the 2015 WCHA Semifinal at Xcel Energy Center.
• In the conference first round, Tech is 2-6 with a series win in 2024 in Houghton, and losses in Ohio in 2014, 2019, and 2025.
• All six playoff losses to BG have been in Ohio.
 
FIRST MEETING
• No. 16 Tech wrapped up the regular season with a pair of losses to Bowling Green last weekend at home.
• The Falcons won 1-0 on Friday and 4-3 in overtime on Saturday.
• Max Koskipirtti, Teydon Trembecky, and Carson Latimer scored.
 
CCHA DEFENSEMAN OF THE MONTH
• Jack Anderson is the CCHA Defenseman of the Month for the second straight time.
•  Anderson paced conference blueliners with eight points across six games in February, scoring five goals with three assists and finishing the month at plus-3. Netting two power-play goals and one game-winner, he had 22 shots on goal, while blocking 11 defensively and averaging a nation-leading 26:57 minutes per contest.
 
HOBEY BAKER CANDIDATES
• Stiven Sardarian is a Hobey Baker candidate for the second year in a row.
• Owen Bartoszkiewicz is also a candidate for college hockey's top player award.
• Fans can vote at hobeybaker.com/vote.
 
STATISTICAL NOTES
• Michigan Tech leads the nation in games played (36) this season.
• Tech is sixth in the nation with 21 wins.
• Owen Bartoszkiewicz leads the nation in minutes played and is third in wins (21). He ranks fifth with 899 saves.
• Stiven Sardarian is fourth in the nation in assists (31) and 10th in points (42).
• Max Koskipirtti is ranks 11th in the nation with four game-winning goals and is 10th in faceoff wins (358).
• Jack Anderson leads the CCHA with a plus-16 rating. He ranks third in the nation in goals (10) by a defenseman and second in CCHA defenseman points (23).
• Tech ranks ninth in the nation in overall team assists (205) and 17th in save percentage (.910).
• The Huskies are 10-2-1 when leading after the first period and 11-0-2 when scoring the first goal of the third period. They are 8-4-2 at home and 14-1-0 when scoring four or more goals.
 
COLLEGE HOCKEY INC. NOTES
• Bill Muckalt is one of 11 new coaches across the country for the 2025-26 season.
• Michigan Tech is tied for the largest freshman class in the nation (12).
• 24 percent of Finlanders in college hockey are on Michigan Tech's roster (5-of-25).
• Seven of the 76 players in college hockey who played in the WHL are on Michigan Tech's roster.
• Coach Muckalt is one of six NCAA head coaches with NHL playing experience.
 
COACH MUCKALT
• Bill Muckalt was named the 23rd head coach at Michigan Tech on May 22, 2025.
• Muckalt returned to Houghton after one season as head coach of Lindenwood.
• Muckalt was an assistant coach at Tech for four seasons from 2011-15.
• Muckalt played 256 NHL games over five seasons with Vancouver, New York Islanders, Ottawa, and Minnesota. He scored 97 career points with 40 goals and 57 assists.
• He won two National Championships as a player at Michigan in 1996 and 1998 and was an All-American in 1998.
 
SPORTSCENTER TOP 10
• Carson Latimer's second-period goal at Northern Michigan on Nov. 8 checked in at number five on ESPN's top 10 plays of the night.
• It was also highlighted as No. 1 in the CCHA top plays of the week.
 
NON-CONFERENCE
• The Huskies went 5-5 in non-conference play.
• Tech split at No. 8 Minnesota on Oct. 3-4.
• The Huskies also split at Alaska on Oct. 17-18.
• Tech fell 6-4 at Clarkson on Oct. 31. The trip to New York wrapped up with a 3-0 shutout at St. Lawrence on Nov. 1.
• Tech opened the GLI with a 5-2 win over Miami and then fell 4-1 to No. 3 Michigan State in the title game.
• Non-conference play wrapped up at the Desert Hockey Class with a loss to Air Force and a win over Alaska Anchorage.
 
CCHA PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
• Oct. 27 – Stiven Sardarian – CCHA Forward of the Week
• Oct. 27 – Owen Bartoszkiewicz – CCHA Goaltender of the Week
• Nov. 3 – Teydon Trembecky – CCHA Rookie of the Week
• Nov. 10 – Stiven Sardarian – CCHA Forward of the Week
• Nov. 10 – Owen Bartoszkiewicz – CCHA Goaltender of the Week
• Dec. 15 – Owen Bartoszkiewicz – CCHA Goaltender of the Week
• Dec. 30 – Owen Bartoszkiewicz – CCHA Goaltender of the Week
• Dec. 30 – Stiven Sardarian – CCHA Forward of the Week
• Jan. 5 – Jack Anderson – CCHA Defenseman of the Week
• Jan. 12 – Max Koskipirtti – CCHA Forward of the Week
• Jan. 19 – Luca Fasciano – CCHA Defenseman of the Week
• Jan. 19 – Owen Bartoszkiewicz – CCHA Goaltender of the Week
• Jan. 26 – Stiven Sardarian – CCHA Forward of the Week
• Feb. 2 – Jack Anderson – CCHA Defenseman of the Week
• Feb. 9 – Jack Anderson – CCHA Defenseman of the Week
• Feb. 16 – Jack Anderson – CCHA Defenseman of the Week
 
CCHA DEFENSEMAN OF THE MONTH
•  Jack Anderson was the National and CCHA Defenseman of the Month for January.
•  Anderson scored four goals and added six assists in 10 games in January. He also blocked 20 shots and had a plus-12 rating.
•  Anderson had a pair of three-point games during the month. He became the first Tech defenseman since January 1985 to score a hat trick, burying three goals against Alaska Anchorage (Jan. 3) at the Desert Hockey Classic. He scored on the power play and added two assists in a win at No. 15 St. Thomas (Jan. 31).
 
CCHA FORWARD OF THE MONTH
• Stiven Sardarian has been named the CCHA Forward of the Month after he scored six goals and added seven assists in nine games in November, accumulating at least one point in eight of the nine contests.
• His 13 points ranked third in the NCAA. Sardarian had two goals and one assist against Northern Michigan (Nov. 7) and St. Thomas (Nov. 28).
 
CCHA ROOKIE OF THE MONTH
• Teydon Trembecky was named the CCHA Rookie of the Month for October after he scored five goals and added five assists in his first month of college hockey. He had three power-play goals, 23 shots on goal, and seven blocked shots.
 
CAPTAINS
• Junior Isaac Gordon is the captain of the 2025-26 Huskies.
• Junior Max Koskipirtti and seniors Jack Anderson and Joe Prouty are also on the leadership team as alternate captains.
 
PRESEASON ALL-CCHA
• Senior forward Stiven Sardarian was named to both the coaches' and media's Preseason All-CCHA Team.
• Junior forward Isaac Gordon was named to the coaches' Preseason All-CCHA Team.
 
ASSISTANT COACHES
• Benton Maass begins his first season as an Assistant Coach. Maass comes to Houghton after one season as an Assistant Coach at Lindenwood. As a defenseman, he played collegiately at New Hampshire and Minnesota State and appeared in 122 professional games in the AHL and ECHL.
• L.J. Scarpace begins his first season as an Assistant Coach. Scarpace comes to Houghton after serving as a video coach in the NHL since 2017. He most recently worked with Detroit for the past six seasons. As a goaltender, he played collegiately at Western Michigan and Michigan.
• Former Michigan Tech hockey player Tyler Shelast begins his fifth season as an assistant coach. Before being named an assistant coach, Shelast spent the previous eight seasons as the strength and conditioning coach for the Huskies.
 
NHL DEVELOPMENT CAMPS
• Jack Anderson – Philadelphia Flyers (2025)
• Owen Bartoszkiewicz – St. Louis Blues (2025)
• Rylan Brown – Winnipeg Jets (2025)
• Isaac Gordon – Columbus Blue Jackets (2024 & 2025)
• Max Koskipirtti – Dallas Stars (2025)
• Carson Latimer – Ottawa Senators (2021, 2022)
• Kalem Parker – Minnesota Wild (2023 & 2024)
• Stiven Sardarian – Buffalo Sabres (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• Teydon Trembecky – Winnipeg Jets (2025)
 
NHL DRAFT PICKS
• Carson Latimer was selected by Ottawa in the fourth round of the 2021 NHL Draft with the 123rd pick. He is now a free agent.
• Kalem Parker was selected by Minnesota in the sixth round of the 2023 NHL Draft with the 181st pick. He is now a free agent.
• Stiven Sardarian was selected by Buffalo in the third round of the 2021 NHL Draft with the 88th pick. He is now a free agent.
 
TRANSFERS
• Jack Anderson played three seasons and 90 games at Lindenwood (2022-25). He tallied 25 points with the Lions on four goals and 21 assists.
• Owen Baker played seven games in one season at Michigan State (2023-24). He notched two points with a goal and an assist.
• Owen Bartoszkiewicz played at Lindenwood in 2024-25, with a .919 save percentage and 2.57 goals-against average in 29 games. He played six games for Minnesota during the 2022-23 season with a 3.72 goals-against average and .883 save percentage.
• Joe Prouty played three seasons and 90 games at Lindenwood (2022-25). He tallied 21 points with the Lions with three goals and 18 assists.
• Stiven Sardarian played the two seasons for New Hampshire (2022-24). In 61 NCAA games for the Wildcats, he tallied nine goals and 12 assists.
 
FRESHMEN
• Tech's 12-member freshman class is tied for the largest in the country. There are eight forwards and four defensemen.
• Forwards: Ryan Abraham, Carson Birnie, Brayden Boehm, Michael Cicek, Reid Daavettila, Noah Reinhart, Teydon Trembecky, Matthew Van Blaricom
• Defensemen: Reid Andresen, Max Matthews, Kalem Parker, Braden Pietila
 
ALL-CONFERENCE SELECTIONS
• Owen Bartoszkiewicz – Independent Hockey Goaltender of the Year (2024-25)
• Rylan Brown – CCHA All-Rookie Team (2024-25)
• Isaac Gordon – CCHA Rookie of the Year (2023-24), All-CCHA Second Team (2023-24) & CCHA All-Rookie Team (2023-24)
• Elias Jansson – CCHA Rookie of the Year (2024-25) & All-CCHA Rookie Team (2024-25)
 
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR
• Tech's roster boasts players from four different countries.
• United States: 11
• Canada: 14
• Finland: 5
• Russia: 1
 
SUPERIOR PLAYER OF THE GAME
• Superior National Bank sponsors the Superior Player of the Game.
• Oct. 3 – Tom Leppa – 1 goal
• Oct. 4 – Stiven Sardarian – 3 assists
• Oct. 17 – Max Koskipirtti – 1 goal, 1 assist
• Oct. 18 – Tyler Miller – 1 goal
• Oct. 24 – Teydon Trembecky – 1 goal, 1 assist
• Oct. 25 – Stiven Sardarian – 2 assists
• Oct. 31 – Teydon Trembecky – 2 goals
• Nov. 1 – Owen Bartoszkiewicz – 29-save shutout
• Nov. 7 – Stiven Sardarian – 2 goals, 1 assist
• Nov. 8 – Lauri Raiman – 1 goal
• Nov. 14 – Owen Bartoszkiewicz – 33 saves
• Nov. 15 – Max Koskipirtti – OT goal
• Nov. 21 – Kalem Parker
• Nov. 22 – Stiven Sardarian – 2 assists
• Nov. 28 – Stiven Sardarian – 2 goals, 1 assist
• Nov. 29 – Kalem Parker – 1 goal
• Dec. 12 – Isaac Gordon – 2 assists
• Dec. 13 – Carson Birnie – 1 goal, 1 assist
• Dec. 28 – Jack Anderson – 1 goal
• Dec. 29 – Carson Latimer – 1 goal
• Jan. 2 – Elias Jansson – 1 goal, 1 assist
• Jan. 3 – Jack Anderson – hat trick
• Jan. 9 – Max Koskipirtti – 2 goals
• Jan. 10 – Brayden Boehm – 2 goals
• Jan. 16 – Carson Birnie – game winner
• Jan. 17 – Owen Bartoszkiewicz – 46 saves
• Jan. 23 – Noah Reinhart – 2 goals, 2 assists
• Jan. 24 – Elias Jansson – 1 goal, 1 assist
• Jan. 30 – Noah Reinhart – 1 goal, 1 assist
• Jan. 31 – Reid Daavettila – 1 goal
• Feb. 6 – Max Koskipirtti – OT goal
• Feb. 7 – Jack Anderson – 1 goal, 1 assist
• Feb. 13 – Jack Anderson – 2 goals
• Feb. 14 – Teydon Trembecky – OT goal
• Feb. 27 – Jack Anderson – 5 blocks
• Feb. 28 – Carson Latimer – 1 goal