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Northeastern wins Hockey East 3-2 over Lowell. 6 HE teams in the NCAA out of 16 spots.
Ferris state beats Minnesota State for the WCHA crown, RIT wins the AHA, for two automatic births falling to teams outside the top 16 PWR.
QU beats Harvard, 4-1, for the Whitelaw Cup / ECAC title. Both were assured of NCAA slots before the game. So that is 10. North Dakota and Denver make it out of the NCHC even though they lost in the semis. St Cloud is guaranteed a slot, too. That makes 13, and Michigan was also guaranteed a spot due to its ranking. Therefore going into the B1G and NCHC championship games, there were 2 open slots for 3 teams. Minnesota could win its way in if it beat Michigan, Minnesota-Duluth would make it either with a win or a Minnesota loss, and Yale would make it if either Minnesota or Duluth lost.
Michigan comes back in the 3d period after trailing, 3-2, to defeat Minnesota 5-3. That guarantees Yale and UM-D the last two slots.
St Cloud is beating UMD, 3-1, but both are in the tournament. If it loses, Duluth is the last at large team. Duluth making the final bumped Cornell.