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[email protected] WESTERN COLLEGIATE OPENING FACEOFF • Tradition Starts Here: The Men's League of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association proudly drops the puck on its HOCKEY ASSOCIATION 68th season on Oct. 5. • FOUNDED 1951 • • The WCHA is coming off a 2018-19 campaign that saw it send two teams to the NCAA regionals (Minnesota State 2950 Metro Drive, Suite 102 and Bowling Green), produce a quartet of 20-win teams for the second year in a row (MSU, Northern Michigan, Bloomington, MN 55425 BGSU and Lake Superior State), land two teams in the final national polls (No. 6/6 MSU and No. 13/14 BGSU) and boast the nation's leading goal scorer in LSSU's Diego Cuglietta, who tallied 25 goals to lead the NCAA. 952-681-7947 • Returning Firepower: When the puck drops on the 2019-20 college hockey season on Oct. 5, the WCHA will ice four student-athletes who lead or co-lead all returning NCAA players in seven different statistical categories. MEMBER TEAMS • Minnesota State’s Marc Michaelis tops all returning players in four categories – points (118), goals (51), power University of Alabama in Huntsville play goals (22) and shorthanded goals (7). Michaelis’ MSU teammate, Ian Scheid, will begin the 2019-20 season University of Alaska Anchorage with an active consecutive games streak of 121 games, which is the longest current streak in the country. University of Alaska Fairbanks Northern Michigan blueliner Philip Beaulieu leads all active players with 76 career assists while teammate Darien Craighead is tied with three other players for the most shorthanded goals (10) among returning players.