The 2022 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States scheduled for on April 7âÂÂ9, 2022. The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the highest level of competition in college hockey. The tournament's Frozen FourâÂÂthe semifinals and finalsâÂÂwere hosted by Hockey East at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
In this yearâÂÂs tournament, the Hockey East conference went winless, despite having three programs in the playoffs (Massachusetts, Massachusetts-Lowell, and Northeastern). This was the first time Hockey East went winless in tournament play since 1992.
The tournament is composed of four groups of four teams in regional brackets. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. The following are the sites for the 2022 regionals:
The winner of each regional will advance to the Frozen Four:
The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced on March 20, 2022.
The NCHC received five bids, the Big Ten and Hockey East each received three, the CCHA and ECAC both received two, and one team from Atlantic Hockey received a berth.
<small>Number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament.</small>
<small>* denotes overtime period</small>
<small>Note: All game times are local.</small>
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Most Outstanding Player(s)
ESPN has US television rights to all games during the tournament for the seventeenth consecutive year. ESPN will air every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN2, ESPNews, or ESPNU. Additionally all matches will be streamed online via the ESPN app.
Regionals
Frozen Four
Westwood One has exclusive radio rights to the Frozen Four and will broadcast both the semifinals and the championship.