The Frozen Four dreams of Coquitlam’s Adam Rockwood have melted away. His 16th-ranked Northern Michigan University Wildcats hockey team lost their Western Collegiate Hockey Association championship game to Michigan Technological University, 2-0, Saturday in Marquette, Mich.
MTU now advances to the round of 16 top teams playing for a spot in the NCAA Frozen Four championship that is being held in St. Paul, Minn. in early April.
Rockwood, playing his junior season for the Wildcats after sitting out last season when he transferred from the University of Wisconsin, finished with 40 assists in 43 games, the most of any player in the NCAA. Before heading south, he played two seasons with the Coquitlam Express of the BC Hockey League.
Another former player with the Express is still alive in the quest for an NCAA Div. 1 title. Jackson Cressey's Princeton Tigers will play the Ohio State Buckeyes in their Midwest Regional semi-final on Saturday, in Allentown, Pa.
Cressey scored 57 goals and 72 assists in his 198 games with the Express that included winning the Fred Paige Cup in 2014. As a sophmore this season at Princeton, he's scored 38 points in 33 games. Last year he led all the Tiger's freshmen in scoring, with 33 points in 34 games.
