Because of the predicted snowstorm, Dexter won't be able to get up to Exeter for Sunday's Prep Cup, so the Seacoast Performance Academy U18s will take their place. 9:00 am -- Nichols-Gunn 9:30 am -- Seacoast U18-MSC 11:40 am -- Culver-SAC 12:10 on -- Championship: Northwood-KUA

This week's poll is up in USHR Prep News. Avon is #1 again.

As has been the case all season, undefeated Avon Old Farms holds onto the top spot in the just-released USHR Prep Poll. In addition, a couple new teams entered the Top 10. Check it out in USHR Prep News.

Today's Winchendon @ Andover game has been cancelled.

Wednesday's big neutral-site tilt between #2 Cushing and #4 Brunswick is a 3:30 pm start -- NOT 4:30 as some sources have it -- and will take place at the new rink at UConn (Toscano Family Ice Forum).

The new USHR Prep Poll has just been published and, no surprise, undefeated Avon (17-0-1) is #1. Please see USHR Prep News for the full poll. Enjoy!

Today's game between #2 Cushing and #4 Brunswick -- a rematch of last year's Elite 8 semifinals -- can be seen free of charge, and anywhere in the world at: events.locallive.tv/events/138205

The season's fifth and final USHR Prep Poll is out, and there's been a change at the top as Cushing is the new #1. As usual, it's available in USHR Prep News, but we're also making this one free for everyone at: ushr.com/neprep/rankings Enjoy!

If you are fortunate enough to be playing in a meaningful game today, don't take it for granted, don't squander it. Instead, dig deep, work to the height of your ability, and help make the day one you'll remember forever, win or lose.

In USHR Prep News, we've listed the Livestream links to 11 of the 12 NEPSAC quarterfinals today. The only one we're missing is Berkshire @ Nobles. If anyone has that -- or knows if it exists -- please let us know. Thanks, and best of luck to all!

Congratulations to KUA's Jack Sadowski, USHR's clear-cut player -- and forward -- of the year. On defense, there was a tie between Caeden Herrington (Holderness) and Andrew O'Sullivan (KUA). In net, another tie, between Marko Bilic (Cushing) and Ryder Shea (St. George's).

At the Small School Championship at Harvard's Bright-Landry Hockey Center, Canterbury d-man Logan Martel scored a power play goal — beating Rivers goalie Jason Delehoy blocker side — for the only goal of the first period.

#1 Rivers and #3 Canterbury traded goals in the second. Saints captain Ryan Stratton cashed in on a backdoor pass to extend his team's lead to 2-0, but Rivers junior Will Hatten answered, with an unassisted goal, less than five minutes later. 2-1, Canterbury, headed to the third.

Rivers had a slew of chance in the third period, but junior goalie Maxim Pitts stood tall, even with his team skating briefly three-on-five. The frame's only score was an empty-netter that iced a 3-1 Canterbury win. It's the first boys hockey title for the Saints since 1997.

In the Large School title game between #3 Dexter and #5 Kent, the two sides traded tallies — 24 seconds apart — in the first period. Kent's Gio DiGiulian scored a five-hole goal on the rush, then Dexter sophomore Matthew Hines got a favorable re-direction that tied the game.

Dexter kept the pressure on in the second, outshooting Kent 13-7 for the period, but nobody scored. Both goaltenders — Dexter sophomore Colin Davis (10/11) and Kent senior Aiden Hopewell (30/31) — have been up to the task. Tied at 1-1 after two frames.

Kent senior Gio DiGiulian — a Cornell recruit — scored his second goal of the day with 47 seconds left, breaking a 2-2 tie with #3 Dexter and lifting #5 Kent to its third Large School title in five seasons.

#2 Kimball Union boasts UNH recruit Jack Sadowski — USHR's Player of the Year. The senior figured into both first period goals — scoring once and assisting on another — in the Elite 8 title game against #1 Cushing. KUA leads 2-0 after the first.

Behind three points from Jack Sadowski (2g,1a) and a 34-of-35 performance in net by senior Colby Boyce, #2 Kimball Union topped #1 Cushing, 4-1, to win its first Elite 8 title since a "three-peat" between 2017 and 2019.

Behind three points from Jack Sadowski (2g,1a) and a 34-of-35 performance in net from junior Blake McMenimen (sorry for the earlier typo!), #2 Kimball Union topped #1 Cushing, 4-1, to win its first Elite 8 title since a "three-peat" between 2017 and 2019.