The 2025 NCAA Frozen Four gets underway starting Thursday at Enterprise Center in St. Louis.
The USHL is well-represented on all four participating schools, with 79 total alumni competing in this year’s NCAA Frozen Four event.
All four starting goaltenders played in the USHL: Denver’s Matt Davis (Green Bay Gamblers, 2020-21); Western Michigan’s Hampton Slukynsky (Fargo Force, 2023-24); Mikhail Yegorov of Boston University (Omaha Lancers, 2023-25); Arsenii Sergeyev of Penn State (Sioux Falls Stampede/Tri-City Storm, 2021-22).
Nine players competing in this year’s Frozen Four captured Clark Cup titles. One player, Denver’s Garrett Brown, has the distinction of winning both a Clark Cup and NCAA National Championship. Brown captured a Clark Cup with the Sioux City Musketeers in 2022 and took home an NCAA Championship with the Pioneers in 2024.
Denver’s head coach and former Green Bay assistant David Carle has been part of three national championships since 2017, the last two as head coach in 2022 and 2024.
Every Hobey Baker Hat Trick Finalist played in the USHL with the National Team Development Program (NTDP): Zeev Buium (Denver), Ryan Leonard and Isaac Howard.
Eight of the last 10 Hobey Baker Award winners are USHL alumni, including each of the last five.
Three of the top four finalists for the Mike Richter Award came from the USHL. Since the inception of the award in 2014, the league’s alumni have received more than half of the nods recognizing the top goalie in college hockey.
More than 30 USHL and NCAA alumni have signed NHL entry-level contracts within the last month. USHL alumni have combined for 25 NHL debuts this season.
Click here for a complete list of all former USHL players competing in this year’s Frozen Four.