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Four Canadiens draft picks, including 2017 first-rounder Ryan Poehling, will be in action this week as the NCAA men’s hockey tournament gets underway with regional play.

Poehling, 19, is a sophomore and a key member of the St. Cloud State team that has been ranked No. 1 for most of the season. St. Cloud is the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament and will begin play Friday when it meets the Air Force Academy in the West Regional at Sioux Falls, S.D. Minnesota State and Minnesota-Duluth are the other teams in the region.

Notre Dame is the top seed in the East Regional and will meet Michigan Tech at Bridgeport, Conn. The Irish are led by All-Big 10 centre Jake Evans, who was the Canadiens’ seventh-round pick in 2014. He has 11 goals and 29 assists in 36 games. He also represented Canada at the Spengler Cup. He’s a senior, which means the Canadiens have to make a decision on whether to sign him before August.