Since October, we’ve been building to an inevitable and thrilling end to college hockey season. Here it comes, with the NCAA Regionals getting underway on Friday and taking us through the weekend. It’s a wide-open field, even compared to other years, and with so many teams capable of making a run it’s really anyone’s game at this point. Chris Lynch of Insidehockey.com joins the show to break down last week’s conference finals, this year’s bracket, and whether one of the Hockey East teams in the northeast region will advance.

This year’s bracket, courtesy of USCHO