David Hanrahan and Eric Rivard went to the Hockey Weekly High School All-State Awards banquet in Livonia, receiving miniature hockey sticks to commemorate their selections to the Division 1 all-state team.

Twelve area hockey players have been selected to the state's all-state teams.

Traverse City Central's season ended in Flint, as Saginaw Heritage advanced to the Division 2 Final Four.

This far into the playoffs, it doesn't get any easier. But after Traverse City Central's 4-3 triple-overtime victory over No. 7 Midland in the Division 2 hockey regional finals on Saturday, can it get much harder?

Providence, destiny, redemption. They all could apply in their own way. A year after losing to Midland in quadruple overtime in the regional finals, Traverse City Central handed the Chemics a triple-overtime setback in a Division 2 hockey regional championship game Saturday afternoon at Howe Arena.

Traverse City Central will see a familiar foe in Saturday's Division 2 regional hockey finale. The Trojans beat Negaunee Thursday afternoon to set up a rematch with Midland in the championship game at Howe Arena.

Eric Rivard just broke a big record, but you wouldn't know it. In Traverse City West's Division 1 hockey pre-regional win over the Bay Reps, Rivard had a hat trick among his four points.

Who doesn't root for the little guy? The Northwest Warriors -- outmatched against powerful Traverse City Central but still doing everything they could to make it a game -- were mercied to close out the program's inaugural season.

Eric Rivard scored nine seconds into the game Tuesday as Traverse City West rolled to a Division 1 hockey regional win over Manistee at Centre ICE. (Plus Gaylord vs. Petoskey.)