Ultimately, just one remains when the tournament’s Frozen Four convenes in St. Louis on Thursday. Hockey East schools earned two of the four No. 1 seeds: Boston College and Maine, the Hockey East tournament champ.

Guy Gadowsky still thinks about those first days in 2011. He remembers sitting in his office, reading stories. They were about his Penn State hockey program, which had just made the jump to the Division I level after six decades as a club sport.