UMass celebrates its first-ever Hockey East championship victory over UMass Lowell on March 20. (Richard T. Gagnon/Getty Images)
Massachusetts will be without four players when the team hits the ice for the Frozen Four on Thursday, including its leading goal scorer and starting goaltender.
Graduate transfer forward Carson Gicewicz and junior netminder Filip Lindberg have been sidelined from the national semifinal due to COVID-19 contact tracing protocols, the university announced on Tuesday.
Sophomore Providence College transfer Jerry Harding, as well as third-string netminder Henry Graham, are also ineligible to play due to contact tracing.
