NCAA Hockey: The Mind of a Goalie with Three of the Best in the Game →
With six schools atop the strength of schedule rankings for 2017, goaltending in the WCHA may be more difficult than in any other conference in the country. Four of the seven forwards named to the Patty Kazmaier top-ten list in 2017 were from the WCHA.
Wisconsin's Ann-Renée Desbiens, Minnesota-Duluth's Maddie Rooney, and Minnesota's Sidney Peter backstop three of the top five teams in the country.