Lots of good reads in advance of this weekend’s conference tournaments:

• Friend of INCH George Sipple has had a couple pieces in the Detroit Free Press this week — one on the strong goaltending in the CCHA, and one on the return of Michigan defenseman Mark Mitera.
• Goaltending is also the talk in Hockey East, where John Connolly of the Boston Herald explores John Muse’s role in BC’s late-season run.
• More goaltending, this from the Ithaca Journal‘s Brandon Thomas, discussing the standout netminders in the upcoming ECAC Hockey semifinals. He also chronicles the second-half surge of Cornell defenseman Brendon Nash.