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Colorado College ushers out its final regular season as a member of the WCHA this week when the Tigers make the long trip to Houghton, Mich., for a two-game series against Michigan Tech.

Faceoff on the NHL-size sheet at MacInnes Student Ice Arena is 7:07 p.m. ET Friday and Saturday.

Regardless of the outcomes there, CC will finish either eighth of ninth in the conference standings and return to the road for a best-of-three first-round playoff series next week as well. Its opponent remains a mystery, at least through this Friday's action, as the seven top teams in the WCHA are separated by only six points and five still have a shot at winning the league title with two games left to play.

The Tigers and MTU last met in last year's opening round, when the lower-seeded Huskies, who had been swept at the World Arena a week earlier, bounced back to upset Colorado College in two games and advance to the WCHA Final FIve.

CC, currently 13-16-5 overall and 10-12-4 in league play, is undefeated (9-0-1) in its last 10 regular-season outings against Tech dating back to the 2007-08 season and owns a commanding 19-3-8 record at MacInnes Arena since 1993-94.

But 10th-place MIchigan Tech, with five freshmen and sophomores boasting 20-or-more points so far in 2012-13, will be no pushover. The Huskies stunned first-place St. Cloud State University, 5-1, on the road last Saturday to improve to 11-17-4 overall and 7-15-4 in the WCHA. They, too, will be trying to establish momentum for the playoffs.

The teams, whose paths are crossing for the first time this season, have played each other 178 times in the past. Colorado College owns a 93-73-12 overall advantage in those encounters.

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