Frozen Four notebook: Plante returning to UMD, Carle's status, and growing the game

It's not like Max Plante didn't have options.

When you're the Hobey Baker winner, who finished third in the country in scoring, is a Detroit Red Wings draft pick, and had all the reasons in the world to turn pro. After all, no Hobey winner has returned to college for another season in nearly 20 years, and it's more than fair to say college hockey back then as a whole was quite different from what it is today.

But what he did almost as soon as he stepped off stage from accepting the Hobey, instead, was commit to a third year at Minnesota-Duluth.

"Detroit left it up to me," Plante told the assembled reporters at the college hockey awards ceremony. "My parents gave me great advice, and talking to everybody, I tried to get a good read on what I should do. It was one of the hardest decisions I've