NCAA Weekender: Teams making the most of midseason additions

Recapping the biggest stories of the NCAA weekend.

It's another sign of how the college hockey landscape is changing faster than many teams can keep up with.

It used to be incredibly rare that teams would add players for just the second half of the season. Usually, it requires extenuating circumstances, like when Boston University brought in Mikhail Yegorov last January to tighten up a goaltending position that had turned into an unignorable problem. Other times, it was done because of multiple long-term or season-ending injuries leaving a team's roster depth depleted. This happened maybe once a year across 60-plus Div. 1 NCAA programs.

But in December and January of this season, Boston University, Boston College, Providence, Bemidji State, Michigan, Miami, Northern Michigan, and Colorado Col