OMAHA, Neb. — A Hobey Baker Award finalist is out for the "foreseeable future."

A World Junior Championship candidate will be gone for months.

Two of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference's best defensemen are sidelined longterm with no promise that they'll make it back by the end of the season.

Longterm injuries to prominent players are shaping the first month of the college hockey season, and the pre-Christmas standings could largely be determined by which teams are best equipped to navigate those injuries.

UND is confronting it with the loss of Josh Zakreski, who had surgery Tuesday.

Penn State will be without Aiden Fink, a Hobey finalist last season, until the second semester, Nittany Lions coach Guy Gadowsky said.

St. Cloud State top-pair defenseman Tanner Henricks will be

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