Read all about it (updated)

Forget about your stock portfolio for a few minutes. As promised here some of the storylines surrounding the first weekend of college hockey:

Minnesota State goalie Mike Zacharias is coming off a record-setting season.
The Freep's Minnesota State-Bemidji State preview can be found here.
Bemidji State is embarking on one of its toughest early season schedules.
Like MSU Minnesota Duluth is counting on its MVP goalie, too.
Staying in Duluth, here's a peek at what the new DECC, slated to open on New Year's Eve, 2010, will look like.
The Capital Times' Todd Milewski has five questions about the Badgers then breaks down the roster.
Staying in Madison, the Wisconsin State Journal looks for the Badgers' offensive leader.
In St. Cloud, the Huskies will face Mercyhurst for the first time, although it almost happened last year.
North Dakota's biggest question mark is in goal where it will have a new starter this year.
Goaltending is the theme in Anchorage, Alaska, this weekend, too.
The WCHA's highest-scoring team last season, Colorado College, thinks rule changes will help it score more goals this year.
The coaches at Michigan Tech and Lake Superior State, who will face each other tonight, are old friends.
When it comes to college hockey, The Denver Post says Colorado, not Minnesota, is the real "state of hockey."

Here is some additional late-afternoon reading ...

USCHO.com has put out its WCHA preview (the Mavericks are picked fourth).
This is the WCHA released the results of its beat writers poll (the Mavericks are fifth).
College Hockey News previewed the WCHA in two parts, here and here.
Inside College Hockey put its preview out earlier this week.