DULUTH – As far as we know, there is no 218 Chapter of the Northeastern University Alumni Club. So, a fever for the Huskies’ women’s hockey program is the only explanation for a few hundred fans of the program that is clearly fourth in the pecking order of Beantown-area college hockey teams — behind, in some order, Harvard, Boston College and Boston University — showing up at the Women’s Frozen Four opener. Whether those fans made the 22-hour highway trek to Duluth from their campus — within a long David Ortiz poke of Fenway Park — or jetted to MSP or DLH and then drove to Amsoil Arena, they almost certainly made their way through some rough weather. The night before Friday’s semifinal games, the Twin Ports put the “frozen” back in Frozen Four, with plunging temperatures, snow and howling winds that gave out-of-towners a harsh lesson in the realities…
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