Great Escape: USA Hockey Under 18 Tier II National Championship

The will help host the USA Hockey Under 18 Tier II National Championships today until April 2.

That means fans can see some high-caliber, high-quality, high school hockey teams from all across the country for cheap.

The Gilmour Youth Hockey Association and Team Cleveland are hosting the competition and one of the brackets will compete in Mentor. Cleveland has not hosted any part of the national championship since 1994.

Thirty-six high school teams from across the country will come to Cleveland to compete, and 12 will face off in Mentor's bracket.

Games will begin this morning and continue through Saturday afternoon. Then the championship game will be April 3 at Gilmour Academy.

Hockey fans can buy a day pass ($10 for adults, $7 for kids and seniors) or a pass for the entire weekend ($35 for adults, $20 for kids and seniors,) depending on how much hockey they want to watch.

Passes can be bought at the door of the arena.