Todd D. MilewskiIt has been a stretch to compare last season’s Denver team to this one because their travels have been so vastly different. One team took the long way, going through a series of trials that would have made many groups crumble. The next took what appeared, in comparison, to be the easy route, with only … Read more
Goaltender Peter Mannino has a handful of big saves and Paul Stastny’s second-period power-play goal has Denver one period away from a second consecutive national championship. Mannino has 21 saves through two periods and the Pioneers lead 2-1 after 40 minutes Saturday at Value City Arena. The freshman, who is making his first back-to-back starts … Read more
Denver has crafted a 3-0 record against North Dakota this season, with a key reason being that the Pioneers have been able to stay a step or two ahead of the Sioux. Translating that to Saturday’s national championship game, the start will be critical to both. The Pioneers have scored first in all three games … Read more
Erik Fabian’s second two-goal effort of the playoffs may not have been expected, but it has put North Dakota just one period away from a date with Denver in the national championship game. Fabian, a fourth-line winger, has both goals as North Dakota leads Minnesota 2-0 after two periods of a Frozen Four semifinal at … Read more
Special teams are ruling the day in the first Frozen Four semifinal, and Denver is taking a three-goal lead into the third period. Luke Fulghum scored a pair of power-play goals in the first period and Matt Carle added one on the man advantage in the second to give Denver a 3-0 lead over Colorado … Read more
The great late-season run of North Dakota goaltender Jordan Parise continues. And you can add Erik Fabian to the list of those who have helped make it happen. Yes, Erik Fabian, a fourth-line winger who scored twice, giving the Sioux a 2-0 lead, as UND advanced to Saturday’s national championship with a 4-2 victory over … Read more
What a time for Denver to find its touch on the power play. The Pioneers are a victory away from defending their national championship after scoring six times with the man advantage in emphatically dispatching in-state rival Colorado College 6-2 in Thursday’s first semifinal of the Frozen Four at Value City Arena. Luke Fulghum and … Read more
It’s not just four WCHA teams in the Frozen Four: it’s a pair of rivalry games in the semifinals Thursday.
A very different team produced a familiar result for Denver, which has a shot at a second straight NCAA title this weekend.
When the chips were down in the regional final, Mark Stuart led Colorado College out of the wilderness.
Listed below are the 38 players with U.S. college experience competing in the IIHF World Championships from April 2nd to April 9th in Sweden. The breakdown by country is 10 from Canada, 4 from Finland, 2 from Germany, 2 from Sweden and all 20 from the United States. The list includes 15 current U.S. collegians, … Read more
When Colorado College completed a comeback from a three-goal deficit to win the Midwest Regional Saturday evening, a WCHA representative remarked that at least the league was guaranteed of having one team in the Frozen Four. Twenty-four hours later, the WCHA had taken the other three spots, too. Denver, North Dakota and Minnesota will join … Read more
Colorado College players wanted to celebrate early. Scott Owens waited until he heard the horn. After the Tigers sent the puck out of the zone one last time to seal a 4-3 victory over Michigan Saturday and a trip to the Frozen Four, the CC players started jumping up and down on the bench. Some … Read more
The number of penalties, shots and available players weren’t in their favor, but North Dakota, playing its third game in three days, got the job done nonetheless. North Dakota claimed third place in the WCHA Final Five Saturday afternoon with a 4-2 victory over Minnesota in front of a paid attendance of 14,730 at the … Read more
North Dakota forward Robbie Bina, who was injured on a check from behind in Friday’s WCHA Final Five semifinal game against Denver, has a broken neck that may end his hockey career, sources indicated Saturday. Bina’s neck injury is being monitored by neurosurgeons at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, his mother Rose said in a … Read more
Advantage Denver. For now. The Pioneers won a title game in a familiar fashion Saturday night at the Xcel Energy Center. Their 1-0 victory over rival Colorado College, sparked by 25 saves by Peter Mannino and a second-period goal by Luke Fulghum, was a reminder of their 2004 national championship victory over Maine. They limited … Read more
The first goal was nothing special, Gabe Gauthier said. The second goal? “Very special,” Gauthier said. That seems fitting, considering Gauthier’s second goal of a WCHA Final Five semifinal game Friday came in overtime. Gauthier scored 42 seconds into an extra session to send top-seeded Denver to Saturday’s championship game with a 2-1 victory over … Read more
It was quite a day for Colin Murphy. Not only did the Michigan Tech senior learn Thursday he was one of 10 finalists for the Hobey Baker Award and a member of the all-WCHA first team, he signed a professional deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Murphy said it’s a two-year contract but declined to … Read more
Their rivalry is one of the best in college hockey right now because both teams are having tremendous seasons. Colorado College and Denver, located about 70 miles apart on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, shared the MacNaughton Cup as WCHA regular-season champions. Now, they’ll get another game to decide who’s best. Colorado College … Read more
It was a Rocky Mountain-dominated WCHA awards ceremony Thursday. Co-MacNaughton Cup champions Denver and Colorado College claimed five of the six spots on the All-WCHA first team as well as awards for the coach of the year, defensive player of the year and rookie of the year. Colorado College forward Marty Sertich was named the … Read more