While the Denver Pioneers had a lot of offensive talent and an outstanding goalie in Mike Richter Award winner Tanner Jaillet, it’s not hyperbole to say that without the presence of senior Will Butcher on the blue line, Denver might not have won its eighth national championship this year. Butcher, our 2017 USCHO player of … Read more
It would not be accurate to say Jim Montgomery inherited a bare cupboard when he started as Denver’s coach in the fall of 2013. On the contrary, the Pioneers were a seasoned NCAA tournament team, even if the end result wasn’t there. They had made the field of 16 in six straight seasons before George … Read more
Ultimately, the two players were both so exceptional that USCHO’s team couldn’t decide between them for rookie of the year. After being selected seventh in the 2016 NHL draft, Clayton Keller had a strong season at Boston University, notching 21 goals and 24 assists and a points per game average of 1.45, tops among all … Read more
National champion Denver has placed two players on the 2017 All-USCHO first team. Pioneers senior defenseman Will Butcher, the Hobey Baker Award winner, and junior goaltender Tanner Jaillet, this season’s Mike Richter Award winner, were among the six first-team selections. Butcher was a second-team pick in 2016. Northeastern senior Zach Aston-Reese and Union senior Mike Vecchione, … Read more
The Denver Pioneers had a celebration of their successful national championship run in Chicago on Tuesday in front of a good-sized crowd at Magness Arena.
The tournament Most Outstanding Player said his last three-goal game was in midget hockey.
The Pioneers coach was the fourth to win a national championship as a player as a coach.
The award is given annually to the top Division I netminder.
The Pioneers senior defenseman is the sixth defenseman to win the award in its 37-year history.
Both teams possess a high-powered offense that can explode when necessary. But it is likely only Denver will benefit from a track meet-style game.
Colin Staub, Evan Ritt and Emil Romig combined for two goals and four points in the Pioneers’ Frozen Four victory over Notre Dame.
Minnesota Duluth, Harvard, Denver and Notre Dame discussed how they stay in the moment at Wednesday’s Frozen Four media day.
Denver announced Tuesday that a significant gift to DU athletics has been secured that will allow construction to begin this spring on a major locker room renovation for the Pioneers’ hockey program. The new-and-improved facility will be known as the Miller Hockey Complex in recognition of DU alumnus and Board of Trustee member John Miller, … Read more
The Pioneers and Fighting Irish play at around 8:30 p.m. CDT Thursday in Chicago.
Montgomery led the Pioneers to the Frozen Four for the second straight year.
Watching Denver’s players gather around goalie Tanner Jaillet after a rather routine 6-3 win over Penn State in the Midwest Regional, one striking thing was how subdued they were. Unlike some other teams that celebrated with joie de vivre after advancing to the Frozen Four, you got the sense that for Denver, it was just one more step.
Jim Montgomery had to mull it over a moment. The Denver coach had just won his 100th game with the program, sending his squad to a second-consecutive Frozen Four. But what was different this time?
The Hobey Baker Memorial Award on Thursday announced the three Hobey Hat Trick finalists for the 2017 Hobey Baker Memorial Award, honoring college hockey’s top player. Alphabetically, they are: Zach Aston-Reese, senior forward from Northeastern, Will Butcher, senior defenseman from Denver, and Mike Vecchione, senior forward from Union. The three finalists were selected from the … Read more
The five finalists for the 2017 Mike Richter Award, which honors the most outstanding goaltender in NCAA men’s Division I hockey, were announced Thursday. The fourth annual award will be presented at the Frozen Four in two weeks in Chicago. Past winners of the award include Thatcher Demko (Boston College, 2016), Zane McIntyre (North Dakota, … Read more
Top-seeded Denver joins three other teams in Cincinnati at the U.S. Bank Arena this weekend for the Midwest Regional.