Photo gallery: A second straight NCAA title celebration for Minnesota Duluth
Photos of Minnesota Duluth’s celebration following its 3-0 victory over Massachusetts on Saturday.
Photos of Minnesota Duluth’s celebration following its 3-0 victory over Massachusetts on Saturday.
Photos from Minnesota Duluth’s 3-0 victory over Massachusetts in the Frozen Four championship game.
Minnesota Duluth’s second straight championship also was the fourth straight for an NCHC team.
Mackay, a senior, scored the opening goal and also assisted on the Bulldogs’ second goal, scored by Mikey Anderson.
UMass not only was shut out, it was held to fewer than 20 shots on goal for only the second time all year.
The Bulldogs made sure three goals were more than enough, limiting UMass to just 18 shots on goal, including only six in the third period.
Saturday’s championship game drew an announced crowd of 13,051, the lowest since 2001.
Parker Mackay, Mikey Anderson and Jackson Cates scored, and the Bulldogs suffocated Massachusetts 3-0 on Saturday at KeyBank Center to win their second straight NCAA championship (photo: Omar Phillips).
Broadcasting the event is a massive undertaking, and it’s one that, for 15 consecutive seasons of the Frozen Four has rested on the shoulders of a dedicated and talented ESPN crew.
Nineteen schools have players represented as CCM/AHCA Hockey All-Americans for the 2018-19 season (photo: Bradley K. Olson).
Frozen Four championship game teams signed autographs and awards were presented at Harborcenter on Friday.
Boston University freshman forward Joel Farabee has been named the recipient of the 2019 Tim Taylor Award, given annually upon the best first-year player in NCAA Division I men’s hockey (photo: Melissa Wade).
Bulldogs coach Scott Sandelin wasn’t buying talk of 31-win UMass being underdogs.
Massachusetts sophomore defenseman Cale Makar, who will play for the national championship on Saturday night, on Friday was named the 2019 winner of the Hobey Baker Award.
The award was established by the Hockey Commissioners Association in honor of former Army player Derek Hines, a former Army player who was killed in the line of duty on Sept. 1, 2005, in Afghanistan.
Wisconsin’s Jake Bunz, has worked with The Fond Blanc Foundation in improving an orphanage in Haiti.
Cayden Primeau, the 2019 Mike Richter Award winner for the most outstanding goaltender in Division I men’s hockey, had to work to convince his famous father that the goal was where he belonged.
The Minutemen played their first close game of the NCAA tournament on Thursday and go for their first title on Saturday.
Minnesota Duluth and Massachusetts met with the media and practiced on Friday, the day before they meet for the NCAA title.
The Bulldogs are in their third straight title contest, looking to become the first team to repeat as champion since Denver in 2005.