Whether you are new to DU hockey or need a refresher ahead of the program’s attempt this weekend to bring home national title number 11, LetsGoDU has published some of the preeminent articles covering Denver Hockey’s history and its place among the elite collegiate hockey programs and blue bloods.
Our own Puck Swami wrote a must-read, exhaustive, multi-part history on DU’s 70th hockey anniversary. And, what a history! Swami’s series and links are posted below:
Part 4: Lead Up to the 70th Anniversary
Another key article was written by Nick Tremaroli ahead of this season, ranking the top collegiate hockey programs of the last 25 years and all time. It is one of our most popular (and controversial…in a good way) pieces. He looked at collegiate hockey programs from the first NCAA Championship in 1948 through Western Michigan’s first title a year ago and ranked them based on a methodology that he developed (and had vetted by multiple high-level sources within the college hockey community). The article has stirred heated debate among fans of various collegiate hockey programs.
What are the top Division I men’s hockey programs of the last 25 years and all-time?
Surely, Puck Swami and Nick Tremaroli will have to update their pieces in the future to include the complete David Carle era. But, for now, DU fans are in no hurry for a retrospective on Carle and his team’s numerous accomplishments.
Happy reading!
Gentlemen, love this look back into DU hockey history. Am looking forward to the games on Thursday and Saturday in Vegas.
I’m old enough to have remembered listening to KLZ radio carrying DU hockey with Don Martin in the 1961 season and forward.
Wanted Puck Swami to know that the actual locations of the football stadium was much closer to Asbury. (I happened to play in the final game in that stadium – lacrosse, DU vs Air Force, May, 1971.) Also, the Shwader Art Building would have been the southern gates into the stadium. And, at that same delineation was the Athletic Department Offices and just to the north was the basketball court. The hockey arena was just north of that area. The north end of the hockey arena was approximately equal to where the walkway beneath the lacrosse stadium is today. All the remainder of the property to the north was parking for hockey and day students. The Cable Center, believe it or not, is where the baseball diamond was, home plate being in the northwest corner.
Keep up the good work at LetsGoDU. Go Pioneers! Beat Michigan!!!!!
Thanks for reading and the recollections. We’re lucky to have Swami’s historical knowledge of DU hockey. Go Pioneers.
Brilliant!
I thought DU hockey was on KOA 850 throughout the ‘70s. Bob Martin maybe still did play by play