CHICAGO – After an outstanding junior season, one that will end tomorrow night in the National Championship Game, University of Denver goalie Tanner Jaillet has been named the 2017 recipient of the Mike Richter Award, given annually to the country’s best goaltender. Jaillet is the first DU goaltender to win the award. Continue reading Tanner Jaillet wins Mike Richter Award, named college hockey’s best goaltender
CHICAGO – Will Butcher has been named the recipient of the 2017 Hobey Baker Memorial Award as college hockey’s national player of the year. Butcher becomes the University of Denver’s second Hobey Baker Award recipient. Matt Carle won the award as a defenseman in 2006. Continue reading Will Butcher wins Hobey Baker, named 2017 national player of the year
CHICAGO – Over the course of this season, the University of Denver Pioneers hockey team has gotten significant contributions from all four lines. It’s been one of the reasons why the Pioneers have made it to the National Championship Game, to be played against Minnesota Duluth tomorrow night. Evan Ritt, fourth line mainstay, has been at the center of the Pioneers’ depth contributions. Continue reading Ultimate team player Evan Ritt finding his game at Frozen Four
CHICAGO – It doesn’t happen often in the regular season. It’s even rarer in the National Championship Game. But on Saturday at the United Center in the Frozen Four, the college hockey world will get that rare treat when the University of Denver Pioneers and the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs hit the ice Saturday night with a National Championship on the line. Continue reading America’s best two teams to clash in National Title Game
CHICAGO – On college hockey’s biggest stage, under college hockey’s brightest lights, the top-ranked University of Denver once again showed why they’re the best team in the country. Thanks to a 6-1 drubbing of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the Pioneers are returning to the National Championship Game for the first time since 2005. Continue reading Denver ends the Luck of the Irish, advances to National Championship
Special thanks to Jason Evans for putting this video together!
The Pioneers hit the ice tonight against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in Chicago at 7:30 PM MT.
CHICAGO – “Notre Dame and Denver. It is what it is…it was all we thought it was going to be,” DU lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney said with a laugh a few weeks after his team beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish with a last-second goal from Connor Cannizzaro. Denver’s win was just the latest in a long streak of close, exciting games between the two top five men’s lacrosse programs. This Thursday evening, though, the rivalry between the two schools hits the ice on college hockey’s biggest stage at the Frozen Four. Continue reading Denver and Notre Dame taking lacrosse rivalry to the Frozen Four
CHICAGO – You could see it in their body language. You could see it in their faces. As soon as North Dakota’s Nick Schmaltz tapped the puck past Denver goalie Tanner Jaillet for the game-winning goal at the Frozen Four in Tampa last year, heartbreak had a heavy crimson and gold tinge. Continue reading Heartbreak fueling Denver’s push for National Championship
Our very own Nick Tremaroli has departed Denver for Chicago, Illinois to cover the 2017 Frozen Four at the United Center.
The Pioneers will be going for their eighth national championship with a #1 seed (31-7-4). They start Thursday night against the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Nick will be providing live coverage for LetsGoDU at media events, games, and one-on-one interviews. If you want to know what is really going on at the Frozen Four, follow the action with Nick at www.letsgodu.com or get live real-time updates on twitter – @LetsGoDU. And, of course, LetsGoDu Facebook.
Nobody covers DU hockey like Nick.
In case you missed the announcement or live under a rock, University of Denver hockey captain and star defenseman Will Butcher was named to the Hobey Hat Trick las week. The Hobey Hat Trick is comprised of the three finalists for the National Player of the Year award and the other two finalists are forwards Mike Vecchione from Union and Zach Aston-Reese from Northeastern.
As the only defenseman finalist and the first defenseman named to the Hobey Hat Trick since 2009, does Butcher really have a chance to become DU’s second Hobey Baker Award winner? Continue reading Making Will Butcher’s case for the Hobey Baker
