For the second season in a row, Denver head coach David Carle has been tabbed to coach Team USA at the IIHF World Junior Tournament in Ottawa, Canada.  The tournament will begin on December 26, 2024 and will end with the gold medal game being played on January 5, 2025. Carle guided the USA to a 6-2 win over Sweden in the final of the 2024 tournament in Gothenburg, Sweden. Carle will return the same staff to pursue the repeat on Canadian turf, always a challenging proposition. Canada was knocked out of the quarterfinals by Czechia in 2024 edition. The selection continues to raise Carle’s p ..read more

Two-time NCAA champion junior defenseman Sean Behrens signed a three-year NHL deal with the Colorado Avalanche last night. He will begin his professional career with the Colorado Eagles of the AHL on an amateur tryout contract. His NHL deal will begin in the fall. Behrens signed his Avs contract Thursday night at the Colorado Avalanche game against the Oilers as his teammates looked on. We have signed defenseman Sean Behrens to a three-year, entry-level contract beginning in 2024-25. He will report to the Colorado Eagles on an Amateur Tryout Contract.#GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/s4a1QsgXUt — x ..read more

It’s just been a few days since I stood proudly among the Denver Pioneer faithful at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., and watched the giant scoreboard clock tick down to zero, leading me to one of the very best moments of my life, as well the lives of so many other fellow Pioneer fans — especially you hard-core LetsGoDU blog readers! The sight unfolding on the ice below us was one of the most glorious these eyes have ever seen: DU had become the best program in NCAA history, setting the record with 10 NCAA Division I Frozen Four titles. Twenty-six University of Denver Pioneer players, re ..read more

The tradition continued Saturday night as couches around the University and University Park neighborhoods met a cruel fate on the DU campus. Students were fueled by beer and a heady hockey championship win. As local custom would have it, IKEA, Henredon, and Floyd sofas met a fiery end. All that is left are memories, ashes, and a throbbing headache. Here are our Top 10 reasons couches were torched on the DU campus following the Pioneers’ NCAA record 10th National Championship win. Large item trash pickup service is not available until next month. Everyone digs firefighters in uniforms Chance ..read more

The DU players ‘got it’ this weekend – their 10th national championship. The DU Athletic Department and administration ‘get it’, too. Whether DU won or lost last night’s championship, this story was written and ready to post well before Denver Hockey took their final bows at the championship finale ..read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Michigan had a 26-year head start. It wasn’t enough. North Dakota had a chance. But too many near misses couldn’t hold off the greatest college hockey program of all time. On April 13, 2024, in front of 18,694 at the Xcel Energy Center, the University of Denver Pioneers punctuated their 74th season with a 2-0 shutout victory over #1 overall seed Boston College to finally overtake the Wolverines and win the coveted race to 10 national championships. The story of the team that achieved college hockey immortality starts and ends with goaltender Matty Davis. The junior goalie fro ..read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. – October 21st, 2023 was a long time ago. That night, the Denver Pioneers defeated the Boston College Eagles at an overflowing Conte Forum, 4-3. 175 days will have passed since that night when the #3 Pioneers clash with the #1 Eagles at 4:00 pm MT Saturday in the 2024 National Championship. No doubt, a lot has changed since that night but much has remained the same ..read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Three straight 2-1 games. Three straight victories. Not bad for a team whose defense was left for dead just a couple of months ago. Sure, the first two against UMass-Amherst and Cornell, teams whose identities play well to defensive, physical, and low-scoring games were expected. But this one, in the Frozen Four, the one that pushed the Denver Pioneers over the top against the Boston University Terriers and one win away from their 10th title, that pitted the #1 and #3 offenses in the country against one another was much more surprising and by far, the most thrilling of the bu ..read more

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