Wild game at Ball Arena a great showcase for DU Pioneers program, if not the result they wanted

It was a good night for the process both on and off the ice for the University of Denver hockey crew at Ball Arena but not for the end The No -ranked Denver Pioneers rallied multiple times in the third period but ultimately lost to the Minnesota Golden Gophers - in overtime in the U S Hockey Hall of Fame Challenge It was a wild night in Denver s first contest at Ball Arena since It was a really entertaining encounter obviously for the fans I thought the vitality atmosphere in the building was excellent DU coach David Carle commented It s a special opportunity to be able to play here at Ball Arena I m appreciative of our administration and people at Kroenke Sports and Entertainment for making this event happen as well and giving our players this wonderful experience It was a huge coup for the DU hockey operation to keep Carle after last season Fresh off back-to-back Frozen Four appearances and with two NCAA titles in the past four seasons Carle was one of the hottest names on a robust NHL coaching carousel He chose to stay citing a desire to keep building both the DU undertaking and the college competition at large This was a good night on that front Two weeks after setting a Magness Arena record for attendance against archrival Colorado College the crowd at Ball Arena was released at making the decision to stage the championship downtown instead of on campus I mean it s amazing Pios defenseman Boston Buckberger mentioned You look around you look up and it s a - seat arena You don t get to do that every day And obviously it s all of our dreams to play in the NHL So to play in a rink like this is just unbelievable and I think that we really enjoyed it We didn t get the consequence but it s obviously a great experience for all of us and we can just keep building off it for future games here Even without Zeev Buium DU Pioneers defense corps looks like one of the nation s best The show goes on This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e material if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i