Roughly five miles down the road from the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche lives another powerhouse hockey team in the form of the University of Denver Pioneers. While the former may garner a lion’s share of the attention, it’s the latter that deserves some more of its due diligence.
For the fourth week in a row now the DU Pioneers are ranked the No. 1 team in college hockey. Denver is off to a perfect 8-0 season thus far, the second-best start to a year in the program’s 70-year history. The team has an opportunity to tie, and subsequently break, that very record as they begin conference play by taking on the No.