Two games, for all the marbles. That’s what the Denver Pioneers are looking at as they get ready to face the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Thursday night. It all comes down to this.
Every DU fan remembers last year’s trip to the Frozen Four, which ended in disappointment. But what it did for this team is give them a whole lot of motivation for this season. Head coach Jim Montgomery explained it as, “We needed a blueprint of how to act and behave in order to be elite, and that’s what last year gave us.”
“It was a bad taste losing that game to North Dakota last year in the semifinals,” team captain Will Butcher said during Wednesday’s press conference.