OMAHA—Top-ranked Denver captured its first regular-season conference championship since 2010 with a 4-2 victory over Nebraska Omaha on Friday night.
“This is the first of three major trophies for us to win this spring, and it was great to get this one with a hard-fought road victory like this,” DU coach Jim Montgomery said. “We weren’t playing up to our usual standard in the first couple of periods, but in the third — when the game was on the line — we really stepped up and played solid, Denver-style hockey. And thatap what got us the win.”
Freshman forward Henrik Borgstrom gave the Pioneers a 3-2 lead early in the third period with a goal during a 5-on-3 advantage.
The Pioneers will enter the NCHC playoffs as the conference’s top seed. They will host Colorado College in a best-of-three quarterfinal series March 10-12 at Magness Arena, with a trip to the Frozen Faceoff at stake.
