New Haven is the center of the college hockey universe!

[KamaAina]

Quinnipiac from neighboring Hamden beat St. Cloud St. (MN) 4-1, and more importantly, Yale beat powerful UMass-Lowell 3-2 in OT. This makes us the first Ivy League team in position to win an NCAA title in a major sport (i.e. anything more popular than lacrosse, where Princeton is a national power) since Penn basketball made the Final Four in '79!



Yours,

K-A
Y'85, cum laude

[bluedigger]

1. That's just weird.

• Connecticut becomes the fourth state to be the home of both teams in the championship, joining Michigan, Massachusetts and New York (and not Minnesota or Colorado.)

• The Bobcats have a 3-0 record against the Bulldogs this season, Feb. 2, 6-2; Feb. 22, 4-1; and March 23, 3-0.

“You can throw the 3-and-0 out the window,” said Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold after Saturday’s game.

• “It’s hard to beat a team four times in a row,” said ESPN’s Barry Melrose about Quinnipiac’s prospects against Yale. The current streak is actually five for the Bobcats, going back to last season. Quinnipiac has a 10-5-2 record against Yale all-time.

• Quinnipiac had not won a Division I NCAA game until this year’s tournament. Yale has 27 NCAA national championships: two in women’s fencing, four in men’s swimming and diving, and 21 in men’s golf.



Read more: http://www.uscho.com/frozen-four/2013/04/11/quinnipiac-yale-a-look-at-the-history-books-history-being-made/#ixzz2QENK8wvq

[KamaAina]

5. You can throw the 3-and-0 out the window, said Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold after Saturday’s game.

Done!

[RagAss]

2. This old Connecticut boy is beaming !

[getting old in mke]

3. Harvard was in the Frozen Four finals in '83

and lost to the Badgers. I remember the apartment I was living in in Madison watching on a little, battered black and white TV at the time.

Still, congratulations Connecticuters (or whatever the correct term in). I'm sure I'll hear about it at work today from a native son...

[KamaAina]

4. They actually won it all in '89

but that's old news now!!! Ssssssssssssssssss!!!

[KamaAina]

7. Residents of Connecticut are called "Nutmeggers"

the designation "Nutmeg State" is said to derive from too-shrewd Yankee pedlars selling wooden replicas of whole nutmegs back in the day.

Even so, it beats having to spit out "Connecticuters".

[bigwillq]

6. Simply amazing!

Not a huge hockey fan, but was so caught up in the Yale/Quinnipiac hoopla! Great game. Congrats to Yale!