One of many greatest rivalries in school hockey is heading to the massive stage.
Apparently Magness Enviornment on the College of Denver’s campus wasn’t sufficiently big for the Jan. 27 assembly between Denver and Colorado Faculty within the first Gold Pan collection sport of the 2022-23 season. The 2 groups will now sq. off at Ball Enviornment in downtown Denver.
“The Denver-Colorado Faculty rivalry is among the most-played collection in school hockey, and we’re wanting ahead to showcasing our two historic applications on the house of the Avalanche,” Denver coach David Carle mentioned in an announcement. “We’re thrilled to host this sport at Ball Enviornment to offer the good hockey followers of Denver and our program a chance to see us in an NHL venue. The aim is to offer our gamers with an expertise that will probably be just like the “Battle on Blake” in 2016, the Loveland Regional final season, and finally a style of what the Frozen 4 in Tampa, Florida, this April will probably be like.”
Followers who already purchased tickets for the Jan. 27 sport at Magness Enviornment ought to have already obtained details about new tickets for the sport at Ball Enviornment and in the event that they have not, they need to contact the DU Ticket Workplace.
The opposite three matchups between the Pioneers and Tigers are at the moment set to stay at their present websites, with Feb. 4 and March 4 video games happening at Ed Robson Enviornment in Colorado Springs and the March 3 sport happening at Magness Enviornment.
This is not the primary time these two groups have met off campus because the “Battle on Blake” sport on Feb. 20, 2016 was performed in entrance over 35,000 followers at Coors Area.
The Gold Pan collection between DU and CC is the second-most performed rivalry in all of faculty hockey with the 332 all-time conferences trailing on Michigan-Michigan State, who’ve performed 333 occasions.
The Pioneers swept all 4 conferences between the 2 groups final season, outscoring the Tigers 19-2 in these 4 video games.
2022-23 Gold Pan Collection schedule
Jan. 27 at Ball Enviornment, 7 p.m.
Feb. 4 at Ed Robson Enviornment, 6 p.m.
March 3 at Magness Enviornment, 8 p.m.
March 4 at Ed Robson Enviornment, 6 p.m.