DENVER - The No. 6 Denver Pioneers hockey team (20-9-6, NCHC 10-8-5-4) enters its last game of the regular season searching for a win to solidify 3^rd-place in the NCHC standings. After tying Colorado College 2-2 on Friday and reclaiming the Gold Pan for the fifth time in the last six years, the Pioneers will play the Tigers for postseason seeding on Senior Night at Magness Arena. Puck drop is set for 8:07 p.m. The game will be nationally televised on CBS Sports Network.

PROMOTIONS
• Senior Night! Come early to celebrate the careers of our four seniors, Erich Fear, Tyson McLellan, Liam Finlay and Michael Davies. The foursome will sign autographs after the game 
• Stop by the marketing table on the west concourse during the game to bid on a 70th Anniversary Weekend signed goalie stick or Dylan Gamrbell signed jersey
• White Out. IKON Pass will be giving out shirts for the first 150 students in the student section
 
DENVER: LAST GAME
DU 2, Colorado College 2 (March 6, 2020 - Colorado Springs, Colo.)
• Friday: Chris Wilkie scored at 14:24 and 19:52 of the third period to erase the Pioneers' once-two-goal lead and send the game to overtime. Neither team could score in NCAA overtime, thus returning the Gold Pan to Denver. After a scoreless NCHC three-on-three overtime, Brett Stapley's goal in the first round of the NCHC shootout decided the extra point in the standings
• Brett Stapley had the primary assist on both Denver goals...Ian Mitchell and Tyler Ward scored for the Pioneers...Magnus Chrona made 38 saves
• The Pioneers went 0/4 on the power play and 2/3 on the penalty kill
 
PLAYOFF POSITIONING
• North Dakota, Minnesota Duluth, Denver and Western Michigan will each host an NCHC quarterfinal series from March 13-15
• Denver is 3rd in the NCHC standings, one point ahead of Western Michigan (4th) entering the final day of the regular season. As it stands, the Broncos hold the tiebreaker over the Pioneers with one more regular season win. If Denver wins Saturday, regardless of the Western Michigan result, it will play Omaha in the first round of the conference playoffs
• The Pioneers have had home-ice advantage for the first round of the conference playoffs for 16 of the last 20 seasons, including each of the last five. Since 1999-00, Denver is 12-4 in advancing to the second round of the conference tournament when hosting a first-round series and 10-1 in the last 11 seasons
 
DENVER: UP NEXT
NCHC Quarterfinal Series - March 13-15
• Depending on Saturday's results, Denver (3^rd) will face either Omaha (6^th) or St. Cloud State (5^th) in the NCHC Quarterfinal series
• The Pioneers are 0-0-2 against the Mavericks and 1-1-0 against the Huskies this season
 
COLORADO COLLEGE: SNAPSHOT
• The Tigers will finish 8th in the conference for the third time in the last five years
• Colorado College has one win in its last five games, getting outscored 19-8 in that stretch
• The Tigers allow the eighth-most goals per game in the NCAA (3.58) and have allowed four or more goals in three of their last five games
• Chris Wilkie leads the Tigers with 31 points (23-8-31). His 23 goals are 2nd in the NCAA and his 171 shots lead the nation
• Colorado College ranks 47th in the NCAA on the power play (14.9%) and 60th in the NCAA on the penalty kill (71.4%)
 
DENVER VS. COLORADO COLLEGE: THE BATTLE FOR THE GOLD PAN
• With last night's tie, the Pioneers took the lead the all-time Battle for the Gold Pan series at 14-13. Denver has won the Gold Pan for five of the last six years
• Denver is 182-120-21 all-time against Colorado College with a 103-54-11 home record and 72-63-10 road record. The Pioneers are 2-0-1 against the Tigers this season (3-0 W, 3-1 W, 2-2 T)
 
HIGHS & LOWS
• Oct. 11 – Nov. 2: Denver opened the season on an eight-game winning streak, its best start to a season since its program-best 9-0-0 run in the 2001-02 season
• Nov. 8 – Dec. 7: The Pioneers had one win in eight games, going 1-4-3
• Dec. 7 – Jan. 25: Denver went on an 11-game unbeaten stretch, its best single-season unbeaten streak since the 2016-17 season (13)
• Jan. 31 – Feb. 15: The Pioneers lost four straight games for the first time since December 2015
 
HOT STREAKS & UPCOMING MILESTONES
• Bobby Brink is on a six-game point streak with three goals and four assists
• Liam Finlay is on a five-game point streak with one goal and six assists
• Liam Finlay is two points shy of joining the 100-point club
 
EXTENDING THE TENZER STREAK
• The Pioneers' streak of 19 straight 20-win seasons is the longest active streak in the NCAA. The NCAA record for consecutive 20-win seasons is held by Michigan, which had 25 from 1987-2012
• The streak began in the 2001-02 season and is affectionally known as the "Tenzer Streak," in honor of former Director of Hockey Operations David Tenzer who joined the program during the first year of the run and retired in 2017
 
POWER-UP
• The Pioneers power play has scored at least one goal in eight of the last 11 games, going 12/47 (25.5%)
• Denver has converted at 26.0% on the power play in the last 18 games after converting at 19.0% through the first 17 games
• Four Pioneers have ten or more power-play points: Emilio Pettersen (18), Ian Mitchell (17), Bobby Brink (13) and Cole Guttman (13)
 
HIGH-RANKING STATS
• Denver ranks 2nd in the NCAA in shots on goal per game (34.97). The Pioneers are 19-7-4 when outshooting their opponent and have done so in 30 of 35 games this season
• The Pioneers allow the 12th-fewest goals per game in the NCAA (2.29)
• Denver's goal margin per game ranks 12th in the NCAA (+0.94)
• The Pioneers sophomore class ranks 1st in NCAA scoring with 137 points (48-89-137), accounting for 43% of the team's production. Denver has three sophomores among its top-four scorers: Emilio Pettersen (12-21-33), Cole Guttman (13-14-27) and Brett Stapley (5-24-29)
 
NATIONAL LEADERS
• Cole Guttman is T-1st in the NCAA for game-winning goals (6) – (T-1st NCHC)
• Ian Mitchell is 7th in scoring among NCAA defensemen with 31 points (10-21-31) - (2nd NCHC defensemen) 
• Bobby Brink is T-13th in scoring among NCAA freshmen with 24 points (11-13-24) – (2nd NCHC freshmen)
• Bobby Brink is T-7th in goals among NCAA freshmen with 11 (2nd NCHC freshmen)
• Magnus Chrona is 3rd among NCAA freshmen with a 2.19 GAA (2nd NCHC goalies), 3rd among NCAA freshmen with a .919 save percentage (1st NCHC goalies) and 3rd among NCAA freshmen with 15 wins (4th NCHC goalies)
 
BIRTHDAY MONTH
• The Pioneers have nine birthdays in February and eight birthdays in nine days from Feb. 15 - Feb. 23
• Kohen Olischefski (Feb. 1), Ryan Barrow (Feb. 15), Jay Feiwell & Tyson McLellan (Feb. 17), Liam Finlay & Griffin Mendel (Feb. 18), Hank Crone (Feb. 19), Lane Krenzen (Feb. 21) and Brett Stapley (Feb. 23)
 
TV TIME
• The Pioneers are on national television (CBS Sports Network) thrice in the final four weekends of the regular season: Feb. 14 at North Dakota, Feb. 28 at St. Cloud State and March 7 vs. Colorado College
 
NCAA REGIONAL 2020 & 2021
• The Pioneers are set to host the 2020 & 2021 NCAA West Regional at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland, Colo. The 2020 regional is set for March 27-28
• 2020 will mark the first year in which an NCAA hockey tournament game has been held in Colorado since the 2008 Men's Frozen Four at the Pepsi Center in Denver
 
DEMIN DEALT AT DEADLINE
•  The Chicago Blackhawks acquired Slava Demin goaltender Malcolm Subban and second-round pick in the 2020 NHL Draft in exchange for Robin Lehner and Martins Dzierkals. The Vegas Golden Knights drafted Demin in the fourth round of the 2018 NHL Draft
 
NEED FOR THE LEAD
• Denver is 11-0-3 when scoring the first goal of the game, 6-0-2 when leading after the first period and 16-0-3 when leading after the second. Conversely, the Pioneers are 9-9-3 when allowing the first goal of the game, 5-7-1 when trailing after the first period and 1-9-2 when trailing after the second
 
HOME COOKIN'
• Denver is 37-12-8 at home since the 2017-18 season, posting a .649 winning percentage and taking points from 79% of its games
 
HOBEY HOPEFULS
• Ian Mitchell and Emilio Pettersen are among 75+ nominees for the 2020 Hobey Baker Award
• First-round voting can be conducted on hobeybaker.com/vote. First-round voting closes on March 9, 2020
• Denver has had two Hobey Baker winners in its history: Matt Carle ('06) and Will Butcher ('17)
 
GWOZDECKY INDUCTED TO DENVER ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
• Former head coach George Gwozdecky was named among 12 inductees for the 2020 Denver Athletic Hall of Fame class to be honored on campus May 16, 2020
• Gwozdecky posted a 443-267-64 record with the Pioneers from 1994-2013, winning back-to-back National Championships in 2004 & 2005, three WCHA regular-season titles, four WCHA playoff titles and posting 16 20-win seasons. He received the Spencer Penrose Award as National Coach of the Year in 2005
 
70TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
• The Pioneers are playing in their 70th Anniversary Season. Since its inaugural season in 1949, Denver has made 30 appearances in the NCAA tournament, 17 appearances in the Frozen Four and won eight National Championships, tied for the second-most titles among any college hockey program
 
UP NEXT: Denver Hockey presented by Centura Health is set to close its regular season with Senior Night against Colorado College on Saturday, March 7

NCHC QUARTERFINAL TICKETS ON SALE: Tickets for the NCHC Quarterfinal Series from March 13-15 in Magness Arena are on sale now!
 
FROZEN FACEOFF TICKETS: Tickets for the 2020 Frozen Faceoff in St. Paul, Minn. are on sale now. More information is available here.
 
2020 DENVER ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME RECEPTION: Denver announced its 2020 Athletic Hall of Fame class in January. The inductees will be honored on the DU campus May 16. For more information, registration for the reception and donation information, click here. 

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