From: Denver Post by Mike Chambers
(left) J.P. will be looking to even the score in the family rivalry this weekend
J.P. Testwuide and his little brother, Mike, are scheduled to have a family dinner today or Tuesday. The plan is for the Vail-based parents, Paul and Janet, to meet their sons at an eatery in Castle Rock or Monument, somewhere between Denver and Colorado Springs.
A bipartisan meeting place is essential, considering J.P. and Mike will represent the Front Range's two major cities this weekend in one of the country's premier college hockey rivalries.
J.P. is a junior defenseman for the fourth-ranked University of Denver. Mike is a sophomore forward for No. 7 Colorado College. And their parents will be torn as their boys go head-to-head at the Colorado Springs World Arena (Friday) and Magness Arena (Saturday) for bragging rights and Western Collegiate Hockey Association supremacy.
Janet Testwuide is half-Pioneer, half-Tiger, and has the hockey sweater to prove it. Before the first DU-CC Testwuide boys matchup last season, one of Janet's friends in Vail cut two jerseys and in half and sewed them together.
This season, the sweater symbolizes the national strength of the Front Range foes.
DU (8-2, 5-1 WCHA) is on a four-game winning streak and CC (7-3, 7-1) has won five in a row. The Tigers have yet to play an unranked opponent and the Pioneers' first eight games were against ranked teams.
"It will be pretty relaxed, but we'll both be thinking about the series," J.P. said of the family dinner. "We both know it'll be a battle this weekend."
CC got the best of DU last season, going 3-0-1 to reclaim the Gold Pan traveling trophy for the first time since 2002-03. Actually, the Tigers took ownership of the new Gold Pan, which CC coach Scott Owens helped design in Colorado Springs, because DU lost the original after taking control en route to winning the 2004 NCAA title.
This season's Gold Pan winner could be determined as early as Saturday, because the team looking to reclaim the trophy must win it outright over the four-game, regular-season series. So a CC sweep this weekend will keep it in Colorado Springs at least until next season's second series.
Ask any player from either team to name his top three goals for the season, and winning the Gold Pan undoubtedly will be one of them.
"The Gold Pan series, that is almost a season in itself," said Pioneers senior goalie Peter Mannino, an All-American candidate who has allowed more than one goal in just two games. "We take it very seriously and CC does, too. It's a great rivalry for Denver, for Colorado, for the whole state. You know we'll be ready for it, and excited to get the freshmen introduced to it."
A bipartisan meeting place is essential, considering J.P. and Mike will represent the Front Range's two major cities this weekend in one of the country's premier college hockey rivalries.
J.P. is a junior defenseman for the fourth-ranked University of Denver. Mike is a sophomore forward for No. 7 Colorado College. And their parents will be torn as their boys go head-to-head at the Colorado Springs World Arena (Friday) and Magness Arena (Saturday) for bragging rights and Western Collegiate Hockey Association supremacy.
Janet Testwuide is half-Pioneer, half-Tiger, and has the hockey sweater to prove it. Before the first DU-CC Testwuide boys matchup last season, one of Janet's friends in Vail cut two jerseys and in half and sewed them together.
This season, the sweater symbolizes the national strength of the Front Range foes.
DU (8-2, 5-1 WCHA) is on a four-game winning streak and CC (7-3, 7-1) has won five in a row. The Tigers have yet to play an unranked opponent and the Pioneers' first eight games were against ranked teams.
"It will be pretty relaxed, but we'll both be thinking about the series," J.P. said of the family dinner. "We both know it'll be a battle this weekend."
CC got the best of DU last season, going 3-0-1 to reclaim the Gold Pan traveling trophy for the first time since 2002-03. Actually, the Tigers took ownership of the new Gold Pan, which CC coach Scott Owens helped design in Colorado Springs, because DU lost the original after taking control en route to winning the 2004 NCAA title.
This season's Gold Pan winner could be determined as early as Saturday, because the team looking to reclaim the trophy must win it outright over the four-game, regular-season series. So a CC sweep this weekend will keep it in Colorado Springs at least until next season's second series.
Ask any player from either team to name his top three goals for the season, and winning the Gold Pan undoubtedly will be one of them.
"The Gold Pan series, that is almost a season in itself," said Pioneers senior goalie Peter Mannino, an All-American candidate who has allowed more than one goal in just two games. "We take it very seriously and CC does, too. It's a great rivalry for Denver, for Colorado, for the whole state. You know we'll be ready for it, and excited to get the freshmen introduced to it."
1 comment:
how exactly do you lose a mid-century piece of mining equipment? haha, I guess all hockey trophies have a story...rumor has it the Stanley Cup has had a wild life...
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