DU vs. MSU-M Tonight to be Video Webcast FREE

The University of Denver hockey game against Minnesota State on Saturday, Dec. 9 at 7:07 p.m. MT will be webcast live on DenverPioneers.com. The game will be the first event to be webcast live on DenverPioneers.com

Pioneer hockey fans with high-speed internet can watch the hard-hitting WCHA action FREE by logging on to DenverPioneers.com. Mitch Hyder will call the play-by-play action with the pre-game show beginning at 7 p.m.

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DU-CC Smack "Too Hot" For USCHO.com

In a surprising move, the USCHO.com Board Administrator deleted this weeks "DU vs. CC Thread" for "Vulgar language, distasteful photographs, questionable judgement and crude humor" and those were just the charges levelled against Colorado College fan Randy May.

LetsGoDU attempted to contact the administrator but were told by his secretary, "No Comment."

LetsGoDU will cover this travesty of justice as the First Amendment continues to get trampled by various college hockey publications.

DU Games Pulled Off TV This Weekend

There will be no TV games for this weekend's series. Fox Sports Rocky Mountain had originally had scheduled Friday's DU/MTU game for telecast on the season TV schedule, but it is being pulled for the Colorado High School Football Tourney. Same thing with the DU/Air Force game on Nov 24 - pulled.

LetsGoDU.com Message Board & Website

If you like the LetsGoDU Hockey Blog, we now have the new and improved Message Board & Website. The LetsGoDU Empire is growing to provide the avid college hockey fan with the most in depth coverage of DU Hockey. Check it out.

(above) The Ice Breaker Invitational marks the first games being played in Miami University's $34-million Cady Arena

Press Releases For Ice Breaker Tournament

You can read DU's Press Release and download the Adobe version at the DU Athletics Website.

Miami University's Press Release

University of Vermont's Press Release

Colgate University's Press Release
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Gwoz Lands Another Award

(Left) Miami University will recognise Coach Gwozdecky this weekend. (Below Right) Coach in the early Nineties coaching at Miami

CRADLE OF COACHES: Miami University is renowned in college athletics as the `Cradle of Coaches', as an extraordinary number of coaches have either graduated from or cut their coaching teeth at MU.

This weekend, former Miami and current Denver head coach George Gwozdecky will become the 45th member of Miami's Cradle of Coaches Association, an elite fraternity of both collegiate and professional coaches that have made a lasting impact on their respective sports. Among the other members are Bo Schembechler (football) and Ara Parseghian (football). Gwozdecky will be inducted during the second intermission of Friday's game between Miami and Denver.

Coach Gwozdecky is a two-time Spencer Penrose National Coach of the Year (1993 & 2005) and three-time WCHA Coach of Year (1995, 2002 & 2005)

AOL's CityGuide Denver Lists LetsGoDU

When a giant corporation like AOL Time Warner lists your Blog on its Homepage for the "Best of Denver" you know you are going to make a fortune. Well maybe not, but its still kind of cool so check out the listing under "Blogs We're Reading."

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DU's 2005-06 Schedule

Thanks to Puck Swami for piecing together an approximate schedule for DU next season. If you see any errors let me know...

A quick glance at the schedule reveals a diet heavy on nonconference cupcakes. I haven't seen a schedule this soft since the Gemans rolled through Western Europe in 1940 (just 17 years before CC won its last National Championship). I hope DU doesn't go into diabetic shock when they finish the nonconference component of the schedule.

If accurate the schedule looks real good for DU. Bye weeks before UND & Minnesota series as well as easier non-conference weekends before Wisconsin (twice) & CC weekends. This schedule was designed to win the MacNaughton. Lets hope the team has the goods to pull it off.

Schedule
Sept 30 Calgary (Cupcake Exhibition)
Oct 6 @ Miami (Cupcake Icing Tourney - Oxford, OH) (NC)
Oct. 7 @ UVM or Colgate (Cupcake Icing Tourney - Oxford, OH) (NC)
Oct 13-14 @ St. Cloud State
Oct 20-21 RPI (Homecoming/Parents Weekend/Cupcake Buffet) (NC)
Oct 27-28 @ Minnesota-Duluth
Nov 4-5 Air Force/Robert Morris (Double Cupcake Weekend)
Nov 10-11 @ Wisconsin
Nov 17-18 Michigan Tech
Nov 24-25 Niagara (Falls Cupcake)
Dec 1-2 Colorado College (Home and Home)
Dec 8-9 MSU-Mankato
Dec 15-16 @ Alaska Anchorage
Dec 30-31 Denver Cup (Brown, Mercyhurst and Lowell) (The Denver Cupcake Tourney)
Jan 5-6 Wisconsin
Jan 12-13 Bye Week?
Jan 19-20 @ Minnesota
Jan 26-27 St. Cloud (Minn.) State
Feb 2-3 Minnesota-Duluth
Feb 9-10 @ Michigan Tech
Feb 16-17 Bye Week?
Feb 23-24 North Dakota
Mar 2-3 Colorado College (Home and Home)
Mar 9-11 WCHA First Round Playoffs
Mar 15-17 WCHA Final Five (@ St. Paul, Minn.)
Mar 23-25 NCAA Regionals (@Denver)
April 5-7 NCAA Frozen Four (@St. Louis. Mo.)

Blog Closed For Off-Season Repairs

Its time to close the Blog till next hockey season.

Thanks to the readers who tuned in this season to follow the Denver Pioneers and WCHA Hockey. LetsGoDU was created to improve school spirit at DU (hense the name), and along the way the Blog morphed into a satirical look at college hockey. We'll be back a month or so before next season ready to take on the college hockey world again.

A huge "Good Bye & Good Luck" to departing players Gabe Gauthier, Ted O'Leary and Matt Carle who delivered two more National Championships (DU's 6th & 7th), a MacNaughton (DU's 10th) and a Broadmoor Trophy (our 14th) to the university. To Matt Carle who added a Hobey Baker Award to mix, bring the Stanley Cup back to DU on its way up to Anchorage.

To all the DU fans who helped out with story ideas, photos, encouragement, inside infomation and road trips I can't thank you enough. To the other college hockey bloggers, stay in touch we are creating something great here and getting better every day. Thanks to everyone who posted "Comments," about the articles. Often your Comments were better than my articles.

Finally to the rest of the DU hockey players, coaches and EVERYONE in DU's Athletic Department, thanks for another great season of Pioneer hockey. Lets hang some more banners up in the Magness rafters next season.

If you have any questions about DU Hockey or the University of Denver go to the "All Things DU" Thread at USCHO.com, the DU fans who frequent that site know EVERYTHING...

LET'S GO DU