College hockey’s oldest program finally wins first NCAA crown
Clinton Bourbonais, Charles Orzetti, Andrew Miller and Jesse Root scored for the Yale Bulldogs (22-12-3), who avenged three earlier losses to their Connecticut-rival Quinnipiac Bobcats (30-8-5) this season by stunning the nation’s No. 1 team 4-0 on the biggest stage of all – the Frozen Four national championship Saturday in Pittsburgh. Jeff Malcolm stopped 36 shots, and Yale, the nation’s oldest hockey program, finally won its first NCAA title. Yale became the first Eastern College Athletic Conference team since Harvard in 1989 to capture the national title. Quinnipiac’s Eric Hartzell stopped 27 shots, but the Hobey Baker finalist was beaten between the legs three times, including a breakaway goal by Miller midway through the third to give Yale a commanding 3-0 lead.
Rob O’Gara and Yale checked Cory Hibbeler and No. 1 Quinnipiac in the national championship game with a 4-0 victory Saturday in Pittsburgh. Yale, the oldest program in college hockey, won its first national championship.
