Well, well, in the last three years, two championship games go
to overtime, resulting in two victories for Michigan.  (3-2 this
time.)  This was a lot of fun to watch on TV (despite some bad camera
angles and a few more "Bubbenzweig"s), and I can only imagine what it
was like in person.  Great for the Michigan seniors to come away with
two titles in two trips for the Frozen Four, and heartbreaking for BC
to fall in OT in front of their home crowd (after hitting a crossbar
and a post in the extra session) at the end of an incredible run which
signalled an end to the lean years.
 
  Trivia question material: Michigan and BC won the first two national
championships ever.
 
        The one thing I got to experience that those in attendance
didn't was the Sportscenter immediately preceding, on which co-host
Jack Edwards repeatedly talked up the championship game.  For example,
in the middle of a bunch of "highlights" of ridiculous fights, he
observed that we wouldn't be seeing any of this nonsense in the
college hockey championship.  If you're sending a comment to ESPN, you
might want to put in a good word for Edwards.  (Oh, and according to
his bio at <http://ESPN.SportsZone.com/editors/studios/bios/je.html>
he graduated from UNH in '79, so I'm guessing he was as surprised to
hear Michigan had beaten Rhode Island in the semis as the rest of us.)
 
        The biggest reason to be dissappointed that BC didn't win it:
now we can't see if the LA Times calls them Boston University. ;-)
 
                                         John Whelan, Cornell '91
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