There’s no question which conference was the most dominant during the 2024-25 college hockey season. Hockey East fielded six of the 16 teams in the national tournament, an impressive accomplishment, but the league did not produce the champion. That distinction Saturday night went to Western Michigan, a 6-2 winner over a valiant Boston University team […]
There’s no question which conference was the most dominant during the 2024-25 college hockey season.
Hockey East fielded six of the 16 teams in the national tournament, an impressive accomplishment, but the league did not produce the champion.
That distinction Saturday night went to Western Michigan, a 6-2 winner over a valiant Boston University team before a pro-Broncos crowd at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis.
The Broncos scored all three goals of the third period to pull away. Western Michigan finished with a 28-26 shots edge.
It was the first national title for Western Michigan (34-7-1), the nation’s winningest team and also the hottest – the Broncos ended the season riding a 10-game win streak.
Iiro Hakkarainen put the game out of reach when he scored with 3:58 left, tucking in a shot from the right post, to extend Western Michigan’s lead to 5-2.
