The NCAA hockey tournament championship game has everything you’d want.
Denver vs. Minnesota-Duluth, Frozen Four 2017: Time and live TV channel for NCAA hockey title game
Two top seeds, Denver and Minnesota-Duluth, square off at the United Center in Chicago on Saturday night for the college hockey title. If you can’t get underdog stories to root for, you want heavyweights. Here you go.
You have a redemption story in the Pioneers. Denver nearly reached this point last season, falling to North Dakota in the Frozen Four before watching the Fighting Hawks go on to win the title.
More Frozen Four coverage
- Bracket: How the teams got here.
- Perception not reality for Notre Dame
- UMD looks to limit the Harvard attack
- How Denver bucked a trend to get back to the Frozen Four
- Notre Dame’s Gilbert looks to shine on future home ice
- Borgström’s emergence sparked Denver offense
- Harvard staves off furious Air Force, earns Frozen Four trip
Now Denver returns to set things right. And they’ll bring a Hobey Baker winner now, too. Denver stud defenseman Will Butcher secured college hockey’s Heisman Trophy on Friday night.
And you get survivors in Minnesota-Duluth, a top seed that nevertheless had to endure overtime scares in the national tournament from Boston University and Ohio State to even advance to the Frozen Four in the first place.
It should be a good one.
The schedule
All times listed are Eastern, all seeds are overall seeds in the national tournament. All games are streaming live on the WatchESPN app. All games played at the United Center in Chicago.
National Championship, Saturday
- Denver vs. Minnesota-Duluth, 8 p.m., ESPN
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