Watching the 2000 NCAA final right now. All that slobbering over Boston College and Doug Flutie is easier to take when you know what the final result is!
Some years, they don't have a candidate from a "big-time" school, so they have to hold their nose and give it to a small school player. I think Ryan Duncan is a good example of this.
Sorry, but if Panzer had played for an all-Division I school or a school in a major media market, he would have had the award handed to him on a silver platter. There have been other goaltenders that have put up great numbers that didn't even make the Hobey Hat Trick. The Hobey Baker is too political and too much about which school the player plays for. We should have awards for individual positions (like we do with the Richter Award). Or should we name that after Miller too? #panzerwasrobbed
I cannot find any of the 2016 Frozen Four games on YouTube. However, if @SiouxForever is interested, there are two game he might want to watch again:
2001 NCAA Championship: North Dakota vs. Boston College
1998 NCAA Tournament: North Dakota at Michigan (makes me mad even today)
Dan Terhaar (Play-by-play announcer ยท 1993 to 1996)
Now he does the games for Minnesota United FC of MLS.
https://www.mnufc.com/schedule/broadcast-info/dan-terhaar
After he left Grand Forks, he went to call games for the Gophers from 1996 to 2005. Boy, was his timing bad!
Want to look at the positives from 2011?
Then ask for the 2011 WCHA Final Five title game vs. Denver (an instant classic).
But please don't dredge up that debacle in the X.
Ironically, this was the last year of the two-game total goal format. The next season (1988), the WCHA switched to the format the NCHC now uses (first round playoff series on campus, followed by a league tournament at a neutral site).
This could be a motivator for guys on national title contending teams who were robbed at the chance of a title this year to come back for at least one more season.