DU Pioneers celebrate record 10th national championship with the fans at Magness Arena
As the Denver captain took the podium to address the crowd inside Magness Arena, he said what everyone was thinking.

“I’ll start right here, how about Matty Davis?” Webster said, sending the Pioneers fans in attendance into a frenzy.
Davis, the DU goaltender, has quickly become a folk hero in the Mile High City after his incredible performance in St. Paul, Minn., stopping 68 of the 69 shots he faced in the Frozen Four as he led the way in the Pioneers’ record 10th NCAA Championship, which the team got the chance to celebrate with the fans on Monday night.

Whether it was Webster, coach David Carle or even Denver mayor Mike Johnston, everyone that spoke to the crowd made a point to mention Davis’ heroics, which included an acrobatic save to keep Boston College off the scoreboard in the third period of the championship game.
His teammates bowed to him multiple times throughout the evening, as “Matt-y Dav-is!” chants rang throughout the arena on quite a few occasions.

Before the season started, not many people knew much about the Calgary, Alberta native tasked with replacing four-year starter Magnus Chrona between the pipes for DU.
Now, everyone knows who he is and he’s become a local celebrity.

“I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t cool,” the soft-spoken Davis said before the festivities got underway. “This program’s been incredible. I’m just so proud to be a part of it.”
Davis and several other of the eight remaining players from the Pios’ 2022 national title team broke out their championship rings for the occasion, with Davis mentioning that it’s time to add “2024” to the NCAA champs tattoo he and some of his teammates got two years ago.

“We gotta figure that out,” he said.

But while Davis will forever be remembered as the hero of this latest title, the theme of the night was simple: the number 10.
Carle and the program were quick to point out after they won championship No. 9 in Boston two years ago that they weren’t satisfied and eager to be the first to 10. Michigan became the first to get to nine titles back in 1998 at a time when DU had just five in the trophy case.
Since the turn of the century, the Pioneers have won back-to-back titles in 2004-05 and now three in the last seven years.

“We’re the indisputable best program in college hockey,” Carle said.
While this one might feel a little sweeter than some others, no one is going to be hungrier to go back-to-back than these Pioneers.

“Now we get to break our own records,” Carle said.