Tonight
North Dakota searches for its eighth NCAA championship and first since 2000 when it faces top-ranked Quinnipiac in the NCAA Frozen Four championship game.
Michigan, with nine, is the only program in the country to have won more national titles than UND.
UND is making its 13th appearance in the national championship game and its first since 2005.
Media Coverage
All UND men's hockey games, home and away, can be heard on 96.1 FM (The Fox) and on stations across the UND Sports Home of Economy Radio Network, as well as through the iHeart Radio app. Longtime broadcaster Tim Hennessy, in his 37th season as the voice of UND men's hockey, calls the action while Steve Olson provides analysis during home games.
Westwood One will also provide a national radio broadcast of the Frozen Four, with Sean Grande, Cap Raeder and Shireen Saski on the call.
The NCAA Frozen Four championship will be telecast live by ESPN2, with John Buccigross calling the action, Barry Melrose providing analysis, and Quint Kessenich and Victoria Arlen serving as rinkside reporters. The game will also be available on DirecTV channel 209 and DISH Network channel 143, as well as on TSN2 in Canada. A live stream of the game can be seen via WatchESPN.
Social Media
Receive real-time Twitter updates during all UND men's hockey games by following @UNDMHockey. Fans can also follow the action via live chat at UNDsports.com, featuring Brad Schlossman of the Grand Forks Herald and Jayson Hajdu of UND Athletics.
About Quinnipiac
The Bobcats advanced to Saturday's championship game with a 3-2 win over Boston College on Thursday night.
Senior Michael Gartieg made 34 saves, 27 of which came over the final 40 minutes. Kevin McKernan, Andrew Taverner, and Landon Smith (PPG) provided the offense for Quinnipiac.
The Bobcats rank among the top five nationally in scoring offense, scoring defense, scoring margin, power play and penalty kill (see top of graph above).
QU Coaching Staff Rand Pecknold (Connecticute College '90) received the Spencer Penrose Award as the national coach of the year after guiding the Bobcats to a 32-3-7 record and both the ECAC regular-season and playoff championships.
Now in his 22nd season as Quinnipiac's head coach, Pecknold boasts a career record of 446-263-83 (.616).
Pecknold's staff includes associate head coaches Bill Riga (UMass Lowell '96) and Reid Cashman (Quinnipiac '07), as well as goaltending coach Jared Waimon (Central Connecticut State '10).
UND-QU Series History
Saturday marks just the fourth meeting between the two programs, although they met as recently as the 2015 NCAA West Region semifinal in Fargo, N.D., where host UND defeated the Bobcats 4-1.
All four of UND's goal scorers in that game are still with the team: Drake Caggiula (Sr., Whitby, Ontario), Bryn Chyzyk (Sr., Virden, Manitoba), Luke Johnson (Jr., Grand Forks, N.D.) and Tucker Poolman (So., East Grand Forks, Minn.).
The only other meetings came during a two-game series in Grand Forks in Oct. 2006, when UND opened the regular season with 6-1 and 4-2 victories.
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